The counting technique

* Lie down on your bed in an occulted room with curtains or blinds closed.

* Start with a relaxation session, of approximately ten minutes, eyes closed.

* When you feel completely relaxed, pronounce within your mind the question of which you want an answer or formulate the problem that needs a solution.

* Then open your eyelids and revulse your eyes (direct your eyes toward your eyebrows). It would be a help to you if you put a small light or a lit candle on place high up, so you have to raise your eyes to be able to see it.

* Still in thought, say three times the following suggestion: "When I pronounce the word ten, I'm in trance".

* Then start counting slowly, staying relaxed and breathing peacefully.

*In the beginning you will not succeed in getting into a trance by reaching number ten. But you have to imagine that you are.

* By repeating the sessions at the rate of one per day, you'll soon easily put yourself in a state of mild trance when you pronounce the word ten. Images and sensations willthen start to flow to your mind.

* To break the state of trance,  suffice to count backwards from ten to one.


Follow thoroughly the steps of these teachings: it is the key to your success. And be perseverant: these exerciseshave to be practiced at least approximately  ten times before mastery.

Continuing yesterdays exercise...

* Repeat several times the sentence that you have chosen, while still focusing the flame, or until your eyes close by themselves. 

* Continue the suggestive affirmations: "I'm more and more relaxed, every muscle in my body is relaxed, I slip into a trance" .

* You actually feel very much relaxed and you can now start the suggestive affirmations that will help you communicate with the invisible realms. An example: "My spiritual guide (pronounce his/her name if you know it) is by my side" or "I am available to communication for my own sake as for the sake of my loved ones" .

* Then stop the suggestive affirmations and just stay like that, with an open mind, listening, thinking of nothing. 

* Images and sensations can then appear within your mind. If this is not the case, you can continue visualising your guide, a beautiful landscape you like, serving as scenery for the experience. 

* It is sometimes necessary to repeat the experience several times to master the technique. 

* To exit this state of mild trance, just pronounce the following sentence: "Now I wake up, after having counted to three. When I wake up, I am fully aware and relaxed".

Suggestion technique...

* This session of self-hypnosis should begin with the fixing of your attention upon the flame of a candle or of a fire. Some relaxing music in the back grown could help you relax too.

* While concentrating on the flames, breathe slowly and deeply for a few minutes, while doing abdominal breathing : gently inflate the abdomen then only the thorax, hold the air two or three seconds and exhale. Let go of the air from within the chest first, then the abdomen. Wait two or three seconds and then repeat the operation.

* Focus on the flame and on your breathing to clear your mind of the negative thoughts that normally occupy it.

* Once you feel pleasantly relaxed , with an empty mind , you can begin the hypnotic suggestions. It should be said in present indicative form and in affirmative sentences, slowly with a soft and calm voice, or even within your head, for example: " My eyelids are becoming heavier "," My eyes are closing "," I feel pleasantly relaxed  ".


To be continued tomorrow...

Light trance

One of the essential conditions to enter the state of light trance communicate with the other realms, is to be in a peaceful state of mind, free from your inner voices, your fears, your concerns, your doubts ... and which always tend to discourage you, not even having the time to try. The self hypnosis techniques that I am about to suggest that you experiment, are both preceded by a relaxation session. Thus, once the state of trance is reached, you are completely ready to communicate with the other realms. The "empty" space you've created through relaxation leaves room for any other voices that wishes to speak out, the one of your guide, for example.It is important that you master well either technique because they serve as a basis for most methods of channelling.

A parenthesis between two worlds

Trance is an altered state of consciousness, a natural state that everyone experiment several times a day, a physiological fact; when you emerge from sleep : when you go to sleep : whenever you enter into a reverie or you disconnect, your eyes open but not looking at anything. It is this particular consciousness that takes place between wakefulness and sleep. This state of trance is useful and even necessary to maintain your mental equilibrium .

When you are in a trance, you can experience different sensations; a certain lightness or, at the contrary, a heaviness throughout your body; the impression of being both present and elsewhere; the feeling you more easily remember the past; a better awareness of your reality here and now; more easily disconnecting from exterior perceptions and a feeling of having already experienced this state before, a desire to remain in trance, for the wellness of it ...

This natural state can be induced "artificially" through hypnosis or through certain techniques .

Trance

Modern Western medicine reflects very well our civilisations conception of man - an individual composed of a body with a separated spirit - which is also our conception of the world as such - the material and spiritual, two separate worlds. This is a vision that has no equivalent in other cultures as various shamanistic ones, or in China, where the universe is unified by the Qi or the Prana, in India. Man is, in these civilisations, regarded as a global entity comprising the body, the mind, animated by the spirit.

However, this, our culture's, characteristic dissociation, is the source of many problems. It can, if you are too entrenched in the material aspects of things, make communication with the spiritual world, more difficult.

Trance then represents a way to reunite your body, your mind and soul, to restore you in the universe.

The need for evidence

Once you have established contact with your guide, several times, it could be a good idea to verify that it was indeed channelling that occurred and not your imagination.

To be sure there is a test you do. Just ask your guide, the next time you come in contact with him/her/it, a question that you can check the accuracy of the answer, during the following days. It could be a statement relating to yourself or affecting any of your close friends, or loved ones . If the confirmation does not come, as expected, then do not be discouraged, just try again, at least three times. If it still doesn't come, it is without doubt not yet the good method, as there are many different ways. You only have to find the right channel for you.

You can also request, small favours, but be reasonable and do not ask for the impossible!

It can help you find a parking space or to find a mislaid object, bring about the idea that will solve a problem, amongst many other things... In addition, it allows you, to stay in touch with your guide even while not meditating or visualising or whatever method you have chosen to use, your bond will just become stronger and stronger.

Once you have found the method that works the best for you and which you feel suits you the most, then you'll want to practice it regularly, you will quickly see astonishing results. But don't worry if it doesn't work the first time! Most often two or three attempts are needed, during which you refine the method that suits you the best.