Third Eye
Chakra (Ajna)
Can you recall last night's
dream? Can you imagine how you would like your body to feel
tomorrow? These imaginative abilities—visualizing the
past, creating positive pictures of the future, and fantasizing—are
all aspects of the third eye Chakra, whose Sanskrit name (Ajna)
means both "the perception center" and "the
command center." Associated with the element light and
the color indigo blue, the sixth chakra is located between
and just above the physical eyes, creating the spiritual third
eye. While our two eyes see the material world, our sixth
chakra sees beyond the physical. This vision includes clairvoyance,
telepathy, intuition, dreaming, imagination, and visualization.
The Third Eye Chakra is involved
in both the creation and perception of art and in the recognition
that what we see has a powerful impact on us. Even when we're
not aware of it, we're all sensitive to the images we find
in our environment. I remember growing up in Los Angeles as
a teen and seeing hoards of billboards advertising liquor
and cigarettes. Looking at them didn't make me feel healthy
or happy; instead, it gave me the message that I needed drugs
to feel complete. Then I went to Thailand as a high school
foreign-exchange student. I saw Buddha statues on the streets
instead of billboards, and those serene, majestic figures
awakened my connection to inner peace.
When the third eye is excessively
abuzz with energy, we experience headaches, hallucinations,
nightmares, and difficulty concentrating. When this chakra
is deficient, we have a poor memory, experience eye problems,
have difficulty recognizing patterns, and can't visualize
well.
As a yoga teacher, I occasionally
like to work with this chakra by having my students wear blindfolds
during an entire class. Temporarily deprived of sight, which
provides such a huge percentage of our sensory input, students
have a very fresh experience of yoga. They can't be distracted
by the room, by other students, or by looking critically at
their own bodies. Instead, they experience pratyahara, the
drawing inward of the senses. After these classes, students
have shared with me profound insights about their bodies and
lives that came up because their vision was directed more
deeply inside themselves. Another yogic approach to supporting
the health of the Third Eye Chakra is to do supported forward
bends, adding an extra bolster or blanket to press upon and
stimulate the third eye area. Also, creating positive images
and visualizations is a practice that helps create a healthy
sixth chakra. Such affirmative visions act as natural magnets,
drawing the imagined situation into your life.
Mental and Emotional Issues:
Self-evaluation, truth, intellectual abilities, feelings of
adequacy, openness to ideas of others, ability to learn from
experiences, emotional intelligence, clairvoyance, intuition
and insight.
Traits When Overactive:
Egotism, cynicism, proud, manipulative, religiously dogmatic,
authoritarian.
Traits When Under-functioning or Off-balance:
Difficulty imagining, overly intellectual (only able to deal
with concrete concepts), overly linear or rational thinking.
Lack of concentration, tension, headaches, eye problems, bad
dreams, and being overly detached from the world.
Organs:
Brain, nervous system, eyes, ears, nose, pineal gland, pituitary
gland.
Physical Dysfunctions:
Brain tumor/hemorrhage/stroke, neurological disturbances,
blindness/deafness, full spinal difficulties, learning disabilities,
seizures, schizophrenia.
Foods:
Lecithin, wheat germ, barley, vitamin E, alfalfa, chamomile,
water, water, water.
Activities to Balance Third Eye Chakra:
Meditate, visualizing an indigo blue flame or blue pearl.
Some will also use crystals or a small pyramid, placed at
the third eye, during meditation.
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