craving for tumbling also manifested itself during my restful hours. At night, in my focused thoughts, I’d envision the rolling and leaping. Over and over I’d jump and roll and jump and roll and jump and... It was quite by accident from my mental-tumbling that I discovered an ability for pushing my nonphysical out of the top of my head. Although it was incredibly fun, it was also disconcerting as I actually felt as if I were flinging my entire physical body forward, up and out of the bed to crash into the wall. From there the shock of being ‘out’ immediately dragged me right back into my physical.
Now I’ll break down the experience into the seven steps:
1. Desire
I wanted to tumble. I focused on tumbling. I did tumble, nonphysically.
2. Relaxation
Although I had not intentionally ‘controlled’ my relaxation I was deeply relaxed while focused on tumbling.
3. Visualization–Destination
I visualized myself tumbling to satisfy my desire. A destination can be a person, place, object, or ‘action’. The destination in this event was the ‘action’ of tumbling.
4. Direct Lift-Out
My nonphysical tumbled out as an ‘uncontrolled’ response to my focused desire. This puts the lift-out into the category of ‘indirect’ but who cares because it was a hoot.
5. Awareness
My awareness while out was excellent but totally ‘uncontrolled’ and exceedingly giddy.
6. Travel
The travel was a unintentional nonphysical headfirst roll-out from the physical and a tumble across the room into a wall.
7. Return
The short travel was followed by an immediate return to the physical and lots of smiling. Nothing beats being ‘out’.
Memory
A clean memory of the nonphysical event requires that it be imprinted upon the physical brain, immediately upon return. A simple conscious effort to recall the nonphysical event, after returning to the physical, is enough to imprint the travel. If the return to the physical is followed instead by falling directly to sleep, without committing the event from nonphysical knowledge to physical knowledge, there’s a good chance of a muddled memory later or none at all of the event.
Thankfully, so that I could tell you my oh-so-fascinating tumbling story today, my amusement during the event created an immediate imprint on my physical and I carry a vivid memory. But I don’t know where I’ve left my car keys.
STEP ONE: DESIRE
YOU WANT IT
Most early travels are ‘unintentional’. They are subconsciously motivated by desire and poof you’re out. As you’ve read, my tumble from bed followed the basic principle that drives both the ‘subconscious unintentional’ travel and the ‘conscious intentional’ travel. The principle is desire. I’m tired of the word ‘tumble’ now.
Desire is the first step, the real oomph pushing the ‘nonphysical travel’. For instance, if I ask you to go over and pick up that penny, you have a few choices. You can choose to pick up the penny; you can choose not to pick up the penny; or you can choose not to believe there is a penny. Regardless of your choice, I’ve tricked you into visualizing the penny, even if you think there is none, which is important and we’ll get to that soon. We’re not in a hurry. Well, at least I’m not. If you have things to do, stop back later. And bring me some nachos.
To continue, if you chose not to pick up the penny or chose not to believe it exists, then you’re no fun at all. But, nonphysically speaking, if you chose to pick up the penny, that becomes your ‘desire’ that triggers your ‘action’ that becomes your ‘destination’ and so you travel from your body to fulfill your desire. It’s a happy circle that brings you what you desire. Weeeeeeee.
As you can see, even a simple desired ‘action’ like picking up a penny can ‘trigger your travel’. Say that three times fast. But what if the penny meant a lot to you? What if you and that penny had been through some good times together? That penny and you are the best of friends. So now, instead of going to pick up the penny as an ‘action’, your bond with your beloved penny aims you like an arrow of desire. You want to be with penny. Penny means everything to you. Penny is calling you. Off you go!
That’s one example of ‘ramping up’ your desire to reach your ‘destination’. You simply ‘focus’ your emotional bond with a person, place, object, or action, and allow yourself to go to it or do it.
Instead of penny you could’ve used a loved one as your ‘desired destination’. It’s been so long since you’ve seen (insert a name of someone you can tolerate here). It sure would be good to see them again. Remember all the fabulous times (make up some lies) that (insert name again) and you used to share. You really want to be there with them. You’re so looking forward to being there. Off you go.
That’s another example of ramping up an emotional desire that ‘pushes’ you from your physical body. But maybe you don’t like anybody. Maybe you’d rather be alone at that creek by your house where it’s nice and quiet and water rushes by and trees sway and there are birds and tadpoles and it smells so fresh just hanging out by the creek. Off you go.
That’s the final example of ramping up an emotional desire, until I change my mind and write more later. I think you get the concept, but I’ll repeat it anyway. You take your strong emotional desire for a person, place, object, or action, and you focus on the bond that connects you. You want to be there. You want to go now. Off you go.
FOCUS AND DESIRE
Any emotion may be used as a ‘focus’ to keep you ‘alert’ until you’re ready to get out of your body. Happy emotions include joy and love. Unhappy emotions include anger and fear. Anything that you feel in your day-to-day life may be used as a ‘focus’. The happy emotions are usually more pleasant to use as a ‘focus’ but the unhappy emotions can be useful and fulfilling as well, if kept in check.
Another instance from my experience, since I’m the only one typing here: I hate-hate-hated working at this store in my past. The store was a combination glass bricabrac and jewelry shop. The work was sooooo boring and inane. After work, while home in my bed, I’d ponder the last wretched eight hours. I’d ‘focus’ on letting it all go in the best way possible: I wrecked the place in my thoughts. The store never stood a chance. Although I would never do this in my real life, as I’m the non-violent type, I would trash a few things while relaxing in bed. You can too and it’s a lot of fun.
You may utilize your anger and aggression as a ‘focus’. This intense ‘focus’ keeps you ‘alert’ as you drift off towards physical sleep. By being ‘alert’, while your body sleeps, your chances of achieving a conscious travel greatly increase. Another benefit of this method is the release of the unhappy emotion. Like a primal scream, the volume of your anger will relieve you of stress. You simply focus on the emotion until your physical is snoozing. Then you let go of the emotions and re-focus on your traveling ‘plan’.
For example, I’d imagine smashing the displays in the empty store
