Location of the Third Eye Chakra: Center of the forehead
Core Issue: Illusion
Age of Development: Adolescence
Developmental Tasks: Establishment of personal identity, ability to perceive patterns
Function: Pattern recognition
The third eye chakra helps us see and understand things, like noticing patterns and making assumptions based on those patterns. This chakra starts to develop during our teenage years when we begin to think more deeply. If this chakra is unbalanced, you might have trouble understanding what you see and using that information in a useful way.
Third Eye Chakra: Foundation of Life
The third eye chakra represents the right to see.
Connection to the Physical Body
The third eye chakra is linked to the brain and neurological system, pituitary and pineal glands, eyes, ears, and nose.
Connection to the Emotional/Mental Body
The third eye chakra is our link to the mental body, our intelligence, and our psychological characteristics. It represents the things we know and the things we believe to be true.
Connection to the Spiritual Body
The energy of the third eye chakra resonates with our desire for our spirits to be a contribution to the lives of others.
When the third eye chakra’s energy is out of balance, it can develop either an excessive or deficient coping strategy for survival.
Excessive Third Eye Chakra
Too much energy stays in the body, making it overactive, dense, and stagnant. Signs of excess imbalance include:
Deficient Third Eye Chakra
Too much energy leaves the body, leaving it passive, empty, and feeling useless. Signs of deficient imbalance include:
Balanced Third Eye Chakra
A balanced Third Eye chakra means:
The third eye chakra can face several complications affecting image, self-image, intuition, imagination, visualization, insight, dreams, and vision.
Possible Causes of Complications
Complications can arise from experiences like what you see going against what you are told, invalidation of intuition, and living in an ugly of frightening environment
Physical Manifestations of Imbalance
When the third eye chakra is imbalanced, it can show up in physical issues such as:
Therapeutic Color: Indigo or Purple Associated Element: Light
Every trauma held in the body affects your whole system–physically, mentally, and emotionally. For example, breaking a leg not only impacts you physically but also influences your thoughts and emotions. When trauma happens it can create a gap between your mind and body and cause issues with how your system communicates with itself, keeping you from healing. When healing, it’s crucial to address trauma comprehensively and work towards reestablishing a connection between what you are thinking and what you are feeling in your body and allow it to be expressed emotionally.
The following suggestions can help to balance the energy of the third eye chakra. It is important to note, that healing requires careful attention and patience, especially when dealing with long-held traumas. It may be uncomfortable as you confront past experiences, but this is a natural part of the healing process.
For the best results, combine several methods that you find enjoyable and practice them regularly. Healing takes time and persistence, so be patient with yourself throughout the journey.
1. Create visual art
When the third eye chakra is unbalanced, you might have trouble focusing, letting your imagination run wild, and noticing patterns in daily life. Making visual art can help balance this chakra. Doing things like coloring, crafting, drawing, or painting can strengthen your focus, let your imagination flow, and improve your pattern recognition. You can choose any activity you find fun and visually stimulating.
2. Practice meditation
When your third eye chakra is out of balance, it can be hard to concentrate and stay focused on what’s happening around you. Meditation is a great way to help with this. It trains your brain to focus and be aware, and it helps you stay emotionally steady. To get the best results, try to set aside a little time each day to meditate regularly.
One great meditation for balancing your third eye chakra is mirror-gazing. This means looking at your own reflection in a mirror. Since eyes are the windows to the soul, focusing on your reflection can help you understand your feelings and figure out what’s causing your stress. This can help you be kinder to yourself and build a stronger self-image.
To practice mirror-gazing, sit or stand comfortably in front of a mirror. Close your eyes and take a few deep, slow breaths to relax. Then, open your eyes and look softly at your reflection. What thoughts are going through your head? Are they kind or critical? Do you immediately focus on things you don’t like about yourself? Notice any thoughts and feelings that come up, and imagine any feelings of dislike slowly melting away with each exhale.
3. Yoga poses
Yoga focused on centering and stillness can help to balance the energy of the third eye chakra. Some helpful poses include child’s pose, legs up the wall, lotus pose, and puppy pose.
4. Practice letting your eyes be still
The third eye chakra is linked to your eyes, which are always moving and focusing without much rest during the day. This can make your eyes tired and tense, especially if you look at screens a lot. To help your eyes and the third eye chakra, give them breaks during the day. Let them relax by focusing softly on something far away for a few moments when they feel strained.
Another good way to rest your eyes is candle gazing or looking at a salt lamp. Put the candle or lamp a few feet in front of you and look at it with a soft, natural gaze. This can help your eyes be still and relax.
5. Clean up your environment
Living in a messy and disorganized space can wreak havoc on your third eye chakra. It makes it hard for your eyes to focus and easy to get distracted by all the clutter. Keeping your space clean and organized helps balance the energy of the third eye chakra. When your room is tidy, there are fewer distractions, and it’s easier to stay focused.
6. Explore media that takes you out of your comfort zone
An imbalance in the third eye chakra can create issues with how you see things and make it hard to find meaning in what you see, especially in new situations. A great way to work on this is to check out media you wouldn’t usually watch or read. Books, movies, and TV shows are all good options. By exploring different viewpoints in a safe and controlled environment, you can practice how you perceive things and how you react to them. This can help you manage your reactions in real-life situations.
7. Play memory games
When the third eye chakra is imbalanced, your memory can suffer. Memory is important because it helps you learn from the past, function in the present, and plan for the future. Luckily, memory is a skill that you can get better at with practice. Playing memory games is a great way to improve it. There are lots of books, computer games, and apps made just for this. Find one you like and make it part of your daily routine.
8. Explore your limiting beliefs about yourself
When the third eye chakra is blocked, it can cause problems with how you see and think about yourself. Negative thinking patterns are bad for your health and well-being. When you keep thinking things like, “I’m stupid,” “I’m a failure,” or “I’m ugly,” these thoughts create neural pathways in your brain and they eventually become your truth.
To heal your third eye chakra and improve how you see yourself, it’s important to take control of these negative thoughts. Try replacing them with positive and true statements about yourself.
Here are some examples:
Negative Thinking Patterns | Positive Thinking Patterns |
I’m stupid | I know a lot of things. It’s OK to not know everything. |
I have never accomplished anything | I’ve accomplished a lot in my life |
I’m ugly | I am a beautiful person |
I’m lazy | I get a lot done |
I don’t deserve to be happy | I deserve to be happy and healthy |
I’m worthless | I’m a valuable person |
9. Keep a dream journal
Dreaming is very important for a healthy mind and body. Your dreams help you understand yourself better by bringing hidden thoughts and feelings to the surface, and the third eye chakra helps you make sense of them. When this chakra is out of balance, you might have nightmares or really intense dreams, or you might not remember your dreams at all.
Affirmations are powerful tools for changing how you think about yourself. They help replace negative self-talk with positive statements that support healing.
Aromatherapy uses certain scents to create a focused connection with different parts of the body through the sense of smell.
Some scents that work great for the third eye chakra include Lemongrass, Sandalwood, and Violet.
Color therapy uses the different wavelengths of light found in color to establish a connection to specific areas of the body.
The color indigo vibrates at the same range of frequency as the third eye chakra. Because of this, wearing the color indigo or bringing it into your surroundings can help balance the energy of the third eye chakra.
Food is the most powerful medicine. It can affect different parts of the body in specific ways.
Some foods that are great for the third eye chakra include foods that are purple in color (e.g., eggplant, purple cabbage, purple carrots, purple kale, blueberries, purple grapes, prunes). Cacao is also beneficial to the third eye chakra.
Music therapy can be beneficial for a wide range of physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. It can help with emotional processing and expression, reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression, promote relaxation, manage pain, and support overall well-being.
Music therapy can be used in various ways. You can try listening to specific songs work through feelings like anger or to transition to a different emotional state, such as happiness. You can also try using music that promotes relaxation/reduces stress levels or music that will increase your energy level depending on your desired outcome. Including dancing and/or singing can also help you feel better both inside and out.
It's important to pick music you like and that helps you feel how you want to feel in the moment.
The third eye chakra is positively influenced by music that features atmospheric qualities, introspective lyrics, and spiritual themes. Songs that convey themes of intuition, insight, and spiritual awakening are also beneficial.
Some suggested songs include:
Popular Song Suggestions:
Making sounds creates vibrations in your body, which helps reconnect your mind and body. Different sounds create vibrations that can target specific areas.
To focus on the third eye chakra, try vocalizing the vowel e (as in meet), or the mantra Om. Focus on how the vibrations feel between your eyes.
Sources: A Handbook of Chakra Healing Spiritual Practice for Health, Harmony, and Inner Peace, Govinda, Kalashatra; Anatomy of the Spirit the Seven Stages of Power and Healing, Myss, Caroline; Eastern Body Western Mind Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self, Judith, Anodea
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