Translation: ajna = command
1 Line Summary: allows your intuition/3rd eye and wisdom to open up to you, to guide you from within. Know yourself truely.
Colour: royal purple / amethyst - traditionally known as the colour for spiritual awareness, power, royalty, revere, intuition, visionary, destiny
Location: in the midbrain, near the pineal gland, represented best in between the eyebrows, the temples.
Represented in the Physical Body by: pituitary gland. It's also called the master gland as it secretes hormones that controls the abilities of the other endocrine glands and biological processes. It is also represented by the face, ears, nose, eyes, sinuses, cerebelum and hormones.
Symbol: 96 petaled lotus
Element: all elements
Sense: n/a
Gemstones: lapis lazuli, sodalite, indigo, saphire, opal
Purpose: controls and oversees all the chakras and the management of the elements. Ajna keeps everything running smoothly. Ajna conducts universal intelligence (mahat), and focuses the energies that provide the impetus for existance, motivation for growth and shapes the experiences of your present and future (karma). Ajna also is the part of the mind that processes the 5 senses, and provides the 6th sense of intuition. When open, ajna allows the mind to still, the lower chakras are in balance, communicate with the higher intelligence, inspiration, clarity of thought and healing and brings light into the mid-brain..
Analogy: Our eyes are the window to our soul - our 3rd eye is the understanding of intuition, imagination, inspiration, visualisation, clairvoyance and wisdom. Understand what will enrich your life and then act on this information.
Emotion/feelings: guided, direction, depressed, anxious
Asana: Nadi shodana pranayama, vrksasana, setu banda saravangasana, dolphin, meditation, matsyasana, balasana, yoga mudra
Bandha: n/a
Questions/Feelings: feel insomniac, nervous, confused, negative, depressed? In a job that doesn't enhance their life, or in harmony with your beliefs? Do you have direction, goals, imagination, feel complete and in unity with the world?
References: My own words and thoughts as well as "Chakra Yoga" by A Finger & "the book of yoga" by C Brown
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