Chakras for Beginners: AJNA/6th CHAKRA Explained: Video 7/9 led by a yoga teacher)

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hey guys now is stay its kala welcome so today we'll be talking about a sixth chakra which is called agnya or Ashna course there's different pronunciations that you will hear but it's a J and a I'll just say oz na and so it's right here the third eye all right you've heard of it it's a very sort of famous chakra so the idea is that it's also it's back in the center of the head but the way to connect in with it is to focus up and between the eyebrows like right about here okay so let's say let's talk about ajna Raja means to perceive or to command it's often referred to as the command center within the chakra system and as I said it's sort of the chakras everybody's fascinated about fascinated with it is the sixth chakra the element of Ozma is light so like the first chakra was earth the second chakra water and so on the element for this chakra is a light okay the third eye is in between the two eyes this sense that we can see inner whirls and so it has to do with light sometimes you'll have flashing as the chakra starts to become activated collage achill function of Oz na is intuition okay and that's why it is such a sort of theme as chakras because everybody wants to have better or good intuition right we want to be able to have a sense of what's going to happen to us and how to navigate it so ash nut is correlated with intuition so the psychological function is intuition which then leads to imagination and the idea being that it's imagination in terms of visioning what we want to accomplish in our lives in terms of like creative visualization in terms of being able to see forward into the future that which hasn't happened yet but which we would like to bring forward so that chakra you can see that's a very important chakra for achieving our goals that chakra is Ashna okay so intuition leading to imagination so if someone has difficulty with imagining there could be an issue with this particular chakra it's under active or it's blocked the gland is the pineal gland which of course has to do with light each chakra has a gland and so the chakra is the pineal or penny oh I always a pin yell but pineal gland so let's see the body parts are the eyes the base of the skull and of course the brow those are the body parts that are generally governed by Ozma and so if Arjuna is not functioning well some of the difficulties you could have would include vision problems difficulties with the eyes headaches and nightmares actually so sort of bad visions right a nightmare sort of a nighttime horrible vision so still relating it to Ozma and so the color each chakra has a color and that is associated with it now these are the colors in modern understanding they were a little bit different historically and in ancient times there could be various reasons for that but the color for Ozma is indigo indigo is considered the color for Arjuna chakra and the metal that goes with it nourish --is that aligns with it is silver which is interesting you know you think it's silver you think of the moon and that often tends to go with wisdom and certainly with intuition so the metal is silver and the planets are Jupiter and Neptune that are associated with honor and finally let's do the meditation we'll do that in a moment and that sound the seed sound for aaj not is home so we'll do that and we'll focus up here at the third eye and in a couple inches like you're going into the skull but really you could feel it here between the eyebrows and up a little bit so we will do that meditation okay guys so as I mentioned clairvoyance is the psychic ability associated with this chakra and I wanted to also circle back the color that a lot of the ancients are like the tantric texts said that this chakra is would be gold so beautiful color was traditionally seen as emanating gold but now we say indigo give me various reasons for that either we're evolving with the one possibility and the colors are getting clearer or that in fact maybe we are have not evolved to the point that some of the ancients who saw the colors but on the aspect of color do know that with any of the chakras wearing the color associated with it can help to strengthen it and strengthen it in your aura especially according to an ADEA Judith and she's one of the leading experts on chakras so like if you were trying to strengthen your root chakra you would wear red and so in this case with Ozma you would wear indigo okay or gold if that's if you're seeing it as gold that would be awesome you know where gold colored clothing and finally I wanted to say what the food is and I needed to look up the different types of foods because I don't know they're called entheogens and so like ayahuasca I think that's how it's pronounced let me get back here and see basically hallucinogens that are used in shamanic traditions you guys so I'm going to read off a couple these are just according to an adage Judith I don't use them myself and I'm not recommending African dream root cannabis henbane Peruvian Peruvian herbs they're all these different herbs that would fall under the category of entheogenic but I think right now the ayahuasca is the one that everybody's you know raving about and they're different videos on that on YouTube I wanted to read you a quote on clairvoyance and it's by an indian saint his name was sri aurobindo and he says about clairvoyance in order to see you have to stop being in the middle of the picture so I think that's a very deep quote in order to see you have to stop being in the middle of the picture so if you are able to remove yourself from being central you'll be able to see so I think that's really beautiful so just take a breath with me take a couple of deep breaths breathing in through the nose exhale through the mouth and as you exhale relax your body relax your shoulders so nice tall spine [Music] on the inhale and exhale keep your spine nice and tall but relaxing so focusing up the third eye now you can actually feel that you your eyes focus up there so they roll inward and upward to the third eye and I'll just chant the seed sound ohm a few times so what you're doing you can chant along with me or just listen but it's a most important way to heal and balance the chakra this is the depth of focus on the chakra and really feeling it in your subtle body and you could try to see indigo color if you'd like but it's mostly the feeling and the sound okay that's the most important so let's begin [Music] [Music] I'm just going to pause for a moment see if you can really feel the vibration of the sound directed up to our chakra as I'm doing the chanting I can really feel that sound vibrating there so as much as you can really try to tune in the eyes are rolled up towards the point between the eyebrows slightly up and let's go again oh oh oh oh oh oh nice a breath in exhale and just pause for a moment here keep your focus at the third eye chakra an affirmation for that chakra could be I see clearly where I see with clarity I see with clarity so I hope this was helpful this was part of the intro to the chakra series I will end with the final chakra and I haven't decided yet if that video will just be on the seventh chakra or whether that will be the one where I lead a meditation through all of them and that should be very powerful so watch out for that particular one and it is also fun to work on the chakra that you feel is weak in you okay according to like I said the different functions in each video that I mentioned you know back and be the chalk where you focus on for a while and just see start very slowly and mindfully and see what effects you get this is very powerful and as always check with your doctor or spiritual advisor if you feel that there are any issues that could be stirred up okay and always just start with a little bit and just see all right it's like anything like there people have food allergies you know they maybe avoid the food or you know food has a bad effect on them so everybody is different so always always listen to your intuition for guidance and we'll close with an ohm Oh how do Mt shanthi shanthi and if you liked the video give it a thumbs up I would love that and or comment or question and I will look through and check and respond and help if I can namaste bye bye