The Third Eye Chakra - or Ajna in Sanskrit is one of the seven main energy centers. It is located within the head, in the geometric center of the cranium. It is also called brow chakra as its frontal projection is right at the spot between our eyebrows. Although the chakras are very important centers of energy, we should not forget that they are etheric in nature - very subtle and not visible. But, they have corresponding endocrine glands, as well as major nerve plexuses on the physical plane. The third eye chakra corresponds to the pineal gland. All major seven chakras can be considered etheric equivalents of their corresponding endocrine glands (or the other way around).
This chakra is an important center - a seat of intuition and imagination. It is our spiritual eye through which we receive visions and psychic impressions. When fully aroused we even start to receive different psychic powers. That is why many people get so excited at the idea to open their third eye centers. So, how can we open the third eye and utilize all the benefits it can bring to us?
Let me tell you right at the beginning - there are no instant solutions. If you expect to go to a 2-day workshop and be able to harvest all the benefits of your opened third eye, this is not the way it will happen. If you expect to buy a book or a CD with some specially designed guided meditations, again, it will take years of practice and it will not happen instantly.
In fact, I would never suggest it to anybody to work deliberately on the opening or awaking of the chakras outside of a well defined system of personal and spiritual development and/or self-growth system. And never would I suggest taking a single chakra and working solely on its development. That’s not the proper way - the awakening of the chakras should happen simultaneously with all of them, very gradually, and only under the supervision of your inner Higher Self (and of course your spiritual teacher). Also, as I said, it should not be an aim in itself - your growth and self-development, your getting closer to your Higher Soul, getting closer to God, should be your primary aim. And the benefits of the awakened chakras will come anyhow, without even thinking of them.
It is a simple truth that the major part of mankind’s consciousness today is centered around their Second Sacral Chakra. The majority of our activities too are likely focused around this energy center. If we now wanted to skip the solar plexus chakra, heart and throat chakras, and go directly to and work with the brow center, that wouldn’t be the right way to do it, would it?
So, the only proper way is to gradually purify our etheric body, to master the different energies that need to be controlled within the area of the lower chakras, and after we have got rid of the various prejudices, increased our capacity of love, and developed a new attitude toward life, we will be able to awaken our third eye safely and without any side effects. In the areas of spiritual development, there are no shortcuts, there is no brute force.
I remember reading a book on Tibetan mysticism when I was pretty young. I did not know then whether that this book was purely a fiction or there was some truth in it, because the author suggested a way of opening this energy center by making a tiny hole in the skull. Latter I learned that apparently some ancient cultures used to bore a hole in the skull - a process called trepanation - in order to diminish the hold of the ego and release the powers of the third eye. This is certainly not the method you would want to go in any case.
There are special metaphysical systems designed toward awakening our chakras. For example, one of the aim of Kundalini Yoga is a direct stimulation, balancing and opening of the chakras. There are different mantras in the Vedic tradition dedicated to awaking this center. There are also some techniques of visualization, like tratak meditation, and some visualization methods are combined with rhythmic breathing. I will not go into details here, as I believe you need not follow these ancient teachings in order to ultimately open our third eye. Any spiritual development method you find appropriate for you inner development will work if you are dedicated and if you have determination. Gradually the energies of your microcosm will be purified, your chakras will start to communicate with each other (as they should in their normal operation), and your Third Eye will start to open, gradually and at the pace that is best suited to you.
Actually the best advice I have seen somewhere with regards to opening the third eye chakra is developing unconditional love. If you can make it your habit to spread unconditional love around to everybody and everything, then your whole microcosm will start pulsating and purifying and your third eye will open on its own.
Comments:
Renate says:
01-05-2012
I just broke up with my lover of 7 months, I am 62,
when suddenly my third eye started to pulsate so strongly, that I had to put my finger on it.
What does that mean, was my decision right or wrong?
It is still pulsating.
Never had it that strong before.
sunny says:
01-05-2012
Hi Renate,
Thanks for sharing your experience. It is hard to tell, based on your comment only, what the reason for the pulsations in the
third chakra area might be. Deep down in your heart, though, only you can tell whether or not you have given up on love, due to pride, hurt feelings, or whatever the reason might be.
With love and light,
sunny
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