For most people, the signs of opening the third eye or the sixth chakra usually take different forms depending on each person’s chosen path. Some people are naturally prone to developing the power of this chakra. But most must practice meditation techniques to free the mind of worldly attachments, and work seriously to awaken the dormant potential of the ajna chakra, to experience the gift of using more than the five senses we are familiar with.
The essence of the sixth chakra
Often referred to as the abode of the third eye, the sixth chakra (also known as ajna chakra) is the place where intuition and transcendental consciousness prevail over ordinary logic. When this center is open, a person can clearly see the heart and soul of another (or his own) with an awareness that exceeds the need to speak about truth or wisdom.
When this ability develops, a sign of a person’s third eye opening is the ability to see how past directions affect existing options and future potentials that they point to. Reasoning, wit, spontaneity and mental flexibility become highly developed at this superconscious level. With a well-developed third eye chakra, a person surpasses ordinary abilities, he can clearly see other people, life situations and himself.
Due to the state of her conscious awakening, the ability to distinguish between what is useful and harmful to humans and other creatures, as well as who and what needs to be done, when and in what specific ways. The constructive use of the ajna chakra is the main component of the spiritual path.
The correspondence of the sixth chakra
Key phrases:
- intuition, meditation and self-awareness, mental and emotional clarity, truth;
- combines knowledge, actions and feelings;
- balances and combines “male” and “female” qualities.
Physical location: the point between the eyebrows, the center of the forehead.
Endocrine glands: pituitary or pineal gland (sensitive to light, regulates sleep and wakefulness).
Astrological Correspondence: Saturn.
Day of the week: Saturday.
Element: Mahat, the essence of all other elements, the first principle of consciousness.
Feeling: intuition.
Massage: forehead, ears, sides of the head between the eyes and ears.
The third eye chakra is often called the habitat of a meditative ability. He personifies the so-ham mantra. Just as no one can see electricity or microwaves, or just like a dog or a deer can hear many sounds that are not audible to the human ear, the subtle inner hum of this mantra cannot be heard by many who live mainly from their lower chakras . But the master of this center, who practices the right life, can go beyond the framework of logical thinking. Meditating on the sixth chakra and opening the third eye and mind to the universal qualities of life that binds all beings, a person is on the verge of a portal of divine unity, where he or she can become a paramahamsa while remaining in a higher consciousness.
Abilities of the sixth chakra
Opportunities, signs of opening the third eye and the positive use of abilities:
- use of intuition, opening the third eye;
- a sense of unity with others;
- listening to others;
- perception of life;
- the ability to see, hear and feel your own inner self;
- awareness;
- ability to perceive messages of one’s own body;
- gaining deep inner wisdom;
- developing consciousness.
Obstacles to awakening the Ajna Chakra and negative use of abilities:
- resistance to intuition, strict rationality;
- the perception of others through their own problems;
- distraction to the details;
- the presence of rigid internal frames;
- daydreaming;
- ignoring messages of one's own body;
- careless thinking, committing stupid actions;
- using the ideas of other people for their own benefit;
- surface bonds;
- vanity.
It is believed that the properties of the sixth chakra may also include the development of siddhi (powers):
- clairvoyance (the ability to see what is happening somewhere else);
- foresight of the future;
- the ability to leave the body, remaining conscious, and then return (astral journey);
- ability to communicate with the dead.
Manifestations
Strengths of the developed sixth chakra, considered signs of the opening of the third eye:
- penetrating intuition;
- the ability to find beauty at every moment;
- the ability to feel infinity, to which it responds with a vibrating sense of boundaries between itself and others.
Consciousness during the action of this chakra can perceive and effectively use the energy of all other chakras (from the first to the fifth) and sharpen the awareness of vibrational energy. It can fine tune the energy emanating from other chakras: if the energy from one of them is so strong that it overpowers the energy of the others, this can provide a balance between them.
Opportunities
Sometimes the open sixth chakra can give a person the opportunity to look directly into someone else's reality, using clairvoyance, inner voices. Although this ability is rare, usually weak or absent in most people, practice can strengthen it.
This chakra can provide a range of abilities, including the ability to foresee the future. A person gains the ability to see or hear in his imagination an image of an event that includes details that were not mentioned. It also gives a strong intuition to a person.
It helps to avoid problems arising from erroneous perceptions. A person can only have a vague sensation of internal events that he has not learned to describe, for example, some types of painful feelings, physiological or muscular reactions.
When working with the level of the sixth chakra, people tend to be imaginative and creative. As the ability to connect to this chakra and open your third eye develops, intuition, mental awareness begins to develop, an inner voice or something else develops that allows you to better see and hear inner truth, including other people.
Activation and discovery practice
One of the commonly used ways to develop chakras is to use mantras. Singing a mantra for the development of Ajna Chakra is aimed at forming a mental focus, developing sensations, changing the state of mind. Singing mantras can help fine-tune inner listening.
Mantras for opening
Mantra So Ham
Meaning: I am (I am).
Pronunciation: inhale - so, exhale - boor.
Meaning: truth beyond what others can see.
Mantra om (aum)
Pronunciation: om or aum.
Meaning: The primary sound of the third eye / sixth chakra (in pronunciation, the sound stretches in length until the exhalation is completed).
Activation measures
The main goal is to visualize your best course of action.
You should close your eyes and look inside yourself. Introduce and realize your sixth chakra in the center of the forehead above the bridge of the nose. Imagine a panoramic screen, and on it - a picture of yourself in the past, your actions, what was done well, and what you can be proud of.
After that, you should introduce yourself in the present. If you can’t imagine a picture, you can describe all this in words. Then, focusing on the ajna chakra, you need to create a mental picture of yourself in the future. Imagine a repetition of the same course of action without worrying about the results and what others will think. In this case, one should listen to the inner voice, feel what opportunities, if any, are presented, how they should differ from past and present experience.
Awakening Strategies
In order to activate the work of the sixth chakra, the silence of the mind should be promoted. To this end, you can use meditation to develop the third eye, just sit quietly in nature or immerse yourself in your favorite art or sport.
It is important to develop creativity in yourself. In this case, you can focus on specific actions or allow the imagination to develop freely. For example, you can start learning a new art or craft. Creativity is a very effective way to weaken a rational mind.
Exercises
There are simple but effective exercises for opening the third eye. Here is a list of practices that can give impetus to the intuitive energy center.
- The development of intuition as the main function of the third eye.
- Rest in the moonlight, which corresponds to the light structure of the center of intuition.
- Strengthening the energy of the first and throat chakras, as both help unlock the energy of the third eye.
- Divination practice training.
- Work on the interpretation of dreams, clairvoyance.
- Guided Meditation.
- The development of the imagination.
- Focusing on the space “between” things.
- Search for symbolic meanings, symbols around you.
- Communication with nature and the energy of natural elements.
- Practical contemplation.
- The development of mental abilities.
Thus, with the development of the sixth chakra, one should not be shy to try and explore. This is the best way to use the energy of the third eye.
This chakra is associated with intuition and wisdom. In humans, the third eye, as the energy center of the body, is traditionally associated with the pituitary gland, as well as with the pineal gland.
The glands and chakras are closely related to each other, because they represent different levels of physical functions, the first of which is focused on the physical, and the other on the subtle energy level. The connection between the pituitary and the third eye has long been studied by yogic traditions and modern metaphysics. They consider this gland as a possible place of the soul and its development, a source of mystical experiences and psychic perception or psychic abilities.