The Truth We Seek Is Within Us: Awakening the Wisdom of the Ajna Chakra Through Reiki, Sound and Cacao

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about the idea that everything we seek is already within us. It keeps coming back to me in quiet moments, during meditation, after Reiki sessions, and even in everyday life when I notice how often we all search externally for answers that perhaps were never outside of us to begin with. I’m worried that if we keep looking outwardly, we will never stop walking towards the answer because it’s not ‘in front’ of us after all.

So many of us spend our lives looking outwardly for direction. We ask people what they think we should do. We look for reassurance, approval, certainty, purpose, and validation in the world around us. We search for signs that we are on the right path, hoping somebody or something outside of ourselves will finally tell us who or what we are meant to be. I’ve been getting this a lot recently, building the business and the risks I am taking in doing so and whilst I appreciate the advice, my real advice comes from within because we all know our paths, our duty. If we lean in. The more I reflect on this, the more I realise that perhaps the truth has never been outside of us at all.

Perhaps the real journey is inward and we’ve been walking in the wrong direction the entire time.

I think many of us have become disconnected from ourselves without even realising it. The world is loud now. We are constantly consuming information, opinions, social media, expectations, and other people’s energies. There is always something demanding our attention, and because of that, it can become incredibly difficult to hear our own inner voice clearly. Even wellness has been intellectualised in social media which is currently driving me to feel frustrated as the ‘influencers’ I once loved and now, I am wondering why you are trying to intellectualise the heart – surely the heart should intellectualise us if anything. It knew us before we knew of it.

When we stop listening to ourselves for long enough, we begin doubting our intuition. We second guess our feelings. We disconnect from our bodies. We ignore the quiet inner knowing that has always tried to guide us.

This is something I see so often within healing spaces, particularly through Reiki, sound healing, cacao ceremonies, and meditation. People arrive feeling lost, uncertain, overwhelmed, or disconnected, and underneath all of it is usually the same thing: they have forgotten how to trust themselves.

One thing that has been sitting with me deeply recently is the way we are taught to visualise the Ajna chakra, or third eye chakra, during meditation. We are often told to breathe into the centre of the forehead and imagine a door opening there. For a long time, I followed this visualisation in the way it is commonly taught, imagining the third eye opening outwardly into the world around me.

But lately, something about that no longer feels right to me.

The more I sit with it, the more I feel that the door should not open forwards into the external world. If we open outwardly all the time, we expose ourselves to everybody else’s thoughts, fears, judgements, projections, and expectations. We absorb the chaos of the Earth, the emotional noise of society, and the pressure of everything happening around us.

The world already asks so much of our energy.

Instead, I have started imagining the door opening inwardly.

And honestly, that changes everything.

When the third eye opens inwardly, it feels less like reaching out for answers and more like returning home to yourself. It becomes a gateway into intuition, wisdom, inner truth, and deep understanding. It reminds us that perhaps we already know far more than we think we do.

Our bodies certainly do.

I find it fascinating how intelligent the body really is. Long before the mind fully understands something, the body often already knows. We have all experienced moments where our body reacts before logic catches up. Sometimes you meet somebody and, although they seem perfectly nice on paper, something inside you tightens. Your stomach feels uneasy. Your chest feels heavy. Your body becomes tense.

At other times, the opposite happens. You meet someone or enter a space and immediately feel calm, safe, relaxed, or comforted without fully understanding why.

That is intuition speaking through the body.

Our nervous system is constantly communicating with us. The body reacts physiologically to what feels aligned and what does not. When something feels unsafe or wrong, the body activates its fight or flight response. Our heart rate increases, our breathing changes, our stomach tightens, our muscles tense, and anxiety rises. These responses are not random. They are ancient forms of intelligence designed to protect us.

The body notices energy before the mind does.

And yet so many of us have learned to override those signals. We stay in situations that drain us because we convince ourselves we are overreacting. We ignore exhaustion because productivity has become glorified. We silence our instincts because we fear being wrong.

But the body keeps speaking.

It whispers at first, and when we do not listen, it becomes louder.

Sometimes this appears emotionally through anxiety, overwhelm, or burnout. Sometimes it appears physically through tension, fatigue, headaches, digestive issues, or emotional exhaustion. The body continues trying to bring our awareness back inward because it knows when something is out of alignment.

The same is true when something feels right.

Alignment often feels surprisingly peaceful. It is not always loud or dramatic. Sometimes truth feels calm. It feels grounded. It feels steady and quiet rather than chaotic or overwhelming. There is a deep sense of knowing underneath it, even if we cannot fully explain it logically.

I think this is why practices like Reiki are so powerful.

Reiki gently brings us back into connection with ourselves again. It creates stillness in a world that constantly encourages distraction. During Reiki healing, people often experience emotional release, clarity, or deep relaxation, and I do not think this happens because Reiki is giving people something they did not already have. Reiki helps remove the noise that prevents people from hearing themselves clearly through aligning Ajna, our third eye and clearing fog.

Underneath fear, conditioning, pressure, and emotional overwhelm, there is still a part of us that knows.

The Ajna chakra is deeply connected to this inner knowing. It is associated with intuition, perception, awareness, and spiritual clarity. When our third eye energy is balanced, we become less dependent on external validation because we trust ourselves more deeply. We begin recognising the difference between fear and intuition. We stop needing everybody else to confirm what our soul already understands.

That does not mean life suddenly becomes perfect or that we never experience uncertainty again. We are human, and there will always be moments where we feel lost or unsure. But perhaps those moments are not failures. Perhaps they are invitations to pause and reconnect inwardly rather than searching frantically outside ourselves for answers. Many people are exhausted because they are constantly searching externally for things that can only truly be found within. We search for identity through careers, relationships, social media, achievements, and approval, hoping something external will finally make us feel whole. But wholeness was never something we needed to earn.

It already exists within us. Sometimes we simply forget.

This is also why sound healing and cacao ceremonies can feel so profound emotionally. Both practices encourage presence rather than distraction. Sound healing quiets the analytical mind and allows the nervous system to soften. The vibrations move through the body in a way that often creates emotional release and deep inner awareness. When the mind becomes quieter, intuition becomes easier to hear.

The same happens with ceremonial cacao. Cacao has this beautiful ability to gently open the heart and create emotional connection, honesty, and reflection. It invites people to sit with themselves rather than run from themselves. During ceremony, truths often rise naturally to the surface, not because somebody tells you the answer, but because your own inner knowing finally has space to be heard.

I think this is what healing truly is.

Not becoming somebody else. Not fixing ourselves. Not endlessly searching outside ourselves for meaning. But remembering who we already are underneath everything we have been taught to believe about ourselves.

The modern world makes this difficult because we are constantly pulled away from ourselves. There is always pressure to do more, achieve more, prove more, and compare more. We are rarely encouraged to simply sit quietly and listen inwardly.

And yet some of the deepest clarity I have ever experienced has come not from searching harder, but from becoming still enough to hear myself again.

Meditation feels different to me now because of this. When I breathe into the centre of my forehead, I no longer imagine opening outward into the world. I imagine opening inward into a quiet sacred space within myself. A space untouched by fear, judgement, or outside expectation. A place where truth already exists. And perhaps that is what intuition really is.

Not gaining new knowledge from somewhere outside ourselves, but remembering the wisdom our soul already carries.

At I AM BEING in South West London, Sound, reiki, Yoga and Cacao, this is something that sits at the heart of so much of the work we do. Whether through Reiki healing, sound baths, meditation, cacao ceremonies, or energy work, the intention is always to help people reconnect with themselves again.

Not to tell people who they should be.
Not to force healing.
Not to provide all the answers.

But to create safe spaces where people can slow down enough to hear their own inner wisdom again.

Because the truth is, most people already know far more than they think they do.

Their body knows.
Their intuition knows.
Their energy knows.

Sometimes they simply need permission to trust it again.

If you are feeling lost right now, perhaps you are not actually lost at all. Perhaps life is simply inviting you inward. Perhaps this season is asking you to stop searching everywhere else for certainty and begin listening to yourself more deeply instead.

The answers may not arrive instantly, and they may not always come in the way you expect. But when we begin reconnecting with our intuition, our body, and our inner knowing, life often starts feeling clearer in a much gentler way.

Not because the world becomes quieter, but because we finally learn how to hear ourselves within the noise.

And maybe that is the real truth we spend our lives searching for.

That everything we seek has been within us all along.

Being,

Gizelle Renee Xx