| Many people, in particular teenagers and college | | | | visualization, you will tend to send the chi to that |
| students, are interested in third eye meditation. What | | | | area which will in turn help to open up the chakra in |
| is third eye meditation? How do you practice it? | | | | that region. |
| The practice of third eye meditation is very easy to | | | | It is very easy for people to develop slight psychic |
| understand. On your forehead, above your nose and | | | | abilities from doing the technique. In Anthroposophy, |
| in between your eyebrows, is a spot which is often | | | | for instance, people often visualize the stages of |
| called the "third eye." In third eye meditation, you | | | | germination of seeds at this point in order to help |
| concentrate on that spot with concentrated | | | | open up the chakra. In Tibetan Buddhism, many |
| visualization. The purpose is to bring chi or prana to a | | | | people are advised to visualize a bright image at this |
| dormant chakra, or energy center, which is located | | | | point, within their throat, behind the breastbone and |
| right at that spot. When it opens we say that you | | | | in their bellies. Many spiritual schools have similar |
| have tentatively succeeded at third eye meditation. | | | | visualization teachings to open up chakras. |
| The visualization that you perform on this spot is | | | | However some people who do this visualization never |
| usually a picture of a little diamond, silver flame, white | | | | experience any psychic effects whatsoever. The |
| moon, a Sanskrit letter, a Hebrew letter, a Buddha, | | | | reason is because in order to power the Ajna chakra |
| or some other auspicious silverish or bright white | | | | of the third eye, the chi energy (known as prana in |
| figure. The principle is that when you concentrate on | | | | Indian yoga) from the lower regions of the body has |
| a region inside or outside of your body, the chi | | | | to ascend upward. If all the chi channels stretching |
| energies of your body will tend to go to that point. | | | | from below to above are blocked or obstructed, |
| Because the chi or natal energy of your body goes | | | | which is normally the case, then very little energy will |
| to a particular point, it will mass in that region and | | | | ever reach the third eye no matter how much |
| when it masses, it will open up the chi channels and | | | | visualization practice you do. You have to practice a |
| chakras in that area because of the friction. | | | | long time to first open up these other channels as |
| Let's take another example that you can easily | | | | well. That's why only advanced meditators who have |
| understand. You can visualize any of the bones in | | | | practiced meditation for years, and whose chi |
| your body by imagining the shape of the bone and | | | | channels or acupuncture meridians are thereby |
| that its color is bright white. In time, with continued | | | | somewhat cleansed because of the prior practices, |
| practice you will send the chi or energy of your body | | | | experience any of the psychic abilities that are often |
| to the bone. This will often cause the bone to seem | | | | reported to occur from this practice. |
| to glow inside your mind. By sending energy to a | | | | The reason that you practice this method, however, |
| bone in this way, you can also banish sickness and | | | | is not to develop psychic abilities. The main reason |
| pain. If you suffer from arthritis, this often improves | | | | you want to practice it so that your chi from down |
| the pain in a bad area. All you have to do in your | | | | below will enter the region of the head and help quiet |
| visualization practice is concentrate on a region inside | | | | your mind so that you can enter an advanced |
| the body and thereby send the body physical energy | | | | meditative state called samadhi. That's why this |
| to a mass at that point. | | | | technique is often practiced in Taoism and in yoga. |
| When it comes to the region of the third eye you | | | | But it's also practice in Esoteric Buddhism, western |
| are performing the very same function. But why | | | | alchemy, and Sufism. The purpose is not so that you |
| should you do this at the region of the third eye? | | | | develop psychic abilities so that you can see spirits |
| That's because the third eye is the location of a | | | | and ghosts and other beings made of Chi, but so |
| chakra in the body called the two-petalled "Ajna" | | | | that you can learn one-pointed concentration and let |
| charka. This is a major upper termination point of the | | | | go of your view of being a body. Concentrating on |
| chi channels (acupuncture meridians) in the body that | | | | the Third eye through meditation is just another way |
| stretch all the way from the perineum up your back | | | | of trying to bring about this spiritual result and enter |
| and to the front of your head. When you | | | | the real spiritual path. |
| concentrate on that point because of the | | | | |