So there’s a state between waking and sleeping where imagined sequences can seem real, and practicing this feeling of ‘naturalness’ then can become the default emotion. It’s a practice of believing your dreams (which is sane, as the perceived world is already dead). Also, the gateway between falling asleep and actually losing consciousness to sleep is a kind of bridge, as I said. It is as though you take your last self-concept in the last moment of consciousness into the dreamworld, and it’s ‘naturalness’ increases in that world somehow. So the aim is to fall asleep with a specific belief, self-concept and emotion, which is easier said than done but well worth persevering with as a nightly practice as it is incredibly powerful.
As I explained, the practice involves creating a short, repeating mental sequence that implies that a goal has already occurred, and the same little mental sequence is repeated again and again (looped in other words) with the ‘feeling of the wish fulfilled’ (state) held constantly, this is really the point of the mental sequence at all, to fall asleep feeling a certain state.
So it is essentially animated versions of the pictures from the chanting practice, although there are a few things to note when constructing these images, which I’ll come onto. Another point is that, the point of them is to maintain this state, ‘of the wish fulfilled’, or a ‘high state’ as I would put it. Therefore, they are not only used when falling asleep, the same sequences can be used in ‘firings’ i.e. short, intense bursts of concentration and emotion felt throughout the day to reset the stream of consciousness. They can also be incorporated into a trance and yoga nidra practice, holding and FEELING them while entering trance rather than sleep states, which I have written about elsewhere.
So how to construct one of these mental scenes. Firstly, they need to be short and repeated, maybe between five and ten seconds long. Secondly, they need to incorporate all the senses, ESPECIALLY TOUCH, and HAVE AN ACTION IN THEM. I.e. it’s much better if you are doing something, as this also increases the feeling. For example, I had some back pain a while ago, and one of the scenes I created was rowing a rowing boat, which definitely implies the wish fulfilled as there’s no back support on a rowing boat, only a bench! But also, I’m moving when I row, and I can feel the wooden oar handles in my hands. This is perfect.
Some goals are a little bit abstract. Like the end of back pain. It isn’t really natural if I visualise my spine as being open or visible. So you can construct a scene where either you are telling someone your good fortune, or someone else is congratulating you on it. So in my boat sequence, I am rowing with a friend in the boat, and I tell them,
“Believe it or not, I used to get back pain. Three months ago I couldn’t have done this.”
“How is it now?”
“Fantastic! Completely cured.”
… with a strong feeling, of the wish fulfilled, how I feel in a boat being able to row a friend across a lake with a picnic basket, the FEELING OF BEING CURED.
This is long enough. I can loop this indefinitely and concentrate on MAINTAINING THE FEELING. If this was a long pathworking type thing, where I go over the top, get to the island, lay the food down, chop down a tree to make a campfire while having a long conversation with my friend, then it’s wholly over the top, less believable and most significantly, the mind is far more likely to go off on non-related, or barely related tangents and think all sorts of things.
The sequence needs to be in the first person and in cubic reality. What that means is that it is not projected onto the inner-mental screen as though you are watching from afar, but you are inside an embodied reality, and you are ‘projecting’ the scene around you where the ‘real’ world is. So in mine I am actually in a boat and my friend is there, two meters before me, and the surface of the water is all around me and I can feel the hard wood of the bench under my buttocks.
Get used to using them as ‘firings’ throughout the day, when you have a moment to close your eyes, to reset your mood instead of the usual static pictures. Bathe yourself emotionally. You can say a short phrase to imply your goals are achieved, the original instruction is ‘isn’t it wonderful’, but that was from the 1950’s. Perhaps, ‘This is totally awesome!’ is good for nowadays! Whatever you would say, but the thing is that you aren’t saying it physically, your double in another world, which you are now simultaneously inhabiting, is voicing it, and your spiritual ears are hearing it. Simply keep it a short, repeatable phrase and FEEL THE JOY.
You could construct one for each manifesting theme you have, although when used as a falling asleep practice, it’s better to stick with one until there is some success: meaning you do manage to fall asleep with this as the last thought and feeling. Sometimes, you’ll wake up the next day with what I call a RISING. That means, you wake up and there is a sudden, strong ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE CERTAINTY that this has worked, it is done. It’s not something you can imagine, it is unmistakable. That is a definite.
If it happens then move on to the next desire the next evening. Even if it doesn’t happen, be mindful of your first thought, and more importantly, the feeling you wake up with. If it is contrary, use the sequence again and don’t get out of bed until you have at least changed the stream of consciousness and emotion to positive. If you manage to fall asleep with the sequence and feeling as the last moment of consciousness, and at least the feeling carries over to waking (as the first feeling) then this is still good success even without a direct rising and you can move on to the next one.