Your Third Eye is an ethereal consciousness center that is located in the middle of your forehead. You may have heard that unlocking your Third Eye will offer you increased intuition, but it also provides you with enhanced perception and spiritual insight that you cannot see with your physical eyes. That is why learning how to open your Third Eye chakra is for anyone trying to go down a spiritual path.
The Third Eye Chakra
The Third Eye chakra, when opened, allows for self-examination and inspection. It improves your worldview and helps you start to develop a stronger sixth sense by strengthening your intuition. Your intellect, the range of your reasoning, and your viewpoint are all widened by the Third Eye chakra. It stimulates your imagination and creativity, promotes mental equilibrium, and increases self-awareness.
Some people think that the Third Eye serves as a channel for spiritual contact while it is open and can help show a person their natural spiritual gifts such as:
- Telepathy
- Clairvoyance
- Astral projection during lucid dreams
- Detecting auras
Techniques for How to Open Your Third Eye Chakra
You have to take the time to carefully unlock your Third Eye to use it properly. Here are a few methods that can help you access your Third Eye safely.
Yoga Poses
Yoga is a calming exercise that helps relax your muscles, soothe your body, and helps you approach daily life more openly and with less stress. It can also aid with the third-eye opening.
Poses that stimulate the pineal gland and open the Third Eye include the downward-facing dog and the child’s pose.
Breathing Practices
The breath serves as a lifeline, a stabilizing factor, and a means of finding inner peace within the body. Giving yourself enough time to practice mindful breathing can help you open your Third Eye.
You can try different breathing techniques, such as:
- Synchronized breathing
- Box breathing
- 4-7-8 breathing
- Three-part breathing
Visualization
Visualizing your Third Eye-opening can help it happen easier because the mind is such a strong force. Imagine your Third Eye chakra expanding and becoming more responsive to spiritual energy while using visualization techniques:
- With your eyes closed, picture a violet light in the middle of your forehead.
- Visualize this light gaining strength and enlarging
- Imagine it bringing awareness and clarity to every cell in your body and mind
Chanting
It should come as no surprise that chanting, which is an essential component of disciplines like meditation and yoga, can aid in the opening of the Third Eye. Specific mantras, such as “Om” or “Aum,” can resonate with the vibrational frequency of the Third Eye, assisting in opening and activating it.
Courses
You can help your third eye open by deepening your intuition working with tools, working with your spirit guides or becoming part of a like minded community actively working on elevating their spiritual gifts.
Meditation
Few activities may improve your physical connection to your Third Eye as much as meditation. A useful technique for calming the mind and increasing awareness, the Third Eye gets stronger the longer one can sit in meditation regularly.
Follow these instructions to use meditation to open your Third Eye:
- Make sure the environment is peaceful so that outside noises won’t disturb your meditation.
- Seat yourself on a chair with your feet planted on the ground, or sit in meditation posture, with your hands gently resting in your lap palms facing upwards.
- Take a deep breath through your nose, breathing in slowly to the count of 4, clearing your thoughts as you do so.
- Next, imagine that there is pressure rising inside your Third Eye on your forehead. If you have trouble visualizing this, you can help aid your meditation by placing two fingers where your Third Eye is located on your forehead.
- Make sure you have plenty of time to spare because this step in the waking process might take up to 10 minutes or more. Keep your eyes closed and your back straight. Imagine that your Third Eye is open while you concentrate on it.
- You will breathe in and out slowly and profoundly. Lock your root chakra upon taking your second breath. Hold onto the root lock while you continue to inhale and raise your breath to your Third Eye.
- Now hold your breath. Observe how your mental image of it has become brighter. As long as you can, continue holding your breath while picturing the light. You are free to let go whenever you feel you can no longer hold back your breath.
- Repeat the inhalation, but this time constrict your abdominal muscles as you hold your breath.
- Where your Third Eye is located on your forehead, you will start to experience a feeling. The pineal gland should begin to activate at that moment.
- As you keep doing this, visualizations will start to appear in your Third Eye. Do not worry about if it is only a fabrication of your imagination or merely irrational images.
- Maintain your regulated breathing, abdominal muscular contractions, and root lock activation. You can now ask yourself questions and use your Third Eye to find answers that will come in visualizations.
- Relax your neck, shoulders, and body once you are ready to end your session. You can now open your eyes by bringing your hands in front of you, pressing your palms together in prayer, and bending your neck downward. Your time for meditation is now over.
What to Expect When Your Third Eye Opens
You might be interested in knowing the signals or symptoms that appear once your Third Eye chakra has actually been opened. Of course, each person’s experience is unique. However, the following are some of the most typical symptoms that might appear gradually or suddenly:
- feeling tingly or buzzing in your forehead
- an increase in headaches or migraines compared to normal (This is your Third Eye adapting to the outside environment.)
- extrasensory perceptions or visions while meditation
- suddenly understanding some aspects of life
- mystical encounters
- strong ties to inner wisdom and intuition
- improved capacity for independent thoughts
Final Thoughts
It takes commitment, the readiness to go deep, and a few life changes to learn how to open your Third Eye chakra. However, the wonderful spiritual benefits opening your Third Eye provides you is something you can rely on for many years to come.
