Thread: Awakening The Third Eye

I have heard it's REALLY bad to open only one chakra because there would be an energy imbalance. If your not balanced, this can affect your health negatively.

The chakras are intended to be awakened from the bottom up. they all deal with different things like basic human survival instinct at the bottom working up towards a more spiritual and psychic connection to God and everything around you at the top. although you can train the third eye chakra prematurely, it is kind of like having an amazing lens attached to the worst camera. you will not be able to fully comprehend or utilize the 3rd eye. unless you patiently progress from the bottom you will never reach your developement potential.

I believe Ichigo pretty much sumed it up. Thanks for posting.

Originally Posted by ichigo

The chakras are intended to be awakened from the bottom up.

That's what I always thought as well, but then I spoke with my Reiki master uncle, and he says you're supposed to do it from the top down.

Activating you throat chakra inproves you hearing dramatically. That one also had to do with talking, so if you have to give a speech, it might be good to fire up the old throat chakra as well.

One should always start from the bottom and up, but ofcourse, if a certain chakra is unbalanced it would be wise to balance it back to normal.

The root chakra is, like a tree's root, the tree gets it nutrition and energy from the Earth, just like we get nutrition from Earth through the Root chakra.

my mom is a reiki master and i am level two. i think you are getting confused with the fact that during a reiki session, the healer will work from the top chakra down. this has nothing to do with personal developement though.

Thank you for clearing that up. That's had me stumped for years. Never had the opportunity to talk in depth with my uncle because my parents are always around, and they scoff at anything of the sort. Even though my father got some healing from a distance from my uncle, woke up in the night and saw everything orange. He thought the house was on fire at first. And after that his foot that got operated on healed SO friggin fast! For a diabetic with bad feet, it was simply amazing.

Originally Posted by sleepingdog

a step?

Maybe opening the third eye prematurely is part of your path.

Thanks, though. I was looking for this for a while.

Extreme fear that bordered on causing psychosis, did it for me. I didnt ask for it or want it but now Ive got it and have had to live with it. Its not something you want before your ready, it will directly make your like more complicated unless you are ready.

Can someone please tell me what are the dangers of awakening the third eye? I understand that there will be an imbalance but I'm interested in a RL example.
@Man of Shred Can you give more details on "The results, ALMOST destroyed me. BUT they didn't"? I am really really curious to what kind of damage you are speaking of. If you don't wanna answer, that's fine. I understand that it might be personal

Well basically what people mean by "energy imbalance" is you will feel weaker in the rest of your body. This may not sound bad, but it really is, you will end up sleeping too much (too much sleep is actually pretty bad for you along with sleep deprivation) eat more because you will feel a lack of energy and you will do worse in general in daily activities because you will be lacking energy because all of it will be making it's way to your 3rd eye.


My suggestion is if you are honestly going to open only one chakra, AT THE VERY LEAST open up the first one on the very bottom. This is the foundation and the energy storage center. Energy makes it's way starting from there, so if you have a good foundation you will have decent energy levels.

Originally Posted by CrescentFox

Well basically what people mean by "energy imbalance" is you will feel weaker in the rest of your body. This may not sound bad, but it really is, you will end up sleeping too much (too much sleep is actually pretty bad for you along with sleep deprivation) eat more because you will feel a lack of energy and you will do worse in general in daily activities because you will be lacking energy because all of it will be making it's way to your 3rd eye.


My suggestion is if you are honestly going to open only one chakra, AT THE VERY LEAST open up the first one on the very bottom. This is the foundation and the energy storage center. Energy makes it's way starting from there, so if you have a good foundation you will have decent energy levels.

Oh I see. Makes sense, thanks for the quick response. Is there anyway to find out what chakras are already open and how to open other ones without creating an imbalance?

Ummmm, I'm not sure although from what I have read generally for the most part your chakras are closed or not very open. I would say that you should just open all of them spending the same time and dedication to each one.

Originally Posted by CrescentFox

Ummmm, I'm not sure although from what I have read generally for the most part your chakras are closed or not very open. I would say that you should just open all of them spending the same time and dedication to each one.

oh, I see. I thought different people have different chakras opened. What are the benefits of opening them? This may sound odd, but, some guy once told me that if you are able to open your 3rd eye, you can read other people's thoughts I had no clue if he was telling the truth or not

I've never heard anyone say that opening your third is a bad thing.
Honestly, if you want to learn how to open your third eye then do it.
If, like others here have said that it's a "process" you have to grow with than the learning part is pretty much the process.

It's not like you can read something and *poof* you'll just be able to do it. It's like people who want to learn martial arts to "kick some ass", obviously it's not the right reason to learn anything. Those that stick it out to the end end up learning to be a better person, learning discipline that they probably didn't have before. So I don't see the harm in learning to open your third eye because if you manage to open it, you would have gained what you needed to open it in the process.

The negative manifestation of the third eye can be: Delusion, neurosis,
inadequacy.

Generelly a person that has an unbalanced will feel that he/she ave achieved great spiritual insight and knowledge, but instead the only thing he/she has is facts.

Spiritual arrogance and self glorification follows too.

I think, if we look around, we see that many claimed "psychics" are self delusional, and claim that they can do all sort of miracles, well, it appears that this unbalance in the third eye, may have contributed to this problem.

I'm a little lost. I have yet to read this PDF, but is there any form of Science involved with this? I.e. scientific evidence?

I do know some does exist, and that most, if not all spirtual experiences are the result of chemical reactions, and neurological implementations throughout the brain. An example would be the brain releasing DMT - a banned hallugenic chemical (Hah! Technically, we're all breaking the law when we dream!) - that is released by the Pineal gland during dreams, other states of inner-consciousness (I.e. when we're only conscious of our imagination, and not our external environment; our awareness upon our internal environment). Furthermore, LCD also creates spiritual-like experiences and thus, the experiences are likely to be the result of chemical reactions between various substances throughout the brain. However, it could be a possibility, although it may appear way-off or such, is that the chemicals trigger alternative neural pathways throughout the brain, or alter our genetics and primitive functions of the brain, and thus perhaps leading to interaction with other forces of nature as a result of our neurology figuring a way for interacting with this. It could all on the contrary however, be supplementary to neuron cells throughout the brain, enabling them to operate faster - or more distinct to their normal operation, throughout various cortex's.

Originally Posted by Liberty

I've never heard anyone say that opening your third is a bad thing.
Honestly, if you want to learn how to open your third eye then do it.
If, like others here have said that it's a "process" you have to grow with than the learning part is pretty much the process.

It's not like you can read something and *poof* you'll just be able to do it. It's like people who want to learn martial arts to "kick some ass", obviously it's not the right reason to learn anything. Those that stick it out to the end end up learning to be a better person, learning discipline that they probably didn't have before. So I don't see the harm in learning to open your third eye because if you manage to open it, you would have gained what you needed to open it in the process.

The problem is that I don't wanna open it and experience some of the crazy symptoms that CrescentFox or Specialis Sapientia mentioned below

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

The negative manifestation of the third eye can be: Delusion, neurosis,
inadequacy.

Generelly a person that has an unbalanced will feel that he/she ave achieved great spiritual insight and knowledge, but instead the only thing he/she has is facts.

Spiritual arrogance and self glorification follows too.

I think, if we look around, we see that many claimed "psychics" are self delusional, and claim that they can do all sort of miracles, well, it appears that this unbalance in the third eye, may have contributed to this problem.

wow, those are pretty serious. Is there anyway to open the chakra naturally?

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

The negative manifestation of the third eye can be: Delusion, neurosis,
inadequacy.

Generelly a person that has an unbalanced will feel that he/she ave achieved great spiritual insight and knowledge, but instead the only thing he/she has is facts.

Spiritual arrogance and self glorification follows too.

I think, if we look around, we see that many claimed "psychics" are self delusional, and claim that they can do all sort of miracles, well, it appears that this unbalance in the third eye, may have contributed to this problem.

Hum...yeah that's true. But, would that happen if you open all the 7 chakras? It wouldn't be unbalanced anymore.

Originally Posted by Shark Rider

Hum...yeah that's true. But, would that happen if you open all the 7 chakras? It wouldn't be unbalanced anymore.

I don't think those will happen if you open all 7 chakras, but, I would assume that it'll take you time to open all 7 chakras and you'll experience some symptoms by the time you open them all. I think the best thing to do is open the root one and move up, but, it makes me wonder what are the consequences of starting at the root and moving up or if the consequences go away if you do that

Originally Posted by BigFan

wow, those are pretty serious. Is there anyway to open the chakra naturally?

I'm not sure it is about natural or not, but about ready or not.

Originally Posted by Shark Rider

Hum...yeah that's true. But, would that happen if you open all the 7 chakras? It wouldn't be unbalanced anymore.

All chakras? I think only a few of the dedicated people achieve this, only in a lifetime.

There are legends about Rainbow Warriors, they were indians (Indigenous) a long time ago. According to Amazonas shamans, once you have cleansed all your chakras you will have a "rainbow body" and you will light up with all the colours of the rainbow, you will also be able to "Astral travel" and die on command.

The rainbow body is also used as a term in one of the Sutras of Buddism.

Here is an intersesting video, about a prophecy of "Warriors of the Rainbow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBkbJIYMy8

Originally Posted by BigFan

I don't think those will happen if you open all 7 chakras, but, I would assume that it'll take you time to open all 7 chakras and you'll experience some symptoms by the time you open them all. I think the best thing to do is open the root one and move up, but, it makes me wonder what are the consequences of starting at the root and moving up or if the consequences go away if you do that

The list I gave before, was only the possible negative consequences, be aware of them, but do not dwell on it.

And yes, when we climb a tree, we always start at the root.

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

I'm not sure it is about natural or not, but about ready or not.

I see, but, how do you know if you're ready?

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

All chakras? I think only a few of the dedicated people achieve this, only in a lifetime.

There are legends about Rainbow Warriors, they were indians (Indigenous) a long time ago. According to Amazonas shamans, once you have cleansed all your chakras you will have a "rainbow body" and you will light up with all the colours of the rainbow, you will also be able to "Astral travel" and die on command.

The rainbow body is also used as a term in one of the Sutras of Buddism.

Here is an intersesting video, about a prophecy of "Warriors of the Rainbow"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utBkbJIYMy8

Only a few? Are they really that hard to open or is it that most can't reach the required level to open them?

Originally Posted by Specialis Sapientia

The list I gave before, was only the possible negative consequences, be aware of them, but do not dwell on it.

And yes, when we climb a tree, we always start at the root.

But will opening the root chakra affect me negatively in anyway or is it fine to open since its the bottom chakra? Will it cause me some energy imbalance?

Blue_space that is the same view i have on the subject,mostly realting to your endocrine system and hormone release.

I would say there always open, some working more efficently than others thats where the imbalance comes from. You have to get each one working efficently together by getting to know yourself through meditation and find out which ones need to be worked on.

I wouldnt be scared about "opening" them if their not ready they wont "open" however ther fear of doing such can lead to the syptoms previously talked about.

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda says it best.

Originally Posted by Jozeh

Blue_space that is the same view i have on the subject,mostly realting to your endocrine system and hormone release.

I would say there always open, some working more efficently than others thats where the imbalance comes from. You have to get each one working efficently together by getting to know yourself through meditation and find out which ones need to be worked on.

I wouldnt be scared about "opening" them if their not ready they wont "open" however ther fear of doing such can lead to the syptoms previously talked about.

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." Yoda says it best.

Fear can be a very healthy emotion though and you have to be careful when you go into the unknown. That's pretty much the reason I haven't OBEd yet, worried about what I'll see in the bedroom, if it'll harm me, etc.... The other thing is that the symptoms indicated above are exactly easy to deal with and see to be pretty dangerous. As I indicated, I plan to open up the root chakra and see the effects. Work with it(not sure how) and once I feel that I'm ready, move up to the next one