.Let's Open Your Third(Yoga Instructor Explains)

Alright, if you have the space, I want you to run a short experiment with me. I want you to close your eyes and try to go completely lip in your face. No contraction at all, for just 15 seconds. 15 seconds of perfect relaxation in your lips, eyes, nose, tongue, ears, and scalp. And then I'll explain why this matters. Ready? Set? And done. Now if you're being honest with yourself, despite your best effort, your eyebrows were and are probably still furrowed, and your jaw is probably still clenched, and your lips are still swollen into a frown. Now the background physical tension that exists in the face is actually an indicator that energy is somewhat clogged through your system. Which is to say that lymph, blood, neurotransmitters, prana, all of these things that sustain your physical body cannot express themselves fully. In fact, practically speaking, I can confidently say that this background rampant stress or tension in your face shows that you're living or existing at a lower vibrational state. Which means that you are experiencing a dampened and less joyful experience of life. In other words, surprisingly, being able to completely relax your face is actually a prerequisite for lifting your entire vibrational state and seeing the inherent beauty in all things. And that's because the energy that exists as tension in the face must get transmuted and redirected into your third eye, which is the physical and psychic structure in your brain that allows you to live in greater harmony with the environment. Third eye? Low vibration? Transmuted? What the hell are you talking about? Who are you anyways? And how'd you get into my house? My bad, totally forgot to introduce myself. My name is Ethan Hill. I'm an international yoga teacher, writer, and entrepreneur helping seekers like yourself adjust to the new earth. In this short video, I'm going to do three things for you. Number one, I'm going to teach you what your third eye is. Number two, I'm going to help you understand why it's so crucial that you open and activate it. And number three, I'm going to give you practical advice for doing so. If all this sounds interesting and exciting to you, I invite you to sit more upright, turn on your listening ears, and prepare to expand your understanding of yourself. Let's begin. The third eye is what allows you to perceive subtle and invisible realities, which in turn generates and strengthens your intuition. Your physical eyes can pick up on frequencies within the visible light range, from roughly 400 to 750 e to the 14 hertz. Your eardrums can pick up on sounds happening between about 20 and 20,000 hertz. Your body can detect deep vibrations, typically in the range of 500 to 400 hertz via mechanoreceptors in your skin. And just guess that you can smell and taste between 1 to 100 e to the 12 hertz. But of course, reality can extend far beyond what you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, right? For instance, radio waves, x-rays, infrared and ultraviolet radiation, microwaves, gamma rays, all of these and more exist within the bounds of the electromagnetic spectrum. While most humans, and notably scientists, argue that we don't have the faculties necessary to view other strata of reality, mystics and yogis tend to disagree. In fact, they suggest that the information that is imperceptible to your eyes, ears, nose, tongue, or skin is in fact perceptible to your third eye. Let's talk specifics. Subtly, your third eye is located in the center of your eyebrows, what's also known as the Christ Center or Kutashta Chaitanya in Kriya Yoga. Anatomically though, the third eye actually begins at the base of your head and brain. That was a little tricky and so, so pay attention and I'm going to reiterate. Just as your heart exists and expresses itself in the center of your chest but is wired to and reliant upon your brain, so too does your third eye express itself in between your eyebrows but is reliant upon deeper, more fundamental brain structures. Your two most important brain structures are your medulla oblongata and your pineal gland or pineal gland. According to yogis, the medulla oblongata is where subtle life force enters your body. Beyond the air that you breathe, the water that you drink, and the food that you eat, this light current sustains your physical and energetic body. It's also known as prana or chi in other traditions. Your pineal gland, on the other hand, is how your brain tunes itself to the different fields of information existing around it. This is somewhat akin to how an FM radio scans its environment, tuning into different frequencies and then translates that raw, invisible data into sounds that other parts of your brain can then pick up and comprehend. So putting those two things together, the medulla and the pineal gland, you can picture the inner machinations of your third eye almost like a movie project. Your medulla oblongata brings in energy or cosmic light into your brain and is magnetically pulled through the prism of your pineal gland and along an impossibly narrow tube in your brain. When that light completes its journey, a unique display of shapes and colors appears on the screen of your visual field and forehead. Got it? Kind of? Okay, cool. Now we can talk about how the third eye generates intuition. Put simply, intuition is the result of many, many, many imperceivable channels of information crescendoing into a firm, felt sense of knowing in your body about a particular situation despite the fact that you have no proof that you know it. Because there are an unfathomable number of choices that you can make, moment to moment or day to day, intuition is necessary for navigating life. Without it, you're forced to rely upon your fallible and sluggish intelligence to make decisions. Actually, let me put it like this. Intelligence requires your senses, what you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch, in order to operate. Whereas intuition relies upon the extremely dense stream of information arriving at your subtle faculties, such as your third eye, in order for it to make decisions. In other words, intuition is just intelligence on steroids. There's just so much more information arriving at your subtle faculties, such as the third eye, than there are in all of the other senses combined. Which means that any decisions being made from intuition is actually more reliable and more developed. Plus, the information processing speed that happens in the third eye, compared to other brain centers, is wildly, wildly faster. Meaning you can know what's best within a fraction of a second, as opposed to relying upon what the intelligence faculties typically do, which is creating this long pro-con list and having to make a decision from there. All of this means that by opening and strengthening your third eye, you will make decisions that are more aligned, both easier and quicker. All of which, in turn, manifests your desires and dreams much more rapidly. The first thing we have to understand is that your medulla and your pineal gland, which, in turn, birth the third eye, are reliant and run on electricity. Of course, the brain is sending electrical pulses via neurotransmitters through all the different neurons in your brain. And so what we want is that this avenue, this road, be completely cleared of all debris and obstacles so that the electricity can flow very smoothly. Anytime you have toxic heavy metals in your environment, they can saturate into your bloodstream. And if they're tiny enough, they can actually cross your blood-brain barrier and get merged or lodged into your brain. And because metal, as you know, conducts electricity, it's going to impede your medulla and your pineal gland from operating at its highest efficiency and effectiveness. Now, toxic heavy metals can come from so many different sources. As the most basic example, when you have a sharp knife that you just bought from Kmart or TJ Maxx and you're cutting vegetables, right? How many months before that knife gets dull? Where do you think those metal atoms are going? Straight into the food. That's what dulls the blade altogether. Then you eat that food. And again, if the metal particles are small enough, they'll get into your brain and affect the way that it runs. Or as another example, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, both of them have heavy metals in it. Or aluminum foil, aluminum cans, aluminum anything. Our skin has oil that's slightly acidic and it will break down tiny little atoms of aluminum from the foil that you touch. It leaches into the skin, ends up in the brain. Now, that is just the tip of the iceberg. There's a laundry list of potential exposures that can bring more metals into your brain and hence affect not just the blockage of your third eye, but create anxiety, depression, OCD, Alzheimer's. All of these things, all these thought-specific pathologies occur because there are toxins in our actual tissue. How do you get rid of this? How do you clean your brain, your pineal gland, so that it effectively operates more easily and you can intuitively decide much more readily better decisions in your life? Well, food is one way to do it. I cannot recommend Medical Medium's Brain Saver book highly enough. In it, he details a number of recipes and foods that help detox the metals from our brain as well as going into depth as to what you should be avoiding. If you don't care to look into it in depth, that's totally fine. I do recommend drinking a heavy metal detox smoothie every single day. The five key ingredients that pulls metals out of your brain are as follows. Spirulina, barley grass juice powder, not just barley grass powder, Atlantic dulce, wild blueberries, not cultivated blueberries, wild blueberries, and cilantro. If you include those five ingredients into your diet every single day, they will work harmoniously to pull and draw metals out of your body, therefore opening your third eye. So of course, it's great to clean and free yourself of all the debris that's in the physical tissue of your head. But there are also physical exercises that you can do today to strengthen and open this subtle faculty of you, thus strengthening your intuition. Before we jump into the actual exercise itself, I want to give you a little bit of context. Opening or activating or strengthening the third eye is really all about sending energy into this part of your brain. In the same way that you can make a decision to flex your bicep and then energy ripples into it to contract it, you can choose to send energy into your medulla and pineal gland. In order to do that, there are really two main methods. The first is just increasing the amount of focus or concentration on the particular area that you're hoping to activate. So in the case of the medulla and the pineal gland, you have to simply shine your light of awareness into the very center of your head, which I'll walk you through here soon. And second is relax or withdraw life force from the other areas of our body to redirect it into those particular locations. Imagine it like this. Your body is this light bulb that is dimmable. Okay, you can increase the amount of wattage flowing through it, or you can decrease the amount of wattage flowing through it. If all of your light is being sent into the muscles and bones and immune system of your body, well, then it's neglecting the more subtle aspects of the third eye. It's basic resource usage. Either you have energy in your periphery or you have energy in your central area. More important than relaxing your triceps and lats and quads, and those things are great. They liberate a lot of energy. But more important than that is learning how to relax your face because the face holds an incredible amount of tension that can be redirected into the center of your brain. And that's why I had you at the very beginning of this entire video try to relax your face because inherently what happens is as you relax it, energy will enter deeper areas of your brain. Arguably the hardest place to relax your face is actually your eyes because comparatively to the rest of the body, even though your muscles are very tiny, they're very thin, they're some of the strongest muscles in your entire body. They're using a lot of life, a lot of energy in order to look and focus on this screen. So here's the exercise for opening up and strengthening your third eye. Remember, it's all about relaxation and attention. All right, and relaxing the eyes is the critical piece to all of this. So you're gonna take both hands, point out the index fingers. One of the index fingers should be facing you and one of them should be pointed away. Okay, bring them about an inch or two apart from one another and the middle knuckle should be in line with your eyebrow, maybe a foot or two away from you. And then try to look behind your fingers until you see a third one and a fourth one appear. Okay, from here, all you're going to do is try to overlay these ghost images on top of one another so that you see three fingers. All right, you see the left one, you see the right one, and you see an invisible third one that's trying to overlay. Now from here, I want you to notice what your eyes are doing. They're staring far out into the distance and they must physically relax in order to accomplish this task. Next, in order to strengthen the amount of relaxation, kind of an oxymoron, you'll very, very slowly, I mean very slowly, move the index fingers apart from one another. Notice that you have to look and relax your eyes more and more in order to keep the image together. You can see how much of a challenge this is, but this is the exercise that's really helpful for opening the third eye because when your eyes are closed and when we do the more deeper meditation, you'll notice that the eyes themselves are constantly flickering. They're constantly tense in the back of them and in order to get that to release, you have to stare very far away and they have to not move an inch. Now the problem here is that in order to fully understand and comprehend how the third eye works and how to open it, it helps that you spend more time than just a quick YouTube tutorial video on it. With that in mind, I've actually created a guided 30-minute meditation session for this exact purpose, for helping you understand and open your third eye. If you're interested in that, go ahead and click on the link in the description below and enter your email. There you'll gain the free 30-minute audio where we'll be using the technique of the fingers coming together, of course with eyes closed and not actually keeping the hands outright, and you'll be gaining three other techniques for helping strengthen and open the third eye. All of which, which I explain in the audio, it's going to be critical for boosting your intuitional faculties. Anyways, that was it. If you don't want to check out that audio session, no worries. Maybe you just keep journeying down the rabbit hole with me in this next video. Talk with you soon.