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Sit quietly in a dark place. Close the eyes. Pull the eyelids in tightly as if to squeeze down on the eyes, then put the fingers tips together and push in slightly on the squeezed eyelids. Look forward in the center.

You should see some random lights. But wait a little and these lights should eventually form into an ordered or disordered round mass of light. Then it should convert into a doughnut shape.

If it does not convert into a doughnut shape, then remove your fingers, relax the eye lids. Open the eyes. Then wait about 1 minute. Then repeat by first squeezing down the eyelids, pushing in with the fingertips gently. Then begin rapid breathing as you are staring in the middle. Keep breathing rapidly but with focus in the center, the doughnut shape of light should form quickly.

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The purpose of this exercise is to give you a witness where you know that there is a third eye there and then when you meditate even if you do not see it, at least you know that it is there. The judge can form an opinion and make a judgment if he has a reliable witness.

You won’t see those lights in meditation but because you witnessed them otherwise, you know that there is a third eye there at that place.

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Here is another thing which you should do.

Set aside a time when you can relax for at least 30 minutes. Lie on your back but use a dark cotton cloth, like t-shirt material. Pull this across your head covering your eyes so that no light can shine on your head or eyes. This would be done while lying on your back. Be sure that this covers your entire head and eyes. There should be no light penetrating the fabric, so use a double layer if you have to.

Just relax yourself at first and when you feel relaxed look forward to the center of your eye brows. Do not focus sharply because that will tire out your mind. Feel as if you are falling back into your head but keep looking forward.

This practice will in time cause you to see the third eye brow chakra operation in the form of a moving cloud of energy. The problem is that this cloud of energy might be a cloud of dark energy which is near the color of the blackness, brownness or grayness in your consciousness and so it is hard to differentiate it. But if you have the blindfold applied, that should be just enough to cause enough contrast for you to see it.

If you have a grey cloud of energy moving in a grey sky which is the same color then it is hardly likely that you will discern the cloud. So this is like that.

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There is much misinformation about the third eye and the crown chakra, as if everyone has these chakras in an operational stage. The fact is that for many people these chakras are dead. They are inoperative or they are dense having very dense energy which means that they are barely active. And so most people cannot see these chakras in the inoperative condition.

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bandika wrote:

I also try to move my consciousness to the back of my head. In this way I start to see a cloud of energy in front of me almost immediately even if I don’t expect to see anything. My problem is that I’m not able to control this phenomenon, and don’t know how it relates to the third eye. If I try to focus onto or through that, then it will disappear gradually.

MiBeloved’s Response:

Control of this type of experience comes after years of yoga practice with advanced meditation even for ascetics who know what they are doing, so you should not feel undone because this has not developed rapidly.

Please tell me about the occurrence of thoughts, images and ideas while you are doing this?

Are there any of those?

Where are those located?

How do you respond to those?

bandika 3 years ago

I would like to begin by explaining what I mean by „I move my consciousness into the center of my head”. I want to contain all of my feelings thoughts and everything within my brain, in the center of that. In this way, I am going to feel myself being there and from this point I can look forward to the center of the eyebrows. To be honest I can’t distinguish „consciousness” and „focal self awareness” even don’t understand what does the second one mean. Of course, that could be that I am still learning English, sorry if it is not perfect.

I have tried the exercises which are described in the 1st chapter of the book, but now I am a bit confused and not 100 percent sure that I did everything correctly. Let me review some parts of the exercise and please correct me if I made any mistake.

6-7.: „Trace energy in both eyeballs back to the common point where the optic power originates…”

I imagined that my eyeballs with the energy of them moving backwards to the center of my brain. After completing this movement I perceived some lights around that point and felt a little energy there. I wonder if it is the optic power that my mind uses for seeing.

9.: „Re-assert optic power”

I did nothing just let them go out as they would move normally. Then the shape of the light changes, and the feeling of the energy around the center disappears. Could you give me some details about the meaning of „core-self”?

12.: „Pull eyeballs back into head by will power…”

Is it different than 6.?

18-20.: „Conceive of a flow of energy through the back of the head. Attempt to direct the seeing-focus through that energy flow. (…) Retrieve that backward flow of energy.”

I tried to perceive energy flowing backwards from the center of my head. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to do this, hence it was impossible to direct it to the center.

24.: „Reverse the expansion by mentally retracting the energy of consciousness in all directions.„

While in the first step of this exercise I tried to feel that all of my thoughts and feelings are within my skull, but now their space is reduced to the center of that.

35.: „Send energy directly from the optic meeting point to the darkness between the eyebrows.”

At this point I tried to feel myself in the center of my head (at the optic meeting point) and look forward between the eyebrows. I am not sure whether it is the same thing you advised me in your previous reply. In my opinion, the only difference between them was the placement of the consciousness. The purpose of that technique was to „see the third eye in operation in the background in the form of a moving cloud of energy.” I have tried it two times in darkness, and I’ve perceived a little energy at that area which color was a bit lighter than the background. However, if I do the last part of the Third Eye Focus technique then I can have an expectation of opening my third eye can’t I? Please help me to see it clearer. I know these are very foolish questions, but I am not really sure what the purpose of the first 34 steps of this practice is. To become aware of the energy movements in the mind? Or to accumulate them in the center? If I do so, would it be possible for me to use this energy for opening the third eye? Forgive me for asking such silly questions, but the more I read about that, the more complex it seems.

Before I start meditating, I always try to relax and let my thoughts go away. Therefore I always have less thoughts and images while doing every practice. If I move backwards in my head then the occurrence of thoughts decreases rapidly, my mind becomes completely calm and empty for a few seconds. When I have thoughts, images or ideas, I always try to ignore them and focus on the practice. I noticed that the less thoughts I have, the brighter the shapes of energy I see. Actually I haven’t tried to identify the location of these thoughts, but I guess these are mostly located in the frontal part of my head. The other thing I experience during meditation in the back of my head is seeing circles moving away from me to an invisible point through my forehead.