Prayer: Always a staple of spiritual life, while asking for help you can also ask for assistance in healing this essential gland for the third eye.

Visualization: Access your own healing power by envisioning your pineal gland as a pine cone or any cone shaped object. See the calcium built up around it, and then any way you can see fit to blast that calcium off your third eye. See it as clear and clean, bright and shining, without obstruction etc.

I did some Googling today and found some additional tips for maintaining a healthy pineal gland. Foods: wheat germ, olive oil, pineapple juice, parsley and alfalfa sprouts are recommended. Herbs: Wood Betony and St. Johnswort. Supplements: LECITHIN (Research has shown that lecithin is found in higher quantities in the pineal gland than in any other part of the body.)

Also good for pineal gland stimulation are the color violet and sunshine (bare eyes without sunglasses - but don't look directly at the sun)

Well, it's called sun gazing and I've practiced it mildly for a couple years, but you don't look long and you only do it when the sun is almost set. You can do it at sunrise also, but I'm never awake.

I enjoy working with crystals, so here are some that can activate the pineal gland: rhodonite, amethyst wands, pietersite, moonstone, purple tourmaline and ruby just to name a few. You can hold them, meditate with them, wear them or some can even be used as elixirs.

Finally, meditate, meditate, there are so many resources nowadays it's ludicrous. Thirty years ago when I began meditation there were almost none.

Keep your mind focused on the positive, do service work, think kindly, feel your feelings (to clear your water body - and this is worth a special note: if one doesn't feel pain, one doesn't feel joy, one begins to freeze. If you take off the top of the scale of feelings, you take off the bottom. Feelings, the water body, are the fastest of our bodies to heal (faster than the physical or mental), so, feel your feelings). To enter an ocean of bliss, one may cry a river of tears ... on the other side of every emotion is only love.

...and then you read news like this from a few days ago...

Eight DeKalb County communities received awards this week from the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for maintaining state-mandated fluoride levels in water supplies every month last year, according to a news release from the state health department.

Water departments from DeKalb, Genoa, Malta, Sandwich, Shabbona, Somonauk, Sycamore and rural subdivision Buck Lake Estates were among 435 Illinois communities to receive the awards. Kirkland and Cortland water departments were given honorable mentions for maintaining mandatory levels 11 out of 12 months.

Illinois requires communities to maintain fluoride levels at 0.9 to 1.2 parts per million to help residents prevent tooth decay, the release said.