Healing The Pituitary Gland & Third Eye

This meditational talk and short practice will focus on the pituitary gland, which has shrunk in the last decades due to lack of sleep individually and collectively & the many technological advances in society. Learn how to heal this, enjoy the positivity of life and be blissful.

This particular track is more talk than meditation, however, if you close your eyes and relax your body, you will be able to receive the words directly into the subconscious and also receive the energy transmission that is part of each Tony Samara track uploaded here on Insight Timer.

Transcript

Another wonderful day to continue discovering and exploring the inner realms of spiritual practice and also to discover one's inner joy,

One's inner sense of well-being.

And today,

As every day in the transmissions,

I would like to just share some practical advices as to how that can be easy to put into practice,

How easy it is to put into practice certain things that will make a huge difference in the way that we feel,

In the way that we interact and communicate to the outer world and also in the way that we see ourselves and communicate to all aspects of ourselves.

And it's often said that little steps can make a huge difference to the way that you do things.

But the problem is our mind wants to do things in sort of quantum leaps and say,

OK,

I want to just leave everything behind and transform now.

This is known in neuroscience as instant gratification.

You know,

We want,

When we're throwing a tantrum,

We want that ice cream.

We are throwing the tantrum because that ice cream seems like the best thing that will make us happy right now in this moment.

And if we don't get it,

Then the world is just the most horrible place to be.

You know,

That's instant gratification.

And actually in spiritual practice and meditational practice,

It is those little tiny steps that we create in our lives or that we sort of adjust our energy system to that make a huge difference.

And so I say this just because most people say,

Oh,

Yeah,

That sounds nice,

And then forget to put it into practice.

So please remember,

These things are important to put into practice to see for yourself that they do actually transform things much more than what most people in that moment when I explain about these things say,

OK,

That could change a little thing,

Something,

And change me a little.

But that won't really make a big difference because my problem is bigger than that little thing that you're telling me about.

Doesn't work in that way.

Those little steps are what bring you closer to yourself.

So the first what I call,

I think in sort of modern internet language,

It's known as a life hack.

This means you're sort of doing something,

Tweaking something,

They call it,

Tweaking something so that you find a more,

A better energy flow in that which you're doing.

So you don't actually have to change yourself.

You just change certain things that you're doing that then make a big difference.

And one of the most important things,

And I know this from experience,

One of the most important things is sleep.

And you may have heard this before because it's becoming very popular.

For many people to speak,

It's important to sleep.

But it's not what most people put into practice.

I know.

I know from speaking to people and just from looking at statistics,

You know,

Real statistics,

That we today sleep much less than we did a hundred years ago.

We today value sleep much less than people did before simply because we have so many things to do.

We're busy.

This is why we're learning about meditation.

This is why sleep is so important.

Because sleep is the fundament by which you can practice your meditation in a way where you touch upon states of consciousness that are not accessible if you don't sleep.

And I remember some people,

They call themselves a spiritual group,

That were speaking to me about their practice.

And part of their practice was to sleep less.

And I laughed,

But not obviously.

I'm very subtle in the way that I sort of communicate things because,

You know,

I laughed because I remember this is what I did before.

You know,

I remember in the monastery,

Sitting in meditation in the monastery,

I remember sleeping like two to three hours because,

You know,

The practice was so important,

You know.

And of course,

If you meditate 15 hours a day,

Then you sort of need less sleep.

But I carried on that habit after leaving the monastery in what I'm in life.

And people not knowing,

You know,

I would wake up in the middle of the night and start working writing or doing things,

Start working,

And I would sleep on average,

Far,

Like five hours,

You know,

Four or five hours,

You know,

Real sleep.

Otherwise,

I was working energetically with people,

Writing,

Doing practical things.

And I continued this for a very long time,

And I noticed a subtle difference in the chemistry of the brain.

And that is that we reach a point of what I call saturation.

That means the brain is not cleansing itself enough.

And perhaps if you're young or perhaps if you're strong or perhaps if you just have,

If you're like me,

You have just too much energy,

You know,

You expend that sort of extra little bit that you have saved in the battery.

But after a little while,

That battery runs flat.

And when it runs flat,

Everything really goes wrong,

Especially in the meditational practice,

Because we begin to challenge the structure of the brain,

Because the brain needs sleep.

And especially that part of the brain that we're working with in meditation,

Which is the pituitary and the pineal gland,

They need for the brain to detox,

To cleanse itself,

Which is what obviously happens when you are asleep.

It's the most important physiological aspect of sleep,

Or perhaps the second most important,

Dreaming is perhaps the most important.

So because the cleansing allows for the pituitary gland,

Which is the master gland in meditation,

To function by exploring the energetic dimension that most people don't even recognize.

Today in the world we're so addicted to the material perception of reality or of what we're doing that we don't recognize the subtleties.

We don't recognize those things that perhaps our ancestors,

You know,

Who slept enough and had enough time to appreciate just the miracle of life,

But on a level beyond just eating the nice ice cream or eating food or having whatever material needs covered,

Just the subtleties of life,

Were more accessible to people before,

Simply because the pituitary gland,

Which is very connected to the third eye,

And the third eye is the point within our communication to the world and to our inner world,

The point by which we can touch the energies,

The subtle energies that are multi-dimensional in nature,

Meaning that of course we're not going to see if something is painted red or painted green so very obviously.

Utilizing the third eye or the pituitary gland,

We may notice the structure and the vibration of the color,

But we won't see the color in the same way as perception,

You know,

The transmission of light through the eyes that then sends a message to the brain that then analyzes that information and says that's blue or that's green.

No,

The perception that we see through the pituitary gland is something that we've forgotten,

And this is why meditation and the practice of meditation is so important,

Because we actually begin to develop that skill,

Which is there,

You know,

That pituitary gland has shrunk in the last 50 years,

Not only because of lack of sleep,

But also because of technologies,

Because of the radiations and the aggression that we are exposed to that is very common in the world today.

So you know,

Meditation actually reverses that contraction of the pituitary and pineal gland and allows for certain hormones and certain physiological changes to come back into a state of well-being,

Come back into a flow that connects us to positivity,

Because part of being able to see through the third eye,

To perceive the subtle,

Is positivity,

Because actually we cannot see anything if our mind is negative.

Perhaps we'll see a few things,

But we can't see things in a way where they're just expansive and obvious.

So to come back to a state of bliss is vital for the function of the pituitary gland and the function of just our natural perception of what's going on,

Rather than thinking about things in a negative way,

Just our connection to the world in that positive way.

That depends on a flow of energy that is positive,

And the pituitary gland needs that positive flow to expand,

To not contract anger,

Frustration,

Depression,

Exposure to radiation,

And lack of sleep,

Especially lack of sleep,

Are what can track the pituitary and pineal glands to such an extent that we don't believe in positivity anymore.

And this is the state of affairs in the world that we live in today.

People say we want a better world,

But deep,

Deep inside we were really to go into that sort of realm where we really are honest.

These people have given up on that sort of dream on some level,

Perhaps not consciously,

But on some level.

We just look around and say,

No,

Things won't ever change because we're not in touch with the positivity that is the natural state of everything,

Creation of life.

This is why life exists.

And so we're not in touch with this because the pituitary gland can't function well enough to open this point within our perception,

Which I call the third eye,

Which is subtle in nature.

The subtlety requires a vibration,

A higher vibration that meditation encourages and sleep encourages.

So I'm saying all this because that's anyone really,

If they want,

Can create a ritual before sleep where you're not saying,

Oh,

I need to sleep and worrying about sleep and saying,

Oh,

I'm not sleeping enough.

I remember one day,

I had some important meeting and I thought,

Okay,

I need to sleep.

And I went,

How you do?

You have a plan and then everything doesn't really work out in that way.

And I went to bed and thinking,

Okay,

I've gone to bed early.

I've done all the right things and I will sleep now.

And somehow I couldn't because I was so wanting to sleep that,

How it is when you really want to sleep and your mind is somehow pushing you to fall asleep,

But you can't force yourself to fall asleep.

It's a natural process of relaxing,

Letting go,

Breathing in a different way and just enjoying,

Being blissful.

I mean,

It's very difficult to go to sleep if you put pressure on that part of your brain to say,

Okay,

Now shut down because we are sleeping.

The brain will say,

What?

I don't want to do that.

I want to keep thinking and worrying about the fact that I'm not asleep.

Whatever.

It's a fun thing.

So I didn't really have fun that night because I eventually fell asleep.

Usually I fall asleep in like 35 seconds,

Put my head down onto the pillow and before I know it,

I'm asleep.

So I don't know really what's happened,

But 35 seconds to one minute is my average.

And this time it was like hours or it seemed like hours.

Doesn't it seem that way when you sort of can't sleep?

It's like you're awake,

Awake.

How long am I awake for?

It seemed like hours.

Anyway,

In the end I did fall asleep,

But because of this tension,

Which is the opposite of positivity,

You know,

When you're positive,

Time is infinite in its nature.

So you're not worried about time.

You're not looking at your clock.

Oh,

I'm not asleep yet.

Or thinking,

Oh,

I'm not asleep yet.

You know,

You're just positive.

You're in this moment.

And so,

You know,

Because I didn't really sleep in that way,

I kept waking up.

It seemed like,

You know,

Every five minutes.

Is it time to wake up yet?

Have I slept enough?

Those were the thoughts I was waking up with.

This happened once to me and I thought I will never repeat that experience because that experience is really not a very pleasant one.

And I kept waking up.

It seemed like every five minutes or every half an hour waking up,

Am I,

Have I slept enough?

Oh no,

It's still three o'clock in the morning.

I need to sleep more.

I woke up exhausted,

You know,

And just not at all prepared for what I had to do that day.

So,

You know,

If you know this,

Then you know that I'm not asking you to put pressure on yourself or to push yourself to sleep,

But rather to create the circumstances around that allow for sleep to come naturally.

And one of those things is to never go to sleep with a negative thought or a negative perception or a negative feeling,

You know,

To always come back to the positivity because the pituitary gland,

Which is the master gland of your meditational practice,

Needs that positivity,

That space of positivity to begin to function and pull you down into the state of consciousness that is sleep and even deeper than sleep,

Deep,

Profound,

Wonderful meditation.

So if you know this,

That's just one point you can always say.

Whatever I do,

Even if I'm tired,

I will not go to bed thinking about feeling or worrying about the negatives.

I'll always go to bed embracing the positivity of life.

It's wonderful to be alive.

It's wonderful to be alive.

And it is wonderful to be alive.

You can focus on anything that allows you to remember this.

It could be just,

It's wonderful to be alive because I'm breathing.

It's wonderful to be alive because I just,

It's so nice to lie here and at last relax,

You know,

My body and relax my,

And you can begin to visualize,

Oh,

I'm relaxing my body even more.

It's so,

It's more wonderful than I even thought.

You begin to come back into a state of positivity.

This is very important.

There is another very important aspect of life hack that can be put into practice that allows you to embrace that space of positivity from a very clear perspective.

And that is don't bring those stimulating things that need a lot of focus or need a lot of physical attention into the space of,

Say,

Falling asleep space that happens an hour or an hour and a half before you fall asleep,

Before you go to bed.

So,

An hour,

An hour and a half before going to bed,

It's important that you create a ritual that embraces sleep.

It doesn't mean you don't do anything,

But watching TV or looking at your phone,

The blue light that is emitted from your phone or from your laptop or from your iPad or whatever other technological device doesn't allow for the mind to relax into the state of positivity that is very important for sleep because it stimulates the brain.

And of course,

There are many other things.

Drinking coffee just before falling asleep is obviously not a good thing if you want to fall asleep.

Or doing anything that stimulates,

Anything that stimulates you,

What you're doing is winding down,

You're coming back to a space where you just relax enough to begin to enjoy the subtle,

Simple things that allow you to fall asleep.

Perhaps you can write in your journal or read a very relaxing book or whatever really is helpful for you.

Some people like to have a bath if you have the time,

Of course,

And you don't have children.

It's a wonderful gift that you can give to yourself,

But if you're busy and you have other things that require your attention,

You can turn things into like a haven of relaxation.

You can put on some relaxing music.

You can listen to the sounds of nature.

And if you're in a city,

You can sort of have that in the background if it's helpful.

And just create very tangible,

Real things that allow for sleep.

And allow for the pituitary gland to connect to the state of positivity of just letting go of the mundane,

Letting go of work,

Letting go of everything that is happening around you.

Even letting go of.

.

.

See,

Most people bring personal issues to sleep,

Meaning that,

You know,

Okay,

I finished my mundane work.

Now I can speak to my partner or my husband or my wife or even my children about the deep and meaningful aspects of whatever needs to be sorted out.

That is not a good thing to do.

Never go to sleep or create that ritual where you're going to sleep,

Where,

You know,

You open the space for discussions or communications,

Those types of communications.

You can just say,

Oh,

I love you or you've been so good today,

Little friend or you're a little angel.

You know,

Positive affirmations are useful,

But not too many.

Just enough to allow the person to drift into the space of,

You know,

Life is a wonderful gift.

So why not embrace it by sleeping more,

By falling asleep positive,

And by making sure that we create our own unique ritual that allows for positivity in the last hour,

Waking hour that we have,

Or hour and a half is even better,

Where various things just are relaxing.

What we're doing is just winding down from the day's activity.

So that's all.

Simple.

Everyone can do it.

I remember saying,

Oh,

I don't have the time to do that.

You know,

I'm really busy and I just don't manage to complete everything.

You know,

We know that good sleep allows the brain to regenerate and to be more focused and more productive during the next day when you wake up.

You wake up the next day and you are definitely able to do more things in a better way and in a more positive way than you would if you stayed up that extra hour trying to complete whatever it is that needs completion.

This has been researched,

Researched and researched so many times that it's not even a new sort of,

Wow,

That's something I didn't know about.

Everyone knows this,

That with good sleep you become more productive and you create a sense of positivity in your meditation,

Which allows you to be even more productive,

Even more aware,

Even more focused.

And not only that,

But you work less because you can do things quicker.

I've noticed,

You know,

And you probably noticed,

If you wake up asleep and you can't sort of wake up and you need your coffee to wake up or whatever to wake up and you're sort of trying to struggle through the day and get things done.

I remember,

You know,

When I woke up that day that I didn't sleep properly,

I woke up and I was sort of like trying to get things done,

But my body just didn't respond to the messages,

You know,

Okay,

Let's prepare breakfast.

And I was like standing there looking at the room for a few minutes and I thought,

Gosh,

This is not a very good way to do anything.

And I remember in my meditation I was sort of drifting off and,

You know,

Believe me,

It's just not worth staying up,

You know.

And if you know this,

Knowledge is empowering.

But the most empowering aspect of knowledge is to be able to put that knowledge into practice and to know that you're free to put that into practice.

So it's for you to put into practice and then let me know how it goes,

How you feel,

You know,

When you create this ritual,

It changes things on a much more profound level than what I've communicated now.

You will see.

You will see.

And I don't want to say what will happen because,

You know,

I want you to explore the changes without me saying anything.

You will find out for yourself.

So knowing this,

I would like to just finish with a practical meditation.

That is just coming back,

Closing your eyes maybe,

But this is helpful,

Relaxing the body,

Coming back to the breath,

Breathing into the abdomen,

Diaphragm,

Relaxing the diaphragm,

Deep breath,

Letting go.

And then just as you close your eyes,

Just focusing on upon that point that is there between the eyebrows,

The third eye,

That point,

You know,

Just a little bit deeper than outside of the cranium,

Sort of inwards.

You're focusing inwards a little bit.

So then it's almost as if it's easy to look inside.

You're not looking outside trying to see what's happening outside,

But you're sort of looking inside.

So your attention comes back to the breath and comes back to the energy that's floating through your body,

The life force,

What some people call the Kundalini,

Or just observing this from within the space of the third eye.

Deep breath,

Deep breath.

You may see lights or you may sense certain physical sensations or geometrical patterns may be obvious.

Everything just flows naturally.

Just be open and receptive to the flow of energy.

Come back to the state of positivity as you let go of the mundane.

Just for a few moments in stillness,

Through your own practice,

Remain connected to this point,

This beautiful point,

The third eye,

That then allows for the pituitary and pineal gland to expand and to create a flow of energy that allows us to connect to well-being,

Positivity,

And also a state of transcendence.

Deep breath as you continue.

Thank you.

Reviews

Love Tony! I'm going to grow up to be just like him. Thank u!

Thanks for reintroducing me to the importance of the pituitary gland & it’s function in clairvoyance.

Thankss youuu! For your time and advices! I was specting a guided meditation but its fine thanks you!