Third Eye Meaning: What Is The Third Eye? What Happens When You ...

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The third eye, also known as your mind’s eye or inner eye, is the spiritual concept of an invisible eye. This eye is often shown on your forehead or between the brows and when you’re in tune with it, it helps you to see beyond ordinary sight. The third eye is all about perception, knowledge and open-mindedness. It can be closed and open… but what happens when you open your third eye?

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What is the third eye?

Semra Haksever describes the third eye in her book Mama Moon’s Book of Magic as the chakra that “helps you engage with your inner wisdom”.

She writes: “Knowledge is power both within and without.”

According to the eclectic witch, the third eye chakra’s joke is to “tune into your intuition and connect to your spiritual side”.

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Different traditions, spiritualities and religions have their own beliefs about the third eye, so there is no one set definition for the concept.

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Third eye meaning: Your third eye is all about your intuition (Image: Getty)

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If you’re talking about the third eye as one of the chakras, which are used in a variety of different meditation practises or in early Hindu traditions, the third eye can become blocked.

Semra explains in her book: “Each chakra is connected to emotional, physical and spiritual areas of your life.

“They absorb and filter all of your thoughts, actions and behaviours, and soak up from and react to people and energy around you.

“When we come into contact with negative energy and the stresses and struggles of everyday life, there is a good chance that your chakra energy fields may have been whirling and swirling overtime.

“When this happens, these magical energy portals can get a little bit clogged up and warm out.”

Third eye meaning: The main seven chakras have different purposes (Image: Getty)

Chakra blockages, especially when it comes to the third eye chakra, can make you behave out of character or negatively impact your life.

Semra said the third eye chakra can become blocked when you encounter or indulge in closed-mindedness or don’t use your intuition.

You may feel a lack of purpose, faith in yourself, or just completely stagnant.

So how do you open your third eye or clear the blockage? And what happens when you open it?

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Third eye meaning: The third eye is located on your forehead just above your eyebrows (Image: Getty)

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According to the Law of Attraction website, everyone has a third eye but not everyone uses it as often as others.

Have you ever had a gut feeling and been correct? Or, what about the times when you simply know you shouldn’t go somewhere or get in touch with a specific person and it was the right thing to do?

In all of those situations, you used your third eye. When you engage in this behaviour more often, you are keeping that portal open and getting more used to activating it.

If you keep finding yourself making the wrong decisions, struggling to make decisions, confused, anxious, forgetful, or experiencing stressful headaches or insomnia, your third eye is probably blocked or closed.

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Third eye meaning: Hold an amethyst while you chant your mantra (Image: Getty)

How to open the third eye chakra

Semra recommends taking 50ml of carrier oil, such as coconut oil, olive oil, argan oil, or sunflower oil and mixing it with 10 drops of lavender essential oil and five drops of sandalwood essential oil.

Mix the oils together in a small glass bottle with a dropper lid, take the oil and rub it between your brows.

Hold an amethyst, obsidian, or lapis lazuli crystal while you do so and start “tuning into yourself to see what messages come up”.

Repeat the mantra: “I hear and trust my inner voice.”

Semra advised: “Visualise an indigo light beaming out of your third eye and guiding you to the questions you seek answers to.”

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