10 Down-to-Earth Ways to Clear Your Sixth Chakra and Cultivate Spiritual Insight

Extraordinary intellect, intuition, wisdom, and spiritual insight are available to everyone--but few of us even begin to tap our profound potential. Clearing and balancing your sixth chakra can help you gain access to these vast capacities.

The sixth chakra, also called the Third Eye chakra, the brow chakra, and in Sanskrit, Ajna, governs our intellectual and intuitive abilities and our potential for spiritual awareness.

Clearing your sixth chakra can help you expand your mental, psychic and spiritual capacities. Read on to learn 10 down-to-earth, satisfying ways that you can clear and cultivate this key energy center. But first:

What Are the Chakras?
Chakras are organs of our energy body--energy portals that receive, assimilate and transmit life energies to/from the rest of the cosmos.

There are seven primary chakras, located along the center-line of the body, from the bottom of the spine to the top of the head. Each chakra is associated with different aspects of your body, life, personality, and spirituality.

The Healthy Chakra
A healthy chakra is open, allowing energy to flow freely both horizontally, in an exchange of energy with the universe, and vertically, connecting it with the other chakras.

It's common to have one or more chakras blocked or out of balance to some degree. This can cause disruptions in a person’s body, mind, spirit, and life.

The Sixth Chakra
The sixth chakra, also called the Third Eye or brow chakra, is located in the forehead, between and slightly above the eyebrows. Its keywords are "insight" "intellect," and "intuition." Its associated color is indigo, and its element is light.

The chakra of mind, it helps us think clearly. It also helps us see clearly, both physically and psychically. It supports imagination, awareness of the subtle/energetic world, intuitive knowing, and inner vision. When you see something "with your mind's eye," you are seeing it with the sixth chakra.

Sixth-chakra intuition and wisdom are universal and transcendent in nature. The 6th chakra, when highly developed, elevates consciousness and confers deep spiritual insight and awareness. Perception of non-ordinary reality may accompany this.

Is Your Sixth Chakra Healthy?Someone with a clear, balanced, and developed Third Eye chakra usually has a keen intellect balanced with strong intuitive abilities. They often have a good imagination and can visualize things easily. They can "grasp the big picture," and may be seen as visionaries. When the sixth chakra is highly developed, a person will have expanded spiritual awareness and insight, and may be able to perceive and influence non-ordinary planes.

10 Ways to Clear and Balance Your Third Eye Chakra
So you'd like more clarity, insight, wisdom, intuition, and spiritual awareness? Here are ten ideas for clearing and balancing your sixth chakra: Ask the universe a question, then patiently wait and watch for the answer. Be prepared to wait from seconds to days, and to have the answer come from within or without.
Visit places such as mountain-tops that offer high, clear vistas. Look with your eyes. Then look with your eyes closed. Notice what you see.
Imagine your head as a balloon. Allow it to float to an upright position, positioning your ears directly over your shoulders. Do this often to train yourself to maintain good spinal alignment.
Meditate, focusing your attention in the center of your head at the level of (or slightly above) the eyebrows.
Wear or decorate a room in a shade of purple that is pleasing to you. Allow it to remind you of your intention to develop your third eye.
Use the 6th chakra essential oils of jasmine, rose, or lotus. (Don't apply directly to skin.)
Close your eyes. Relax all the external muscles around your eyes. Then soften the internal eye muscles, feeling the relaxation penetrate deep into your head. Rest like this for a while. Notice any images that arise.
Draw or do another art form that requires close observation. 
Go star-gazing.
Repeat an affirmation such as:
"I have keen insight and intuition."
"My intellect is a powerful tool for good."
"I envision and create beauty and goodness."
"I am open to experiencing non-ordinary reality."
"I am open to greater spiritual awareness."
Intention Matters!
When working with your subtle energy, intention is the key to success. So before any chakra-clearing activities, set your intention. For example, you might set a general intention for third eye chakra balancing, or a more specific goal of opening awareness to non-ordinary reality.

With your purpose clear, perform the activity mindfully. Pause occasionally to silently affirm that your actions are creating your intention. Pairing any of these activities with an affirmation is especially effective.

A Sixth Chakra BlessingMay you understand your true nature. May you see clearly in every way. May your insight bring you new levels of spiritual awareness.

Copyright 2010 -- Nancy Hausauer. All rights reserved.
Author's Bio

Nancy Hausauer is an energy healer and writer with a private practice in Tacoma, Washington (U.S.). Her goal is "An energy healer in every home!" For more information about chakras and energy healing, visit her energy healing website, www.the-energy-healing-site.com/chakras. For lots of things you can do for natural pain relief, wellness, and relaxation of your physical body, visit her bodywork website at www.Tacoma-massage-therapy.com.

How to Undo Stress--Access Your Dialog Between the Conscious and the Subconscious About that Primal Feeling in Your Gut

Much of the discomfort we experience that we call 'stress' is really turf related. Defending turf is a primary instinct for mammals and we are mammals for all our pretensions. In humans 'turf' expands to whatever it is we feel entitled to. When we allow bullies of any stripe to invade our space, when we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of, or to lose a goody that we had dibs on, our primal gut alarm goes off. But for many people, (1) conditioning, (2) feeling they have to please their environment, and (3) the labels they put on things force them to allow their turf to be invaded, and they feel they even have to smile about the intrusion, that the terms of some truce they are agreeing to require them to concede. These are the incidents and these are the times symptoms result from the stress. Symptoms like an ulcer in that gut, an ulcer that invades the wall!--where a wall of turf was breached.

But it isn't the stressor (the incident) per se; it is that we allow what we feel instinctually we shouldn't, that causes the gut-wrenching. (Note: It is what we feel that operates here, regardless of what is factual from an objective, or from another's, point of view.)

Moral cowards suffer a thousand deaths. Making allowances (making excuses) for insufferable people makes us suffer. Sometimes one snarly remark on our own part repeated a few times, or one instance of 'pretending you didn't say that to me,' saves a lifetime of enduring endless mooching, nagging, whining, wheedling, sulking, social aggression, intimidation and manipulations. The point on the video David Riklan made quoting Dr. Phil that 'We teach others how to treat us' was priceless! I will remember that remark forever! Thank you both for that!

But you know what gets me stressed out?--having several things to do, especially when the phone rings on top of that. That stressed-out feeling informs me that I have an instinctual (gut level) assumption that I am entitled (key word) to an orderly progression of events. So stress reduction here would be getting rid of that feeling of entitlement by analyzing it and seeing its inherent silliness. Alternatively, I could arrange my day (or rearrange my life) so interruptions do not arise, so there's no multi-tasking. Of course, with that change would come some other undesirable elements. So I determine, in an internal dialog, that the price of accepting the distractions is worth the benefits. That determination and that acceptance operate to kill the stressed-out feeling because now I have made a conscious choice to allow these moments of chaos. Now I have less resentment. Now that I have analyzed my situation, I can live with it, come to terms with it.

This internal negotiation that I describe here is a dialog between the conscious and the subconscious, to get themselves working together. The subconscious, of course, is instinct. If you listen to this internal dialog of yours by tuning into it and becoming aware of it whenever your gut wrenches, you discover your own idiosyncrasies as I discovered my severe resentment of disruptions. That dialog is going on in you right now. It is yourself talking to yourself, commenting upon and categorizing what is going on; and it hums quietly in the background of consciousness, like white noise. It is there, just tune in, look for it.

Make a distinction between the stressor and the feeling of being stressed-out. This is important. A particular stressor need not make you frantic; it can be reframed, reworked, made light of, shrugged off, laughed at ('There I go again!'), worked around, accepted--the possible antidotes are limitless. But you have to find first the feeling of aggravation and then the dialog, to analyze your way to your solution. Happy hunting!

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