What are some mental and physical exercises that unblock the throat chakra?

[Agua del Cielo]

Dear Sjel,
i have a "hypothesis" for you. I'll just speak freely with no claim to be right, maybe it has some value for you exploring this.

To begin with i would say that im not very convinced of the approach to attribute an issue to a certain chakra, for two reasons.
First reason being, usually any issue or blockage has portions in various chakras, by "concentrating" on one only, we risk excluding important factors!
Second reason, we make assumptions, what a chakra "stands" for and don't into account that our view might be greatly limited, thus excluding more factors.
The end product being a very limited view on the subject, that might well exclude EVERY factor contained in the current issue.

That said, i would offer another important aspect of the throat chakra:
Self-image
In my understanding the throat chakra is, before all, about how the entity perceives itself, which would obviously affect which "image" one tries to convey.
I think we all suffer from a distorted self-view, the degree of distortion might vary and the exact kind of distortion, but basically we are all on the same bus.

Now, what i gathered from various of your posts, there seem to be quite a lots of portions of yourself you dont accept and don't like.
Like for example "overcoming low-vibrational desires".
The approach seems to be rather to "overcome" it, to get rid of it, than seeing it as an important and worthy part of yourself, that you want to explore and get to know.
This would indicate, that it doesnt belong to you, that you have to get rid of it like an annoying fly.

My theory here would be (i experienced again and again on my journey) that you try to view yourself as "further progressed" than you are actually.
I think this is a very common issue on the path, but it is one of the biggest obstacles in my opinion.
In viewing ourselves as "more evolved",we first make a judgement, we decide what we consider evolved, this view or judgement might be totally distorted!
And we rob ourselves off the chance to heal and progress further.

Imagine you want to take a Train from Paris to Rome, but you want to believe youre already in Milano. While in Paris, you buy a ticket from Milano to Rome.
Unfortunately this ticket will get you absolutely nowhere, nowhere at all.
You would need a Ticket from Paris to Rome.

Now, i would not condemn this by no means, but examine it a Little further.
I guess this has two main components.

Many of us probably never have been seen as what we truly are by our families, very young we took the road of behaving a certain way and conveying a certain image that was more "acceptable" by our surrounding.
The result is, we never feel good enough for what we simply are.
(this is very much simplified, it's only about the Basic scheme)
(there would ne red ray, orange, yellow and Blue be involved!)

Another component, when we make ourselves believe we already know ourselves, we already dealt enough with these "lower" issues, there is no need to really explore this anymore, since were already done with it.
The truth would be, we actually know it's not true, and a part of us knows, which pain, distress or whatever is waiting there, and we actually fear this.
Once you experience whatever is contained in that "lower" stuff, you will perfectly understand, why you didnt want to deal with it.

I would suggest exploring the Concept of the "inner child" just in case you dont do this already.
A part of you (in fact multiple parts) is still (stuck in) a Little child.
This Little child is what you were when you were young and did experience hardship.
As long as dont deal with this, the child will still be in pain.

When you view these "low vibrational" stuff as a child, you might ne more willing to deal with it.
You probably wouldnt tell a little child that has experienced much pain and is seeking your help: "go away, i dont want to Deal with you, i just want to overcome you!"
You would take it in your arms, listen to its story, give it Space to feel safe, accepted and comforted, you would dry his tears.
And by doing so, this child would heal. Each pain, each negative emotion only has a finite charge. No Child will cry forever when you really hold it.
Sooner or later, this child in you can return to it's natural state, which is a joyful, loving, fully alive being.

So in short, instead of trying to force yourself into a "higher", better or more wanted state, accept, integrate, and deal with the "lower stuff" because behind that lies your natural, higher, more wanted state of being.

Sorry for that lengthy post, i just couldnt write it shorter...