physical is already relaxed it takes less effort to convince it to fall asleep again. And, with your consciousness sharp from a bit of down time, this is perfect for your out of body intentions.
You can replay your recordings anytime, except when operating a motor vehicle or using heavy equipment. So I’ll just wait for you to put down the sofa with that forklift. It was fine over there by the window anyway. You should listen to your recordings when you feel they’ll work the best for you. Maybe you have a spare hour on Sunday morning or some time just before you go to sleep at night or some time a few hours after you sleep or just because you’re laying in bed not sleeping anyway. The more you hear your recording the better it works. You may find the suggestions of your recording occurring even when you’re not playing it back. That’s because your words to yourself are in your subconscious and conscious thoughts now and you can’t get them out. This is usually a good thing unless you told yourself to think you’re a goose whenever the doorbell rings.
If you’re hearing impaired, not to worry. This is just one method of many. You could still write a few scripts and commit them to memory. Then, when you’re ready to relax, recall your script as best as possible. Focus on your plan to stay alert as you relax. Think about your travel. Off you go.
ANOTHER MEMORY OF ME
I was an oddball grandson. I was fourteen when I visited with my grandparents in Florida. Since they took naps every afternoon I decided I’d use that time to play back the recordings I had brought with me for the trip. The recordings I made at that time were very specifically honed to deepen my relaxation and follow though with a travel plan. The elders would grumble off to their bed-chambers and I’d lay on the carpeted floor, which I was into at that time, with a pillow. The less than familiar surroundings, combined with the less than comfortable laying about on the floor, combined with the more than merely unusual recordings, worked amazingly well. Oh how the grandparents slept while I nonphysically wandered around their condo and down to their little man-made lake and over to the spot where they re-charged the golf carts that they drove everywhere, including the store. Their age-gated community was my out of body playground. Granny and Gramps go to bed and I leap out of my body. I was an oddball then and I’m still waiting to grow out of that phase.
SEEING IS BELIEVING
I see you there reading these words. There you are. I see as your eyes move across the letters on the page. I see you wondering what I’m up to next and why can’t I just get to it. I see you trying to figure out what I’m teaching you by introducing this chapter the way that I am. I see you looking over to the coffee table with one leg shorter than the others. I see you taking this book over to balance the table. I see it’s dusty down here under the table. You should clean more often. I see you walking away to the kitchen. Fine. I’ll just sit here in the dust under the table and ‘visualize’ all by myself.
‘Visualization’ works just as well as any recorded suggestions you might have made of your voice that you play back over and over and over and let me know when you get tired of reading over and over and you should be getting close now over and over and come on already I’m getting carpal tunnel over and over and over and anytime you want to stop it will probably stop over and over and over. Nicely done.
You just visualized an ending to that ridiculous paragraph and there it was. You are really starting to get the hang of this whole visualization thing and I’ve yet to formally introduce the topic. Actually, we’re so far along now that I don’t see a need to do that anyway. Instead, here is a basic ‘visualization’ that relaxes your body in bed yet keeps you focused and alert, which improves your chances of traveling out of your body:
A. You’re at the top of a ladder. Stop reading, I don’t want you to fall. Badabing. You’re at the top of a long ladder.
B. Step down the ladder.
C. As you venture down your ladder, think about how relaxed and alert you’re becoming. You’re so relaxed, moving down and down. Step by step, relaxing deeply as you move further and further. You’re alert and relaxing. When you reach the bottom you know that you’ll be completely relaxed and alert. Down and down you go. No rush, as you go down and down your ladder to relaxation and alertness. You’re at the bottom. You’re comfortably relaxed and alert.
To further advance your visualization towards getting out of your body, include a traveling plan. See in your thoughts what you’d like to do or accomplish while you’re traveling out of your body. Desire to be someplace close-by and see yourself go there. There’s your living room with the comfortable chair and the television. The popcorn and precious ale call to you from the coffee table with a handbook balancing out that uneven leg. You see yourself sit up in your bed. You move to the doorway. You go down the hall. You sneak up on the cat, as if you can. You enter your living room. You move to the comfortable chair. It is then that you realize you can’t eat popcorn or drink ale while nonphysical.
Visualization relaxes you and keeps you alert. Visualization is the route you take in your thoughts so you know where you’re going. Visualization moves your focus away from your bedroom and allows your physical to toddle off to Snoreland. Then it’s off you go to the living room just as you planned.
In addition to being an excellent way to get nonphysical, visualization will push annoying busy-thoughts away like a big friendly something or other that you might conjure up in your twisted mind.
TAKE A VACATION
You’re on a raft in the middle of a soothing lake, floating under a clear blue sky. An ant swims by. He waves at you to attract your attention. He shouts from the water, “Hey dopey, stop thinking about ants! Try relaxing a bit,” he says, “Think about how relaxing this lake is. Why, I don’t think you could find a nicer, quieter or more relaxing lake than you have right here, by golly,” the long-winded ant proclaims. The ant then grabs your bag of sandwiches from the raft and paddles quickly away using two carrot sticks as oars. Before long you hear the ant shout from across the lake, “Stoppppppp thinkinggggg aboutttttt antsssssss!”
Nothing relaxes you more than someplace relaxing. I wonder where you like to relax so that I can get in on your action. Your shower relaxes you, I bet. But I’m not going in there. How about your chair in the living room? That looks pretty relaxing. I could enjoy some serious relaxation there. And your hammock looks relaxing. I’ll get in that and swing around for a relaxing hour. Do you like relaxing at the beach? I could borrow your lawn chair and your sunbrella and be very relaxed. Yes indeed. Comfortably lounging on a nice warm day down by the beach. The waves rolling in and out, the gulls calling from above the surf. A light breeze wafts the fresh ocean air. You are so relaxed. So relaxed in your special place. Oops, did I say you? I meant me. It’s me here at your beach using your lawn chair and sunbrella and sipping your icy cold drink. Did I mention that I took your drink? Well, it’s too late now, so get over it. But while I have you here in your special place, that can be any amazing place you have ever been or can imagine, let me tell you this. You can use your handy visualization to relax yourself into a place just like this beach.
While thinking of a pleasing place, you remain alert by observing the small details of what makes that place perfect for you. You run your hand through the sand, you hear the gulls singing, some klutz trips over your beach towel. You focus on these pleasing details while your physical moves to snooze. Then, when you consciously reach the awake/asleep line, you may either nonphysically visit a beach or have an alternate plan ready for a travel elsewhere or with a different agenda.
SKIP THIS PART
I hate to bring this up, so just go right on past this chapter and don’t feel guilty. Move on ahead. There’s nothing you need to read here. Well, you had your chance. You could always do some light exercise before bedtime to tucker out your physical and sharpen your alertness. Of course,
