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What is Meditation
Meditation is a lot like hypnosis. Both help you relax and can be achieved in much the same way. If you like you can use the 7 steps described under the hypnosis section to attain meditation.
How it works. Meditation is a lot like a skill you learn, the more you practice and condition it, the better you get. Also, you will need an open mind -- the more you believe you will succeed, the more likely you will. The main purpose of meditation is to focus your attention, keep your mind from wondering when you don’t want it to, and to become more relaxed and calm in life’s situations. Through mediation perhaps you will be able to find inner peace and discover the unity in mind, spirit, body, and soul. Whatever your reasons may be, meditation is food for the soul.
How to Meditate
Anyone of any race, religion, color, background, social and economic status, height, weight, intelligence(with the exception of the IQ of animals), age, disability, or intelligent species can meditate. All you need is an open mind that can carry out thought processes and a suitable place without distractions for 10-20 minutes. If you can arrange the qualifications for mediation for each day, then you'll have a high chance of improving your inner soul. Meditation is good for your health. It can do wonders for your spirit. Read on and check it out!
4 steps. Step 1. Pick a place that would make you comfortable. Make sure there are no outside distractions that may occur, or if you have any pets, make sure that they are away so they cannot jump on your lap during your meditation. If you like, put on some soothing music. This does not have to be slow, relaxing stuff. If you are a rocker, then put on the music that best suits you, but if you’ll get distracted by irregular beats then choose something else that won’t. Do not cross your legs or sit in another other posture that cuts of circulation.
Step 2. Close your eyes and try to clear your mind of all thoughts. You’ll need to pick a thought or image to focus on. Pick something that won’t allude you to erroneous thinking. Choose something that is meaningful to you, perhaps a religious icon. Don’t pick a deceased friend, for it may induce metal pain that will stray your concentration from meditation. This word can be as simple as the word “one” or “God.” Don’t make it too difficult, or that will distract your mind from concentrating on what’s important.
Step 3. Relax all your muscles and let yourself go. Now, concentrate on your breathing(or you can choose another consistent event, like the ticking of a clock). Try to keep your breaths normal. Do not attempt to alter the duration or pace of your breaths. Let your body do it’s job. Breathe in, breath out. Then say, out loud, your magic word(the word you picked in step 2). If you did not choose a word, then just think the magic thought or picture the magic picture. As you progress deeper into meditation you should notice that as you inhale your belly expands, and when you exhale your belly retracts. This is how the body breaths when it is fully relaxed. Repeat this for about 10-20 minutes each day. You should improve and progress into deeper stages of relaxation as the days pass by.
Step 4. During your meditation don’t worry about how you are doing. Try not to think if you are getting closer to success or not. At first your thoughts may wonder, but that’s okay. Just try to stay focused on your breathing and your magic word. Eventually you’ll be able to clear your mind of all unwanted thoughts and have a better sense of awareness and attention to all things in life.
What it can do. The rewards of meditation are numerous. If you are the kind of person who is constantly bombarded with stress and yelling and screaming at the house, then meditation have help calm you down, relax your mind, and allow you to handle all the stress in your life. It can boost your memory, give you inner peace with yourself and with others, a better outlook and zest for life, help you concentrate on your school work/studies, and help you stay calm during a nervous situation like taking an exam! The body is also believed to have unexplained healing powers. Through the use of meditation you can harness those powers to heal yourself, mentally or physically. This topic is discussed under the psychic-healing page.
What is Hypnosis
Hypnosis is simply an altered state of consciousness. Some examples of hypnosis are movies, songs, driving mindlessly on the road, daydreaming, jogging, reading, etc. These examples involved a temporary escape from the activity of the outside word. Of course, you’re probably interested in the type of hypnosis where someone is put into a trance and told to do something. On this page you will learn about various types of hypnosis and read about two ways that hypnosis can benefit you. The possible benefits are endless, but we can only tell you so much. In order for hypnosis to work you must want it to work and believe in it. You must be opened minded to this activity and have lots patience and time to practice it. Hypnosis is not a myth, you experience it everyday, now you must have faith in its ability to draw you into a trance. If you can accept this, then read on. Under hypnosis you do not lose control. You are in control of yourself and your will at all times. That's what separates it from a dream.
Trances. There are 3 different types of hypnotic trances. Each person is unique. The type of trance you receive will depend on your personality and your belief in the success of hypnosis.
Light trance is a state when you feel calm and relaxed. You may feel separated from the worries of the world but still attached to yourself and body. Muscles are relaxed and physically expressions are depressed. Heart beat and blood pressure drops, while eyes are closed.
Medium trance is a state when people may feel disjointed from their bodies, feeling smaller or larger. The ability to turn senses on and off transfers to your control. Time may be distorted, making hours longer or shorter. Pain can be suppressed, allowing surgery to take place. The physical changes are the same as the light trance with a higher degree.
Deep trance includes all the characteristics of light and medium trance but with an increased degree. Major surgery can be performed and both positive and negative hallucinations may be induced. Facial expression resemble that of a zombie.
Benefits. A list of possible benefits of hypnosis are: increased relaxation and brain function, self-sufficiency, self-control, self-esteem, eased tension, pain control, stopping unwanted habits(smoking), sexual dysfunction, weight control, psychosomatic illness, insomnia, phobias, etc.
How to apply Hypnosis
Here are 7 well tested steps to achieve hypnosis. Remember, the stage of trance a person can attain depends on that person's personality. For some they can go into trance on the first time. Others may take days or even weeks to enter a trance. Be patient and eventually you will be hypnotized and maybe even see biggie, biggie, biggie. The 7 steps mentioned are for a specific situation. If you want to do different things with hypnosis, use the 7 steps below as an example, a model. Later on this page you can learn about quitting smoking and controlling pain. Following is a list of 7 steps quoted from the source: The Complete Book of Self-Hypnosis by John M. Yates, M.D. & Elizabeth S. Wallace. © 1984 Nelson-hall Inc. Publishers. pp. 16-26. The reason I chose not to paraphrase the steps is because the diction and style of the words have be written in such a way that adds to the effect of hypnosis. A helpful suggestion is to record your own voice reading the steps on tape and then play it back to yourself, creating the effect of a master hypnotist at your side. Start recording on step 3.
7 steps. Step 1: Think It Over. Before beginning, go over in your mind your reasons for wanting to learn self-hypnosis. Ask yourself two questions: Why hypnosis? What do I expect form the experience? Have you had any experience with hypnosis before? Have you seen it done, perhaps on TV or in a nightclub? do you know someone who has used hypnosis or overcome some habit? Have you seen and wondered about magazine and subway advertisements promising cures through hypnosis? Does the idea of hypnosis intrigue you because of its mysterious connotations? What do you expect from the experience? Do you hope for a sense of accomplishment at learning a new skill? Do you expect to achieve some personal goal or simply know yourself in a new and deeper way? Once you have some clear idea bout your immediate goals, your motivations and expectations, you are ready to go ahead with step 2.
Step 2: Get Comfortable. This is the set-up step, the preparation for self-hypnosis. You need to arrange a time, choose a place, create an environment, and get your body ready. TIME- Arranging a time to practice self-hypnosis can be surprisingly difficult. You need to be relatively interruption free in order to use your time most advantageously. It’s easier to give yourself time when you have planned for it, so pick a time that appeals to you. People with busy schedules often use bedtime for practice sessions, or weekends, or special times when they know they can count on privacy. Some use coffee breaks. I know one nursing mother who sharpened her hypnotic skills while feeding her baby. In the beginning, you will need several periods a day to become adept at hypnotizing yourself. Three times a day, for ten or fifteen minutes a time, is usually good to start with. Practice frequently enough to reward yourself with swift success, which makes it easier for you to continue. PLACE- The places people choose for self-hypnosis sessions vary as widely as individual personalities. Some people choose lying horizontally on a bed; others prop themselves up with pillows. A frequently chosen position is in a reclining chair, where the body is supported comfortably at all points. Some people choose to work on their hypnotic skills while taking a walk, but most will find a reclining or semi-reclining posture best at the outset. Wherever you will feel the most relaxed is the best spot for you. A quiet room, free of distractions and interruptions, is usually most conducive to hypnosis, but if you would feel more relaxed outdoors, that’s okay too. The place you choose may be indoors or out, in a bedroom, a workroom, or a patio. Whatever place you decided on, stick to it for the first several sessions. A regular time and a regular place that you associate with the hypnotic experience can help you build you skills quickly. EVIRONMENT- Choose your environment to suit your personality. If you are most comfortable with acid rock blaring from the stereo system, then that will heighten your hypnotic experience. If, on the other hand, you prefer classical music played softly, use that. Many people require silence and like to dim the lights to increase their inner focus. Arrange your environment to please you, setting it up so that you reinforce all the relaxation measures you already know and enjoy. BODY-SET- I usually recommend that people keep their bodies as limp as possible, in a position that is most relaxing for them. Crossed legs for instance, can cut off circulation, creating an uncomfortable feeling of pressure as your body relaxes deeply. Starting out with your body as relaxed as you can make it will cause whatever technique you choose to be more effective. Some techniques have specific instructions about body-set, but to begin with, use whatever position is more comfortable for you.
Step 3: Choose a Focal Point. While in your relaxed position, focus on your hands. Gently fold your hands together, allowing the fingers to interlock. Keep your gaze fixed on your hands and notice how your hands look with your fingers intertwined, how the knuckles jut up, and how each fingertip finds a resting place between the knuckles of the opposite hand. Look at how your thumbs cross and examine the texture of your skin, the knuckle lines and the tiny network of lines that form the pattern of your skin. Commit the sight of your clasped hands to memory, observing every detail. Look carefully at all the aspects of your hands you may never have noticed before. Look at the blood vessels that may be prominent in your hands, and notice how they swell, branch and flow, traversing the area of your hands, sending and returning blood to and from your hands and fingers. Pay attentions to the small, individual marks on your hands and fingers that make them distinctly yours and different from all other hands and fingers. Look at your thumbnails and note every detail about them, their length, smoothness or roughness, any lines and indentation present, how the cuticles look, and the size and shape of the crescents at the base of your nails. Now look carefully at any jewelry you may be wearing on your wrists or fingers, an notice every detail about the rings, watch, or bracelets you may be wearing. Observe how this jewelry looks next to the tone and texture of your skin. Finally, let your eyes encompass whatever background your clasped hands are resting on, the fabric of your clothes or whatever part of your body on which your clasped hands are resting. When all these details are fully registered, go on to step 4.
Step 4: See How It Feels. Notice if your hands and arms are being held tensely, rigidly, or tightly. Allow them to relax while keeping your fingers entwined. Notice how the sensations build in your hands, how you are able to feel the fingers touching each other, able to feel them as they wind around each other, as they touch on both sides, able to feel the position of your thumbs, your fingers, even the position of your wrists. You can feel the skin on your hands where your fingers rest lightly on the opposite hand. You can feel the temperature of your hands, the degree of warmth or coolness in your skin. Notice everything about how your hands feel. Allow everything that you can notice or feel about the sensation of your fingers being intertwined and your hand position to be registered in your mind. Nothing is more important than to monitor your own experience, to see how this experience grows and builds for you. There are no expectations except to be able to monitor your own experience. You have no goal or set pattern except the one of being able to focus and concentrate, to be able to distract yourself from ordinary intrusions and monitor your experience, allowing yourself to deeply feel every perception you have never chosen to do before. And now as you allow your hands to stay intertwined, you fingers intertwined, your fingers clasped together gently, image them, see them in your mind as two pieces of wood, joined together by a master carpenter. You will see your fingers as two pieces of wood that have been glued together by a most skillful carpenter, just as a carpenter would fashion a drawer with dovetail joints, with the wood overlapping, using only the best glue. Allows your hands and fingers to become glued together very tightly, planed to the smoothness of a dovetail joint. Allow your natural relaxation to occur as you do this. As you focus and concentrate on one part of you body, the rest of your body can relax deeply, normally and naturally, with a feeling of ease and accomplishment. As you continue to focus on your experience, allow relaxation to occur as it automatically does when you focus your energy on a particular point, letting the rest of your body glue together pieces of wood smoothly planed together, and continue to monitor this sensation, monitor and notice how they touch, and how they cure smoothly together. Notice the different perceptions in your hands, as if your hands were glued together by the tightest and strongest glue imaginable by the best carpenter in the world.
Step 5: See How It Changes. Now allow your hands to feel so tightly glued together, so increased in fusion that your hands and fingers are like wood, with a wooden, stiff feeling, with the fingers glued together. The rest of your body relaxes very deeply, ever more deeply. Your eyes may begin to close by now. They may be closed or open. Notice how the rest of your body feels. See if there is any tension in your shoulders, legs, or back. If there is, let it go. Your only task now is to focus and concentrate on your hands, turning them stiff and woodlike, not unpleasant but very stiff, your fingers glued together tightly, fused together as if joined by the finest master woodworker. Notice how, even if you wished to try to separate your hands, you wouldn’t be able to, and the more you tried, the more difficult it would be to separate your fingers and hands. Notice how it would be more and more impossible the harder you tried. Observe how, even as you do this, you may have thoughts sneaking into your consciousness, which is perfectly okay. You may have thoughts like, Am I really doing this? Am I making these changes occur or am I just going along with the program? Am I merely cooperating and this is just something I am doing consciously, or is this a hypnotic phenomenon? Allow these questions to stay at least subliminally in your mind and see what answers may be. But, as of now, the only important thing for you to do is to continue to focus on your fingers and hands and notice how that concentration waxes and wanes, how at times your hands and fingers become stiff and boardlike, glued together so tightly that you could not separate them even if you tired. At times, your concentration decreases naturally, somewhat, and the sensations in your hands and fingers change slightly. Even if you tried, you would not be able to separate your hands and fingers, because you have glued them together so tightly. If there are any distractions, such as traffic noise, bird songs, or bodily sensations, you may allow them to becomes less important, or at a distance. You will find that you can turn up distractions, becoming hyperacute to sounds or sensation. Or, turn them down. Let them deepen your relaxation, finding that your thoughts and feelings can work for you instead of against you. If, for instance, two people are having a loud conversation in the next room, you find that you have control over the way you perceive that distraction. As your experience continues to change, you will notice that it seems to deepen at times, and at other times, to lighten. As you continue to master this technique, you can anticipate your level of deepness or lightness and control it more fully. You can deepen your trance state at will, or lighten it to reach the level of relaxation that you want at a particular time.
Step 6: Move the Sensations through Your Body. Again, allow the glued and wooden feeling in your hands and fingers to continue, and compare this to how the rest of your body feels. Allow the rest of your body to become as limp as a dishrag, completely relaxed with no tension. If there is any tension in your shoulders, back, scalp, neck, legs, or feet, allow those parts to your body to simply become totally loose, as loose as your hands and fingers are wooden. Move this sensation of looseness throughout your entire body, as loose as a wet sheet flapping on a line, as loose as a rag doll. Let your body continue to relax. You may notice as you continue to allow your hands and fingers to be wooden and boardlike, that your body seems to be floating, becoming lighter, becoming heavier, sinking into the chair, changing, somehow moving. Whatever your experience is like, it is a personal and individual thing. Allow it to continue. But right now, keep your fingers stiff and boardlike, glued together. Now, if you are ready, go ahead and give yourself permission to let your fingers and hands turn loose. Let them separate and move apart, your hands and fingers no longer wooden. Allow them to return to their normal state. Allow everything about your hands and fingers to feel as it did before, while keeping extreme relaxation in the rest of your body. As you allow your hands and fingers to separate and return to their previous feelings, let them feel as loose, as completely relaxed as the rest of your body. Allow this to be a signal for you to go into a deep relaxation, deeper than before, as a reward and as pleasant payment for having begun to learn a potentially very important, healthy, and useful technique, a tool which may be a benefit to you in a healthy way in many, many different types of situations. Allow a feeling of calmness, and peace, and satisfaction to occur along with the feelings of looseness and relaxation over the rest of your body, and keep this feelings as a reward for having done very well.
Step 7: Coming Out. Allow these pleasant, relaxing sensations to continue as long as you wish. Whenever you are ready, give yourself permission to become fully alert, awake, oriented, and able to discuss your experience with others or to think it over yourself. Allow yourself to keep some of the relaxation as a reward for having done so well. The next time you do this technique, it will be easier, and each time you do it, your relaxation will deepen. Knowing this, let yourself continue to become fully alert. Whenever you are fully alert and awake, go ahead and notice how the sensations change in your body, everything returning to normal except for a decrease in bodily tension. You will always return to normal except for the things you specifically wish to change, such as feelings of relaxation or control of pain sensations. Of course, this state of relaxation will take place only when you want it to. Simply clasping your hands or seeing someone else clasp his hands will not automatically trigger a state of hypnosis because you simply will not allow it to. This state is under your control, at your direction , and will take place only when you so desire, at the proper and appropriate place and for the proper and appropriate reasons. Congratulations on having a relaxing first step! Whether you experience merely gentle relaxation or a deep hypnotic trance, that level was correct for you at this time. As you continue to practice this technique at least five or six times a day over the next several weeks, you will find increased mastery and enjoyment, and a whole new world of inner concentration building up. You will discover pride in your ability to control and do things that heretofore where our of your control, similar to the pride you have felt before when you have mastered a difficult task. Once again, it is important to repeat that the hypnotic state will always be under your control and will be used appropriately and under the proper circumstances. It will become easier the more you practice, just as anything else does. So, continue to practice, withholding your judgment on the usefulness of this technique until you have put in at least five to ten practice sessions, each ten to fifteen minutes long.
Pain control. Hypnosis is not meant be a substitute for a doctor’s prescription for a cure to pain. This method of pain controlling is targeted for those who have minor pain aches that do not cause a major problem in the “normal” functioning of one’s life. If you are obsessive-compulsive or have chronic phobias related to pain or pain induced, then we recommend seeing a psychotherapist. Some examples of pain that hypnosis will help are tooth aches, back pain, muscle tensions, sores, etc. Listed below are a few techniques on how to apply hypnosis to relieve your pain spots. Of course, you are welcomed to throw in your own ideas.
1. Under hypnosis image your pain being poured into a cloud. Then watch as the cloud rises up and above your sight until it finally dissipates and carries your pain with it.
2. Fall into hypnosis by focusing on the pain itself. Try to visualize the pain and see what it feels like. Notice how the pain changes and the sensations involved in the pain. Note every aspect that you can. Now, notice how you can control the pain, turn it up or down as your please. You may want to repeat this step several times until the pain is fully under your control.
3. Under hypnosis attempt to shift the pain into something more pleasant like a vibration, warmth, a smooth color, etc. Loose yourself in this shift and image all the good things associated with this more pleasant sensation.
If you feel a little unsure and a little confused about what this page has been about, that’s good; you’re falling into our trance.
Read for Speed
Building up your reading speed is really rather simple, but it takes some time and practice to stick with it and notice remarkable increases to your reading speed. Below are 2 techniques that have been well proven to work effectively. You can start right away and try the techniques with the rest of the text on this page. You’re probably wondering “why didn’t we put this topic first so you can zip through the rest of this web page?” Well, we figured if you learned the 1st topic first and improved your ESP, then you wouldn’t have to ask us why, you’d know why:)
2 steps. Step 1. Your mind is capable of subconsciously recognize text when not directly staring at it, so that means you don’t have to start reading at the beginning or end of each sentence. Start reading a few words into the sentence and end a few words before the period. You’re peripheral vision will ensure that you miss nothing.
Step 2. In order to condition your mind to start “seeing” and stop “hearing” the words, start by running your finger down the middle of the page. Begin at a relatively slow speed and then gradually speed up until you only spend 2-3 seconds on a page. While running your finger down the page, keep your eyes focused on the middle of the page. Don’t worry if you can’t understand a thing, that’s the idea. After a while, a few key words will stand out. Those will be the main points, the words that direct the meaning of the sentence. The concept of this technique is that: 1. It prevents any back skipping and gets your mind geared up for “seeing,” not “hearing” the words; 2. Like how when you drive down the road at 100mph for an hour and slow to 60mph, you feel like you’re going more like 20mph, well this is the same concept. After reading over your speed limit for while, when you return to your regular reading speed, you’ll feel as if that’s too slow and your mind will speed up.
Reverse method. If you find that you simply cannot handle the highway of reading described in the last technique, then perhaps you’d like to try the opposite. In the “law and effect” theory, an action will be discontinued if proven unrewarding. The idea is to force yourself to read much slower than your normal pace, but at the same time think about wanting to read faster. Practice this for 5 minutes for twice a day. In about 2 days, you’ll notice that you’re reading much faster than your normal pace. This is because your mind will rebel against limits(the slow reading) it knows it can over come. As a result your mind will read faster. Imagination always prevails in the conflict between it and will.
How to Read Minds
Before you can begin to read minds, you must first build up your ESP. Refer back to the ESP page on how to build your ESP. There is no sure way on how to read someone’s mind, but here are two that might help you out.
Selective attention. Remember the hypothesis that all thoughts are freely roaming? Well, selective attention is very similar to just fine tuning on to one of those thoughts. After you have gained some experience in ESP you will be able to sense these thoughts floating around you. All you have to do is concentrate on the person’s name and anything else that stands out about him or her. Or you can imagine a situation with that person in your head. If you find it hard to receive any information while thinking about a person, then you can try staring at that person, but avoid letting that person know that you are staring at him or her. Keep your eyes locked and concentrate on how his or her body flows and walks, and attempt to know what that person is thinking at that moment. After you have centered all your attention on that person, bring him or her into an imaginary room that suits your desires. Begin a conversation with that person and ask the questions that you want to know. This will not work if you have not built up your ESP.
Object oriented. An object of a person's can aid in pointing your ESP into the right direction. Obtain something of a person’s that has some sort of significance in his or her life. Some examples are hats, favorite toy or clothing, a lock of hair, etc. Now, place this object in your hand and focus all your attention on this one object. Cherish it as though it were the only thing left on earth. The key for object aids is to see beyond the physical properties of the object. See what the object symbolizes. Feel the object, as if it were a memory storage and now you’ve come to retrieve the memories it holds. You can combine the techniques for ESP and hypnosis to increase the chance that you will receive some information.