Welcome to this seven-part series as we dive deep into balancing one chakra energy center per session.
These meditations offer an integrative practice using essential oils,
Pranayama breathing techniques,
And hand mudras.
Essential oils are optional but enhance the practice if you have them available.
Feel free to practice this meditation without oils which will still be a deeply grounding experience.
So let's get started.
Integrative Chakra Balancing Series,
Segment 6,
The Third Eye Chakra,
Ajna.
Welcome to Segment 6 of Integrative Chakra Balancing where we'll explore the Third Eye Chakra,
The Ajna,
Represented by the color indigo.
This is the chakra of inner wisdom and ability to see beyond the physical realm.
In today's meditation we'll start with an essential oil visualization,
Move into a gentle pranayama breathing practice,
And finish with an empowering hand mudra and meditation.
If you're using essential oils,
Try frankincense,
Clary sage,
Lavender,
And white grapefruit for their clarifying and expansive properties.
If you choose to use essential oils,
Gather them around you now.
Find a comfortable seated position and close your eyes.
Breathe in and out softly through the nose,
Feeling the belly expand on each in-breath and gently retract on each out-breath.
Move your awareness up to your third eye,
The Ajna Chakra,
The center of your forehead between your eyebrows.
This chakra represents our inner wisdom and knowing.
Imagine the velvety color of indigo,
A deep bluish purple ball of light,
In your third eye,
Gently growing.
Allow this color to radiate outward as you breathe into this area,
Feeling it open and expand.
Allow yourself to trust your inner knowing,
Intuition,
And guidance from realms beyond our awareness.
Continue to breathe.
Now imagine a fantastical dream or goal that you have for your life,
One that gives you a sense of abundant joy and lightness and ease when you think of it.
Treasure this image in your mind's eye,
Feeling the joy seep into your bones as you live out this peaceful fantasy.
Know that you can have this wish if you choose it,
That the universe will conspire in your favor when you commit to it.
Still savoring this image,
Open your third eye oil and breathe in deeply,
Sealing in this inner knowing,
Self-trust,
And the infinite wisdom of your intuition.
Continuing to sit comfortably,
Close your eyes.
We'll practice a pranayama breath called Durga Swasam,
Or three-part breath.
The three parts are your abdomen,
Diaphragm,
And chest.
This breath will help us calm the nervous system and purify our life force energy,
Prana,
Allowing us to see our higher truths more clearly.
Bring one hand to your heart and one hand to your belly.
As you inhale,
Feel your abdomen expand,
Filling your belly with air.
Continue to inhale,
Filling your lower chest,
And lastly,
Filling the top of your chest up to the bottom of your throat area.
Hold for a moment,
And then exhale in reverse,
Starting in the lower throat area,
Releasing to the lower chest,
And finishing with the belly,
Feeling it retract as the last bit of air leaves your body.
Repeat now,
Inhaling to fill your belly,
Then your lower chest,
All the way to your upper chest below your throat.
Hold for a moment,
And then exhale,
All the air out in the same three parts.
Continue moving through this three-part breath four or five more times at a slow,
Steady pace.
Now rest your hands back on your thighs and return to a normal breath.
We'll close with a Nana Mudra,
Gesture of higher knowledge for awakening and clear seeing.
Still in a comfortable seated position,
You may choose to sit on a pillow or blanket to raise your hips,
Allowing your spine to straighten more easily.
Bring your shoulders up and back,
Releasing them down,
Feeling your neck and spine straighten.
Now look down at your hands,
And on each hand,
Touch the tip of the index finger to the thumb and straighten the three remaining fingers.
Each thumb and index finger create a little circle with the other three fingers straight.
Rest the back of your hands on your knees or thighs.
Before a variation,
Bend the elbows and face the palms upward,
Keeping the hand mudra in place.
Breathe.
This mudra awakens a sense of clarity,
Seeing higher truths beyond the stories of our mind.
Breathe deeply into the belly here,
Feeling a sense of wholeness,
Completeness,
And limitlessness.
Feel a sense of trust in your own inner knowing.
Rumi says,
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.
Namaste.
Namaste.
