Each energy centre interacts with different levels of the mind, body and spirit. Taking time to learn about the chakras’ functions, students enter into relationship with the complex nature of human being.
Discovering the Brow Chakra
The chakra system offers the mind and body a tool with which to communicate.
Ajna is the Sanskrit word for ‘command’. The brow chakra is the sixth main energy centre. While the fifth chakra introduces us to the realms of communication and will, the brow energy centre rules mental activity, clairvoyance and vision.
Fundamentals of the Brow Chakra
- Name: brow chakra/third eye
- Element: ether
- Sanskrit name: ajna
- Colour: indigo, (though traditionally white)
- Archetype: intuitive, psychic, hermit, seer (positive)/intellectual, rationalist (negative)
- Position in the body: located in the centre of the forehead, a little lower to the eye brows on most people
- Associated endocrine gland: hypothalamus
- Physiological form and functions: pituitary gland, hormones that regulate the activity and level of function in the various endocrine glands throughout the body, part of cerebral cortex, eyes, ears, middle brain, autonomic nervous system and intellectual functioning
- Emotional or spiritual functions: ability to see one’s life clearly, intuition, inner vision, use of the mind/intellect, clairvoyance
- Linked to: mental functioning, thought processes, the ability to see our life’s patterns (both positive and negative), the energy of rational thought
- Affirmations: I open myself to my deepest intuition and knowing. I trust that a reason beyond my understanding is always at work.
- Asanas: child’s pose and meditation work to respectively soothe and stimulate the brow chakra
- Gifts connected to the brow chakra: wisdom and optimism
- Level of relationship: relationship to knowledge, wisdom and vision
- Identification of weak brow chakra: cataracts and eye diseases, headaches, progressive blindness, deafness from progressive deterioration of the nerves of the ear, neurological disorders
- Negative thinking traits: The third eye governs all belief systems. Any belief system that has gone past its used by date and is still being used needs to be tossed aside. Ideas that hurt and hinder our growth need to be weeded out. Keeping open minded helps people to see the limits in their thinking processes. Often, understanding that being ‘wrong’ is a helpful tool. It shows that the belief system is outdated and growing beyond what is already known. This can be scary for some people, but it’s growth and change and this is what keeps humans alive and creative.
- Questions to help chakra consciousness:
- ‘What is it that I am stopping myself from seeing or hearing?’
- ‘What is it that I’m afraid of knowing?’
Belief systems are part of the process of growing up in a particular family or in a particular culture. Today, more than ever before, people can begin to decide what they are going to believe in. This can create confusion as the choices are limitless. Sometimes its easier to stick with the known rather than break out into new territory.
Its important to remember that a belief is the filter one holds over their experiences. New opportunities can not reach past the filter. Only what fits through the filter is admitted as ‘right’ and ‘real’. The question is ‘what do you believe in and does it serve your highest good?’
As with the brow chakra, all of the seven major chakras of the human body hold secrets of personal development. Understanding and utilising the system can help students overcome negativity and develop strong, vibrant and harmonic lives.
For more details about the research materials used in these articles, please read Chakra Basics Recommended Reading List.
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