Ajna is my most active center, and always has been since I was a kid, although then I didn't know it was a chakra. For me I sort of consider it a literal third eye, and opening it has become a motion very much like opening an eye. I forget exactly when I developed that particular action, but it was many years ago now. I developed it for that purpose, though, and it used to be just an imaginary feeling, just visualizing an eye there that would open sideways (like an eye tilted 90 degrees). Now it's just like opening an eye. The sensation is no longer extreme, maybe because i'm used to it, but it used to itch a lot around the time I first started working with it. I can open it and look around with it clairvoyantly, which has been getting sharper pretty slowly, although I have a few recently developed and acquired techniques to hopefully speed that process up. So far I can find small misplaced items, and check on how far away the train is. Yay for practical application.
Second to that is my solar plexus chakra, which I still maintain is not a chakra proper, but lately i've come to think that it's just very large - some systems talk about a navel chakra, some about the solar plexus, some include both and don't acknowledge the crown as a chakra. IN chinese mysticism as well as japanese, the navel center is call the dan tien/hara respectively, for instance, and is considered a resevoir that the rest of the energy system draws on. But, I think the solar plexus center covers the lower abdomen from the bottom of the rib cage to the navel, as the sensations when working with either are very similar. That one I open the same way as Ajna, but not as an 'eye'. I do it like one of the astral projection tutorials I read suggests - as though one were 'opening a loaf of bread'; except that now its just an opening action, doesn't involve the visualization of reaching in and prying open anymore.
I utilize the ajna center just like an eye, which sees subtle light instead of regular light. THe solar plexus center I utilize with a kind of extra limb or set of limbs like tentacles. I got that idea from Castaneda's don juan books.
I'm pretty proficient with most all of them to some degree, though I utilize the lower chakras less than the higher ones in terms of regular application. The crown I only ever utilize during ascension meditation, the heart I utilize during healing sessions, the throat only recently has seen action in practical application for experiments in communication in the astral and telepathy with friends. The bottom two I use instinctively during massage sessions, other than that they only get worked on during energy circulation or just before astral projection when I charge them all.
peace
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