4E Holistic Notion:
What unifies these various problems is their locality – our face.
While we identify in a large way with our head in general, it is our face more so than to the cranium above it that we generally see as representative of who we are. Our facial expressions embody important parts of this center’s muscular actions.
In yoga this anatomic level of the body is called the “third eye center”. While the center above is seen as the home of spiritual consciousness, this one just below it is said to be our intellectual center. The mental stress that is so often a negative residue of the modern lifestyle generally comes when this thinking and information-gathering center is overloaded with intellectually stimulating inputs from our eyes and ears.
While we grow spiritually within the crown center, our personal intellectual growth happens in this “third eye” center. Whether it be for eye strain or hearing weakness, you will grow intellectually when you use the exercises in the Motions section to draw life-positive motions into those tissues of this region which you are particularly focused upon.
In Four Element Thinking this center is noticed as the body’s higher Air center. It is not insignificant that one of the distinguishing aspects of this region’s anatomy is its sinuses and airy nasal pharynx, which we use to draw in that special life-positive molecule in air, oxygen.
It’s all quite beautiful and poetic when it comes down to it, that our face is indeed filled with airy spaces – save for the lungs, more open and airy than any other region. So just like the cranium above this region has its nervous system fired-up brain, this center below it embodies the natural principle that holistic elemental thinking tells us follows Fire, Air. We will speak to this in the upcoming Motions section, where we find ways to invigorate what can become stagnant airy sinuses, and poorly used nasal breathing.
Motions:
Here's a fantastic way to help your sinuses with 4element yoga!
