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Perspective on Really, Really Seeing
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The third-eye chakra is the sixth energy center among the 7 traditional ones. It is seen as indigo in color and is located in between your eyebrows. This chakra is connected to your vision, imagination, wisdom, intellect, insight and your clairvoyance as well as your dreaming.
When in balance, you have an heightened sense of intellect and can perceive information on several levels. You will have a greater sense of imagination and seeing it clearer with your inner vision. If your chakra is very open you will be able to use your clairvoyance to a greater extent. Your thoughts will be clearer and you will be able to focus and concentrate better. You will have more dreams and they will be more vivid and you will remember them better.
When overcharged, you will have a harder time concentrating and your mind and thoughts will be over active. You might be more delusional and more trapped in illusion, which can also turn into being more obsessive. If really overcharged you might have more nightmares or even hallucinate.
With insufficient energy, you will have a lack of imagination and might be slower in your thoughts. Your vision will be poorer and you will find it more difficult to see or envision the future. Things have a harder time to stick your memory and you might have learning disabilities. It will be harder to keep a calm head in stressful situations. You will dream less and have a harder time remembering what you dreamed. You might also be more confused.
Here's a quote from Carolyn Myss' Anatomy of the Spirit: "In becoming conscious one is able to detach from subjective perceptions and see the truth or symbolic meaning in a situation. Detachment does not mean ceasing to care. It means stilling one's fear-driven voices. One who has attained an inner posture of detachment has a sense of self so complete that external influences have no authority within his or her consciousness."
For many people, having drama in their lives is like having heroin in your veins. It's a rush, a vibe, an overwhelming feeling. Their reaction to life (to the drama they are creating) becomes the be-all and end-all of their existence. I suspect that this happens, much like with drugs, because people confuse agitation and stress with being alive.
The detachment piece That Caroln Myss speals of, takes into consideration the perspectives of others. What it doesn't do is give undue value to the perspectives of others. Detachment is about letting go of the need to create drama in order to feel a charge, and is about self-reflection with feedback, without adopting the opinions and perspectives of others.
Most people fail at detachment because they want to be noticed (and approved of) and/or they want to be right. This posture might be called "out-sight" as opposed to insight. In a sense, it's seeing with the genitals. Fitting in, leading, being important, becomes the goal. Drama becomes the tool. And in the end, the only thing actually going on is what you think is going on.
The sixth Chakra is about wisdom and insight. It is about letting go. It is about seeking after truth - your truth - relentlessly and with verve.
~Tracey
Creative Vessel &
Managing Editor