Chakra Six Description
- Name: Ajna, Perception
- Location: Brow center, third eye point
- Color: Violet
- Mantra: AUM
- Element: Light, Awareness
- Body Relationship: Eyes, endrocrine system, forehead
- Yoga Poses to Balance: Balance poses, gaze (drishti), Alternate Nostril Pranayama, eye exercises
- Other Practices to Balance: Dream work, visualization meditation, artwork, enhancing psychic ability
- Central Issues: Intuition, imagination, self-reflection, perception
- Excessive Characteristics: Delusions, difficulty sleeping and concentrating, nightmares
- Deficient Characteristics: Poor vision and memory, denial, poor imagination, can't visualize
- Corresponding Ayurvedic Dosha: Excessive=Pitta/Vata imbalance; Deficient=Vata/Pitta imbalance
Recommended Reading on The Chakras
Eastern Body, Western Mind By Anodea Judith
Chakras for Beginners By David Pond
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