The Third Eye Chakra
The third eye chakra is also called the ajna chakra, meaning “perceiving” or “command.” It plays a role in helping you develop your inner and outer vision, your intuition – that inner voice that quietly advises you – and other “psychic” abilities. It is the sixth chakra in the body.
It’s responsible for your “wisdom quotient” – that deep well of inner knowing that you can learn to tap into, allowing you to better navigate this life. People you know who seem very wise, or seem to have a lot of insight, have a balanced third-eye chakra.
Location
This energy center is at the same level of the eyebrows, right in the center of the forehead if the eyebrows came together.
A Balanced Ajna
If you have a balanced third eye chakra, you are adept at listening to your inner voice. You can glean insights into the motivations of other people and what they’re about. You understand your “raison d’etre” or your “why” for being on this planet. You understand the idea of how all things are connected and you have a knack for being present-minded, as opposed to looking toward the past or future too much. You have a reflective nature and you have an ability to discern the truth – from people, situations, events and more. Your interactions with others leaves them feeling loved and not judged.
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An unbalanced sixth chakra
An unbalanced third eye chakra can present itself as either being overactive (with an exaggeration of symptoms) or underactive (with symptoms that present as a “dullness”). Remember, where one chakra is unbalanced, others are likely to be, to compensate for this imbalance.
Physical symptoms:
You might experience headaches, problems with the eyes, sinus problems, mental exhaustion or confusion, a reliance on too much on rational thought, and more.
Emotional symptoms:
You might find it difficult to discern your purpose in life, experience indecision, feel lost, closed-minded, insensitive or being too judgmental. Still, you might feel disconnected in a general sense.
Bringing this energy center into balance
Indigo
The color of this energy center is indigo blue. Incorporate it into your life by wearing it and envisioning it.
Meditation
Meditation, in general, is deeply effective in helping to balance the third eye chakra, as well as all the chakras. I created a guided meditation (see video below) to help you bring yours into balance.
Crystals
Use crystals in meditation, or carry them with you. These include lapis lazuli, purple fluorite, amethyst, blue kyanite, black obsidian, and labradorite.
Foods + Essential Oils
Try these foods: blueberries, purple grapes, purple cabbage and other purple/blue foods.
Some essential oils you can try in a diffuser or on the skin with a carrier oil: lavender, clary sage, and ylang ylang.
Eye movements
Do some eye yoga. I personally have done eye yoga for a year and it’s made a huge difference! I perform 36 repetitions each of moving the eyes side to side, up and down, diagonally from right to left, diagonally from left to right, clockwise in a circle, counter-clockwise in a circle, focusing on an object about 12 inches away and then on an object 1000 yards away, and finally squeezing my eyes tightly shut over and over.
No joke: I went to the eye doctor and my eyesight improved by +.50, and was 20/15 after a few months of doing these. I still have to wear glasses to protect my eyes due to a genetic defect. I started eye yoga to help keep my eyes young. I’d heard that you can avoid having to get bi-focals as you get older and so far I have. I feel other benefits, too.
Wisdom Yoga
Do some different yoga poses, such as child’s pose, dolphin pose, forward bend, and downward dog – anything where you’re moving the head to a different position than upright.
Chant
OM – this is the seed mantra chant for the sixth chakra.
Here is one of my favorite guided meditations using “Om.” It uses binaural beats to synchronize your brain to 432Hz: the wavelength said to heal, expand consciousness and connect you to the universe.
Guided Meditation
I created this guided meditation as a way to ease you into balancing your ajna chakra. As with all the meditations in this series, the background is silent, to keep you from getting distracted by background music as you listen to the words.
Introduction
As you begin this practice, make sure you won’t be disturbed.
You may sit in a chair with your feet flat on the floor, or on a cushion – wherever you may be comfortable. Just be sure the position you find is one that you can maintain long enough for this meditation. Be kind to yourself. If you find that you need to shift, do so with mindfulness and calm.
When you meditate, it’s okay to have thoughts – they will come! Welcome them. Meditation shouldn’t be a strain. Don’t try too hard. Just bring your gentle, nonjudgmental attention back to this meditation when you find your thoughts have taken you somewhere else.
Let go of expectations. You have come to your chair or cushion. Let yourself settle into this practice to benefit from this time of calm and silence. Once you begin this meditation, stick with it until the end.
Breathing
Close your eyes, or cap them halfway, with a soft, unfocused gaze.
Bring your awareness to the breath. Notice the rise and fall of the chest, the natural rhythm of breathing. Sit with the breath for a few moments.
If you find your thoughts wandering, gently come back to this third eye chakra meditation. Thoughts are okay. Let them come. Welcome them. Gently let them go by coming back to this meditation. Be kind to yourself.
Now, take two or three deep yawns. You can “fake yawn” until one comes on.
Bring your attention back to the breath. Notice the natural rhythm of your breathing.
Breathe in, deeply, first into your belly and then into your chest. Inhale as much as you can.
Slowly begin to release the air, starting with your chest, then your belly. Do this for two more breaths.
Energizing the lower chakras
Bring your attention to the root of your being, the base of the spine. A tiny ball of red energy spins there.
See this energy center as a red pin of light. Allow this light to grow and surround your body.
Move up a few inches, to just below the navel. Your creative center. An orange light spins there. It is the size of a pin.
As you inhale, allow this orange light to grow to the size of a marble, and then even bigger to surround your body.
Moving above the belly button, a tiny yellow light spins. It is the light of your self-motivation and destiny. As you inhale, grow this yellow light to surround your chest, followed by the entire body.
Now, bring your attention to the heart – the area in the center of your chest. A tiny green light spins there. This light is unconditional love.
On your next inhale, grow this light to surround your body.
Move up to your throat. A tiny light of sky blue shines there. Grow this light as you breathe in. Allow it to expand around your body.
The third eye chakra
Move to the space between your eyebrows. This is where your third eye chakra energy center is. See a tiny indigo blue light spinning.
This is the light of your inner wisdom, intuition, and connectedness with the universe.
On your next inhale, grow this light to surround your head. Breathe out, allowing this light to expand and occupy the space around your body.
Continue to breathe, in and out, with this indigo light in and all around you, for several breaths.
Your wisdom grows. Your connection to yourself, and to those around you increases. You feel your judgment of others diminishing, replaced by understanding and love.
Through this indigo light, you feel your sense of intuition becoming stronger. Your ability to seek and find truth grows with the balancing of this energy center.
Breathing and Chanting
As you breathe, bring the air into your belly to get ready to chant.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Breathe in.
Breathe out.
Now, inhale to chant.
Ommmmmmmmmmmm.
Inhale to chant.
Ommmmmmmmmmmm.
Inhale to chant.
Ommmmmmmmmmmm.
Ommmmmmmmmmmm.
Ommmmmmmmmmmm.
(Continue for two minutes)
Let your breathing return to normal.
The deep blue light still surrounds you. All the areas in and around the forehead are infused with this beautiful light. Each breath you take is wisdom, intuition, love. Repeat each of the following affirmations silently or aloud after it is spoken.
Affirmations
I listen to and follow my intuition. (repeat)
I understand my purpose. (repeat)
I have a deep inner wisdom. (repeat)
I am connected to my inner self. (repeat)
I feel connected to all other beings and to the universe. (repeat)
I see truth. (repeat)
I am creative and see the beauty in the world around me. (repeat)
I am my truest self. (repeat)
I feel revitalized. (repeat)
I feel love and connection to others. (repeat)
Focus on the breath
Spend a couple minutes in silence as you continue to keep this healing light energized. As you breathe, ribbons of this beautiful light weave in and around your forehead, in the space around you, infusing everything with connection, and truth.
Ending the meditation
Keep your eyes closed or capped as you near the end of this meditation.
It’s important to come out of meditation slowly.
Bring your awareness back to the breath. Allow yourself to feel the in and out rhythm of the rise and fall of the breath.
On your next inhale, allow the fingers and toes to wiggle if you wish. Gently shift your arms or legs as needed.
When you’re ready, open your eyes with a soft downward gaze. Keep your focus inward.
Open your eyes fully as you’re ready. You may return to your day.
References:
My own intuition, training, experience and writing
Exploring Your Third Eye Chakra
The Third Eye Chakra: Ajna
Becoming Superconscious: The Keys to Activating and Opening the Third Eye (Ajna) Chakra
Third Eye Chakra Healing
The Ultimate Guide to Third Eye Healing for Complete Beginners
The Third Eye Chakra
Two chakras in a row that I especially resonate with, dear Cynthia… and truly blue and green are always my “go-to” color choices for most everything.
This is definitely my favorite series – the concept / meaning of the various chakras makes sense and is a wonderful barometer of self-awareness.
Love, hugs and many thanks, Maria
Mar – two comments! Oh, I’m just smiling from ear to ear, feeling your vibrance and sweet spirit. Blue and green – beautiful colors of love, connectedness, and wisdom…and on this Earth Day, they are PERFECT!! You embody these colors so well, my friend. I’m so glad you’re enjoying this series. I plan to do guided meditations every week from now on – I have gotten a lot of good feedback that this is what I need to do. 🙂 I have really loved doing more research about these energy centers. I learned a lot in the process, too. And yes, the self-awareness piece. Absolutely. Thank you, thank you for your kindness, sweet friend. It means so much to hear from you. Sending you big hugs! 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Cyndi, this is truly interesting and totally learned something new here today. As I do have sinus and headache issues from time-to-time and never knew that the Third Eye Chakra could be at pla. But now I am going to try some of what you listed here, especially the purple foods to see if that indeed helps. thanks and wishing you a wonderful week ahead. It is spring break here and my girls are off for the week, so will be in and out and busy with that. But just had to stop in to read your article this week and also send some hugs your way xoxo <3
Janine – thank you, thank you! Can I just tell you how grateful I am for your openness, friend!? I know we walk different paths, and they are both beautiful, with the idea of getting to our highest selves. But I am so grateful that you derive inspiration and information from these posts that you can use and adapt. I’d love to see if inviting more “blue” into your life – through foods and the other tools here that you want to try – will help. Let me know. I also hope you have a wonderful spring break with the princesses. They looked beautiful for Easter! 😉 Thank you for stopping in and for your beautiful smile! Have a wonderful week!
Always fascinating stuff, Lil Sis! One reason I’m happy to be older is that my intuition is much more trustworthy today than it was fifty years ago. I guess that make sense, right? So much more experience to draw upon, which should only help us to hone our intuition.
Anyway, work is calling, so I’ll bid you farewell for now. Have a great week, Lil Sis. Always a pleasure reading your thoughts.
Hugs from afar!
Big Bro – I know you’re in your busy season and so it means a lot to me that you have come over here today. You have a certain wisdom that makes others want to see what you’re up to, friend. Your intuition and love for others is truly remarkable. It’s obvious. Yours is an incredible heart. I also want to thank you: you have inspired me so on this journey. Your incredible comments, guidance and love are motivational. Thank you for being you. I hope you have a wonderful week. I’m looking forward to your post this week where I get to read and think about the nuanced meaning of YOUR words. 🙂 Be sure to take time to “just be” this week, y’hear? Sending hugs! 🤗
Wonderful information contained within this valuable post Cynthia.. This has to be for me at least one of the most important Chakra’s as Intuition is Everything.. We need to be able to trust this long used gift, which all are born with.. But we have all been programmed not to trust our inner instincts throughout time, and the third eye, has often been labelled as being connected with the occult.
Interesting isn’t it that when we are Christened, our third eye is given the symbol of the cross.. Have you ever looked into why that is?
I once read somewhere, it was the symbol to close down the third eye.. And when you look further back into the persecution of those who were labelled witches because they had the gift of intuition to see beyond this realm.
When you uncover history into the taboo of our third eye, it opens our minds even deeper to the amount of programming that went on to keep us from using our natural abilities, so that people were kept in fear..
Anyway, sorry to have gone off on a tangent there.. Lol.. Loved that you mentioned crystals, and I often wear some of those you mention,
I adore red cabbage, purple broccoli, and who doesn’t love blue berries and we even grow those in our allotment 🙂
I hadn’t heard of the eye moments so that is something to take away and practice. 🙂
Love the Tibetan Flute Music I am listening to it now as I type away.. You can feel the tones and vibration.
Loved listening again to your meditation Cynthia.. Wish I could give a double thumbs up.. Again you have the most calming voice.. A real treat to listen to.
Sending huge hugs across the ocean my friend..
Have a super week..
Lots of Love and Blessings your way.. 💜🙏💚
Sue, thank you for another wonderful comment. I am really into the third eye stuff. It is a gift, and I want to work on cultivating it more and more. I have been so busy of late, that I have not been focusing on it. And I feel it. I feel the sort of… Disconnection. I yearn to feel this connection again, and I’m going to do it soon. You’re absolutely right, as well, about Society deprogramming us from that which is intuitive. When I tell people about my website, I don’t always list the web address immediately. It’s because I know that I get some looks when people realize what my website address is. Just the other day, I was in a meeting where there were all these business owners. Some of them were alternative health practitioners, yes, but the majority were not. When I told the meeting coordinator about my business, he looked at me and blinked several times in silence and then walked away. Literally. I had to chuckle, actually. You told me right there That he was not ready to listen to what I had to say. And that was okay.
The symbol of the cross. Oh, there is so much history there. And why it is the cross itself. It makes total sense, doesn’t it? You cross something off when you no longer want it to be there. In fact, we put crosses over our eyes when our eyes are closed to signify death, at least in cartoons. It’s really interesting what we have done in terms of that inner energy and intuition.
Glad you enjoyed the Tibetan Flute music. I LOVE those videos. Hehe.
As for the eye movements, yes! I sort of stumbled on that by accident. I started doing these eye movements a year ago February or so. I wanted to do them to help my good eye stay, well, good! Hehe. But I had no idea it would improve my vision, as well as help my blind eye track better. Then there’s the added benefit of them helping with third eye functioning, too.
Thank you for the feedback about my voice. A number of folks have said something similar which, for me, is a sign to keep going. Thank you!!! Sending you hugs as well. Have a wonderful rest of your week!
Hi, Sacred content always connects me to the divine! Namaste to you for making the effort!