Today’s practice is a meditation to awaken the 3rd Eye, the gateway to our internal and subtle vision. This guided practice will nurture your sense of awareness, help you develop inner vision and lead you to a state of profound stillness. Our last two practices in this Awareness Meditation series consisted of a Breath Awareness meditation and a Mindfulness meditation. Both guided with the intention to calm the mind and draw our awareness inward. As we enter into our 3rd session of this series, we will use the 3rd Eye as our point of focus. As the 3rd Eye can act as a portal or a gateway to gain access from the more dense/physical body to the inner, more subtle body, it is one of the most effective navigational techniques on our path to deepen our practice of meditation.
We have 5 external senses, which we recognize and celebrate…senses that allow us to see, hear, taste, smell and feel our world around us. But there are other senses as well: internal senses, secret senses or sixth senses if you will, that are equally vital, but not as commonly recognized or honored in our day to day life. Today, we are going to explore that 6th sense…our internal sensory perception, our inner awareness, intuition and inner knowing. From the perspective of the chakras, our energetic centers, this 6th sense is found in the 6th chakra at the space between the eyebrows commonly known as the 3rd Eye, Spiritual Eye or Ajna Chakra.
From a Shamanic view, looking at the Native American Medicine Wheel of the High Andes, the 3rd Eye is associated with The Hummingbird. The Hummingbird represents a state of harmony with all of nature and a balance within and without. The Hummingbird’s medicine is to spread Joy and to recognize the beauty and divine within all of existence. It is able to find stillness in motion…as it rapidly flaps it’s wings while hovering effortlessly in stillness, tasting the sweetness of all that its encounters. This directly relates to the 3rd Eye Meditation where we are moving energy between the physical and subtle realms while staying focused on touching the stillness, the beauty and the light within.
The characteristics of the 3rd Eye are that of inner wisdom, clarity, imagination, clairvoyance and self awareness. It is about visualization and insight and exploring the seat of our perceptions. As we bring more light to this chakra, we shine the light of truth on our perceptions. And as a result, we become more clear and luminous in our knowing. Based on our understanding of the 3rd Eye, we will be using an affirmation today: “I am always guided by my inner vision.” So, let’s move into our meditation and open our 3rd Eye!