Third Eye Breathing
through Tenabah, c2012
1. Place your inner attention at the Third Eye Point, the
space between the eyebrows and slightly upwards.
2. With a kind of peripheral awareness, notice your
inhale and exhale.
3. Gently intend and allow your inhale to become
deep, slow, and full, expanding the rib cage in the
front, the back, the sides, downwards towards the
belly, and upwards toward the shoulders, but never
strain.
4. Gently intend and allow your exhale to become soft,
slow, and smooth, gently deflating the expansion that
happened during the inhale.
5. Imagine and feel that the air is filled with luminous
energy and breathe this in on the inhale.
6. On the exhale, feel like you are giving permission to
the energy to heal you and change you.
7. Inhale receiving, exhale allowing.
8. Inhale accepting, exhale letting go.
9. Inhale flowing into exhale with no pauses.
10. On the exhale, feel the you are mentally directing
the energy gathered by the inhale into the Third Eye
Point.
11. Feel like you are gently pumping energy to this
Point and feeding this Point that energy it needs to
activate, open, and evolve.
12. Try to do at least 100 breaths at a time.
13. When doing Third Eye Breathing, do not dwell on
any negative thought.
14. Notice anything negative, angry, sad, or fearful,
and do not identify with it, instead see it as impersonal
phenomena arising inside you.
15. Instead of feeling "I am angry", for instance, feel
"Anger is arising within me".
16. Feel the difference between watching a
phenomena impersonally and identifying with the
phenomena personally, sourcing the phenomena in
your identity, owning it, and claiming it.
17. Nonidentification with thoughts, emotions, and
sensations that are negative, have the mark of
suffering, and are unpleasant or painful is very
important for Third Eye Breathing, because thought
energy has greater power to manifest in your lives
when we focus there.
18. Cultivate the feeling that ordinary life, the material
world, is an illusion, a dream, and/or a manifestation of
consciousness. This is how life appears to a fully
awakened Third Eye.
19. If possible, look at a mandala of an enlightened
being and visualize a light going from Third Eye to
Third Eye with the enlightened being in the picture.
Choose one that you feel affinity with.
20. It is also possible to simply do this completely
through visualization.
21. If possible, chant the mantra that invokes the
presence of this enlightened being and mentally chant
this. This will also keep the mind from wandering into
negative thoughts.
22. Trust and allow the energies flowing into you to do
whatever healing, mentally, emotionally, and physically
that is needed.
23. Notice when the primary focus of attention has
fallen below the Third Eye and gently return it there.
Keep everything else within the peripheral awareness
and allow it to be there without identifying with it.
