The Rhys Method® Chakras describes our fifth chakra located in the throat and is associated with the color blue.
“Level 5, Chakra 5:
Sound, creative identity, oriented to self-expression
This center represents our ability to communicate our heart’s truth and inner self creatively into the minds of others, so we can be seen and understood. It includes our language – both verbally and through creative expression – and what we do for work in the world. We literally create ourselves in the minds of others. In this center, we directly choose what is good for us and what is not. We are able to create our lives through our words and intentions as a wonderful work of art or as a disaster and know that both are a choice of how we use this power. Truth is felt and thought is conveyed simply and directly through language.”
The fifth chakra represents our ability to communicate our truth and creativity right into the minds of other people so we can be heard and seen and understood.
Many people teach that the fifth chakra is speaking your truth and while it is that, in addition Rhys Thomas teaches the fifth chakra is more about how you create yourself out in the world. The fifth chakra is the manifestation channel.
It’s your willingness to speak the truth of both your deepest feelings and your highest aspirations; to say “YES” and mean it and to say “NO” and mean it. It also takes courage sometimes to speak our inner truth, especially when it goes against some of our programming about who we’re supposed to be and how we’re supposed to act. This is where we see how the fifth chakra is actually completely controlled by our first chakra.
Think about all those wounds and vows in the first chakra; to speak the truth of my tribe, it’s not safe for me to be me, it’s not safe in this world. All those fears and programming commands our fifth chakra. Rhys teaches that all of your chakras speak out through your fifth chakra, your voice.
We humans are an amazing, vibrating energy field. The second you open your mouth the entire vibration of you, all your chakras, everything in you turns into
words. Your wounds, your vows, your deepest feelings all spill out along with your highest aspirations.
On one hand we’re called to use our voice to be fearless and proclaim our power and our gifts for everyone to see. On the other, we can also fearlessly call out our weaknesses, own our shortcomings and our beautifully perfect imperfections.
When we do that they lose power over us.
At the second chakra, we discussed vows to not feel our needs, to never have needs, and to never actually feel deserving because we have to earn it. Moving up to the fifth chakra, when we speak the truth of those vows, the universe responds in kind. By the same token, when we speak our truth about what we truly want in the world, about what we deserve, what we feel we’re being called to, the universe delivers that as well. This is the expression “Ask and you shall receive” in action.
Rhys gives an easy way to understand this. Picture an inner artist in you with your life as a canvas and you as a master painter. Watching that artist in you paint the canvas of your life, you see your fifth chakra. Rhys asks, “Is your artist painting a new canvas every day? Fresh and alive and new or are you trying to fix an old painting? Are you painting over yesterday’s painting because of the wounds and the vows of your lower chakras?”
The fifth chakra is where our entire energy vibration speaks through our voice and because of that it’s how we actually manifest and create ourselves out into the world.
For example, say you want to write a book. You first start by actually making that choice, “I am going to write this book.” Sometimes we have an idea and it goes around and around but we don’t commit to it and make a choice. The process begins when we actually use our voice to speak that truth into our own bodies.
Our internal voice creates it within us and as we become more clear and alive and impassioned about wanting to write this book we take action. We start to manifest it on the paper. Next we have to go out and find a publisher and tell them “I’m writing this unbelievable book, it’s going to be amazing!” and we
manifest that picture in their minds.
This is no different than anything we do around our business related to sales.
When we need more customers and more clients we have to create that picture in their minds of the problems we’re able to solve, or the amazing service we deliver. Getting them to see it, conceptualize it, and feel it is the best way to do sales. You’ve actually created yourself in their mind and shown them what you do and how you can help them.
Fifth Chakra Vows
The vows at the fifth chakra have to do with speaking the truth of all my other chakras, all my other vows, and all my other wounds.
It can also be a vow to not speak my whole truth, to withhold or lie about my truth. When we don’t speak the truth of our deepest feelings and highest aspirations we actually use our fifth chakra to lie to people. This can perhaps a radical way of thinking about it!
Some examples of times we don’t speak our truth are the vows that say: I vow to speak my tribe’s truth, which is the first chakra programming. I vow to speak about my feelings appropriately, based again on my tribe. I vow to never let anyone know who I really am. It can be a vow to always defend ourselves using words, to always be defensive with our words or to keep control of things through our words, which can be manipulative.
Fifth Chakra – Exercise 1 – I Am Awesome at What I Do
To become aware of fifth chakra issues, we will apply this to a straightforward business situation, similar to the one we did for the 3rd chakra. We will use a situation of where you are using your voice, your 5th chakra to selling whatever product or service you offer. You may have a part time business with another source of income. Focus here on the way you want to earn money from doing
what you love to do. (Or if you are an employee imagine you are at work.) Imagine you are standing in front of a room full of smartly dressed business people. They are the perfect, targeted market for your product or service, the exact demographic you would love to have as clients or customers. Picture the room, the atmosphere, the décor. There you are standing in front of 30 or 40 people seated in chairs all looking up at you. View this as if you’re watching a movie on a screen. You’re standing there and you say to everyone out loud, “I am totally awesome at what I do.”
Now note down how you look in that picture. How does it feel? How do you look physically? What are the emotions and the feelings inside as you say, “I’m awesome at what I do!”? Many times I’ve heard things like, I melted onto the floor in a puddle or I ran out of the room or I’m translucent or I’m small and deflated.
One participant is petrified!
“I look at this picture and I have two different feelings. One feeling is ‘Okay, I’m here, I’m doing what I want to do, I’m owning it and it’s very powerful’ and the other feeling is ‘I’m ready to throw up.’ I’m so petrified I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get the words out but I have both things there when I look at that picture.”
What would you say is in that petrified feeling if that feeling could yell something at you like “Oh My God!” Would it say, “Get out of there!”?
“No, it’s I’m so vulnerable they might actually see who I really am.”
So, there you have it, right?
“Yeah, right, that’s the feeling, it’s so scary to let myself be seen.”
Think about this a minute. If you have this deep fear of really being seen, that means the only way you can sell is by telling people about what you want them to buy. It’s telling them the facts and the features of your products because you’re not willing to self-express and manifest who you are, the uniqueness that is you.
By not being willing to be totally real and honest, you can only achieve the least effective and dry side of sales, which is try to sell them your product or service.
This is why most people shy away from sales.
Another participant feels other people have the final decision.
Fear of being rejected or laughed at can stop you from expressing who you really are.
“What I get is okay, I tell everybody I’m awesome but they will decide that because it’s so subjective. As soon as they see the good they’re going to have their opinions about what awesome is and is not, it’s out of my control. They could tell me I’m wrong and it becomes false then. That’s what I’m aware of. They are the jurisdiction over just what is awesome anyway.”
Is there a feeling in there along with that thought pattern?
“It feels like fog. It feels like sound, I mean it’s uncertain and infirm. I feel that in my core is the lack of solidity.”
So really the outer world decides? They have the final say?
“Yeah.”
“I’ve of come to the place where I feel that I am awesome and I do put my heart and soul into everything I do but I always have this fear of rejection and being dismissed. The feeling of being laughed at, wow, even in regular conversations I still have this thing that if someone were to laugh at me it goes right to the core, instant, like something happened when I was a kid.”
When we said you’ll speak the truth of your wounds of the other chakras through your fifth chakra that means you’re willing to express only so much that’s safe, right? You’ll express enough but not the full truth because otherwise you won’t be quite safe. You’ll be vulnerable to be dismissed, laughed at, some sort of pain.
““That makes sense, never thought of it that way, thank you.”
These issues are what I deal with over and over with sales people or business owners who have to sell their product or service. These are true core issues that arise the second we get up there to speak. If you have a real fear of public speaking; you get terrified, your knees buckle, your mouth is dry, and you just want to run away, this first tapping round for the fifth chakra will begin to ease some of that. It’s a very specific way to turn off the fight or flight trigger.
Check in with your audience again and notice how they are looking at you. Can you see in some of their expressions they’re ready to be skeptical and decide you’re not really worth your salt? Are you seeing some of them making a face, getting ready to laugh at you or reject you? Do others look interested in what you have to say? So often we can scan a crowd and see a mix of responses. Yet our attention goes straight to the skeptic with their arms crossed and a frown on their face.
Before we begin the tapping round, if you have real issues with public speaking or this triggers some trauma, then this is the opportunity to reach out and schedule a session with an EFT practitioner. When the issue is fresh and very immediate in your experience is an excellent time to clear it out once and for all.
There are resources at the back of the book.
Fifth Chakra – Tapping Round 1 – Fear of Speaking in Public
Tapping right through the points:
There I am OH MY GOD Petrified
Vulnerable
They’re looking at me Oh My Lord
I could be rejected Laughed at Judged
They might actually see me And judge me
And reject me
And it will be so painful I’ve got to get out of here My fight or flight is going off Heart pounding
Legs shaking Voice quivering Chest pumping Hands sweating
My entire nervous system is expressing this truth I am vulnerable right now
Terrified
Life or death danger That’s what it feels like I can’t just stand up there And say “I’m awesome”
Why did I make myself vulnerable?
I should have stayed invisible Or just dimmed down the truth
I should have said “I’m medium at what I do”
Then I wouldn’t feel so scared Panic
Fear Judgment
I’m totally going to be judged Laughed at
Terrified
My fight or flight
Has made this connection And it’s going off
Life or death Right now I’m not safe Vulnerable
I’ve got to get out of here And take a nice deep breath
This is exactly how I work with people who are afraid of public speaking. We mix in both the body symptoms and those thoughts that are creating those body symptoms.
How does your picture look? If you were at a 10 before of fear and expecting rejection, where are you now?
One participant has a common reaction in realizing he needs to tap more on this issue to release it.
“Well I guess I feel like I needed to do that again, ten times before it sort of floats out.”
Yeah and you may. Absolutely, tap through it again and again. Does your picture look any lighter?
“I just feel like it changed a small amount and I would have to do that a lot more, it only just began.”
Sometimes the first time we voice something and tap on it is really eye opening on how much it resonates. You know your instincts are right on. We’ll get a little bit of a reduction and we need to do more.
In fact the fight or flight response connected to public speaking is one of the easiest things to turn off. So there’s a major upside to tapping a lot on this issue.
Yet another common reaction is discovering the crowd actually gets nicer. What does that mean for your business?
You might not have a problem with speaking in front of a group, but other issues come to the surface.
Two issues are operating here. First is the fear of being judged. Often when we’re Knowledgeable Achievers/Rule Keepers and we’re really smart people we’re worried about being judged, about having enough information, being smart enough. The core is “I’m going to be judged as good enough on some level” because that’s our own internal talk.
The control part of it is, “I’m going to make sure I’m never judged like that because I have control over that.” Some people will focus on having a tremendous amount of training, learning and information in their presentation. They focus on those rather than coming from who we really are and use all these facts trying to be perfect so they can’t be judged.
“The thing that struck me before we started this was “Who do you think you are?!” I mean people can’t just stand up and say they’re awesome. I would be judged just for saying that and especially I judge myself. But when I did this tapping, afterwards the crowd seemed nicer and more open to me.”
It’s a very common reaction to have the group look suddenly nicer.
Think about what you are manifesting when what you imagine is nicer people who are open to your message. This is what we then manifest.
“What became clear is that it’s not being with the crowd, being with the group and getting up in front of them that is uncomfortable, it’s if the material that I’m presenting is not good enough, that I’m not knowledgeable enough to sell it. If they don’t choose me it’s because my presentation isn’t good enough, which definitely I think goes back to also feeling like I like to control what’s going on.”
Fifth Chakra – Exercise 2 –
Uncovering Your Fifth Chakra Vow
Look at your picture again and become aware of the fact that at some point you made a vow. The vows might be to not speak my whole truth or to withhold my truth, to never speak in fear of getting abused, to never let anyone know who I really am, or to keep control using my words. Take a moment to see if you can recognize the vow you made.
This participant tries to hide behind the product so he is not seen.
When you stay detached, you’re not actually speaking the truth of who you are, your feelings and what you’re trying to manifest because in fact you do want something from this event. You want to manifest something from speaking to these people.
More than just money or clients, we want to manifest the work that we get to do, that we love and are passionate about. Rhys says when we decide to withhold
“One of my vows is about sticking to the product. I think, ‘Okay you guys all have your own ideas about what’s good and valuable and I’m not going to be able to change your mind and convince you to see things my way. Why don’t I just give you the facts and you can fit it into your scheme of things and do with it whatever you want?’”
While there are a certain number of very analytical people who buy in a very analytical way, based on facts, all the other people in the room didn’t get to connect with you. Is the vow to stand behind the product so I’m not actually being seen?
“Yeah. The feeling is I’m separate from you. Detached. Also if I’m hired or purchased or selected, it feels like a personal validation. So that’s the fear of having then a personal rejection, not just of the thing I’m presenting, but of me.”
So, it’s the vow that “I’m not going to let myself be seen.”
“Yes.”
our truth it’s a lie. This is a sales moment so of course we’re not going to tell our whole life’s story. Still we are not speaking the truth about how valuable we are,
our truth it’s a lie. This is a sales moment so of course we’re not going to tell our whole life’s story. Still we are not speaking the truth about how valuable we are,