Go to a wall in your home or office and stand facing it, one or two paces away.
Close your eyes and breathe easily, the same way you did with the previous exercise, “Energy Follows Attention.” Let your neck and shoulders relax. The softer you can make your body, the easier it will be for you to pay attention to what’s happening within.
Are you having a lot of thoughts? Are you thinking about being somewhere else? Do you feel present in the room, or is your mind somewhere else?
Continue breathing for a couple more minutes, inviting your body to soften and relax even further. Notice how nice it feels to do that.
After a while, notice that you are more present in the room, that you’re more in touch with your body, and your mind is a little less full of distracting thoughts.
In a moment, you will open your eyes, lift your arm and touch your fingertips to the wall. Before you do, pay special attention to all the subtle feelings in your mind. You might imagine that your mind is like outer space, black and mostly empty. Once in a while, you feel, see or hear words, emotions, or things you can’t describe popping in and out of that empty darkness.
When you are ready, simply open your eyes, reach out and touch the wall. After you touch it, you can let your arm come down again.
Think back to the moment just before you opened your eyes to see the wall and move your arm. What happened in your mind? What did you feel? Did anything occur in that black empty space? We are looking for that feeling of impulse, your intention. It’s a little blip, a little movement, a shift, and it’s very quick. As soon as it came and went, your eyes and body obeyed its command.
Try it again, this time paying much closer attention to what’s happening in your mind. Close your eyes, relax your body, and as you decide to touch the wall (which includes opening your eyes to see it and lifting your arm), notice that subtle event in your mind.
If it helps, you might say the word “Now!” within your mind and then pay attention to the next moment, the moment just before you physically respond.
Do it again, and this time after you touch the wall, intend to keep your fingers pressed against it for a few moments. While they’re touching the wall, keep intending to feel the texture of the wall. When you decide to let your arm back down, try to capture the feeling of your intention when it arises in your mind.
I would also recommend pressing your fingers against the wall for a few moments without expressly using your intention. Just let your subconscious do it for you while you think about other things. You could try adding up all the numbers of your birthday’s month, day and year. Or think about a problem you’re having at work. Then return your awareness to your fingers, and feel a fresh intention arise when you decide to let your arm down.
The purpose of this is to show you that just because your body is in a held position doesn’t mean that your intention was necessarily activated.
This will be important later when you realize half-way through a telekinesis session that your eyes may be physically looking at the object, but your intention has vaporized, leaving your energy idle and directionless.
You might want to spend ten or fifteen minutes repeating this exercise. Each time, you will pick up little hints of intention arising in your mind. You’ll become familiar with how it feels to invoke the feeling of intention. While you’re pressing your fingertips against the wall, stay in tune with the intention which keeps them there. When you decide to let your arm down, notice how a new experience of intention arises in your mind just before your arm responds.
Try this exercise by following along with my video guided instructions which you can watch to here:
http://www.defyyourlimitsbook.com/iota.html
10. Exercise: Spoonfuls
You will need the following supplies:
Two medium sized bowls. Each should be able to contain five cups of uncooked rice.
A teaspoon.
Five cups of uncooked rice.
Pour five cups of rice into one of the bowls, and leave the other one empty. Set both bowls in front of you while you’re seated at a table. Place one bowl toward the left, further left than where your left shoulder reaches. Place the other bowl to the right, also a little beyond where your right shoulder reaches. Now the two bowls are significantly spaced apart.
Remember that the goal of this exercise is to experience your will-power in action. The more bored, disinterested, or irritated you become, the better. If you want to quit the exercise half-way through, that will be the prime opportunity to exercise your will and feel what that it’s like to continue the exercise that way.
Before continuing, make the commitment that you will see the whole exercise through to the end, at least once. The sense of commitment is crucial for activating your will.
Scoop the rice from one bowl to the other, one teaspoon full at a time. The rule is that you can’t overfill the spoon so that it spills grains of rice. You also can’t move at a speed that causes you to spill any.
Continue until one bowl is empty and the other is full. Again, what we’re looking for here is something akin to subtle exasperation. You may even have the thought, “Ok, I get the point! I understand what you’re trying to show me, so I’m just going to stop now and save myself some time.” What you must do at that point is to let your will take over.
Your will can function to keep you going even though your noisy thinking mind is coming up with reasons why it’s ok to quit before finishing. Knowing the point of the lesson is not the same as going through it.
Like intention, will has its own texture in the mind. For me, it feels plain, solid, uninteresting, and unemotional. It feels removed and independent of my emotional self, so it doesn’t respond to my inner complaints. It keeps moving forward with the process until it’s done, while another part of me whines and gripes. Understanding that both of these can operate at the same time, you can place more importance on the will and keep going.
In this manner, you’ll keep scooping up the rice slowly to fill the other bowl, over and over again, even if you don’t want to any more. As you do, experience the texture of your will inside your mind. What does will feel like?
11. Exercise: The Refrigerator
Recall the exercise, “Energy Follows Attention”, where you paid attention to your finger while imagining energy coming into it with every inhale. Spend a couple of minutes doing the exercise now until your finger feels tingly, alive, fresh, velvety, or whatever words you would use to describe your energized finger.
Continue paying attention to your finger while breathing with the intention of filling it with energy. At the same time, use your imagination and see yourself opening your refrigerator.
Your mind might flicker between being aware of your finger and seeing your refrigerator in your imagination. It might not be easy to think of both things at the same time. That’s fine. The most important thing is to relax and not be concerned about getting this right or doing it perfectly. That kind of attitude causes stress, which prevents anything at all from happening.
Stay with the finger exercise a few moments before trying again. When you’re ready, see yourself opening the fridge door. While you’re looking inside your visualized fridge, continue feeling your finger while noticing your inhale and exhale.
It can feel like the mind is going in two directions. Better said, it’s like the mind is being split. Perhaps it’s similar to how it feels when learning to play the piano with both hands at the same time.
The nonconceptual part of your mind is feeling your finger, and that attention acts like a beacon, calling the surrounding energy to it. Meanwhile the noisy thinking mind is off in your memory of your kitchen, trying to recall what’s inside the fridge right now, and distinguishing between articles of food. This part of the mind has stepped away from the line of energy.
Please do not spend too much time on this exercise trying to perfect it. Its purpose is simply to show you a new way to work with your mind. You’ll have plenty of tim
e to practice it while you’re actually trying to make an object move during the telekinesis sessions.
You’ll be using this technique from time to time whenever you sense that your noisy thinking mind is preventing your energy from flowing to the object.
12. Special Technique: The Mind-Stopping Breath
This instruction is given in four phases so that you can learn it piece by piece, comfortably. You will know the complete technique when you use all four together in a cycle of breathing.
Phase 1
If you are slouching, the first step is to sit up straight because when you slouch, everything in your torso becomes compressed. By sitting up, you’re making room for your internal organs and abdominal muscles to move naturally.
Place both of your hands on your belly. This will help you feel if you are breathing in a complete manner or not.
Inhale, and notice which parts of your torso move. Exhale naturally. Did your chest expand, did your shoulders rise? Did your belly move at all?
Inhale again, taking in a slightly deeper breath than last time. See if you can keep your shoulders and chest relaxed, and accentuate the feeling of your belly expanding outward. Feel your belly pressing against your hands.
The feeling beneath your hands will resemble holding a balloon as it inflates with air. Exhale when you need to. You should then feel your belly collapsing slightly as you release air from your lungs.
The reason your belly expands on the inhale is because you are now using the main breathing muscle, the thoracic diaphragm. You can visualize the diaphragm as a wide, flat muscle that sits just underneath your lungs. The reason your lungs fill with air when you inhale is that when the diaphragm contracts, it extends downward, which lengthens the lungs and chest cavity. This draws air into them.
Your belly moves forward and out of the way to make room for the downward contraction of the diaphragm. This makes it feel as if it were expanding. As I wrote earlier, this type of breathing stimulates relaxation in the body and mind, in large part because you are taking in more oxygen than you would when breathing shallowly.
Phase 2
Inhale again in the same way, and as you exhale, see if you can gently push out as much air from your lungs as possible. Gently pull your abdominal muscles in, as if to squeeze out any air that might still be inside. I repeat the word “gently” here because you shouldn’t strain or cause yourself to become light headed. If that happens, stop immediately. We’re only looking for a thorough exhalation, nothing more.
While exhaling, let go of any physical tension throughout your whole body. Let your hands, arms and legs become soft and heavy. Let your neck be loose. Try invoking words like “releasing,” “letting go,” and “melting” as you exhale.
Phase 3
Inhale as in Phase 1, and then pause for several moments before exhaling. Don’t hold the breath by contracting your throat or upper chest, like tying a knot in a balloon valve.
You’ll know if you are doing this because your belly will contract inwardly at the same time. Instead, simply keep holding your belly out, extended. This instruction is a way of keeping your diaphragm contracted downward and the space in the torso lengthened. This is a more relaxed way of holding the breath in. After a few moments, exhale normally.
Even though there is some level of effort involved in holding the belly out, try to keep the rest of your body soft, loose, and released as you did in Phase 2.
Phase 4
After taking a few normal breaths, exhale completely as you did in Phase 2, and then pause for a few moments before inhaling again. Keeping the air out is a little easier than holding it in the way you did in Phase 3. To keep the air out, hold your abdominal muscles in. Again, don’t clench your throat. When you need to, inhale normally and continue breathing naturally.
A complete cycle of breathing
Inhale, extending your belly out and filling your lungs completely, but without strain.
Hold the breath for several seconds by keeping the belly extended.
Exhale slowly, and at the end of the breath pull in your abdominal muscles to squeeze out any remaining air.
Hold the exhale and keep your lungs empty for several seconds until you need to inhale again.
Repeat the cycle with another full inhalation, going through all four phases while feeling relaxed as possible.
How this technique affects the conceptual mind
Our breathing has a direct effect on our body, our energy, and our mental activity. Do several cycles of breathing now, and see if you can notice something subtle. While you’re inhaling, pay attention to the space in your mind.
Notice the mental activity. Are there lots of thoughts, or a few, or a medium amount? Are they moving quickly, or is it just one thought that’s sitting there? What do you experience when you look within your mind?
As you fill up with air completely and move to the phase of holding in the breath, do you notice any change in your mind? This is very subtle, so it might take a few rounds for you to see what I’m indicating here.
It’s like a flicker, a pause, or a shift somewhere inside. It may even feel slightly physical in your skull, or like your eyes lost track of what you were looking at for just a millisecond. It’s an interruption of your thinking pattern, an ultrafast moment of peace.
Try a few more rounds of the breath and see if you can pinpoint that moment. You may never be quite sure if you’ve found it, or whether what you believe it to be is what I’m talking about. It’s that subtle. The important thing is for you tune in to your mental space, while relaxed, as you’re holding in the breath for a few moments.
This is important because this is a way to initiate the flow of energy. It is possible that during your telekinesis session, the first movement will begin while you’ve quieted your noisy thinking mind during the brief period of holding the breath.
Now try looking at your mind at the end of an exhalation, while you’re keeping your lungs empty and your abdominal muscles pulled in. It’s a similar experience to when you’re holding the air in, but not exactly. In my experience it feels slightly different. Regardless, sometimes it is at this point of the breathing cycle when the object will begin to move for you. Experimentation over time will be necessary to see what works best for you.
Special opportunities by using this technique
The object may begin its movement at any phase of your breathing cycles. Yet the top and the bottom of each cycle present a special opportunity.
Imagine that a half-hour has passed and still no movement has occurred. You begin using the “Mind-Stopping Breath” as I’ve taught it up to this point. Several cycles later, it still hasn’t moved.
What I would recommend at that point is to experiment in this way – hold your breath far longer than you normally would. Be careful not to strain. Just stretch your comfort zone, and hold on a little longer. The end of this moment is when the object may finally begin its movement.
Then exhale, and remember to keep your body and mind relaxed as you do so. If you tighten up from excitement at seeing the object move, it might stop the effect because excitement is a form of tension. If your mind starts flooding with thoughts and emotions, that noise will dampen the energetic flow.
Try doing the same at the bottom of the cycle, holding your belly out and keeping your lungs empty for a few seconds before inhaling again. Remember to keep your eyes, attention and intention on the object the whole time while you work with the breath.
In the beginning, you’ll need to let yourself go back to breathing normally after a brief attempt in order to catch your breath. This is normal and you should do so. Only when you’ve normalized your breathing and you feel comfortable should you go back to the breathing technique.
With regular practice and the passage of time you’ll become proficient at breathing this way continuously for long periods.
You may also learn this exercise by watching the video here: http://www.defyyourlimitsbook.com/alpha.html
13. Working with the Eyes
Over the months when I developed myself from Level Two through Level Four, I realized that there was a peculiar relationship between my eyes and the object. You already know through this training that the eyes are the directors of one’s attention. They do more than just that, though.
They listen.
I’m going to explain a subtle concept now which you may have never heard before. It may be challenging to imagine what I’m going to describe here, but by reading it now, you’ll be able to identify it while it’s happening.
During the remaining levels, there will be long periods of stillness before the object begins to move. You’ll begin a session by following the instructions for entraining with the object, which include noticing all the visual details of it, the wrinkles, the color, and the rest. After you feel more connected to the object, you will naturally abandon the process of picking out its small details.
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