Third-Eye Chakra- ajna

Insight and Intuition
The sixth chakra is where your mastermind plugs into a new type of wisdom from beyond this realm, providing amazing insights that will allow you to solve any problem. The sixth chakra is located just above the eyebrows in the center of your forehead. Because the sixth chakra is located in your head rather than in your torso like the first five chakras, it has a slightly different nature and is the control center for some very powerful gifts: thinking, wisdom, physic gifts, and intuition. It’s a stunning indigo color, which indicates peace and tranquility. It’s all about your intuition, your ability to plan, forecast, sense and know. In the previous chakras, you received information from vibrations or sound and through symbols like words. Here, you get data through images. The governing principle of the chakra is image formation. You create or receive information visually on the internal screen of your mind and then interpret and store it; this includes what you see, what you imagine, and what you perceive through psychic and intuitive channels. 

This chakra is the center of both conscious and subconscious beliefs, and it provides a window into a reality beyond this one, allowing you to receive information beyond your basic five senses. This is where you can gain entry into the unified energy field through your intuitive abilities. The gifts that may become available when you expand through this chakra include telepathy, precognition, remote viewing, and clairvoyance. The governing gland of this chakra is the pineal, which is the center of your head close to your eyes. Known as the seat of the soul, the pineal gland uses light fluctuations to produce various hormones that control more than one hundred bodily functions. 

Biggest Obstacle
Problems commonly develop in the brow chakra at the high school and college ages when hormones are at their highest and you are learning to hear from your intuitive voice. As an adult, if your mind is overstimulated and full of anxiety and worry, your intuitive voice can get muffled or silenced. Overthinking is, therefore, the biggest obstacle to the sixth chakra. Overthinking can cut off access to your inner voice and preoccupy you with highly irrational left brain fears and emotions. By rationalizing and theorizing, you can stay stuck in the realm of the mind while your vital energy stagnates. Not only that, but you can lose out on the creativity, intuition, and wisdom that is available when you’re the sixth chakra is in balance. To ward off this obstacle, reconnect with the element of earth, develop warm personal relationships, and learn to take pleasure in your body.

Healthy Chakra
When this chakra is balanced, your left brain is clear and focused and works in conjunction with your open and intuitive right brain. This gives you immediate access to your deepest wisdom. You also have the gift of inner sight, and you trust your inner guidance. Living from that place of deep trust means you live impeccably and love all of life. As someone who can interpret metaphors and symbols that come from your intuitive voice, you will be talented in any of the healing arts because you are in sync with your inner core. Intuitive guidance often comes through your dreams, which combine memories with your imagination. The key sixth chakra is being in time with your sixth sense, your intuitive power. Some typical life situations that can disturb this chakra include people in your life who put your own or discount your intuition, as well as pessimistic or negative people in your space. Signs of a flagging sixth chakra are poor memory, poor concentration, nightmares or hallucinates or paranoia. This energy center rules over the eyes, nose, brain and neurological system. It is associated with the pineal gland, which in turn affects all the other endocrine glands and creates a link between the brain and the immune system. It also affects how trauma is registered in the brain. When this area is out of balance, the following sixth chakra diseases and health concerns can happen eye problems and conditions of the upper and frontal sinuses; headaches, stroke, neurological disturbances and brain tumors. 

Archetypes
Negative: The thinker, who try to live from the rationality of the left brain and believe that emotions are highly irrational, so they rarely confront their feelings and fears. Thinkers have an overstimulated mind, making them anxious from too much thinking and worrying. This cuts off access to the inner voice. Thinkers may develop highly opinionated ideas based on inadequate facts instead of relying on their life experience of creativity, intuition and the inner wisdom that comes from a balanced sixth chakra. Thinkers are helped by reconnecting to the earth, having warm personal relationships, and learning to appreciate their physical body. 

Positive: The Street, who is respected for deep inner wisdom. When our seniors are not respected or honoured, we have no wise elder to go to for help. A true seer is gifted with inner sight, has learned to trust inner guidance, and lives impeccably loving all life. Seers can be skilled in any field because they are in touch with their inner core and can understand metaphors and symbols. 

Spiritual Aspects
For the third eye chakra, the seed sound is Om. The deity presiding over this chakra is Shiva-Shakti; Shiva is the solar male on the right side, and Shakti is the lunar female on the left. This half-male, half-female god-goddess symbolizes the merger of pure consciousness and energy, showing that there is only One. There is no more duality, just as the third eye sees the past, present, and future as one. In states of deep meditation, you can experience the soma that fills you with bliss. Astrologically, the planet Neptune rules the with chakra. Neptune is the planet farthest from the sun. Named for the Roman rules of the sea, Neptune is as deep and mysterious as the depths of the ocean. It is considered a visionary planet and thus influences your ability to create. It is also called the planet of illusion, and in this way can lead to self-destructive fantasies. One of the big obstacles to balancing and clearing the sixth chakra is getting stuck in illusion. When you think you know how things should be, when you are attached to a particular perspective, you are not seeing with any real clarity. 

Chakra Blockage: 
This chakra is all about seeing beyond your eyesight, seeing from your third eye, from your intuition. When your energy is balanced and flowing in this chakra, you are receiving an abundance of ideas and solutions. However, when you begin to worry, overanalyze, and become skeptical of intuition, you can easily block the flow of this vital guidance. If you’re feeling unmotivated and stagnant, over-whelmed with your life or absent in your relationship with others, you need to consider getting this chakra up and running. Answer these questions honestly: 

1. Do you have any health conditions related to the eyes, nose, brain or neurological system?
2. Do you usually forget your dreams?
3. Do you tend to be closed minded?
4. o you typically only see one way to address an issue?
5. Do you deny or ignore the truth of a situation?
6. Do you shut off or ignore inner guidance?
7. Do you behave in a way that is against your own ethics or morals?
8. Do you expect negative results from most situations?
9. Do you have a hard time concentrating or focusing on tasks at hand?
10. Do you often forget things you need to do?
11. Do you overreact to situations rather than rationally try to deal with them?

If you answered yes to two or more of these questions, chances are your sixth chakra could use a tune-up!

Clearing Blockages:
Clearing your sixth chakra opens the line of communication to your Higher Self. When you set the intention and make a commitment to listen inside, you honor the guidance you receive with suitable actions. Since this chakra is highly visual, surround yourself with beauty and things that give you a feeling of inner harmony. An amethyst crystal, bearing the sixth chakra color of lilac, can also improve the energy of flow. When working with this delicate area of the body, you might want to try a crystal like kyanite for protection against individuals who may try to attack you psychically. One of the most effective ways to strengthen this chakra is to honor your need for solitude. Being highly intuitive can often make you overly empathetic, meaning you pick up way too much energy from others around you. You may need to avoid people and places that drain you. Spend more time by yourself. Turn off electronics, light candles. Just be. It is the perfect way to replenish and recharge. Another way to develop and heal your sixth chakra is through visualization. Get in the practice of creating images on your internal mind screen and visualizing the results you desired order to sharpen your skills. When approaching any problem, task, or goal, visualize a positive outcome. Strengthening your visualization skills will also strengthen your ability to see beyond this dimension. 

Meditation:
Sharpening your Third Eye: This exercise is designed to strengthen your ability to see with your third eye. You can do this anytime you have a quiet moment, maybe at the end of your meditation practice. Sit comfortably with your eyes closed. You can use this exercise to look at a situation or problem from varying perspectives in order to arrive at a better picture of truth. Afterward, you may want to write down all that you see and sense on each level. The example i use in this expertise is learning to look at potential mate with clear inner sight. Imagine you are climbing up a pyramid. When you stand on the lowest step and look out, you are seeing from the first chakra, your base chakra for survival. What do you see when you look at this person you’re interested in? What do you feel? If he or she someone with whom you feel safe, protected and taken care of?

Climb to the next step and look out from the point of view from the second chakra. As you ascend each step, you are sending from the broader perspective of each higher chakra. As you reach the next step, you are looking out from the point of view of your third chakra. Your fourth. Your fifth. When you climb to the step of the sixth chakra, you now have a much more panoramic view. Even though you may be looking at the same situation, you will see it differently from all aspects. When you reach the pinnacle of the pyramid, the seventh chakra, you are now looking through the panoramic eyes of mastery. Is this potential relationship for your highest good? Will it bring you higher in love and consciousness or drag you deeper down? Is this person a higher or lower vibration than your own? 

Do this exercise again in a few days and notice if your perceptions of this person or situation have changed.