From:
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slider it looks like you are a long
time meditator. did you ever have
successes with meditation that produced
other things? perhaps other psychic items?
you must have learned to relax quite well
from doing meditation. it may be a huge
leap for beginners in wild to jump quickly
to the relaxed state. maybe i need to
practice meditation again for a period of
time and see if i can get to a relaxed
state more easily. i'm noticing it has
been close to two years since i first read
your book. Time flies when you're sleeping. :)
### - did some meditation in my youth (not 'that' much) until a certain
state of mind resulted - i.e., the 'ideal' goal of meditation is to
practice every day until the resulting state of mind from any session (a
kinda high feeling) becomes 24/7 (or permanent), and while i can't claim
to have succeeded that much with it, it (and the dude i was learning from) certainly did eventually affect my total outlook generally and so i
moved-on and didn't bother with it again, and that was 40 years ago!
so in answer to your question: no, you *don't* (imo) need to learn all
that first in order to be able to relax enough.
if you've never learned to relax on purpose before, then the exercises
i've suggested are more than enough for anyone to quickly learn (a week
tops!) as a springboard... (one of the few things jeremy agreed upon was
that the suggested method (for relaxing) was effective, so he must have
tried it...)
iow: do it every night for a week and you're bound to succeed in reaching
that bodily state described (body feels kinda slightly
puffy/expanded/enlarged whatever) and that's as far as anyone would ever
need to go with it... at that point ya switch to focusing on only what the
eyes can see, totally ignoring the body altogether after that...
after first getting comfortable enough, it's important NOT to move your
body even one iota after that while doing the breathing exercise; it's
this keeping-still that quickly brings the feeling of floating/expanding
etc...
if you seem to not be able to experience this sensation, then 20/30
minutes of trying should be enough anyway to then switch to focusing on
only what your eyes can see etc, you'll know when you're relaxed enough (without that sensation) when your breathing naturally becomes more
shallow via belly breaths, so that's the time to switch up to the eyes
only part anyway...
if you're not getting any hypnagogia at that point, then try lengthening/shortening your focal distance (have suggested between 10 to fifteen inches away from your face so try that starting at around 10
inches for a few minutes and then lengthen it to 12 inches, then 15
inches, etc etc, noting at what distance they begin to appear for you personally...) plus don't move your eye about while looking at them, just
stare straight ahead until images appear in your line of sight to examine
after that it's only a matter of waiting until the images become
noticeably sharp enough to gaze at their finer detail and then you'll
either fall fast asleep while doing this or get pulled into a WILD
so describe in detail what happens so far when you try to relax, how does
it go for you?
how far do you get/what happens?
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