Your third eye, also known as your Ajna chakra or pineal gland, is your gateway to the divine realm.
When your third eye is open, youโll experience clear insight, open-mindedness, intellectual balance, and a strong connection to your intuition or inner wisdom.
However, if your third eye is blocked or constricted, youโll struggle with narrow-mindedness, overthinking, insomnia, suffocating beliefs, lack of purpose, depression, and an inability to connect with your Soul.
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If you want to feel connected to your inner purpose and Soulโs voice, one of the best ways to do that is by learning how to open your third eye.
Awakening Your Extrasensory Gifts
When most people hear the word โextrasensoryโ they envision psychics with crystal balls predicting the future. But Iโm not referring to this highly stereotypical image when talking about extrasensory gifts.
Instead, I define extrasensory gifts as the capacity to receive information beyond the normal five senses of the body.
As we know already, the body is simply a vessel for Spirit; a way in which we can perceive and interpret the physical realm. But it is naive to conclude that the physical realm is all that exists as studies such as quantum physics and countless spiritual traditions have taught through the ages.
Extrasensory gifts are inherent capacities we have for โtuning intoโ other planes of existence, but most vitally, our own Souls. And we all have different capacities.
For example, I have the gift of clairaudience (clear hearing), clairsentience (clear feeling) and claircognizance (clear knowing) but not clairvoyance (clear seeing).
Here are the potential gifts you can open up to when you learn how to open your third eye:
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- Clairvoyance (clear seeing)
- Claircognizance (clear knowing)
- Clairaudience (clear hearing)
- Clairempathy (clear feeling)
- Clairtangency (clear knowing through touch)
- Clairsentience (clear knowing through feeling)
And there are a few others such as clairgustance (regarding taste) and clairsalience (regarding smell).
The most important thing is not in brandishing around a new label for yourself, but the deep enrichment these gifts can give your life and your ability to connect with, and understand, your Soulโs wisdom.
How to Open Your Third Eye
Almost all of us are born into situations that encourage our third eyes to close tightly. Since childhood, we were taught a variety of societal, parental, religious ideas and dogmatic constructs that cause us to become alienated from our inner wisdom.
Most notably, we were encouraged to conform, obey the rules, and ignore our inner voice, which in some cases was even demonized.
If youโre struggling to see life with clarity and feel confused most of the time, youโre likely weighed down with years of conditioning which taught you to think and behave in a certain way.
I know firsthand how disheartening and distressing a closed third eye feels, and how it makes you susceptible to being led astray.
Here are my top tips for learning how to open your third eye:
- Move outside your comfort zone and explore alternative beliefs and ideas. Closed third eyes thrive on narrow-mindedness. One of the best ways to open your mind is to be intellectually curious.
- Limit and preferably completely cut out processed foods. Our bodies were not designed to digest the copious amounts of fat, processed carbohydrates, and sugars that are present in convenience and fast foods. Youโll also benefit from significantly reducing your consumption of animal meats due to the hormones present in them.
- Eat whole foods, vegetables, and fruits. Replace the packeted foods you buy with whole foods such as legumes, nuts, whole grains, veggies, and fruits. Not only do these leave you feeling fuller, but they are healthier for your body and easier for it to digest. Your diet is important because it directly influences your energy levels, hormones, and therefore feelings and thoughts.
- Drink third eye cleansing herbs.ย Herbs are a potent way toย recalibrate your third eye. Try herbal teas that contain gotu kola, ginkgo biloba, rosemary, and passionflower.
- Practice meditation. Instead of trying to control your thoughts and postures during meditation practice (like most people do), simply try to observe what your mind and body does. The more aware you become of your thoughts, the more a space within you opens.
- Ground yourself through mindfulness. A major symptom of a dysfunctional third eye is overthinking. The best way to ground yourself in the present moment is through a practice known as mindfulness. Read more about mindfulness exercises.
- Avoid fluoridated water and toothpaste. Studies have shown that fluoride, the chemical present in our drinking water and toothpaste, is responsible for calcifying the pineal gland. When your pineal gland becomes calcified, it ceases to work well. In fact, after an MRI scan, I discovered that my frontal lobe is actually partially calcified.
- Flood your body with antioxidants. Antioxidants are the superheroes of the food world and are present in superfoods such as blueberries, goji berries, quinoa, maca, cacao, spirulina, coconuts, and many other fruits and veggies. Antioxidants detoxify and strengthen your body, which is perfect for learning how to open your third eye.
- Explore your core beliefs. Your core beliefs are unconscious ideas you have about who you are and what you deserve in life. Core beliefs keep you locked in restricting mindsets that keep your third eye closed. Learn how to identify your core beliefs.
- Exercise and drink lots of water. This is quite self-explanatory! Drinking water will also help to flush out the toxins in your body and hydrate your brain. (Just try to avoid fluoridated water!)
- Journal and record your feelings. One of the best ways to create clarity and inner order is through writing down how you feel. Do this daily and youโll experience many psycho-spiritual benefits. Learn more about how to journal.
- Hum or chant the sound “OM.”ย Om is said to be the very first primordial sound of the universe, and carries powerful vibrations that recharge, cleanse, and open your third eye.
- Try creating more blood and energy flow through yoga practice.ย In particular, explore the balasana, shavasana, and dolphin pose.
- Explore the ancient practice of scrying. Scryingย is an esoteric practice that helps you to develop your inner vision. Read more about scrying.ย
- Use sound healing.ย Sound carries profoundly healing vibrations. You can experiment with instruments such as singing bowls, tuning forks, chimes, and bells. All of these instruments energetically harmonize your third eye. Read more about sound healing instruments.
- Do a third eye visualization.ย Relax, breathe deeply, and imagine a pulsing ball of purple light opening and clearing your third eye. Do this every day for five minutes and pay attention to the way you feel afterward.
- Explore your cognitive distortions.ย We all possess cognitive distortions or mistaken beliefs, and they constrict the flow of energy through our third eye chakra. One of the best ways to explore your cognitive distortions is by journaling about them. Learn about the most common mental traps.ย
- Experiment with NLP. NLP or Neuro-linguistic programming helps yourย mind to move past limiting beliefs and even phobias that cause third eye blindness.
- Practice mindfulness.ย Your third eye is the most open when it is grounded in the present moment. Mindfulness is a practice that can help you connect with the beauty of the here and now.
- Use healing crystals.ย Experiment with crystals such as lapis lazuli, labradorite, sapphire, and kyanite. Use these crystals in meditation, visualizations, place them directly on your third eye, or carry them with you!
- Support yourself through affirmations.ย Whatever you think is what you end up manifesting. Try to alter the way you thinkย and therefore stimulate third eye opening by trying affirmations such as “I listen to my inner wisdom,” “I see with clarity,” “I trust my intuition,” “I trust in my abilities.”
Youโll also benefit from sunshine, solitude, and daily pockets of silence in your day.
What Will Happen When My Third Eye Opens?
Once youโve learned how to open your third eye, you might be wondering what the signs or symptoms are. What should you expect?
Obviously, the experience varies from person to person. But here are some of the most common signs that may happen slowly or spontaneously:
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- Buzzing or tingling in your forehead
- More headaches or migraines than usual (your third eye is adjusting to the world)
- Visions or extrasensory experiences during meditation
- Sudden clarity surrounding life issues
- Mystical experiences
- Strong connection to intuition and inner-knowing
- Enhanced ability to think for yourselfย
There are many other symptoms, but these are the main ones to look out for.
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Learning how to open your third eye takes dedication and the willingness to dig deep and make a few changes in your life. But the effort you put in is well worth it, and the gift of clarity will bless your entire life for years to come.
Have you ever experienced a third eye awakening? I’d love to hear your stories below!
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I’m wondering if my perception (neck hackles, a “presence” that I recognize) of my now deceased dog being behind me is my third eye awakening. This presence started on 3/4/2019 when I was on the bus back from visiting my mother and has been present off and on for the next week. It isn’t so strong now, but 3/8/2019 was strong enough that I kept looking for an embodiment (like seeing an angel) of her. Over the weekend I had more (non-dog) experiences that got me journaling on 3/11. Hmm.
What a great testimony to mr. Rhada. pls may i ask , can this spiritual experiences be locational and environmental or it just happens
while the “symptoms” you describe are almost half of them accurate…
the process or exercises on how to get there, only 3 or so points are accurate
Hi I had my third eye open a few years back during a group meditation class. It began as a pressure feeling on my third eye and ended up feeling like a hole in my forehead and in the back of my head as it opened. I had about a week of headaches in that area, which faded. But I did find I could see images really clearly afterwards with my eyes closed. This was during group meditations and solo meditations as well as in the alpha state when half awake, half asleep in bed. I saw a portion of one of my guides face so clearly. I saw images from past lives during meditation also. It was phenomenonal. It isnt quite so strong now, but I still occasionally get a really clear image so it still works. Im pretty sure I could work with this again if I wanted to.
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I am facing lots of this symptoms of third eye opening and I was not aware of it until I read this article and want more advice. I have powers to heal and cast out demons but weak in the third eye. Peace
Hi name D’Lisa Danielle Fort
How are you doing? I am doing good. I would like to learn how to open my third eye but I don’t know how to open my third eye. I tried to practice opening my third eye by Meditation about 20 to 30 minutes. I don’t know if I am doing this right just beginner of opening my third eye. I am not scared of Spirits or demons only thing that scars Me is Lightning not spirits they don’t scare me at all or demons don’t scare me at all only Lightning scars me. I feel ready to open my third eye because I have a powerful beliefs in God
I’m new to this mindfulness and there are so many things that I want to work on so I don’t feel like I’m up to this task yet. but I remember clearly, about 2 years ago, I sprained my foot and it didnt hit me until i was in the car with my parents, but i had this strong feeling and a very short vision that, in another life, I either broke or sprained my foot and i was a man. That was the only time in my life I felt something like this. It happens during a period of my life when I was journaling my dreams so I could control them.
Thinking about it now. When i was a child (it also happened to me in the last few years), and i was about to fall asleep. (It might not be third eye related, i’m not sure.) But I fall in some kind of deep…transe where I feel parts of my body like my hands or feet getting bigger or thinner at the same time. It is very hard to explain and this shake me up from my light sleep and i have to check to make sure my body isn’t changing in some way. And even though I know my body isnt changing, I still feel it and it makes me uncomfortable and confused. it takes about a minute for the feeling to leave. and it happened to me rencently, in the last month, while i was meditating. my question is: is this third eye related? if not, then what is it? I’m very confused about what is it and why it is happening. My soul is clearly trying to communicate but i don’t understand what it means
also, from my understanding, it seems like i have at least clairsentience.
Wow Marie-Eve this is the first time I have heard someone else try to explain that weard sensation that I often had as a child trying to sleep. It is very hard to try to explain it but for me I think it was my fingers being realy thick and at the same time as needles. I clearly remember the needles and the confusing and for me very uncomfortable feeling of contradiction. I am now 35 years old but I will never forget it and I too would very much like to know what this is all about? Hope someone else can relate and explain.
woah I thought i was alone. thank you for sharing this. this is exactly what i felt.
The sensation you are describing is the feeling of expanding and contracting. The atoms of our bodies are continually moving in, expanding through and out of form. Yes, this is related to activity in the third eye. You are experiencing the true nature of the reality of physicality.
Okey.. so i first started reading about your encarnation post, and now i’m reading this post.. Conclusion: You and your followers need help.
So i started reading all comments, on that encarnation post.. it’s hard to take you people seriously, i mean, there was a person with an impression that they might of been Anne Frank in the past.. ain’t that hilarious? Please go have a talk with a phsycologist, yal have lost total sense – completely leaving reality, living in a fantasy world. Don’t let your brain or other humans fool you..
Jesus is the truth, and that might be the biggest truth you might ever hear. All your faith should be on him, and his father (God).
Incarnation* and the third eye are both a part of spiritual guidance that God has given to certain children of His, like Jesus in a way I guess you could say, no we may not be able perform such miracles as He did, but who are you to judge someone for trying to become a better person and grow spiritually, to me sir you sound like the hypocritical Christian of the many churches I have walked out of for the reason that they doubt God’s great plan such as you have shown us here. I’m sorry for your judgement on “our kind” for you shall be judged by 10 fold what you have judged us. Did Jesus not say though shall not judge or ye shall be judged more harshly……… Or something like that I cannot remember the exact words an do not have a Bible handy at the moment. Anyways you can choose to disbelieve the ways we are taking and keep following your own that has been ingrained in you since childhood because you fear change or that there might be more to what we are doing than just following a random path. But just think of this Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior and God is God, but how can we as people communicate with the Holy Spirit if we do not tune ourselves into the right frequency, how are we supposed to know what path we are supposed to take without His guidance? After all, isn’t prayer just another form of meditation and guidance? Who are you to say that we can not speak to the Holy Trinity the way we are going about it? And most importantly WHO ARE YOU and what are your responsibilities and gifts given to you by The Holy Trinity? Do you know?
What a timely article for me, I spent time with my twin flame last week (he lives in Hawaii and I’m in Ca), just lying next to him my third eye chakra opened up. Since this experience I’ve had so much clarity. I see the Truth in myself and all others no matter what the outer is showing me. My higher Goddess Self is very clearly communicating without my ego self interrupting. A year ago on our first meeting I ended up in Urgent Care thinking I was having a heart attack. All tests came back fine. Turns out my heart chakra opened from being in his presence. We are quite extraordinary beings.
Sounds like an amazing experience Luka!
My current city of residence (over here in Canada) finally stopped putting fluoride in the drinking water a few years back and I was so excited about it… but now the local dentists are making a real stink, saying that the current cavity rates are now skyrocketing and they are essentially actively trying to have city council reverse their decision. It’s looking like they might get their way. How disappointing. It’s clearly unfair to expose so many innocent people to poison simply because there are some among them who foolishly choose a poor diet and/or bad hygiene for them self. Having all these other people… the people who drink pop and don’t brush, their dentists and the city council, have power over my life and my health is more than a little disheartening. The world feels so backwards sometimes and it’s hard to understand how such simple and obvious logistics are lost to the masses. Where has all the wisdom gone?
It’s too bad America is so behind the times on so many health issues. Most of Europe has removed fluoride from their drinking water. Their are also some outside Europe that has banned fluoride, because they actually care about their citizens’ health. http://althealthworks.com/2223/list-of-countries-that-ban-or-reject-water-fluoridation-why-north-america-is-actually-the-exception/
It’s a shame United States has such a monopoly on modern medicine, and has actually made it almost a crime for people to seek alternatives, they are labeled as crazy and alternative doctors are labeled “quacks”. I blame lobbyists and greed. It’s disgusting. And to further the problem, most Americans are brainwashed into believing the government is actually right.
I relate to that frustration Sparrow. Sometimes you just want to shout “wake up!”
Have you tried purchasing a water filter? My town council pumps the water full of fluoride, so I decided the best thing to do was get a water filter. It’s actually just a simple jug I use from: http://www.fill2purefilters.com.au
I think there’s an American equivalent because the filters were made there. I hope that helps. :)
Thanks for the suggestion Luna! We do have a filter but it’s not nearly as sophisticated as the ones you suggested. I will definitely look into it. :)