Can opening your 3rd eye drain you?

[HiRes]

Last night I was focusing on my third eye, and it felt as if energies where flowing through my body from my crown chakra.
Before I did this, I had been asleep from about 8 pm to about 2-3 pm. After I awoke I started to attempt to Lucid Dream, after about 30 minutes I gave up and decided to go eat and read some posts on this forum. at about 4 pm I was back in bed and started to focus on my third eye. (note I still feel a pressure where my third eye is located) I did this for about 20 minutes, until I could not handle the pressure it was emitting anymore, and fell asleep about 4:30 pm (Trying to LD).

Well I tell you all of this because I just woke up and it is 7 pm. I know I have been getting plent of sleep, but I do not understand why I slept all day.
Has anyone else experienced a drainage of energy after focusing on your third eye for the first few times?

[HiRes]

Also, am I doing it right?

I just focus on the middle of my forehead and I start to feel a "pressure". The harder I focus on it, the more "pressure" I feel. Eventually this "pressure" starts to fill up my body, until it feels like I am going to explode. Am I doing it right? Or am I just putting strain on my brain?

[astraladdict]

Any kind of energy work, at too much of a degree, can drain you. Since you are working on opening your third eye, the energy released from it, and the energy needed to open it, can drain you. Try working on it every other day.

~astraladdict

[HiRes]

I try to keep a slight focus on it all day long, and I should not get it as much attention as I did last night at all >.>(I attempted to project by focusing so intently on it that the energies built up so much it shot my spirit out xD). But again, am I doing it right? It literally feels like a muscle tensing up in my brain, that causes the rest of my body to tense up

[astraladdict]

There is no wrong way

~astraladdict

[HiRes]

Is the feeling I get how everyone else feels when they focus on their third eye?

[blis]

Is the feeling I get how everyone else feels when they focus on their third eye?

Pretty much.

[Stookie_]

Is the feeling I get how everyone else feels when they focus on their third eye?

When you talk about "opening your 3rd eye", what do you expect to happen?

[HiRes]

When you talk about "opening your 3rd eye", what do you expect to happen?

I don't know what to expect, I just let it happen. But my brain can process the feelings as being something more like my brain tensing up and causing my whole body to do the same, cause of some kind of pressure point.

[Jon_88]

Any unfamiliar action of the mind is gonna drain you. Be it new to doing varius mathexerises or playing poker or doing unfamiliar IQ tests. And yes third eye "energy" work. Anyway I recomend stopping just as it becomes uncomfortable. Feeling like you gonna explode sounds a tad much in my book. Anway regular or semiregular activity will develop pathways for it in the brain and eventually it becomes easy.

[HiRes]

Yeah, the "exploding" feeling was a tad much. >.> I was kind of trying to build the energies up to project my soul out, but I failed xD.
I have ceased this method, and only allowing enough energy to flow in me to keep my mind awake while i go to sleep.

[Orion-]

I would use the NEW method. (quick google to find the pdf:) http://www.xehupatl.com/download_files/freebooks/Robert_Bruce-New_Energy_Ways_1.pdf

He explains that if you start with the primary chakra's you make very little progress and become drained. So, you need to do secondary/tertiary first to get the appropriate amount of energy. This will allow you to stimulate primary chakra's in a much more effective way. So far it's working for me, I really recommend it. At first it might seem like this will take a huge amount of time, but once you get started progress will be fast. I worked through the first 5 chapters, and over halfway of the 6th chapter in about 3 to 4 hours. At this point you are familiar with the method and it becomes really fun and progress is very fast. You will also learn very effective and easy ways of opening the chakra's, including the primary ones.

[stan]

HiRes, when I focus on my third eye I get the same type of pressure. It is good that you feel the pressure, it means your third eye is active and there is a certain amount of energy flow. But I don't think you should feel drained, especially not if you are focusing on it while in a deeper state of relaxation, since the deep relaxation only gets you more charged, and not to mention that you also get charged by increased energy flow from the third eye and other chakras that get activated during meditation. Try and see the way you are focusing...are you relaxed? do you tense you muscles? does anticipation cause tensions?

[HiRes]

Stan, maybe? I feel I find it easy to relax.. I think I will try relaxing longer before attempting this.
Thank you for your input :]

[stan]

Nope, stan

I often find that if I'm not conscious of myself focusing, I can easily drift into thoughts and emotions, and they often have tendecy to chain react to tensions. When I really determine before practice that I will get clear from thoughts and emotions then a practice has another type of quality - it's easier to stay detached from them during practice and I get all the benefits from relaxation and being focused on one thing.