Are you sure you don't mean ego breakdown? My understanding is sometimes egos respond with great fear and anxiety when change or loss of control is sensed.
Anyways, I don't need third eye powers so much explained as I need help activating or becoming aware. I think if I read too much about what it supposedly does when open it will lead to preconceived notions and limit what I can see, but if you want to elaborate on signs I should expect in order to confirm it being open, that might be interesting.
I will explain why I suspect the chakras are real though, so this thread can be a little about me giving info instead of just asking. I recently experienced a revelation on what my body is capable of. There was an initiation into many secrets when someone told me a story of what happened to him when he lied down and did a very specific removal of tension in a very specific place and way. I don't mind telling someone exactly what, but it must be messaged privately, as there is some indication that the process may go wrong for certain individuals. He said his body began moving on its own, first with simple movements and then leading on to full blown yoga poses.
I was intrigued and had known him long enough to not just toss it aside as mere bullshitting, so I decided the only way to know was to see for myself. So there I was, on the floor and listening to music, just trying to relax and focus, but nothing was happening. The music started to pick up and my will to succeed grew strong, and I'm not sure which it was: either I intentionally visualized it, it came to me, or it was a little of both, but I saw myself running through many open doors straight to the "end" and there was a sense that it was my right to do so and nothing would stop me. Later this experience caused me to do much reading, and I now suspect that those doors were a subconscious representation of my "chakras". I felt a jolt of "electricity" and then it began. First a smile overtook my face and then my legs started twitching, and before I knew it my whole body was moving every which way and all sorts of popping was happening at every joint moved long enough. It was like a very active chiropractic session, and now that I have let my body have it's way on several nights with time to spare, it does actual yoga instead of just semi-random spastic movements. Each time my body does the yoga, it removes stiffness from all joints involved and my energy and blood circulation flows more freely than ever before.
That might sound burdensome, but apparently it works like breathing in that you don't need to think about it. You just let it happen to you when you want to let it happen. Unlike breathing though, I can consciously stop it at any moment with no effort, and it doesn't interfere with sleep. (But I was an insomniac after that first experience.) I did more reading and I think this is where regular yoga comes from: by people who discovered this biological process and everybody else was just mimicking it. My intuition is that this automatic yoga is a very intelligent process, and the only body parts it involves are those needing to be fixed from too much stiffness. I even let it reach my face for a while, and my jaw gave an enormous pop and realigned itself.
So there it is. It's possible I know all of yoga now from a single experience that lasted about 2 hours (in a sense as far as the physical movements go) and I never studied it before. I always thought yoga was boring and useless (and for the most part I still do). But now I'm standing in an open door to a whole new world of knowledge, and I'm trying to find out which of the old stories are true and which are fiction. So is the third eye a real thing, just one of those doors I passed through or will pass through?
pic related is similar to one of the stretches it made me do recently except it stuck my arms out in front of me. It sits you back up when it's done, sometimes by doing a weird shaking, twisting motion. If you decide to stay standing the movements can be like a dance.
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