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The “third eye” is the area where the root of the nose meets the skull bone between the two eyebrows. There isn’t really another eyeball in there, but there are glands deep in the brain called the Pituitary and Pineal glands. The pineal gland is also known as the third eye. It is associated with light and dark, and thus serves as a channel from the physical to the spiritual world. From here, we can develop greater awareness, become intuitive, and cultivate greater wisdom. It may even allow us to communicate with others spiritually. This is why learning how to open your third eye is so desirable! Who doesn’t want to use their inner knowing to make the right decisions, and wisely communicate with others?

Learning how to open your third eye and become more intuitive does not necessarily mean you are psychic. You may “see” things, or develop clairvoyance, but really, it means developing your awareness and inner knowing. Being open means you are receptive to the messages of the Universe. These messages can guide you in your decision making and your path forward. This receptivity is key because in order to open your third eye, you need to be ready to receive.

How Do I Know If I’m Ready To Receive?

Beginner Consciousness – Not Ready

When you go through your life, you may start at a beginner level of consciousness. By this, I mean you may busy yourself with the activities of life – School, homework, jobs, relationships, career, family, sports, marriage, mortgage, kids, and so on. You get so caught up in that activity that you don’t even know who you really are, or what your purpose in life is. You may also feel stuck, without the ability to feel true joy. In this state of beginner consciousness, you are not ready to receive the messages from the Universe. You’re too busy, and you aren’t ready to learn how to open your third eye.

Creative Consciousness – Still Not Ready, but Getting There

Along the way, you may have realized your constant state of being busy, and you decide to use your creativity. In this state of creative consciousness, you slow down and start to draw, paint, dance, or sing, for example. You feel lighter, and enjoy your life more, but maybe you still don’t know your true purpose. You haven’t quite learned how to open your third eye of intuition to guide you in the right direction. So in this state of consciousness, you’re still feeling a bit stuck.

Positive Consciousness – You Are Getting Ready

When you feel stuck, you see things in a more negative light, or you just have negative feelings and emotions about your life. But if you learn to use your creativity, intuition, and inner knowing to guide you to your life purpose, you can transform the negatives into positives. You start to vibrate at a higher energy frequency, and you get closer to knowing your life purpose. This is a good place to be, and you are becoming ready to receive information from the Universe that will guide you on your way.

Intuitive Consciousness – You Are Ready

You are now ready to receive and learn how to open your third eye. By maintaining positivity, and increasing your vibrational energy, your mind, body, and spirit are balanced, harmonized, and receptive. You may have visions of what is to come. I often get feelings of what is coming before it happens. You can read other people’s energy, or know what another is feeling. These are all gifts of our intuition that can be developed if we learn how to open the third eye.

How To Open Your Third Eye After You’re Ready To Receive

When you’re in this state of receptivity, you’re ready to find out how to open your third eye more.

Keep a Healthy Diet

First, you want to keep your energetic vibration high. You can do this simply by following a nutritious, whole foods, organic diet, and drinking plenty of water. By staying healthy and nutritious, you feed your body temple, and raise your energetic vibration.

Surround Yourself With Uplifting People

You also want to surround yourself with positive, uplifting, supportive people who keep your vibe high, and do the things you love that support your mental, physical, and spiritual health.

Stay Physically Active

A great way to keep healthy is physical exercise out in nature. In my photo, I was going for a bike ride, and made sure I stopped at a beautifully scenic spot to absorb the good energies of nature, and the sunshine. You can see that my camera captured a beautiful “eye in the sky” too – very appropriate for my post on how to open the third eye!

Start Meditating

Meditation is a great way to open your third eye. It brings you into a state of “Shuniya” – a neutral, calm space where you begin to the receive the messages from Source that give us wisdom and guidance. There are many ways to meditate, and I encourage you to try my Free MindfulNatureNut Guided Meditations on YouTube as a great starting point! Meditation in nature is so peaceful, relaxing, and grounding for the soul!

Guided meditations like the ones I deliver on my channel are a great way to start, but you can also do silent meditation, or a moving meditation like QiGong, which I tried this week in the park! There’s also Tai chi, and various types of yoga.

Sound healing meditations are one of my faves, involving crystal bowls, chimes, Tibetan bowls, and gongs. All of these sound healing modalities are like tuning forks to our energetic vibrations. They can release blockages in our energy systems and really have us vibrating at the frequency of the Universe with light and love.

Meditation allows you to open your third eye by putting you into almost a sleep-like state, although you are not meant to sleep while meditating. Try to stay alert and awake to the activity in your mind, simply noticing it, breathing into the space of your third eye.

It may help to visualize an opening in your heart. For example, imagine that your heart is blossoming forth a bright bouquet of Spring flowers from the centre of your chest. This vibrant energy of the flowers then moves up to your third eye area and bursts out of your forehead with love and light! If you frequently use visualizations like this one, you will find out how to open your third eye quite quickly and easily.

How To Know If Your Third Eye is Opening

When you practice all of the above mentioned prerequisites to an open third eye, you may start feeling different sensations that you haven’t felt or noticed before. For instance, it’s common to start feeling a pressure in your forehead area. This isn’t something to be concerned about, it just means your pineal gland is becoming more activated and open! Yay!

You may have new foresight on future events or situations before they occur. This happens to me quite often that I’ll feel something before it occurs. Sometimes I don’t even know where a particular feeling is coming from or why, as it just arises out of the blue, such as tears! Then later it will all become clear as to why I was feeling that earlier. It’s because I had an intuitive knowing of what was going to happen. When things like this happen, you have to trust your gut, and your bodily sensations. Use this wisdom to guide you.

Another clue that your third eye is opening is that you develop a few more psychic powers, such as telepathic communication, or vivid dreams. I often have dreams that I take quite seriously if there’s a strong feeling I have within the dream and upon waking. This is a clue as to how I’m really feeling, or how someone else is really feeling, or even events that may or have already happened.

Trust Your Intuition & Open Your Third Eye

We Are All Intuitive

You may not believe that you are an intuitive soul, but every one of us has a higher power within us that we can access with practice. We have to believe that we have it, and always be open to receiving messages in any form that come. We may get these messages from our inner knowing, other people around us, the feelings and sensations in our bodies, or from the Universe. It may be repeating numbers you frequently see, a feather on your walk, or synchronicities.

Rise Above the Blockages

Trust that you can access your inner knowing and wisdom, and that if you haven’t yet accessed it, it’s because of energetic blockages that may be present due to stressors – Always keeping busy without slowing down; Never calming the mind; Not taking care of yourself; Past programming, and the like. By following the steps outlined above, you can learn how to open your third eye and other energy centres.

Beware of Fear and Doubt

If you don’t trust your own intuition, then fear and doubt will hold you back from reaching the higher vibrational frequency that’s required for heightened intuition. An example of how I failed to trust my own intuition is the many people I dated in my younger years. I knew from a gut feeling in the beginning that it wasn’t going to work out, but I tried anyways because how do you know if you don’t try? I second guessed my gut feelings every time, trying to prove them wrong. But in the end, the bitter lesson was what my gut always knew from the start.

One way to determine your gut instincts about something is to imagine yourself in each scenario. Imagine dating that person, in detail, and visualize how it feels to be with them. Notice the physical sensations that arise in your body. If you get a tightness in your chest or belly, for example, maybe the answer is a resounding, “No! Do not go with this option!” If, on the other hand, the visualization of dating that person produces a warm, fuzzy, light feeling in your heart or belly, then the answer is “Yes! Go with this option!” That’s a great way to tune into yourself and your feelings.

What If I’m Feeling Both a Yes and a No?

It is very common to know exactly what your intuition is telling you, and to decide to go for it, and then you’re stopped by a pang of fear or doubt. Beware of this, as it can prevent you from reaching your deepest desires and dreams. Remember the importance of Taking Risks and Stepping Outside of Your Comfort Zone!

Once you intuitively know what your heart desires, or which direction to go in, or what decision to make, trust your gut! Allow the feelings of fear and doubt to pass through you, and heed the wisdom and clarity of your inner knowing. Now you know how to open your third eye and live in alignment with your truth!

Lee Spirit is an avid outdoors adventurer with a love for nature, photography, health & fitness, wellness, and spirituality. Her own personal journey has led her to the  study and practice of mindfulness, health, wellness, yoga, spirituality, sound healing, meditation, and personal development for over 20 years. Get Lee’s Free ‘Natural Mind Healing’ Report that will help open your third eye and help you trust your intuition!