How To Acquire Brain Balancing and Open Your Third Eye
VIDEO: Watch This Video: A Demo With Jin Shin Jyutsu
The Ajna, or third eye chakra, is considered the sixth layer of our energetic system. Consider it something like your spiritual vision, helping you cut through the spiritual muck and see the world for what it really is. It exists in the center of your forehead.
Doing the Main Central Vertical Flow involves placing two or three fingers on each of the nine pressure points for two or three minutes each. This stimulates the flow of life force through each of the chakras. You may notice a light, pulsing sensation like a heartbeat as you move your fingers down the center line of the front of the body. This sensation is the energy, or “chi” moving more freely around your body. Sometimes you may feel soreness surrounding the pressure point, which indicates a blocking of chi. Stimulating the point releases the chi, and soreness goes away. Other sensations that you may feel as the chakras begin to open are a gurgling stomach and warmth or chills in different areas of your body.
There’s an easy way to directly experience your chakras: the acupressure-like art of Jin Shin Jyutsu. One of its techniques, the Main Central Vertical Flow works with nine pressure points, seven of which are chakras. This easy self-help routine is considered to be an overall tune-up for the body. It harmonizes and nourishes the spine, which is key to keeping our vital flame of spirit and enthusiasm alive.
High Touch Jin Shin is an energetic healing art that shares many of the underlying concepts of acupressure and acupuncture.
It respects the idea that life’s energy, the Qi (pronounced “chee”), flows through all things and employs the reading of energetic pulses to target imbalances. When the Qi moves freely throughout the body the body is in harmony. Should an energy pathway become blocked physical, mental, or emotional disharmony, or “dis-ease”, arises. Jin Shin identifies twenty-six energy release points and recognizes organ flows, number flows, and eight depths in the body’s energy cycles. Jin Shin utilizes the life force that emanates from our fingertips. The touch is light yet penetrating and supports the natural flow of the body’s energy.
Like acupuncture, Jin Shin employs the reading of energetic pulses to target imbalances in a body’s energy patterns. When the Qi moves freely throughout the body, the body is in harmony. Should an energy pathway become blocked, physical, mental, or emotional disharmony, or “dis-ease”, arises.
What is a Balance Point?
It occurred to me that I regularly write about maintaining a balance point but I have yet to describe what that is. I also thought about the idea that many people who are far from their balance points are unaware of their situation and that they may have never experienced what a balanced life feels like, so I thought that I would dedicate this column to a better understanding of what balance is and is not. First of all I want to state that I am not a perfectly balanced human being and that I don’t aspire to that level of perfectionism, but I do have a sphere of balance that I like to live my life within because it feels better than living in chaos. Sometimes I must learn to ride the wild horse of chaos as I shift to a new balance point, but harmony is my preferred state of being. As I try to explain how balance manifests itself in one’s life, I will start with describing what balance isn’t.
The goal of a Jin Shin session is to maintain or re-establish the balance of Qi energy in the body. The touch for Jin Shin is light yet penetrating and supports the natural flow of the body’s energy. Jin Shin utilizes the life force that emanates from our fingertips. The practitioner merely touches, or connects two of the twenty-six energy release points and waits for the energy flow to correct itself.
