Question:
A mod may want to move this to a different section but personally I think it has something to do with Reiki rather than Chakras alone.
How big is your third eye may seem like a weird question but I would like to relate a strange experience I had last night and ask for your comments on it.
I was sat reading this forum very late last night and I had a feeling come over me, I felt that I was filled with light which may well have been my friend sending me some reiki. It was a wonderful feeling, anyway I though I really must stop reading and go to bed. On the way I saw a huge pile of paperwork and mail I have been ignoring for ages and thought I must do a grounding excercise with the hope of doing something practical rather than floating around with my head in the clouds.
Did my grounding exercise/meditation thingy, then automatically started going over my chakras, although I have not done either for months. I close my eyes and visualise the colour for each chakra and when I can feel it spinning or pulsing I move up to the next one. When I got to the third eye something strange, that had never happened before occured. You will probably laugh at what I am going to say but I don't know how else to describe it - it felt like someone had plonked a rubber sink plunger on my forehead and was gently pulling on it. Almost like trying to unblock something. Felt like I had a 3" sort of transparent circle there.
It was throbbing slightly, I had a bit of a headache but just in that area and felt what I can only describe as woosy. When I closed my eyes and tried to see my chakras again (by this time they all felt far stronger than I have ever felt them before) I could not see them through my normal eyes I could only see them through this circle in my forehead.
I thought it would be a good idea to drink a load of water so I did which did result in several trips to the loo for the rest of what was left of the night. And I did find it hard to get off to sleep.
This morning it still felt like I had the sink plunger attached to my forehead, slowly that feeling went away and it seemed to get smalled by still throbs a bit.
I take it that my third eye is starting to open for the first time ever, what prompted the title of this post was it seems to get bigger when I think about it or concentrate on it, then when I go back to doing other things it shrinks. It has grown again while I have been typing this and is throbbing a lot and I have the slight headache in this one area only.
Am I imagining all of this or is it normal, what is happening to me? All comments gratefully received, I really could do with some guidance on this. I will be having my first distance Reiki attunement in the next week or two.
Love and blessings
Angie
Hi Angie, what a great post & thank you for sharing your experience...(as a mod personally I'm tempted to move this post to the Psychic & paranormal forum but I'll leave it it the reiki mods as your question is a bit about reiki also;))
Firstly you're not imagining it...this is just how I felt when i first started to feel the physical sensations of the 3rd eye & like you I was suprised at how real & unmistakeable the feeling is, the feeling to me felt like a band aid plaster being torn off slowlyfrom my third eye area which was just above the middle of my eyes...it felt like a thick layer of skin was being pulled off....it sounds funny & perhaps unbelieveable but just typing it now the memory is making my 3rd eye tingle.
Mine wasn't as big feeling as yours though, it felt maybe slightly larger then my normal eyes but not as huge as a plunger though....but I have been meaning to ask on HP does/can your 3rd eye move...as recently, espically during mediations, I feel it opening higher up on my forehead[&:]
It sound like it's connected to the fact that you're doing your reiki 1 soon but as I'm not an expert on reiki I'll leave that to others to answer;)
Love
Amy
xx
hi moongold
i would just like to say that every time i meditate i too get this feeling but its like someone puts their finger in the middle of my brow and starts twisting it with a little inward pressure!
soon as i experience this ,then i start to see my visuals.
most often i can watch tv and float into a daydreamor just concentrate on something , then i get the sensation again.
of course i assume everyone gets their own feelings but strange how much difference there is and interesting to read how each person experiences this.
i do find however a sodalite on the brow and amethyst on the forehead increases the connection strongly in my meditation.
hopefully other members may enlighten you further
god bless
pthree[sm=FIFangel.gif]
Hi Amy
Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear I am not losing completely.
I did wonder if receiving or just having had reiki before I did the thing with my chakras intensified my experience more than someone whose third eye was opening on its own? It would of been nice if it could have come with a switch or a manual! I have just had something to eat and made myself have a couple of cups of coffee to try to tone it down a bit.
It has not worked too well its off again, throbbing, although it does not feel as big thank goodness. I wonder if I have stumbled across the way that Reiki works - you think about it and it happens, I could be wrong. I am curious about how you turn Reiki on and off.
The grounding certainly did not work last night, I am still bouncing off the walls. Will give it another go tonight and leave the chakras well alone to settle down a bit.
Another strange thing happened a little while ago I was rubbing my hands together because they were cold and as I was pulling them apart someone spoke to me and I paused only to feel what must be energy going between my hands. It was not static it, it felt completely different.
Love and blessings
Angie
Moongold,
It may be the Reiki guides and your higher guides doing a bit of work on you ready for your attunement. Your desire to drink a lot of water will help you detox and this may have been "switched on" by the guides.
As your energy vibration starts toincrease, toxins are spun out of thebody (like a spin dryer) other things happen as well and this triggers a thirst.
I've had the same experience myself when I was "tuned into" by a teacher and her guides and minefor a course involving accelerated spiritual growth.A week before I was overcome by thirst and driving down for the course had to keep stopping at every motorway service station to pee. Most inconvenient if you'll pardon the pun! :)
At least you won't have that problem if you're having a distant attunement!
Enjoy and good luck..yes please keep us posted on your experiences.
Just observe the 3rd eye experience. It's not unpleasant I'm sure. Very interesting for you too. And doesn't this give you firm evidence of the existence of higher energies and consciousness too? What a bonus!
How lucky we are for the gift of Reiki. :)
Cheers
Bryan
Hi Angie
You made me smile big time when I was reading this :Das it rang so many bells.
In readiness for my Reiki 1,I sat the evening before reading an introductory book on Reiki and was suddenly aware of an extreme throbbing in the centre of my forehead. I realised that while I'd been reading this feeling had been creeping up on me and for some time I had been rubbing my forehead without knowing. The feeling wasn't exactly painful but it was definitely on the sore side! However, the main feeling that I recall was that I had the perception that I now had a hole in the centre of my forehead - which was growing larger with every throb! Very odd.
Since then, a good 5 years ago now I think, the extreme feeling has come and gone. Butthis timedefinitely markeda new phase inmy development-spiritually I mean.Looking back,a whole new me seemingly manifested from that 1 single moment -or so it seemed.[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
Anyway, coming back down to earth, on the practical side, the best wayI've every come across for successfully grounding is holding a handful of dirt (a pot plant will do!) - just the smell of the earth brings me down in seconds. And as with everything else in life, chocolate works well too!
Take care and enjoy, Sue.
Hiya,
Oh i was glad to come across this post last night-but was too tired to reply! lol-
Like yourself i too am having some right funny things going on with my brow chakra (see my reply to post titled pulsing on this reiki forum). It is pretty much exactly what you have described-i could have written it myself! lol- My brow chakra is defo waking up at mo-i am having a vibration sensation every day now for about 2 wks-it gets abit odd after a while coz its like a constant tingle there! but i am not worried about it coz i believe it is happening for a reason & therefor it needs to do its thing! lol- My RM the other day did a reiki treatment on me & was going to move the energy on but decided against it as it was just not budging! so we have decided to leave it be for the time being & monitor its purpose! I have asked for some guidance from my angels/guides but not really got any defo answers to its purpose-although i pulled a angel card telling me its purpose was to bring love & healing into my life! so time will tell! hehehe!
I am not actively opening/closing my chakras at mo-just doing reiki self-treatments-so i will see how it goes!
But great to see i am not alone with this feeling!
Thanks everyone for your replies. Its nice to know that what is going on is completely normal. It has calmed down a lot and I am barely aware of it most of the time. Flares up and throbs when I do my grounding exercise or am reading Reiki books.
You have inspired me to try a few things to see what happens, I had a play with the pack of tarot cards that I bought years ago but I never really took to them or got anywhere with them, picked up a tiny tingle from them, still don't feel drawn to them. I was browsing in a new age type shop yesterday and briefly looked into a crystal ball, I got a very, very strong tingle/throb from that. It has started off strongly again just thinking about it. Does that mean I should keep away from crystal balls or ask for one for my birthday?
As Amy mentioned I would also like to know if it is normal for your third eye to move up and down, mine is still varies in size but has never got back to sink plunger level.
Still drinking the water like mad unless I have to go out. Intuition has been more accurate or perhaps it is me acting on it more than normal.
Oooh this is exciting, makes me wonder what is going to happen next.
Love and blessings
Angie
Hi Angie,
It's been interesting to read through through your post and all the replies.
A lot of this has been said already, but I'd like to add mytwo penny worth:
Whenever we focus on our chakras, we are giving them more energy, becauseenergy follows our thought/intentions. This can cause them to become more 'active'. Our chakras are active all the time, although certain experiences naturally trigger theparticular chakras to respond energetcially. When you did your meditation/grounding exercise, you were obviously in just the right space to not onlynotice that your brow chakra is becoming more open, but also by focusing your attention and thought on it, which naturally caused it to open more. However, after you do such an exercise, it's important to close down energetically to ensure your energy doesn't get too sapped. There's lots of ways to do this, but a quick and effective way is to visualise your chakras, starting with crown. See your crown chakra as a purple flower, and see it gently closing, not tightly shut, but just gently as it would do at night. Go down the chakras doing the same for each one, and using the corresponding colour.This will conserve your energy a bit more and hopefully should help prevent the headaches which are often a result of leaving yourslef too energetically 'open'.
Hope that helps.
Hi Azalia
Thanks for your advice. I have been able to speak to my RM a couple of times and she suggested much the same. So I now imagine that they are large waterlilies when open and like a loose bud when closed, rather than a tight bud.
I am fighting the urge to run before I can walk ATM!
I will be receiving my 1st attunement on Monday evening. We are doing it by distance even though my RM only lives 5 miles away from me, as it suits both of us. We have visited each other and she is a lovely lady and I am glad that I was drawn to her.
The grouding is helping a bit, I am managing to get a few more mundane, practical tasks done.
Love and blessings
Angie
Hiya Angie,
Just wanted to wish you good luck with your attunement-well luck isnt the right word really- more happy times & fab experiences! lol-
It sounds like your very sim to me at mo- wanting to run b4 you can walk-i guess we both prob need to slow things down a notch & let our brow chakra's develop naturally! lol-even tho we want fast results i guess the feelings are telling us to coool it! lol
Mine is still vibrating off me head! lol- its the most odd feeling- when i do my self-treat's with reiki i sense my brow chakra is massive-but i cant shift the energy or anything- i am having a session with my RM on monday so think i need to have a big chat about this with her-i dont mind it being so open-but i want some reassurance really!
Anyway, sending much love,light & happy times for your attunnment-let us know how u get on pls.
Well there is a saying 'its not how big it is but what you do with it that counts' ;)
I hope that you realise that a distant attunement is just that; a distant attunement and not the full initiation to Reiki.
At least that is one good thing about Reiki voluntary self-regulation; these distant attunements will not be recognised as a qualification in Reiki.
Hope you enjoy your attunement and following it choose to go for the full initiation with a reputable Reiki Master.
Divine Love
Interesting comment Kim,
Can you elaborate? What is the "full initiation"?
Cheers
Bryan
I'm still watching this thread too to see if anyone has any input on your 3rd eye moving.
From when I first became aware of the physical senstation of the 'third eye'...it was sort of in between my eyebrows & then durning quite a 'visual' meditation I felt my 'third eye' more central in my forehead & it has been the same since to be honest...apart from in some readings when it feels lower again...[&:]...does that make sense
Love
Amy (for some reason callingthe brow chakraa third eye is making me wince today[:'(])
Dear Amy
It sounds like expansion of your third eye rather than movement but wherever you feel it that is where it is.
Dear Mr Firstlight
If you don't know the difference I recomend training with a reputable RM that does know the difference. My RM taught us about this on our First Degree.
Divine Love
Kim,
I wasn't actually asking for myself.
:)
Perhaps you could help others here who may not be as enlightened as you are? :)
Your statement to Moongold... deserves an explanation for her does it not?
Bless
Bryan
How big is your third eye may seem like a weird question but I would like to relate a strange experience I had last night and ask for your comments on it.
I was sat reading this forum very late last night and I had a feeling come over me, I felt that I was filled with light which may well have been my friend sending me some reiki. It was a wonderful feeling, anyway I though I really must stop reading and go to bed. On the way I saw a huge pile of paperwork and mail I have been ignoring for ages and thought I must do a grounding excercise with the hope of doing something practical rather than floating around with my head in the clouds.
Did my grounding exercise/meditation thingy, then automatically started going over my chakras, although I have not done either for months. I close my eyes and visualise the colour for each chakra and when I can feel it spinning or pulsing I move up to the next one. When I got to the third eye something strange, that had never happened before occured. You will probably laugh at what I am going to say but I don't know how else to describe it - it felt like someone had plonked a rubber sink plunger on my forehead and was gently pulling on it. Almost like trying to unblock something. Felt like I had a 3" sort of transparent circle there.
It was throbbing slightly, I had a bit of a headache but just in that area and felt what I can only describe as woosy. When I closed my eyes and tried to see my chakras again (by this time they all felt far stronger than I have ever felt them before) I could not see them through my normal eyes I could only see them through this circle in my forehead.
I thought it would be a good idea to drink a load of water so I did which did result in several trips to the loo for the rest of what was left of the night. And I did find it hard to get off to sleep.
This morning it still felt like I had the sink plunger attached to my forehead, slowly that feeling went away and it seemed to get smalled by still throbs a bit.
I take it that my third eye is starting to open for the first time ever, what prompted the title of this post was it seems to get bigger when I think about it or concentrate on it, then when I go back to doing other things it shrinks. It has grown again while I have been typing this and is throbbing a lot and I have the slight headache in this one area only.
Am I imagining all of this or is it normal, what is happening to me? All comments gratefully received, I really could do with some guidance on this. I will be having my first distance Reiki attunement in the next week or two.
Love and blessings
Angie
Answers:
Hi Angie, what a great post & thank you for sharing your experience...(as a mod personally I'm tempted to move this post to the Psychic & paranormal forum but I'll leave it it the reiki mods as your question is a bit about reiki also;))
Firstly you're not imagining it...this is just how I felt when i first started to feel the physical sensations of the 3rd eye & like you I was suprised at how real & unmistakeable the feeling is, the feeling to me felt like a band aid plaster being torn off slowlyfrom my third eye area which was just above the middle of my eyes...it felt like a thick layer of skin was being pulled off....it sounds funny & perhaps unbelieveable but just typing it now the memory is making my 3rd eye tingle.
Mine wasn't as big feeling as yours though, it felt maybe slightly larger then my normal eyes but not as huge as a plunger though....but I have been meaning to ask on HP does/can your 3rd eye move...as recently, espically during mediations, I feel it opening higher up on my forehead[&:]
It sound like it's connected to the fact that you're doing your reiki 1 soon but as I'm not an expert on reiki I'll leave that to others to answer;)
Love
Amy
xx
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hi moongold
i would just like to say that every time i meditate i too get this feeling but its like someone puts their finger in the middle of my brow and starts twisting it with a little inward pressure!
soon as i experience this ,then i start to see my visuals.
most often i can watch tv and float into a daydreamor just concentrate on something , then i get the sensation again.
of course i assume everyone gets their own feelings but strange how much difference there is and interesting to read how each person experiences this.
i do find however a sodalite on the brow and amethyst on the forehead increases the connection strongly in my meditation.
hopefully other members may enlighten you further
god bless
pthree[sm=FIFangel.gif]
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Hi Amy
Thanks for your reply. I am glad to hear I am not losing completely.
I did wonder if receiving or just having had reiki before I did the thing with my chakras intensified my experience more than someone whose third eye was opening on its own? It would of been nice if it could have come with a switch or a manual! I have just had something to eat and made myself have a couple of cups of coffee to try to tone it down a bit.
It has not worked too well its off again, throbbing, although it does not feel as big thank goodness. I wonder if I have stumbled across the way that Reiki works - you think about it and it happens, I could be wrong. I am curious about how you turn Reiki on and off.
The grounding certainly did not work last night, I am still bouncing off the walls. Will give it another go tonight and leave the chakras well alone to settle down a bit.
Another strange thing happened a little while ago I was rubbing my hands together because they were cold and as I was pulling them apart someone spoke to me and I paused only to feel what must be energy going between my hands. It was not static it, it felt completely different.
Love and blessings
Angie
Answers:
Moongold,
It may be the Reiki guides and your higher guides doing a bit of work on you ready for your attunement. Your desire to drink a lot of water will help you detox and this may have been "switched on" by the guides.
As your energy vibration starts toincrease, toxins are spun out of thebody (like a spin dryer) other things happen as well and this triggers a thirst.
I've had the same experience myself when I was "tuned into" by a teacher and her guides and minefor a course involving accelerated spiritual growth.A week before I was overcome by thirst and driving down for the course had to keep stopping at every motorway service station to pee. Most inconvenient if you'll pardon the pun! :)
At least you won't have that problem if you're having a distant attunement!
Enjoy and good luck..yes please keep us posted on your experiences.
Just observe the 3rd eye experience. It's not unpleasant I'm sure. Very interesting for you too. And doesn't this give you firm evidence of the existence of higher energies and consciousness too? What a bonus!
How lucky we are for the gift of Reiki. :)
Cheers
Bryan
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Hi Angie
You made me smile big time when I was reading this :Das it rang so many bells.
In readiness for my Reiki 1,I sat the evening before reading an introductory book on Reiki and was suddenly aware of an extreme throbbing in the centre of my forehead. I realised that while I'd been reading this feeling had been creeping up on me and for some time I had been rubbing my forehead without knowing. The feeling wasn't exactly painful but it was definitely on the sore side! However, the main feeling that I recall was that I had the perception that I now had a hole in the centre of my forehead - which was growing larger with every throb! Very odd.
Since then, a good 5 years ago now I think, the extreme feeling has come and gone. Butthis timedefinitely markeda new phase inmy development-spiritually I mean.Looking back,a whole new me seemingly manifested from that 1 single moment -or so it seemed.[sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
Anyway, coming back down to earth, on the practical side, the best wayI've every come across for successfully grounding is holding a handful of dirt (a pot plant will do!) - just the smell of the earth brings me down in seconds. And as with everything else in life, chocolate works well too!
Take care and enjoy, Sue.
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Hiya,
Oh i was glad to come across this post last night-but was too tired to reply! lol-
Like yourself i too am having some right funny things going on with my brow chakra (see my reply to post titled pulsing on this reiki forum). It is pretty much exactly what you have described-i could have written it myself! lol- My brow chakra is defo waking up at mo-i am having a vibration sensation every day now for about 2 wks-it gets abit odd after a while coz its like a constant tingle there! but i am not worried about it coz i believe it is happening for a reason & therefor it needs to do its thing! lol- My RM the other day did a reiki treatment on me & was going to move the energy on but decided against it as it was just not budging! so we have decided to leave it be for the time being & monitor its purpose! I have asked for some guidance from my angels/guides but not really got any defo answers to its purpose-although i pulled a angel card telling me its purpose was to bring love & healing into my life! so time will tell! hehehe!
I am not actively opening/closing my chakras at mo-just doing reiki self-treatments-so i will see how it goes!
But great to see i am not alone with this feeling!
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Thanks everyone for your replies. Its nice to know that what is going on is completely normal. It has calmed down a lot and I am barely aware of it most of the time. Flares up and throbs when I do my grounding exercise or am reading Reiki books.
You have inspired me to try a few things to see what happens, I had a play with the pack of tarot cards that I bought years ago but I never really took to them or got anywhere with them, picked up a tiny tingle from them, still don't feel drawn to them. I was browsing in a new age type shop yesterday and briefly looked into a crystal ball, I got a very, very strong tingle/throb from that. It has started off strongly again just thinking about it. Does that mean I should keep away from crystal balls or ask for one for my birthday?
As Amy mentioned I would also like to know if it is normal for your third eye to move up and down, mine is still varies in size but has never got back to sink plunger level.
Still drinking the water like mad unless I have to go out. Intuition has been more accurate or perhaps it is me acting on it more than normal.
Oooh this is exciting, makes me wonder what is going to happen next.
Love and blessings
Angie
Answers:
Hi Angie,
It's been interesting to read through through your post and all the replies.
A lot of this has been said already, but I'd like to add mytwo penny worth:
Whenever we focus on our chakras, we are giving them more energy, becauseenergy follows our thought/intentions. This can cause them to become more 'active'. Our chakras are active all the time, although certain experiences naturally trigger theparticular chakras to respond energetcially. When you did your meditation/grounding exercise, you were obviously in just the right space to not onlynotice that your brow chakra is becoming more open, but also by focusing your attention and thought on it, which naturally caused it to open more. However, after you do such an exercise, it's important to close down energetically to ensure your energy doesn't get too sapped. There's lots of ways to do this, but a quick and effective way is to visualise your chakras, starting with crown. See your crown chakra as a purple flower, and see it gently closing, not tightly shut, but just gently as it would do at night. Go down the chakras doing the same for each one, and using the corresponding colour.This will conserve your energy a bit more and hopefully should help prevent the headaches which are often a result of leaving yourslef too energetically 'open'.
Hope that helps.
Answers:
Hi Azalia
Thanks for your advice. I have been able to speak to my RM a couple of times and she suggested much the same. So I now imagine that they are large waterlilies when open and like a loose bud when closed, rather than a tight bud.
I am fighting the urge to run before I can walk ATM!
I will be receiving my 1st attunement on Monday evening. We are doing it by distance even though my RM only lives 5 miles away from me, as it suits both of us. We have visited each other and she is a lovely lady and I am glad that I was drawn to her.
The grouding is helping a bit, I am managing to get a few more mundane, practical tasks done.
Love and blessings
Angie
Answers:
Hiya Angie,
Just wanted to wish you good luck with your attunement-well luck isnt the right word really- more happy times & fab experiences! lol-
It sounds like your very sim to me at mo- wanting to run b4 you can walk-i guess we both prob need to slow things down a notch & let our brow chakra's develop naturally! lol-even tho we want fast results i guess the feelings are telling us to coool it! lol
Mine is still vibrating off me head! lol- its the most odd feeling- when i do my self-treat's with reiki i sense my brow chakra is massive-but i cant shift the energy or anything- i am having a session with my RM on monday so think i need to have a big chat about this with her-i dont mind it being so open-but i want some reassurance really!
Anyway, sending much love,light & happy times for your attunnment-let us know how u get on pls.
Answers:
Well there is a saying 'its not how big it is but what you do with it that counts' ;)
I hope that you realise that a distant attunement is just that; a distant attunement and not the full initiation to Reiki.
At least that is one good thing about Reiki voluntary self-regulation; these distant attunements will not be recognised as a qualification in Reiki.
Hope you enjoy your attunement and following it choose to go for the full initiation with a reputable Reiki Master.
Divine Love
Answers:
Interesting comment Kim,
Can you elaborate? What is the "full initiation"?
Cheers
Bryan
Answers:
I'm still watching this thread too to see if anyone has any input on your 3rd eye moving.
From when I first became aware of the physical senstation of the 'third eye'...it was sort of in between my eyebrows & then durning quite a 'visual' meditation I felt my 'third eye' more central in my forehead & it has been the same since to be honest...apart from in some readings when it feels lower again...[&:]...does that make sense
Love
Amy (for some reason callingthe brow chakraa third eye is making me wince today[:'(])
Answers:
Dear Amy
It sounds like expansion of your third eye rather than movement but wherever you feel it that is where it is.
Dear Mr Firstlight
If you don't know the difference I recomend training with a reputable RM that does know the difference. My RM taught us about this on our First Degree.
Divine Love
Answers:
Kim,
I wasn't actually asking for myself.
:)
Perhaps you could help others here who may not be as enlightened as you are? :)
Your statement to Moongold... deserves an explanation for her does it not?
Bless
Bryan
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