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Relaxation is THE key. You'll hear
this over and over until you're blue in the face but it's true.
Learn to relax and the development of your Occult abilities will
come to you more easily.
The reason for stressing relaxation is due to the fact that your
mind chatters constantly & once YOU learn to physiologically slow
down & relax completely, your mind will follow suit. You cannot
hear the subtle voices of the Spirits if your mind is constantly
yakking away.
Abilities are under one or the other heading:
Projective
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Telepathy
Evoking
Telekinesis
O.B.E. (Out of Body Experiences)
Receptive
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Psychometry
Invocation
Trance
Claire-voyance/audience/sentience
Spellcasting is a projective art but it's used for both drawing to
yourself as well as sending out energies to others.
The above classification listings are merely examples for you to
consider. There are plenty others that I've not listed.
Depending upon your personality and personal psychic makeup you're
most likely to be either strong in receptive abilities and weaker
in projective abilities or vice versa. For instance I'm very good
at projecting and only so-so at the receptive abilities. However
I've spent much more time developing and fine tuning my projective
abilities and less time on the receptive ones but lately I've been
reversing that pattern again so that I can achieve a harmonious
balance.
The following is culled from the Silva Mind Control method and
it's quite good! I've used it for years now and have much success
with it.
Close your eyes and look upward, behind your eyelids, at a 20
degree angle. Now slowly at about two second intervals, count
backwards from one hundred to one. As you do this keep your mind
on your counting and you will be in an Alpha state of mind the
very first time.
{If you feel that nothing has happened during this first exercise,
it simply means you have been in the Alpha state many times before
without being particularly aware of it. Simply relax, don't
question it, and stay with the exercises.}
Even though you will be in Alpha on the very first try if you
concentrate, you still may need up to seven weeks of practice to
go to lower levels of Alpha and then to the Theta levels. Use the
hundred-to-one method for ten mornings, then count only from fifty
to one, twenty-five to one, then ten to one, and finally five to
one, ten mornings each.
The above will help you in achieving an Alpha state which is where
the brainwaves slow down from their Beta state. The Beta state of
mind is active consciousness or the awake state of everyday life.
The next technique is also from the Silva Mind Control method:
To Enter Alpha Level Directly From Beta
Level:
Sit in a comfortable chair or on a bed with your feet flat on the
floor. Let your hands lie loosely in your lap. Now concentrate on
first one part of the body, then another to consciously relax it.
Start with your left foot, then the left leg, then the right foot,
and so on, until you reach the throat, the face, the eyes, &
finally the scalp.
Now pick a spot about 45 degrees above eye level on the ceiling or
the wall opposite you. Gaze at this spot until your eyelids begin
to feel a little heavy and let them close. Start your countdown
from fifty to one. Do this for ten days, then ten to one for
another ten days, then five to one from then on. Since you will no
longer be limited to the mornings for this practice, establish a
routine of meditating two or three times a day, about fifteen
minutes a session.
These are very good starter techniques to help get your mind
conditioned. After all a marathon runner doesn't just start out
from day one with running a 26 mile run. They build up to it. So
will you. Persevere!
Awareness
The first psychic ability I'd try to cultivate after Relaxation
and Achieving An Alpha State, is to become Aware of the world
around you.
Do this by closing your eyes and opening up your mind to the world
around you. Allow this to happen slowly at first. Gradually
continue until you not only hear the world around you but you feel
it. You'll get sensations from one direction about this or that
then later on you'll want these sensations to intensify. This can
be accomplished thru your sheer desire to want it to happen. Be
patient and write your results down.
Note any particular insights you achieve from your awareness
sessions. For example if you feel that someone was watching you or
you felt a beloved relative watching you while you were in trance,
then note it.
Trusting Yourself
With practice and keeping notes, you'll come to rely more on your
inner feelings and trust them. One way to help you tell if an
image is accurate or not is to view the image and see if the more
vivid and colorful the image has become, then the more accurate it
is. If the image is distant and fuzzy, then it's not accurate.
That's the gauge you use to determine if your intuition is
accurate. The more you trust yourself the more accurate you
become.
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