and thrashing. Nothing was safe from my baseball bat. And then I’d hear myself snore. During my focused frenzy my physical was being ignored and did what it was supposed to do, it fell asleep. The snoring was my ‘signal’ to now re-focus on my ‘desire’ and go traveling.
When you use an ‘emotional focus’ as a method to leave your body your ‘imagery’ will be all encompassing. It will exclude other thoughts. It will center you. You will be in that moment of emotion and release. And then POW!, you’ll realize that your physical body is sleeping while you are completely awake and alert. It may be that you hear yourself snore while using an emotional focus or any number of other ‘signals’. As I’ll explain soon, you have time to make a cup of tea, these ‘signals’ will alert you that your body in bed doesn’t give a care if you venture out for a while.
As we’re here anyway, I’ll give a brief example of a focused emotion that scares you into staying alert while your physical sleeps. I was going to present a happy emotion as the example here, but I figure you can imagine little bunnies hopping around a flower garden without my help. Instead, I’ll talk about sharks.
I love man-eating sharks. They are just so cool with their skills and teeth. I studied them quite a bit following that movie that scared everyone out of the water. They are fascinating creatures. And if I were ever to be stranded, clutching that big toilet-looking ring out in the ocean, I would be scared beyond words. I just know I’m going to be mistaken for a seal or floppy fish.
This method of emotional focus works almost too well. What we are afraid of creates an intense imagery. You simply allow yourself to get sucked into that vortex of fright, if you can handle it. You take the ride until your physical falls asleep, and then you re-focus on your desire and it pulls you from your body.
The water is so dark. All I can see is the ocean’s surface reflecting starlight and wave caps. I wish I’d remembered to put that five dollar plug back in the bottom of the boat. Hey, what was that?! A ripple in the water just moved past, twelve feet long at least. Ack, there’s another one! Something nudged me, I just felt it! Oh, this is it. I’m creeping myself out. I have to stop.
During the shark imagery my physical would quickly drift off to sleep. When I could no longer take the scariness I’d break myself free of the fright by recognizing that it was not real. I’d then re-focus on a desire to be above the water, flying over the moonlit ocean nearest my home. Because I was completely alert I was instantly pulled from my physical and speeding past the houses hundreds of feet below. I arrived at the ocean in a few seconds. I moved closer to the rolling surface. To be there, unsupported above all that water, is an experience not to be forgotten. You really must try it. And the sharks look so cute and cuddly from up there. You can’t hurt me! Oh sure, a shark might scare me if they took a physical snap at my nonphysical body, but there’s no damage done. Except that you’d call me Fishbait from now on. That would be rude.
Your first attempt at an emotional focus might be somewhat closer to home and less adventurous than shark-infested waters. Those little bunnies hopping around a flower garden, for instance.
DEAR DIARY
Hello friendly reader. Please pay attention to your night time activity by writing it down. Simply write a few sentences that describe in minor detail the ‘events’ you recall. Even if your ‘event’ doesn’t seem nonphysical, write it down. Then date it and put it under your pillow. I’m kidding. Don’t do that very last bit. But do all the rest of what I said, like so:
September 22
Last night I accidentally scared a cat that was lounging in the yard near the bird baths. I then watched as my neighbor arrived home late from somewhere and fell out of his car. And lastly, I zoomed past my bedroom window and ran into a tree. Another eventful night.
You can see how great ‘event’ diaries can be and why you should keep one. And now that I’ve talked you into it, I should tell you that I hate writing in a diary. Oh my, it’s boring. But I did it anyway from about the age of ten. I started writing in one of those blank diaries sold to kids. My first one was a manly blue diary so stop making fun of me. These days I keep a small voice recorder near the bed and mumble into it, on ‘return’ from wherever I just was. I call this a lazy-diary and it works just as well as writing things down. So do either one and make me happy.
The point of keeping a diary is to pay attention pay attention. Yes, I typed that twice. It’s very good of you to pay attention. Do I have your attention? Then let’s move on. Pay attention to the small details of your ‘events’ and put them in your diary. You may notice, as an instance of paying attention, that I have avoided using the word “dream” and have replaced that word with ‘event’. Your event may be a dream in your physical or a dream ‘acted’ outside of your physical. Your event may occur while you are semiconscious or unconscious. Your event may be a fully conscious nonphysical travel. You can learn from all of your ‘events’ to improve your chances at traveling the next time.
It is your attitude, focused upon the desire to recall your events, that helps you to do so. It is your unbridled wish to ponder this previously unpondered state that allows you to see it clearly. It is your intentional intensity of attention that enhances your ability to grasp what you are up to while your physical sleeps!
So if you scared a cat near the birdbath or zoomed past your window, Pay Attention. And when you watch from above as your neighbor pours out of his car at 2am, Pay Attention. You may be in your body and dreaming or out of your body and dreaming. You may be traveling semiconsciously. Your attention to the event will ‘wake you up’. Paying attention to the ‘details’ of your event will also help you to improve your out of body skills. I’ll get to those later, so mellow out.
YOU SCORE
As you’ve read (if you weren’t skipping chapters willy nilly) your desire is the force pushing the travel. It is such a strong force in fact that you can use desire, which is step one of seven, without having any working knowledge of the other steps at all! How’s that for getting right to the point?
Tonight, in your bed or futon or dresser drawer or whatever you sleep on, think of an emotional ‘goal’. A ‘goal’ includes an ‘action’ you take that is pushed by desire, resulting in what you set out to do.
For instance, your emotional ‘goal’ might be to visit your sweetie two towns over. You desire to be there. You focus on your ‘action’ which, in this case, is the route you plan to travel as your physical relaxes down to sleep. You’ll go out your window, down the block, up a few hundred feet, ‘home’ in on your wittle whoosy woowoo, and rocket your way there. Pet names are so embarrassing.
The emotional goal is just one type of ‘goal’ you might set for yourself. Your goal might be ‘inquisitive’, a desire to learn something. You might wish to see what’s on the other side of that hill, or take a gander at your neighbor’s new rider mower, or you might want to visit a place that you’ve read about. Although there is an emotional aspect present, in wanting to learn something through these goals, they are more ‘action’ motivated. Your desire pushes you forward in action towards your goal of knowing this or that.
Another type of goal is ‘experience’. You want to achieve something, to do it and feel it. You want to leave your house by walking through the front door. You want to float out over your porch and look up in the night sky. You want to blast off at full throttle, up up up up. Your goal is to ‘experience’ being there thousands of feet above your house. Your goal is fueled by desire, which initiates the action, so that you get what you want. And who deserves it more than you?
As you see, you can use desire and a goal without really knowing anything more of what I plan to tell you. You
