Opening Your Third Eye and What to Expect

I get many emails asking questions regarding the opening of the third eye, known as the brow chakra. Let me warn you, this post is a little long but well worth it for anyone searching for answers about the third eye/brow chakra. So bear with me and please read this whole post and I promise you won’t regret it.

I will admit that usually when I receive emails where the main question is about opening the third eye, and that is what the person calls it instead of referring to it as the brow chakra, I automatically feel I know what one of the issues will be. A lack of enough information to take this step. Often the person does not ask me about other chakras because possibly they have read some where and gotten an understanding that the third eye is the main key to opening up the psychic abilities. So, I am going to attempt to clear some things up regarding the brow chakra as it pertains to awakening innate psychic abilities as well as what to expect and what not to expect.

First of all, before deciding that you are going to open your brow chakra, do a little reading about all the chakras. As you can see from the picture on the left the major chakras are from root (genital area) to crown (just above the head). Energy flows through the chakras but many times we have blocked and/or unbalanced chakras which hinder the flow of energy and manifest in various ways such as illness, emotional instability, control issues, etc. The root chakra is very important because it is the last stop life force energy makes before leaving the body through the foot chakra and goes into the Earth to be transmutted and processes the energy to prepare it for leaving the body. Just from that basic information I bet you can guess that it is important that the foot chakra and the root chakra be clear and balanced. If you have never done chakra work before then chances are you have some blocked and/or unbalanced chakras that have most likely been affecting you. For example, if your sacral chakra (orange, below the belly button) is not clear then you may be having issues of control in your life. Possibly this chakra could be unbalanced because of being in an unbalanced relationship. Or if you have problems making decisions that may be your hint that this chakra is unbalanced or blocked.

Even though I work on my chakras often I still often have blocked and unbalanced chakras because things/issues that block a clear chakra. For example, I could clear my chakras this morning but maybe later today get frustrated about something or angry and that will affect my chakras. Do you sometimes have trouble empathizing with people or aren’t very tolerant of others issues? Possibly your heart chakra may be blocked or out of balance. The hints are always there if you pay attention.

So it is important that you at least read about the other chakras and what they do and signs of them being blocked. Often, although not always, people who are looking to awaken their innate psychic abilities have not previously done a lot of self work and resolved many of their emotional and mental issues. Well I don’t know about you but I wouldn’t want a psychic to do a reading for me who has awakened to abilities but is a wreck emotionally or mentally. How are they going to be able to give me a good reading? But I won’t get into that right now, but just ponder that question and see what you come up with.

Okay, so what about the brow chakra? Well the brow chakra is only a part of the whole, so to speak. The brow chakra controls clairvoyance, clear seeing. Many times when I ask a person why they want to open their brow chakra they might say that there is a love one that has recently passed away that they want to talk to, to tell them they love them because they feel they didn’t get the chance before they passed over. Some want to talk to spirit…guides, Angel’s, God, Jesus, etc. and for various reasons. Some just have always known their whole life that they had abilities because they would manifest at times but they had no idea what to think about it or do and for some reason they are ready to explore themselves further and find their true selves. All reasons ARE good reasons. Spirit is always so happy and excited when we make the decision to take this step. Our guides and Angel’s have been with us our whole lives and some times for our whole eternity and in this life they have been there as the invisible helpers, waiting for the possibly of being acknowledge so they can help us even more. They stand right in front of us as we cry for help giving us answers and reassurance and we don’t hear them and many times people will feel so alone and not realize they are never alone. So it is a wonderful step to take and you will have so much support both from the incarnate, such as myself whose path in this life time is to help those along their path to awakening and beyond, and spirits on the other side.

Although I have said that all reasons are good reasons some reasons do point to the fact that there are emotional issues from the past that you need to deal with and connecting to spirit is not really the answer to what you are going through or dealing with. For example, if your reason is that you had a shaky relationship with a loved one and now they are gone and YOU want ANSWERS…it points to your need to deal with those emotional issues head on and I do mean explore your self and your past…go inward and find the answers that will put you at peace. Spirit can’t magically put you at peace…this is something you must do for yourself and your own well being. Ahhhh, but so many instead insist on going forward with their plan of action anyway regardless of what I advise and that is okay too. You have to learn and sometimes you learn by heading in one direction, seeing where it leads you and then trying the other path, and so on and so forth. As you go down the various paths you are not making a mistake, but instead you are learning more about yourself and increasing your knowledge along the way and these experiences will eventually give you the wisdom to one day possibly guide and help others.

Now that I have given you all the info I am sure you did not come to read let’s talk specifically about the brow chakra.

The brow chakra, visualized as indigo and located between the eyebrows, is associated with the pineal gland. Note for future reference where the pineal gland is located in the diagram I have provided. The brow chakra is another place where your spirit can leave the body during an out of body experience and is the source of intuition. Imbalances with this chakra can lead to migraines, insomnia and memory problems. When working with the brow chakra during meditation one should focus theirs eyes in and upward towards the location of the third eye.

If you have not done so already you need at this point to already know how to ground and protect yourself. Even if you think you know how to do this or have been told this information, look it up for yourself. Protection is important, don’t just take anyone’s word for how this is done and be proactive about your own safety.

To make the explanation of working the brow chakra simple I can say that once you are in meditation (or just sitting relaxed) and focusing your eyes in and upward toward the brow chakra all you need to do is to visualize (imagine the best you can and if your not good at visualizing you will get better and better the more you practice this) a bright white ball of light at the area of the brow chakra and see the brow chakra as a indigo colored disc spinning clockwise quickly. By visualizing the brow chakra spinning clockwise you are actually balancing the chakra. Next, see the brow chakra’s color become clearer and brighter as though the bright white light is cleaning it. Imagine it as blindingly bright if you can. Every time you work on your chakras see the disc as a little bit wider.

Working the other chakras is basically the same. Doesn’t that sound easy enough? The more you work on your chakras, the easier it will get and the quicker you will be able to do it so even if you only have a little time during the day you won’t have to neglect your chakras because of time constraints.

The last thing I want to discuss is what to expect. I get many questions about this because many find instructions on the internet explaining how to open the brow chakra but much isn’t said about what to expect and what to do next. Once the brow chakra is opened and cleared it is not FULLY open but only opened a certain percentage and in the beginning it will not usually stay open on its own. After working on the brow chakra over time it will eventually stay permanently open. So yes, I am hinting at the need to work this chakra daily after the initial opening. This is the same for all other chakras as well so you need to have some dedication and tenacity. The other question to consider is the state of your other chakras. A chakra below or above another that is blocked will affect it. So let’s say your throat chakra is seriously blocked because you bite your tongue a lot and don’t speak your truth. This would hinder the flow of life force energy downward and up from beneath it. This will have the effect of dampening your abilities. So if you have awakened and developed your clairsentience (clear feeling of energy) then the result may be that you suddenly can’t feel much of anything. Same thing for empaths, you may find you are not feeling others emotions and pains very much, almost as though you are not connecting. Yes you will be connecting but your senses will feel dull and unable to pick up very well what is being sensed.

Expectations play a large role in awakening and developing psychic abilities. Often our misconceptions of what we are going to end up with trips us up. If you are wondering how long it will be until you can start offering psychic readings as a professional, well I hope you have some patience. If you are wondering how long it will be until you can begin developing your abilities through practice then the answer is you are ready right now.

Many think that it is a process where they open their chakras and then sit and wait to see something to be able to know that they have in fact awakened to their psychic abilities. Unfortunately television shows and movies have given a less than accurate view of what is really experienced once awakened. So if you are waiting to suddenly see a ghost walk through your living room one night, well that is not going to happen like it would in the movies. Also, if you see a ghost walk through your living room that is not an ability as much as it is considered a paranormal experience.

I awakened fully to my empathy in three weeks at which time I was an unskilled empath. A few months later my clairsentience awakened at which time I began working on developing and using that ability. It was a long road, almost a year, before I had learned to use my clairsentient abilities and could also say I was a controlled empath. The important thing to focus on is not how long it took me to awaken but instead what activity I was doing to develop in that time frame. That is why I say everyone is different because it all depends on you, what you are doing and how much of your time you are giving to awakening and developing you innate abilities.

Unskilled refers to someone who has awakened their abilities however there is no control over them and they are sporadic at best.

Developing refers to when you are actually practicing the use of abilities. For clairvoyance (clear sight) practicing may mean visualization exercises, practicing clairaudience (clear hearing) could mean practicing hearing your guides answers in your mind as thoughts, practicing clairsentience (clear feeling) could mean sitting quietly outside and attempting to sense the sway of the trees in the wind, practicing clairolfaction (sense of smell) could be looking at a picture of something and asking to actually smell it, practicing clairgustation (sense of taste) could be practicing looking at a picture and asking to taste what it is, or practicing empathy could be learning to discern what you are feeling throughout the day that are not your own emotions or pain.

This loonnnnggggg article should answer many of the questions other articles and instructions on opening the third eye leave unanswered. Have patience and always be in a state of acquiring more knowledge. Now…get busy, you’ve got a lot to do!