The Third Eye Chakra is the sixth energy center that is indigo and located behind the center of the eyebrows. It controls our ability to think and make decisions using our intuition, imagination, and wisdom.
This energy chakras also allows us to receive guidance from our higher self and spiritual realm.
Associated with brain, eyes, ears, forehead and brows
Listed below are the effects when the chakra is imbalanced and ways to balance it.
When Imbalanced
- Physical effects
- Headaches
- Sight problems
- Sinus pain
- Hearing problems
- Emotional effects
- Don’t trust gut feelings
- Difficulty with following your intuition & seeing the big picture
- Unable to balance emotion and reason
- Spiritual effects
- Lack of faith in purpose
- Find life and work insignificant
- Unable to accept direction -seems to be a ‘know it all’
How to Balance
- Healing exercise to open third eye
- Curl your tongue towards the back of the throat
- Raise your eye up and look between your eyebrows
- Inhale and exhale and hold each for a period of time…try it!
- Nutrition
- Eat purple foods such as grapes, blueberries and drink lavender teas and drinks
- Begin to trust your inner voice
- Practice making the mind go blank to calm thoughts
- Acknowledge your inner voice – it will always be positive
- Affirmations
- I trust my intuition and follow my inner guidance
- I am open to receiving spiritual insights and information
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