The Third Eye Chakra
Introduction
The Third Eye Chakra is your inner compass — the part of you that sees beyond the physical world and interprets intuition, insight, and deeper meaning. When this chakra is balanced, we feel clear, imaginative, perceptive, and spiritually aligned. When it’s blocked or overactive, confusion, self-doubt, anxiety, or even physical tension like headaches can show up.
In this post, we’ll explore the signs of imbalance, what a healthy third eye looks like energetically and emotionally, and practical ways you can restore harmony to this powerful center of inner vision.
What Is the Third Eye Chakra?
This post explores the third eye chakra, what an imbalance looks like, and how to correct those imbalances. One way to balance the third eye chakra is with meditation. This post is a good prerequisite to the Third Eye Chakra Meditation video.
The Third Eye Chakra is also known as the Brow Chakra. “Ajna” is its Sanskrit name, meaning “beyond wisdom, perceiving or commanding.” It is located just above and between the eyebrows. Due to its location, it governs the entire head, including the forehead, eyes, ears, nose, and sinuses.
Third Eye Chakra at a Glance
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Gland connection: Pituitary gland
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Color: Indigo
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Element: Light & telepathic energy
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Tarot: The Hermit, Temperance, The Moon, The High Priestess, The Hanged Man
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Governs: Intuition & reasoning
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Musical note: A
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Mantra: Aum
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Vowel sound: MM (not a vowel sound per se)
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Frequency: 852 Hz
Balanced, Too Open, or Blocked
This chakra is the “intuitive” chakra. Situations and issues that concern spiritual communication, clairvoyance, consciousness, and perception are what this chakra guides.
When the Third Eye Chakra Is Balanced
When you encounter someone who has a balanced third eye chakra, they listen to their intuition, care not for materialism, and have a solid sixth sense.
They have emotional intelligence and can “read” people. They often seem wise beyond their years and can offer great insights.
They understand people on a holistic level. They can see auras. They have vivid dreams. They also have good vision. They also feel as though they have a purpose and are quite empathic.
When the Third Eye Chakra Is Too Open
A third eye chakra that is too open manifests in someone with any, some, or all of the following characteristics that concern emotional behavior:
They can be overly logical.
More extreme emotional responses include anxiety, schizophrenia, and paranoia.
They might lack sensitivity or be judgmental. They might come off as cynical or even arrogant.
When the Third Eye Chakra Is Blocked
A third eye chakra that has reduced energy flow or is blocked manifests in someone with any, some, or all of the following characteristics that concern emotional behavior:
It may manifest as someone who is a poor planner and may have learning difficulties.
They can be short-sighted, resulting in difficulties in seeing a situation “clearly” or objectively.
They might be prone to nightmares or hallucinations. They also have trouble trusting their own inner wisdom; they might even feel perpetually lost.
Physical Symptoms of Imbalance
If the brow chakra remains unbalanced long enough, physical symptoms can manifest. Some of those physical symptoms can include:
- headaches
- dizziness
- neurological disturbances
- eye issues that include general poor vision
- glaucoma
- eyestrain
- blurred vision
- double vision
- blindness,
- other issues concerning the eyes
- sinuses can also be affected
- ear challenges
How to Balance the Third Eye Chakra
You don’t have to do everything listed to help balance this chakra. Try different activities, then pick the ones that are the most effective for you.
Aromatherapy
Some essential oils you can try are patchouli, clary sage, lavender, and blue yarrow. These can be used in a carrier oil (always test first!) or with a diffuser (but do not use this if you have pets in the home).
Crystal Healing
Carry or wear a deep-in-blue-color crystal with you or put it directly on the chakra area as you meditate. These include lapis lazuli, lepidolite, sapphire, purple apatite, blue kyanite, and labradorite.
Color Therapy
Stare at objects that are indigo (deep blue/purple) in color or meditate with them, such as with an indigo-colored mandala. Wear indigo and deep blue-colored garments to remind yourself that you are working to balance this chakra.
Creative Exercises
To help further open this chakra, getting creative is a wonderful way to aid in this process. Similar to the sacral chakra, these activities include painting, drawing, photography, making music, quilting, making jewelry, writing stories, designing a room in the house, or anything else that gets the creative juices flowing and your imagination going. Using your imagination is also a great way to stimulate the energy of this chakra.
Getting outside into the forest and staring at plants to try to discern their “energy” can be a useful exercise, as well.
Get Focused
Other ways to open this chakra include meditation and working with or visualizing geometric figures.
Activities that involve making task lists, lists of goals and desires, prioritizing (and making lists that help you to do so) can be helpful.
Additionally, activities that require a level of focus such that you are able to engage in deep focus, thereby letting your mind and thoughts settle, can be very beneficial.
“Letting go” and accepting things as they are (which doesn’t mean you cannot or should not change a situation, but acknowledging it for what it is) is a good practice.
Taking cold showers is challenging, but can be worth a try.
Foods for the Third Eye Chakra
Additionally, it’s important to eat more healthful “blue” foods such as purple grapes, eggplant, purple cabbage, purple asparagus, dark chocolate, plums, purple potatoes, black currants, raisins, and nuts and seeds such as walnuts, almonds, and flaxseeds.
Fermented foods like yogurt, kefir, and sauerkraut can help the third eye chakra as well.
Conclusion
Now that you have watched this third eye chakra balancing video, the third eye chakra meditation video that goes with this will make more sense.
Of course, meditation is always a powerful way to work on opening this (or any) chakra.
You are ready to try that meditation.
Final Thoughts
Working with the Third Eye Chakra is an invitation to deepen your relationship with your intuition, your imagination, and your inner wisdom. As you explore these practices, allow yourself to soften into what you feel, notice, and perceive. Healing the third eye doesn’t happen through force — it unfolds through presence, curiosity, and trust.
May this guide support you on your journey toward clarity, spiritual insight, and inner vision.
