THIRD EYE CHAKRA
Located between the eyes on the forehead, represents imagination, intelligence, and trust.
Foods:
For this chakra, think purple. Purple grapes, purple kale, blueberries, purple cabbage, eggplant, and purple carrots. Also include cocao, which is rich in flavonoids and boosts serotonin, which helps to relieve stress and inflammation. These “brain foods” can instantly help clear an overworked mind and help to regain focus.
Oils:
Pure Angelica,
Bay Laurel
Clary Sage
Cypress
Juniper
Sweet Marjoram
Sandalwood
Stones:
Amethyst
Lapis Lazuli
Labradorite
Sodalite
Azurite
Black Obsidian
Citrine
Clear Quartz
Iolite
Lepidolite
Moonstone
Black Tourmaline
Poses:
Candle Gazing (Trataka)
Child’s Pose (Balasana)
Wide-Legged Forward Fold (Prasarita Padottanasana)
Humble Warrior
Warrior I with Cow Face Arms
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Balanced:
The third eye allows for clear thought, spiritual contemplation, and self-reflection. It is the highest chakra in the physical body, allowing it to provide visionary perspective. The third eye also helps to determine one’s reality and beliefs based on what one chooses to see in the world.
As the most perceptive part of the human body and spirit, it governs self-awareness, higher wisdom, visualization, clarity, discernment, imagination, and creative dreaming. When balanced and in alignment, the third eye chakra trades typical black-and-white or “me versus them” thinking for wider perspectives and interconnectedness.
Imbalanced:
Physical signs like tension in the brow area, headaches, eye strain, blurred vision, sinus issues, hearing problems, or dizziness. Cognitive indicators of an unbalanced third eye chakra may include dissociation, issues concentrating, nightmares, sleep disturbances, mental fog, and confusion.
Common emotional cues are self-doubt, worry, overthinking, close-mindedness, feeling lost, or relying on others for validation and permission. Lastly, some spiritual ailments which point back to the third eye include a lack of confidence in one’s path or purpose, feeling an “absence” of intuition, being too rooted in the physical world to heed higher guidance and wisdom, or being too rooted in daydreams to focus on the present reality.