Harmonious Ajna
The characteristics of this chakra, when it is balanced and harmonious, are the following:
- Ability to remain lucid and analyse/take conclusions on complex situations
- Ability to organise emotions and make connections between them that aren't obvious
- Directly perceive ideas and emotions that are typically out of reach, and make intelligent correlations between them
- Escape the heat of the feelings and the mental maze of logics
- Emotional intelligence
- Discernment
- Ability to apply judgements of value according to principles or laws
- Visualisation
- Conceptualisation
- Access to subconscious levels
- Profound introspection
- Self confidence at the psychic level
- Psychic powers (telepathy, hypnosis, clairvoyance)
- Clarity, clear awareness
- Removing conditionings from our childhood or from past lives
- State of genious
- Control the spiritual intuition
- Transcend the inferior mind and awaken the superior intuitive intellect
- It is our general command centre.
Yin unbalance
When this chakra in unbalanced on the Yin side, we can experience:
- Inability to understand complex situations
- Not being able to discriminate between different emotions or make sense of them
- Mental chatter
- Lack of insight into our own ideas and emotions
- Low emotional intelligence
- Lack of discernment, and inability to apply judgements of value according to principles and laws
- Inability to conceptualise and to work with abstract ideas
- Failure to understand non-linear correlations between events or emotions that condition us
- Lack of confidence at a psychic level
- State of confusion and incoherence, resultant from the lack of the type of genius intelligence which Ajna brings
- Becoming cold and distant, with difficulties integrating into the world, much preferring to seclude into an inner world of ideas and concepts
- Inability to access the subconscious levels
- Not being able to overcome the inferior mind, and being confined to its preconceived ideas and limiting mental patterns
- Lack of spiritual intuitions or visualisations
- Unawareness regarding the states and experiences we have
- Lack of vision and ideas
- Lack of awareness of our experiences
- Lack of discernment to distinguish between our imagination and real experiences
Yang unbalance
When this chakra in unbalanced on the Yang side, we can experience:
- Misinterpretation of complex situations
- Wild emotions that take over our internal state
- Getting lost in the heat of the feelings in the mental maze of logics, without lucidity or coolness
- Lack of understanding of other people’s feelings and thoughts
- Inappropriate behaviour
- Contradictory actions
- Miscommunication
- Making up connections that don’t exist between events or emotions
- Unrealistic confidence at a psychic level, not based in any type of reality
- Projecting confusion onto other people
- Imposing our made-up versions of reality onto other people
- Inability to control the subconscious levels
- Generating limiting ideas and mental patterns, which keep us from seeing the Truth
- Uncontrolled spiritual intuitions and visualisations
- Confusion caused by the states and experiences we have
- Unreal visions and ideas
- Inability to synthesize and derive conclusions from different experiences
- Taking imaginary experiences for real ones
Correspondence
Corresponds to the Universal Mind, to the macrocosms.
Location
Located in the centre of the forehead.