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

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

Corresponds to the Universal Mind, to the macrocosms.

Located in the centre of the forehead.