Guruji has been teaching me a series of exercises which stimulate each individual chakra. Today focusing on the 6th chakra, Ajna and the visualizations which go with 3rd eye chakra. Ajna chakra is located at the center of your forehead. By empowering our 3rd eye, you will be able to “see” more, not only on the inside but also energetically. This is a 3rd eye meditation for visualization empowerment. When practiced diligently can lead to tremendous growth!
How to Begin:
Begin as we do with all meditations by sitting in a comfortable position. Try to lean forward a little bit to move the meat from your sit bones. Sit with your spine straight and tall as if there’s a string pulling the top of your head up. Take a few deep breaths and welcome yourself to this space. Feel yourself breathing and notice any sensations that arise. This is mindfulness in practice.
Give yourself permission to be fully present with the experience. You made it here after all so you might as well explore what happens. Try to avoid telling yourself stories which aren’t relevant to the moment. Notice when your mind is just chatting with you & stealing your concentration. Where your mind goes, your energy flows.
Bring In Your Focus:
Now, the premise is quite simple; visualize a bright white light beaming down from the universe into the top of your head and down your spinal energy column (this is called Shushumna.) This isn’t just white light, but a combination of all the colors which blend together to make white. It’s kind of like a diamond white light with the hues of all the colors imbedded in it. You can see this when you look closely at a diamond or a prism when sun shines through it. Imagination is key for stimulating the 3rd eye chakra.
Next imagine and connect with this bright white light, see it and feel it beaming into you through the top of your head. The practice is to then work through each chakra, imagining the supplementary color extracting according to each chakra. For example, we begin at the root chakra aka Muladhara, the deep red color of the Earth element. Once you tune into the red color coming from the beam of white light, focus your vision on a plain white mandala (print one off in advance or find one online) and imagine/fill all the white spaces with the red color you envisioned. Do this exercise for the remaining colors in this sequence: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, & Violet.
Tips for Success:
Simply allow the color process to unfold. If it’s difficult, don’t be hard on yourself but do keep trying. As a helpful tool, keep the colors of the chakras close by as a reference to focus on before doing the white light meditation for visualization.
When you feel like you’ve finished each chakra and the color visualization, return to the beam of diamond white light. Imagine it beaming into the crown of your head and connect to this meditation for visualization. Don’t rush the experience, but surrender to it. Remember, don’t TRY to do this exercise, just set your intention and allow it to unfold by staying present. Feel free to leave a comment below on your experiences!
If you found this experience difficult to tune in to, try doing some deep breathing exercises first. You can check out my 20 minute intro to breathing video below:
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My Experience:
Focusing on this intense bright white beaming down into me is actually quite easy as I’ve seen this naturally in various meditations I’ve done in the past. Thankfully I already have the felt sense of this experience which makes it easy to draw on anytime. Initially I had a hard time seeing any colors on the white mandala but just relaxing and trying again is the key. At the start all I saw was white and it was tricky to sense the red filling in the white spaces. Intuitively, I imagined a way to help this 3rd eye chakra Meditation along.
As I was looking and relaxing into the process, I imagined sending this mandala to my laptop. Then I imagined opening “Paint” and using the fill tool to fill the spaces so I could see the finished product. Then quite naturally I could “see” the fill tool and I “clicked” on each space in my mind’s eye. After “clicking” red into 4 or 5 spaces, the rest of the white spaces naturally filled themselves in and I was imagining the white mandala as red.
Excellent, now refocus on the white beam coming in by relaxing and surrendering into the white bright energy. There’s actually a lot of sensation that comes with this visualization by itself. There’s a “pulling up” feeling as I’m filled with white rainbow light coming in. Naturally I’m being pulled up from my tailbone which is planted firmly in the Earth. Next I imagined the orange color extracted from the white beam. Once again, “clicking” into each white space with my mind’s eye. Almost naturally, the whole image colors itself.
If you have enjoyed this experience, check out some other meditations here. Feel free to share your experience below!