{"id":5784,"date":"2011-09-01T01:10:18","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T06:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2011-08-27T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-27T21:11:09","slug":"plastic-paths-the-defining-dilemma-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2011\/09\/01\/plastic-paths-the-defining-dilemma-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Plastic Paths: The Defining Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astral Travel: Greatest Method with the Worst Consequences<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guided meditation and hypnosis. Same thing, in my opinion. I\u2019ve wanted to become a certified hypnotist for a very long time but don\u2019t have the thousands of dollars to spend on the classes so I\u2019ve had to make do with library books and the internet for my hypnosis\/guided meditation education, which is fine. I just don\u2019t get the nifty certificate certifying my completion of lessons. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Up until recently I\u2019ve used guided meditations from other people but found a great deal don\u2019t really have an effect. Imaging myself walking through a forest and coming to a stream is neat, don\u2019t get me wrong, but not something that I care to spend 20 minutes on.\u00a0 I want a guided mediation that produces results! An astral experience, a meeting with my guide, a peek into universal wonders\u2026.something more than walking along a beach listening to the waves.<\/p>\n

Another \u00a0problem I continued to encounter was that the majority of the guided meditations weren\u2019t working for me. The Silva method was pleasant but only occasionally effective, and it was a struggle to work with the guide\u2019s voice at times. I tried Quantum Jumping by Burt Goldman, and while it was an interesting concept I ended up asking for a refund because Mr. Goldman never changed his tone from teaching to mediating. I couldn\u2019t tell when the lesson ended and the meditation began or where the meditation ended and the lesson began.<\/p>\n

It has been suggested that one record their own guided meditations\/hypnosis scripts before, but I always pushed such thoughts aside because I\u2019ve heard my recorded voice and it sounds both silly and annoying. Do I really sound like that? <\/em> There was no way I could relax listening to me speak. I would just be sitting there judging myself, my diction, pronunciations, timing, and that awful voice.<\/p>\n

But then, at the peak of my \u201cwhy can\u2019t I find the right guided meditation?!\u201d fit I came across another \u2018how to make a hypnosis recording\u2019 ebook and this one clicked. \u201cI can do this. Oh yes I can!\u201d I declared after reading the book\u2026.ok, most of the book.<\/p>\n

The ebook reminded me that a good hypnosis script needs to sound dull, monotone, and many of the words need to be drawn out liiiiike thiiiiiis.<\/em> Easy breezy! I can get over the sound of my own voice and I can make recordings that have only the stuff I want, none of the stuff I don\u2019t. Why did I fight this so long, I asked with new hope.<\/p>\n

I wrote out what I wanted to say so that I didn\u2019t get lost as I was recording. \u201c10\u2026more and more relaxed\u20269\u2026deeper and deeper\u2026.9\u2026.wait, 7\u2026? Wait\u2026.\u201d I also used first person point of view. \u00a0Hearing \u201cyou are very relaxed and only focusing on the sound of my voice\u201d would cause my mind to wonder into \u201cwhy am I talking to me like that?\u201d<\/p>\n

I used Audacity audio editing software (http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/<\/a>) not only because it\u2019s free but because it works really well. Then <\/em>I found a free theta sound waves recording and made that the background. After that I just did it. My own personal mediation that I\u2019ve been using mentally for years is now an mp3.<\/p>\n

On the first night I put my headphones in, hit \u201cplay\u201d and closed my eyes. Wowza! Holy Mother Goddess this thing works with a great power! I woke up 6 hours later with the feeling that I\u2019d just gotten of a fantastical universe ride. I remember walking around my astral house, looking for something. I remember having conversations with people in a white room. I remember being in a place that always reminds me of an airport terminal (it\u2019s a place I visit often for some reason). I travel a lot on a normal night, but this night seems like I was going for some sort of universal record.<\/p>\n

The second night was the same thing. Vivid memories of the places I had traveled to, people I had spoken with , and the things I had seen. The down side is that I woke up exhausted. Down to the bone tired.<\/p>\n

So on the third night I rested. By \u2018rested\u2019 I mean I didn\u2019t listen to the mp3 at all that night. Instead, I tried it sitting on the couch during daylight hours. Allow me to describe this experience as delicately as possible\u2026<\/p>\n

It sucked. Like waking nightmare sucked. Until that day I thought there was nothing worse than sleep paralysis and I was wrong. Being awake but in a meditative state and paralyzed is so much worse. I don\u2019t know what went wrong; my conscious mind and my astral mind were locked in a duel, of sorts. I was astral traveling around my house, again looking for something (I don\u2019t know what) and then my eyes would try to open and I\u2019d be back in my body, struggling to move and get my eyelids open. Only my body no longer responds to commands, or pleas, or bribes. My eyes wouldn\u2019t open, my arms wouldn\u2019t move, my legs were concrete, and as hard as I tried I couldn\u2019t scream. My astral mind would have to calm my body down and stop it from struggling while I was split into two: the nightmare of being trapped and the wise astral self. It went back and forth like this for what seemed like an hour.<\/p>\n

The next attempt was during the day again with the exact same results: astral traveling but with my body fighting it. In my recording I mention several times that I am calm and safe. I don\u2019t know what keeps going wrong, but I\u2019m determined to fix it. Recording my own guided meditation\/self-hypnosis script appears to be the key to something big, but obviously I don\u2019t have it right yet. There is a large hiccup in this system that will be found and corrected. Where to begin, though, is the question of the day. Where, exactly, to change, correct, and fix seems to be the mystery.<\/p>\n

For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Astral Travel: Greatest Method with the Worst Consequences Guided meditation and hypnosis. Same thing, in my opinion. I\u2019ve wanted to become a certified hypnotist for a very long time but don\u2019t have the thousands of dollars to spend on the classes so I\u2019ve had to make do with library books and the internet for my hypnosis\/guided meditation education, which is fine. I just don\u2019t get the nifty certificate certifying my completion of lessons. \ud83d\ude09 Up until recently I\u2019ve used guided meditations from other people but found a great deal don\u2019t really have an effect. Imaging myself walking through a forest and coming to a stream is neat, don\u2019t get me wrong, but not something that I care to spend 20 minutes on.\u00a0 I want a guided mediation that produces results! An astral experience, a meeting with my guide, a peek into universal wonders\u2026.something more than walking along a beach listening to the waves. Another \u00a0problem I continued to encounter was that the majority of the guided meditations weren\u2019t working for me. The Silva method was pleasant but only occasionally effective, and it was a struggle to work with the guide\u2019s voice at times. I tried Quantum Jumping by Burt Goldman, and while it was an interesting concept I ended up asking for a refund because Mr. Goldman never changed his tone from teaching to mediating. I couldn\u2019t tell when the lesson ended and the meditation began or where the meditation ended and the lesson began. It has been suggested that one record their own guided meditations\/hypnosis scripts before, but I always pushed such thoughts aside because I\u2019ve heard my recorded voice and it sounds both silly and annoying. Do I really sound like that? There was no way I could relax listening to me speak. I would just be sitting there judging myself, my diction, pronunciations, timing, and that awful voice. But then, at the peak of my \u201cwhy can\u2019t I find the right guided meditation?!\u201d fit I came across another \u2018how to make a hypnosis recording\u2019 ebook and this one clicked. \u201cI can do this. Oh yes I can!\u201d I declared after reading the book\u2026.ok, most of the book. The ebook reminded me that a good hypnosis script needs to sound dull, monotone, and many of the words need to be drawn out liiiiike thiiiiiis. Easy breezy! I can get over the sound of my own voice and I can make recordings that have only the stuff I want, none of the stuff I don\u2019t. Why did I fight this so long, I asked with new hope. I wrote out what I wanted to say so that I didn\u2019t get lost as I was recording. \u201c10\u2026more and more relaxed\u20269\u2026deeper and deeper\u2026.9\u2026.wait, 7\u2026? Wait\u2026.\u201d I also used first person point of view. \u00a0Hearing \u201cyou are very relaxed and only focusing on the sound of my voice\u201d would cause my mind to wonder into \u201cwhy am I talking to me like that?\u201d I used Audacity audio editing software (http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/) not only because it\u2019s free but because it works really well. Then I found a free theta sound waves recording and made that the background. After that I just did it. My own personal mediation that I\u2019ve been using mentally for years is now an mp3. On the first night I put my headphones in, hit \u201cplay\u201d and closed my eyes. Wowza! Holy Mother Goddess this thing works with a great power! I woke up 6 hours later with the feeling that I\u2019d just gotten of a fantastical universe ride. I remember walking around my astral house, looking for something. I remember having conversations with people in a white room. I remember being in a place that always reminds me of an airport terminal (it\u2019s a place I visit often for some reason). I travel a lot on a normal night, but this night seems like I was going for some sort of universal record. The second night was the same thing. Vivid memories of the places I had traveled to, people I had spoken with , and the things I had seen. The down side is that I woke up exhausted. Down to the bone tired. So on the third night I rested. By \u2018rested\u2019 I mean I didn\u2019t listen to the mp3 at all that night. Instead, I tried it sitting on the couch during daylight hours. Allow me to describe this experience as delicately as possible\u2026 It sucked. Like waking nightmare sucked. Until that day I thought there was nothing worse than sleep paralysis and I was wrong. Being awake but in a meditative state and paralyzed is so much worse. I don\u2019t know what went wrong; my conscious mind and my astral mind were locked in a duel, of sorts. I was astral traveling around my house, again looking for something (I don\u2019t know what) and then my eyes would try to open and I\u2019d be back in my body, struggling to move and get my eyelids open. Only my body no longer responds to commands, or pleas, or bribes. My eyes wouldn\u2019t open, my arms wouldn\u2019t move, my legs were concrete, and as hard as I tried I couldn\u2019t scream. My astral mind would have to calm my body down and stop it from struggling while I was split into two: the nightmare of being trapped and the wise astral self. It went back and forth like this for what seemed like an hour. The next attempt was during the day again with the exact same results: astral traveling but with my body fighting it. In my recording I mention several times that I am calm and safe. I don\u2019t know what keeps going wrong, but I\u2019m determined to fix it. Recording my own guided meditation\/self-hypnosis script appears to be the key to something big, but obviously I don\u2019t have it right yet. There is a large hiccup in this system that will be found and corrected. Where to begin, though, is the question of the day. Where, exactly, to change, correct, and fix seems to be the mystery. For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}