Some Potent Self Actualization / Healing Practices

Introduction - Self actualization practices with a difference!

I give details below of some simple but very potent practices and procedures that will take you forward easily, safely and painlessly in various major aspects of your self healing / self actualization process. For the most part the methods are not fully original creations of my own, but adaptations, sometimes extensively so, of particular methods that I had gained from various sources. Thus what could be said to be 'uniquely mine' is not so much a full origination of individual methods but really this particular compendium of methods and the genuine self actualization context within which I present them. It would thus be uningenuous of people in certain quarters to go claiming - as has been happening from one particular quarter* - that I am passing off their own methods as my own creations. There is actually no issue of copyright, because that would arise only if I were reproducing somebody's copyright descriptions / instructions of particular practices here, and I have been consistent in not doing that and writing on this site only my own original presentations.

* Actually, although the individuals involved were strenuously making out as though they were the sole originators of their methods, any such claims would have to be taken with a big shovelful of salt anyway. The particular methods cannot have come to those people straight out of a vacuum or void, and it is clear to me that they are all simply those individuals' own adaptations of practices and methods that had come to people in various parts of the planet, in various parts of human history - and it is simply their determination to make money out of them that causes them to seek to claim uniqueness and indeed supposed intellectual property rights relating to those practices and methods.

Although the practices are effective as they are, their potency can be greatly enhanced by ongoing use of any or - for greatest effect - ALL of those in the following short list (except that the Clarity-Sphere and Energy Egg 'family' would generally be alternatives). By the same token, your use of any of the practices given on this page will tend to greatly increase the effectiveness of the Clarity-Sphere and any of the Energy Egg 'family' of devices, so in other words there is liable to be a marked synergy between these energy devices and the practices - though just how much would vary a lot between different people. It is the more deeply aware people who would get the greater beneficial and indeed synergistic effects.

• The Clarity-Sphere. Certain of the practices given below require a mini-Clarity-Sphere or an Energy Egg.
• The Energy Egg (plus its 'variant' versions) and 'Guardian Angel' or the latter's big brother, the 'Archangel' (please see Healing and Self Actualization - The Safest and Quickest Way and also the Clarity-Sphere page for further details about these).
• The Returning Life Sequence
• My set of affirmations for self actualization and fundamental healing
• The Alexander Technique, which takes you into a much more balanced and poised physical state, which latter in turn clears various (but not all) energy blocks and emotional issues and makes other self healing / self actualization methods more effective for you. The physical improvements include a much more relaxed, stress free and efficient mode of walking, which greatly enhances Self-Power Walking (see below).

The practices that I describe on this page each carry out a particular range of functions, so none of them is a full alternative to any other, and anyone truly serious about their self actualization would take on ALL of them and use them in an ongoing fashion (as near daily as is practical in the light of the need to maintain balance in one's everyday life). However, I am not playing 'little dictator' here, and would say that any use at all of any of these practices would bring significant benefit, so nobody need be put off using them because they feel that the practices would involve too much commitment. You can get some idea of how I myself fitted in all these practices and a good deal more into my daily life, in My Own Self Actualization 'Path' - Part 2 - but I would stress that that is merely an example of extremely effective use of the methods, and is not a stipulation about how anyone else should be going about it.

A note especially for medics and mental healthcare workers

I well understand that to anyone who espouses the materialist-reductionist belief system - including most medics and mental healthcare workers - the following practices will all appear to be nonsensical, because they actually work on the person's non-physical aspects, which such professionals generally do not recognise. Those people would do well to read and 'take on board' the contents of On the Nature of Reality and Truth, in which I show how actually consciousness / awareness itself is the only 'reality' that we can really 'know', and how we can never know of any enduring 'external' reality. When you truly understand that, then you also understand that our hallowed distinction between physical and non-physical is pure illusion and confusion.

Once you have understood that much, then it should come as much less of a shock to the system to find that you can do apparently physical practices that work on invisible, non-physical aspects of ourselves, which in turn, as they become healthier, cause us to become healthier in body as well as 'mind'. That is what all the following practices are about. They are mostly yogic and what you might call 'semi-yogic' practices, but very different from what people widely know as 'Yoga', and some of them are very vigorous.

One thing all these practices (apart from Tonglen Breathing) have in common, unlike what people widely know as 'spiritual healing', is that they are strongly grounding. That is, if they are awarely used they would increase your connection with the physical 'reality', and help you get clear of unhealthy connections (which ALL of us have to some extent, including you) with the astral sub-reality of illusion and delusion, through which operates the dark force, which is involved in ALL so-called mental illness and personality disorder issues. Food for thought for hard pressed medical and mental healthcare workers, who surely want their patients or clients to become more in tune with physical 'reality', in a positive way, and no longer dependent on medication or other harmful treatments!

Breathing techniques to enhance practices

Some practices require or at least are greatly enhanced by what I call power breathing, or, in some cases what I call extra-complete breathing or extended complete breathing. These are both an enhancement of complete breathing, and I now describe them.

Complete breathing

With your spine in good alignment ('straight' but not held rigidly so), you inhale in a steady manner, through your nostrils and with mouth closed, using your intent to direct the breath into your lower abdomen so that you use your diaphragm. As your lungs continue to fill, you then allow the inhalation to expand your chest too. So, each time you inhale, you fill up to your fullest extent from bottom to top, but without forcing anything.

When you exhale, again you do so through your nostrils and with mouth closed, steadily till your lungs feel to be completely empty (actually one's lungs never empty completely), but again without forcing it.

In fact, complete breathing is a quite beneficial practice in itself, especially if the tip of your tongue is simultaneously held against the top/front of the palate (where there are some marked indentations). This can be maintained intermittently while getting on with everyday life - but I caution against trying to use it for very extended periods or indeed all the time, for if you do that, what you have effectively done is made the 'practice' an attachment, and thus an obstruction to your self actualization process. It is important anyway not to let the conscious mind interfere with the body's own natural breathing rhythm for more than a fairly small amount of your time, for doing that in itself would accumulate stress and energy imbalance.

It is very helpful in this sort of breathing if you maintain part of your awareness on the sensation of the air entering and exiting through your nasal passages and nostrils and indeed your windpipe, lungs and abdomen (though of course, 'technically', it is not really entering your abdomen!). This is very helpful through being grounding and helping to minimize mental 'chatter', without your needing to go into full formal meditation sessions.

Power breathing

Power breathing is 'complete breathing' as I have described it above, with one important and extremely empowering difference: you do force it! You force the inhalations and the exhalations - AND you force each a little at the end, so you put a little extra effort in emptying your lungs just that little bit more, though without making a big effort of it. And similarly, when you have filled up as much as you would with standard complete breathing, you take in just that little bit more - again not making a big effort of it. So, at either end you get into only the start of what you could call the 'straining range' - if that makes sense for you! The procedure, then, is vigorous but not overly stressful.

Now, before anyone blows a fuse, muttering things about hyperventilation, and no doubt wrapping this Philip Goddard guy round the nearest lamp post for giving such harmful instructions, let me add the very simple measure that you take to ensure that you still get a sensible level of 'ventilation' in your system without overdoing it. The solution really is extremely simple - you PAUSE between each inhalation / exhalation cycle. I myself find it difficult to pause at the 'full' point, so it comes naturally for me to pause at the 'empty' point. You find out by your own 'feel' and experience just how long to pause between each breathing cycle, and, if you are Self-Power Walking and want to use power breathing (it does increase the power of the practice, but may attract unwanted attention to you in public places) you would find that the length or indeed presence at all of any pauses in the breathing will depend on your speed of walking and the nature of the terrain. Indeed, going up really steep terrain may necessitate cessation of power breathing (or indeed complete breathing) altogether and breathing more naturally, indeed through your mouth, until you are on more level terrain again.

In order to ensure that you don not err into hyperventilation (which is harmful and ungrounding, and is generally indicated by a feeling of light-headedness, faintness or unsteadiness on your feet), it makes sense that the pause between breathing cycles be held till you feel that you need to breathe again. On the other hand, if you start feeling suffocated, then you are overdoing it and need to reduce the pauses a little.

I strongly recommend power breathing to use in certain practices where complete breathing is appropriate (i.e. not just the practices described by me here on this site), subject to the indications of one's energy testing, for it will increase the potency of the particular practice, whatever it is. However, it is important NOT to use power breathing EXCEPT in specific practices of limited duration, for, like the mudras of Self-Power Walking, it takes up quite a lot of your attention and is in itself somewhat stressful.

Thus power breathing is not a practice in itself, but is a major enhancement of those practices in which it can fit. It conveys two broad types of enhancement to any practice:

• It intensifies the 'energy' processes brought about by the particular practice;
• It is particularly grounding, provided that one does not use it too much or get hyperventilated with it, for the deliberate forcing of the breathing also forces the focus of a good part of your attention onto the breathing. So, naturally, whichever practice of yours incorporates power breathing, it will be significantly more grounding than otherwise. Aware increasing of grounding is a crucial part of the true self actualization process, and is crucial in clearing yourself of dark force connections and influence, whose clearance is essential for full self actualization.
  Caution! If you are doing a succession of Grounding Point sessions using power breathing, particularly indoors upon a stone sphere, there is quite a strong ungrounding element in the proceedings, largely brought about by the progressive hyperventilation (which is actually ungrounding) that tends to be accumulated, because for maximum effectiveness it is necessary not to pause between power breathing cycles during the session. For this reason, Grounding Point with power breathing is best used particularly judiciously, with suitable breaks being taken between individual sessions.

Extra-complete breathing or extended complete breathing

This is intermediate between standard complete breathing and power breathing. In this case you do 'force it' a little at the 'full' and 'empty' points, just as in power breathing, but you are not actually breathing forcefully, so, in all respects apart from the slight over-filling and over-emptying, it is standard complete breathing.

Cyclic breathing and cyclic blows

Theoretically, the above breathing modes could all be combined with cyclic breathing, but in practice this is generally best kept distinct. Cyclic breathing has also been called 'weaving breathing' or 'weaving breaths', and no doubt other terms have also been used for it.

The distinguishing feature of cyclic breathing is that you breathe in through your nostrils and out through your mouth. In practice it is most effective if you have your mouth notionally closed during cyclic breathing, so that when you exhale you do so between still partially closed lips with a slightly forced 'pfffff'. In some practices using this mode of breathing, such as the yogic version of writhing-stretching, it may be most effective to do your cyclic breathing fairly forcefully, but it would be differing from power breathing in that you are not fully filling nor fully emptying your lungs. Indeed, in some procedures - notably with the Returning Life Sequence, and even more so with procedures with the Clarity-Sphere or the Energy Egg family of devices - the cyclic breaths are very quick and thus shallow. In the Returning Life Sequence they would be synchronized with your movements during the vigorous first main section of the sequence, and at least in my case that commonly approximates to two cyclic breath cycles per second. A similar speed or even slightly faster can be used for the various Clarity-Sphere / Energy Egg procedures.

I use the term 'cyclic blows', not to mean hitting anything but to signify cyclic breaths that are being directed at something. Thus, I would call cyclic breaths that are directed at a Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg 'cyclic blows' upon the particular object.

The End of Practice Procedure

Generally speaking, the various practices that I describe are more effective if completed by use of a very small procedure that could be said figuratively to 'put a seal upon your intent' in the practice and, I think, generally it somewhat extends the continuation of the healing process that the practice has initiated, and maybe intensifies it a bit too.

There are two alternative procedures that I use and recommend. The first given here is what anyone can do.

Using the sharp roof mudra

All this particular End of Practice Procedure consists of is bringing your hands together briefly into the sharp roof mudra, with the clear intent that this is being used for your End of Practice Procedure. For this you place your hands almost as though in praying position*, with fingers of each hand together, straight and pointing upwards, but each hand touching the other ONLY at the tips of fingers and thumbs, so that actually your hands would be held roof-wise at an angle of something like 45 degrees to each other, or indeed a little more acute. You hold this hand position close to and level with your lower to middle chest area for a moment. If you are in a hurry, you can do just that in, say, a second. However, it is more effective if you hold that position while you hold the tip of your tongue to your palate and go through a whole cycle of complete breathing. It is thus still a very brief end-of-practice procedure, even when done for optimal effectiveness.

* It is important to keep completely clear of any notions of a religious or 'spiritual' significance in this, and it has nothing to do with praying or with any sort of reverential gesture; the procedure is simply a particular way of focusing your closing intent for the practice or method - much as to obtain water you have to turn a tap on (or carry out some other relevant procedure).

If you are lying down when you want to use this procedure, the position of your hands in the sharp roof mudra is just the same in relative terms. That is, your fingers then point horizontally towards your head rather than actually upwards.

Use of a 'satellite' mini-Clarity-Sphere or an Energy Egg

The second method that I suggest is for people who have a 'satellite' mini-Clarity-Sphere or an Energy Egg with them at the time. All you do for that is hold the mini-sphere or one end of the Energy Egg (the broad end if you have one of the older egg-shaped ones) to your mid-brow position, on the bony bit just above the bridge of your nose, and swallow twice while holding it there. For myself, energy testing indicated that this was preferable to the two-hands method when I had a mini-Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg available, but other people might get a different result for that. Either method appears to work well anyway.

The Deepening Awareness asana - A practice to follow your practices!

This static asana ('energy'-active position or body configuration) consists of being seated with more or less upright back (though for this purpose the back can be supported against the back of a chair), and with your legs crossed at your ankles, with the soles of both feet as much on the floor as you can manage without stressing your ankles. (Crossing of the legs above the knees is always harmful and to be avoided like the plague!)

Meanwhile you have the tip of your tongue to the top/front of your palate, and, although it is not of overriding importance, you can assist things by using Complete Breathing (nothing stronger) for part of the time.

This is basically a relaxed asana, which you can maintain while getting on with things such as reading, writing or working at the computer. It is best to periodically change the crossing around so that each leg spends about equal time going in front and going behind.

It is particularly beneficial to use this asana as soon as reasonably possible after you have had a session of the Returning Life Sequence or particularly a whole session of practices (which indeed may include the Returning Life), such as your designated Clarity-Sphere companion practices*. It is not a substitute for the 'end of practice' procedure, but rather, you get its benefits particularly following such sessions of practices, when you have just had new 'energies' freed up. You do your end of practice procedure after the other practices, and then, as and when you can fit it in, you use the Deepening Awareness asana.

* For more about these, please see the Clarity-Sphere User Guide.

For myself about an hour per day of this asana is indicated as beneficial. Using it for longer is not in itself harmful in 'energy' terms, except that it could become just another habit - an attachment in other words - and thus actually become a small but significant obstacle. The same of course is true of any practice. It is important to use any practice only for as long as your energy testing indicates that it is 'strengthening' for you to be using it, so that you do not go unawarely sliding into 'attachment mode' and thus getting into habits and losing your self actualization focus.

Actually there is one slightly harmful thing physically about using this asana a lot more than 'the recommended dose' of a total of no more than an hour in a day, because crossing of the lower legs is itself physically a little harmful when done more than briefly - even though much less harmful than crossing the upper legs.

This asana is also used in order to get maximum effect when you are doing a formal reading of affirmations and declarations of intent, and my understanding is that it can be very helpful to use also when you are reading something that is quite challenging for you to understand quickly. It probably would not work like a magic wand to help you understand quickly on the spot, but rather, your challenging yourself in that way while using the asana would enable it to be more effective for you in assisting your process of deepening your awareness. I expect that that is quite an approximate description of how it operates, but really all descriptions of the modus operandi and effects of 'energy' and 'awareness' practices are rather speculative, so this is is no exception.

Ensuring that your benefits from the practices INCREMENT rather than just go up and down

When people do self healing practices or their daily little bit of Yoga, or receive some healing or therapy from another person, typically they feel 'recharged', but then to a considerable extent their overall state declines until they have their next 'recharge'. This happens because they are still not fundamentally changing the way they live, and are still making many everyday choices that are weakening for them.

That is NOT how the true self actualization process operates. If you are serious about self actualization, rather than just 'bumping along the bottom' with occasional 'recharges', then you are into a different mindset, in which you seek to make every aspect of your life strengthening for you and supportive to your self actualization process. That is what I call living with intent, and it involves consistently seeking to choose whatever is most strengthening for you (i.e. for your deepest or ultimate good) and not necessarily what you immediately 'want'. When you are living with intent, at least to a fair degree, your practices - especially ones free of dark force connections (i.e. such as the practices given on this page) - are not 'recharges' but incremental strengthenings or 'upward' steps, so that you are going from strength to greater strength every day, and are on a strong and consistent upward trend in the happiness and meaningful abundance of your life, and indeed your overall health.

You can greatly support and underpin your living with intent by a regular formal reading to yourself of my set of affirmations for self actualization and fundamental healing. However, on the most immediate and practical note, we have an invaluable introductory guide for living with intent - in the form of my own energy testing guide. By introducing you to the methodology of energy testing and developing the proper grounded energy awareness that enables you to effortlessly and securely live with intent (joyfully!), the energy testing guide gives you the means to enable you to start turning your life around right now through making only strengthening choices (or at least the least weakening choices when all the options appear to be adverse), while the affirmations would give you a multitude of ideas as to choices that you could make to take you forward in your life - and you can check everything with energy testing before committing yourself by taking up particular options and acting upon your provisional or prospective choices.

The Returning Life Sequence

The movements of the first part - the 'Returning Life Weave' - are recommended as one of the Clarity-Sphere companion practices.

This is an extremely powerful and effective across-the-board, broad spectrum yogic practice, which is claimed to restore the very major part of the life force 'energies' of your whole being, which had been gradually 'lost'* during your life so far. I strongly recommend it, and used it daily myself for a long time.** We almost universally become increasingly depleted in our 'life force energy' as our life goes on, and the overall effect of this is generally regarded as the major part of ageing.

* Actually it would be most helpful to understand that the supposedly lost 'energies' are lost only in the sense that they had become degraded and no longer available to one to use. In other words they have not gone away anywhere.
** In a sense I still use it, but really now I am just using the movements of the first part of the sequence - the so-called Returning Life Weave. I am using those movements NOT as 'Returning Life Weave' but as the first of three 'Clarity-Sphere companion practices' (explained in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide) that I carry out as a sequence every morning. The movements are thus no longer linked to the intent and 'spirituality baggage' of the Returning Life Sequence and instead are linked to the broader and more balanced healing and self actualization intent incorporated in the Clarity-Sphere 'programming'.

However, the reality, as I understand it, is that very little of that progressive depletion is part of any genuine ageing process, and it represents the accumulation of karmas in the correct or at least most helpful sense of the word - that is, the accumulation of weakenings and distortions of your non-physical aspects due to all manner of adverse influences in your life, such as environmental stresses of all types (including virtually all medical treatments and indeed self medication), emotional traumas, and 'weakening' choices that you have inevitably kept making unless you were consistently using energy testing in a proficient manner in order to live with ongoing 'positive intent'.

The Good News is that, at least according to the originators of this practice, the vastly major proportion of all those increments of accumulating damage to your 'energy system', which eventually result in all manner of physical problems, many of which are traditionally put down to 'ageing', is reversible - and the Returning Life Sequence is claimed to progressively achieve this.

To be completely honest about this, there is actually no means that I know of to verify the fullness of the claims made for the practice, as to what it achieves and how it works*, apart from the fact of people who use it (including myself) getting a lot of positive change and increased vitality and buoyancy that appears to be resulting from it. Channelling or clairvoyant perceptions certainly do not help you to know, because those are the dark force giving you 'information' to mislead you - and even what some people experience as some advanced sort of 'higher perception' actually can never really be trusted when it comes to explanations and 'story' relating to any particular healing method - because there is no way that one can know for sure that one is not getting dark force interference or at least some distortion of one's inner communication pathways. In practice (sic) I am happy to use the practice as if it were progressively restoring at least the major part of my life force 'energy', because that helps tune me to my deeply held intent that indeed that is happening. In my own approach to healing and self actualization I recognise much or all of what I am doing as being different means to focus and manifest my positive, healing and self actualization intent.

* Actually this is true of any healing method that works on our subtle or non-physical aspects, so in no way am I meaning to diminish the Returning Life Sequence. I just want to clarify as to what I or indeed anyone else can and cannot really know about it.

The Returning Life Sequence was developed by the Energy Egg people, and they have produced an excellent DVD to enable you to learn this practice. Its primary part (which they call the Returning Life Weave) is a sequence of arm / hand movements that are carried out in synchronization with short 'weaving' (i.e. cyclic) breaths (in through the nostrils, out through partially closed lips). I myself do not go along with the various manifestations of the Returning Life Sequence originators' 'spirituality'* angle on the method, and I prefer to ignore the 'spirituality'-associated names that they give to the various movements, asanas and mudras, and also their descriptions of aura, chakra and energy dynamics**. Fortunately any sort of knowledge of or belief in these is completely non-essential for the Returning Life Sequence to work fully, and indeed my understanding is that it would be more effective and very much safer when one's mind is free of such distractions from the real healing and self actualization process.

* For an explanation, please see Exit 'Spirituality' - Enter 'Clear-Mindedness'.
** From the perspective of the from-the-core-essence approach to self actualization that I promote, such details are seen to be a problematical distraction from working purely from your own deepest aspects, which latter themselves operate all the processes and dynamics without the conscious awareness ('ordinary mind') needing any conceptual constructs of these.

If you happen to have obtained a publicly available .PDF file giving instructions for the Returning Life Sequence, please note that that is out of date, and I think it has now been withdrawn from public access. It is by far the best to get the current DVD, in which you would get a much fuller version of the practice. However,...

I am in the process of arriving at a superior replacement for the Returning Life Sequence. That replacement is a set of practices that are used in conjunction with a Clarity-Sphere, and are actually functionally linked to it with a particular declaration of intent. Those practices I call 'Clarity-Sphere companion practices', and I explain about this in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide. One of the practices suitable for this purpose is actually, as already noted, the movements of the Returning Life Weave - though because they are being used with a different and indeed broader intent, 'Returning Life Weave' is only a label of convenience to put upon that set of movements, for in this context they are no longer the original practice of that name, having a different intent and therefore function. I am, however, on the verge of originating one or two other, easier-to-learn practices that can be used instead of that. That would increase the choice of available practices to use as 'Clarity-Sphere companion' ones, and would mean that all the requisite practices would then be freely available and one would no longer need at all to have dealings with a source that has proved itself to be decidedly questionable about its real standing (as explained in some detail on my Clarity-Sphere page).

Expanding Clarity

Recommended as one of the Clarity-Sphere companion practices.

This is a basic practice that can be used in different contexts, to have effects that are specific to the intent associated with each particular context - so that it is effectively the root of a whole group of closely related practices. It originally arose as a less stressful adaptation of a practice that, as I originally picked it up, had quite bizarrely been called 'Stations of the Way' - thus lumbering it with a real chunk of religion baggage and thus dark force connecting subtext, which would then have limited its effectiveness for its specific beneficial applications, as well as cultivating very unhelpful beliefs and illusory realities for those who are using the practice.

I seemed to be benefiting significantly from that 'Stations of the Way' practice, BUT right at the outset I had dismissed that (to me) quite repugnant name for it, and all its religious / esoteric connotations, and used the practice with my own self actualization intent instead. So, although I was using the same sequence of physical positions, it could be said that even at that stage I was effectively carrying out a different practice and not the one that had been called 'Stations of the Way'.

However, even with that change of context, the practice was still problematical for me because it gave me a certain level of physical torture in its static held positions (not helped by its apparent symbolic representation of being crucified!), and I found that holding my legs straight and rigidly together with the feet turned well outwards tended to cause me minor tendon and ligament strains, so it was necessary to see if I could adapt the practice to be physically less severe and more benign while maintaining or even improving its effectiveness in 'energy' terms.

Particular quite specific claims were made as to what the 'Stations of the Way' practice was supposed to achieve, but those claims never made very great sense to me, because there was a clear implication that the particular practice had something intrinsic about it that would cause it to carry out the claimed functions for anyone who used it, whereas carrying out that particular cyclic sequence of yogic asanas could more reasonably be expected not to have any particular intrinsic functionality, but simply to bring about particular beneficial effects when used in conjunction with particular deeply held intents (and, to a certain extent, particular beliefs).

So, when I use the name 'Expanding Clarity' for the practice that I have derived from that other one, I do not mean that the practice would necessarily achieve one fixed particular set of beneficial effects for anyone regardless of what (if any) deeply held intent they were holding for the practice while carrying it out. Rather, by giving the practice this particular title, I am pointing potential users of the practice to the sort of deeply held intent that would make for the most beneficial use of it - that is, provided that they are actually reasonably awarely in touch with that intent.

In this way, this practice, with its particular name kept in mind by its user, even without any specific context to modify or add to its functionality, is a particularly beneficial general method for increasing one's self actualization and progressive weakening and clearance of all obstacles, including dark force interferences.

I have made the practice much more 'friendly' physically by changing the leg positioning and also dispensing with held static positions for the arms in favour of mostly continuous movement. For many purposes this could well also be rather more powerful in 'energy' terms than the held static positions - especially for anyone who finds the latter painful or otherwise clearly stressful. You get no Brownie points from any worthwhile source for sticking to practices that feel as though you are undergoing some sort of severe karmic penance!

I myself generally find that about 5 to 7 cycles of this practice are indicated by my energy testing. I do not count the cycles, however, but sneak in the odd quick energy test when I am getting a feeling that I must have just about finished this session, to see if it would be 'strengthening' for me to conclude at that point.

I do the energy testing for this when I have brought my hands (in sharp roof mudra) down to in front of my lower chest; I pause the cycle at that point, holding my hands there but sneakily removing my tongue from my palate for a moment and holding tip of left thumb and forefinger together to get some semblance of the 'Acceptance Mudra', and, if my energy test on finishing at that point is not clearly 'strengthening', I immediately restore my tongue position and the fullness of the sharp roof mudra and continue through a further cycle or two before testing again.

N.B. It is always important to ensure that your tongue is NOT held to your palate during energy testing, because the tongue held in that position generally weakens the 'signal' of your energy testing, making the dark force's interferences come much more to the fore and thus to be very likely indeed to 'swamp' the genuine signal.

Particular uses of Expanding Clarity

Even without any addition to it, the basic form of this practice would be an excellent self actualization enhancer to carry out daily (or indeed weekly, according to the time priorities in your own schedule of self actualization and self healing practices). However, there is a particular major enhancement that you can add to it if you have a Clarity-Sphere (i.e. of the current type) or a Guardian Angel or Archangel, or indeed a supposedly non-programmed polished stone sphere of a suitably large size (a white marble sphere of 155-165mm or 6-6¼" is particularly good for this, and is about the heaviest that is practical to work with in this sort of way).

A very suitable 165mm marble sphere

Immediately prior to starting your Expanding Clarity session, you have your Sphere or 'Angel' on a desk or table immediately in front of you, and, either sitting at it, or using the 'monkey position' that one learns to use as part of one's application of the Alexander Technique (so that you keep your back free from excess curvature), you place your hands on either side of the Angel / sphere, at least with palms and all fingertips in contact with it, and, with your gaze kept squarely on it, you do five rapid cyclic blows upon the top of it. Then, without any interruption to do anything else, and with your gaze still on it, you rise to full standing with the Angel / sphere still immediately in front of you, and commence the Expanding Clarity practice at once, keeping aware of the connection that you have made with the Angel / sphere, though now best to have your gaze more or less straight ahead, as in the basic practice.

This enables you to use your Angel / sphere to enhance the effects of the practice in ways that are additional to the ways in which it may be assisting while simply 'sitting in the wings'. Exactly what the beneficial effects would be will depend on one's particular deeply held intent, one's circumstances at that particular time, and what one's particular needs are then. If you try to use your 'ordinary mind' to set a conscious detailed intent for the effects of the session you would be bound to weaken its beneficial effects and limit its scope, so a completely open mind as to the specifics of what each session will achieve is really important. It is very helpful, though, to keep clearly in mind your general intent for self actualization, deepening awareness, increasing clarity, and (in general terms) the clearance of all untoward interferences and influences.

If you have a Clarity-Sphere, then a major enhancement is brought about by using the declaration of intent (DOI) given in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide to make this practice one of your 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices.

This section is unfinished at the moment, for I expect to be adding more specific uses and contexts in which Expanding Clarity would have additional, more specific beneficial effects.

Clarity-Power Marching

Recommended as one of the 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices.

Unlike Self-Power Walking, which I describe in the next section, Clarity-Power Marching is not actual locomotory marching at all, but is a 'standing' practice. It involves a reciprocating sequence of arm and leg movements alternating between left and right sides, synchronized with cyclic breaths. This can be a little tricky to learn initially, but is easy once you have got the knack of it.

Please note that producing a sound from the 'slapping' is purely incidental and is NOT the point of the practice; what is important is simply the movements synchronized with the cyclic breaths. However, the gentle slaps do give some degree of audible feedback as to how well you are synchronizing your movements; for best effectiveness the movements and breaths do need to be fairly precisely synchronized.

As for uses for this practice, I have been using it regularly as one of my three 'Clarity-Sphere companion' practices - though originally I was given it supposedly to carry out a certain energy balancing function for me. It is a powerful practice, and is best used in short sessions of only about 1-1½ minutes - or at least, that is how it has worked out for me. Your own energy testing may indicate it as a good practice to use for some specific requirement of yours, and in time I may add here some suggested additional uses for it.

Self-Power Walking

This is one of the most important practices that I recommend to people and have been using myself.

Self-Power Walking (which is something quite different from what is widely known as Power Walking) is in effect a special type of meditation, and, because formal sitting meditation is ungrounding and can be harmful in other ways too, especially when done a lot, I strongly recommend that Self-Power Walking replace ALL formal sitting meditation that you may have been doing up to this point.

Unlike sitting meditation, Self-Power Walking works extremely potently in an active and grounding way to carry out a range of important healing functions, including the clearance of old emotional issues, traumas and attachments - certainly those that are truly yours, and, as far as I can ascertain, additionally those of attached 'entities' (particularly parasitic lost souls) that are adversely affecting you. I got the basic Self-Power Walking method from the Energy Egg people at the workshop of theirs that I attended*, but I enhanced the method's effectiveness for my own purposes by adding another Self-Power Walking mode to the original two that I was given.

* They actually called the practice 'Power Walking', which term I myself, following in their footsteps, had been using on this site till late April 2010, when I switched to calling it 'Self-Power Walking'. I made this change because a Web search revealed that, as noted above, there is a well established widely used meaning for 'power walking', and it is not at all what the practice's originators or I had been using that term for - being simply the use of some special physical technique to enable oneself to walk at a particularly fast speed with minimum stress to the system for such a speed. For this reason it simply is not practical to use the term 'Power Walking' - otherwise an excellent term for the purpose - for the healing / self actualization walking practice that I am referring to on this page and elsewhere on this site.

Features common to all Self-Power Walking modes

• Your hands are both formed into a mudra (energy-active hand configuration), which is different for each mode, and your arms swing freely - as loosely as you can reasonably manage while holding the particular mudras. The tension in the hands for each of the mudras will cause some stiffness of the arm swings, but that stiffness needs to be kept to the minimum possible while maintaining maximum tautness of the hands. While holding these mudras, for the first and second modes you walk with the backs of the hands facing forwards, and for the third, using the splayed hand mudra, the backs of the hands are facing outwards laterally.

  The different mudras enable different, albeit overlapping, aspects of your emotional issues (and various other distortions in your non-physical aspects) to progressively clear - so, generally speaking, they all need to be used in a session - though without worrying that something will go wrong for you if for some reason you did not succeed in fitting them all into a specific session.

• The tip of your tongue is held to the top/front of your palate - at a position just behind where you can feel some marked indentations. However, it is important to remember to temporarily remove it from that position any time you use energy testing.

• You are carrying out complete breathing, extra-complete breathing, or, better still, power breathing.

• Your gaze is primarily out to distant objects. In the original instructions I was given for "Power Walking" it was said simply that you need to "keep focused on distant objects". My own experience and inner inquiry suggests that the healthiest and most effective use of your sight in Self-Power Walking sessions is to allow yourself to enjoy a very varied range of visual foci, so it is actually fine and indeed helpful still to glance at the odd near objects, such as plant and animal life nearby (and the dog poo that you would tread in if you were just looking into the distance), while still maintaining most attention on the distance. And again, it is also helpful to allow yourself at times to de-focus as in formal meditation - but a defocused state is best NOT to be maintained for long periods, nor for most of the time, because it is ungrounding, and this practice is of greatest benefit if it is kept strongly grounding.

• Part of your awareness is on the contact of your feet (through your footwear, if worn!) with the ground, and you maintain, at least at the back of your mind, a sense of unwanted, distorted 'energies' and emotional issues and attachments all passing out of your system through your feet and indeed your hands (holding their mudras), straight down into the ground. It is important that you simply allow such an 'energy' flow to occur and do not use your conscious mind to try to direct the 'energy'. If you do that you will actually obstruct the process. So, the name of the game here is to simply enjoy having some sense of it happening.

  Actually I doubt very much whether there is really some sort of energy flowing out of you, even temporarily, when you are Self-Power Walking. I see this notion of the degraded / distorted 'energies' passing into the ground, to return to you later transformed into a pure and healthy state, as just a convenient schematic depiction of a process that is actually much more subtle and difficult (or indeed even totally impossible) to describe in any objectively accurate way. The same point also applies to my descriptions of how the Grounding Point procedure works.
  

  My more recent inner inquiry appears to have now more satisfactorily explained how it is that Stephen and Lynda Kane were able to 'demonstrate' that harmful / distorted energies pass out of a person into the ground when (s)he is doing "Power Walking" (energy testing shows it to be somewhat weakening to be on ground over which somebody has just been Self-Power Walking). My understanding now is that the cause of this effect is NOT problematical 'energies' passing from the Self-Power walker into the ground, but a slight resonance or induction effect upon a person's most immediate surroundings while they are very actively and 'energetically' processing problematical 'energies', as occurs in Self-Power Walking.

  However, it is still helpful in practical terms to get some sense of problematical 'energies' passing out of you into the ground when you are doing Self-Power Walking - particularly if you recognise it as just a sort of convenient schematic visualization of something really too subtle to be helpfully described.

• You allow your mind to be empty or not empty, without preconceptions as to how it ought to be. You aim to gently observe anything going on in your mind without getting involved with it. Unlike in formal sitting meditation, this actually comes much more naturally in Self-Power Walking, because you have plenty of variety all around and within you to focus on instead of getting involved in your thoughts. It is greatly unhelpful to try to make your mind empty, as so many teachers exhort one to do. Even for an enlightened and deeply self actualized person, the healthiest state is NOT specifically with an empty mind but with an unattached one.

• While Self-Power Walking will work wherever you do it, it is most effective when you are in some sort of open and especially elevated country with really distant views. Coastal and especially clifftop Self-Power Walking is especially effective, and then has the additional benefit of the healing effects of the proximity of the sea.

• For much the best results, finish your Self-Power Walking session with the End of Practice Procedure. You can make things slightly more effective still by using this procedure at the end of each mode of Self-Power Walking during your session. That is definitely non-essential, but it is slightly helpful if you remember to do it.

  Self-Power Walking still works beautifully without your using that procedure, but you will get quite a lot more benefit if you do remember to use it. As I understand it at the moment, if within about 1 to 2 hours of your finishing your Self-Power Walking you realize that you had forgotten to use the End of Practice Procedure, you can largely make up for the omission by repeating a little of the last mode of Self-Power Walking that you had used - say for three full extra-complete or power breathing cycles - and then using the End of Practice Procedure.

• How long to do your Self-Power Walking? -- Ideally you would ascertain this 'on the fly' by energy testing or grounded direct energy awareness (which latter very few people indeed are yet able to use to any really helpful extent). I myself do so by energy testing. However, if you do not yet have such energy awareness or the requisite energy testing method (ordinary dowsing or channelling would be unreliable and can cause you serious trouble), then a good general recommendation is for 5 to 10 minutes, divided up about equally between the three modes. Just a minute or two of each mode per day would be very effective, but if you have some particular urgency to clear stuff out (e.g. because of particular dark force attacks or an abusive relationship situation), there is nothing to stop you having even 30-40-minute sessions - though it would be best to periodically energy-test to see what is really the optimum session length for you at the present time. Indeed, my own inner inquiry points to a 5+ minutes' session more or less daily being more effective than having a single 30 to 40-minute session just once a week, though of course your own energy testing (for yourself) may indicate differently.

  That may sound like some sort of troublesome commitment, but truly it is not like that. Nobody is saying you have got to do 'x amount' of Self-Power Walking every day. I am just suggesting what is likely to be optimal for you. Indeed, if you get in the odd five minutes of Self-Power Walking in a week you would be doing yourself a great favour as compared with not using it at all. However, I think that once you understand more deeply what wonders it is doing or would be doing for you, you would want to increase your Self-Power Walking to an optimal level and 'get on with it', so getting to enjoy life so much more as all manner of your old 'gubbins' is cleared out.

The different modes of Self-Power Walking

Mode 1

You use what I am calling the power middle finger mudra. For obvious reasons, in many cultures (including my own) it is wise not to display this one in public pointing anything like upwards, even though in a sense that still is a sort of power middle finger mudra (with a different intent and purpose)!

-- NOT this!

Notionally, this mudra is the clawed hand mudra (see below), but with the middle finger tautly outstretched. However, I don't know about you, but I myself find it not merely painful to attempt but actually physically impossible, and what I end up with is simply the loosest possible fist with the middle finger tautly outstretched. My inner inquiry indicates that this works fine, but is definitely helped if you still think of your hand configuration as NOT being a fist but instead still being your best attempt at the clawed hand mudra.

I warn now that this and the next mudra are very uncomfortable - even rather painful when you are not used to them - and it is important to maintain the maximum tautness despite the discomfort.

However, to put this in its proper perspective, I find that every time I am doing these Self-Power Walking practices, the mental and emotional sense of well-being and emerging inner power is so pronounced that I am still strongly motivated to use the practices despite the temporary physical discomforts. I also find that despite a slight arthritic condition of my finger joints, no deleterious effects have shown up at all.

You hold this mudra with the BACK of your hands facing forwards while you walk.

Mode 2

For this one you use the clawed hand mudra.

For this mudra you curve your fingers and thumb inwards as far as you can, while you are simultaneously pulling them back at the base as hard as you can - so that the fingers and thumb are like claws or talons and touch neither each other nor any part of the palm. It is important to hold the hand as tautly like this as possible. Because of the discomfort you may need to take the odd brief break while using this mudra (or the Power Middle Finger mudra). That is fine and would not hurt the practice in any way. Indeed, through being flexible enough to look after yourself well you would most likely actually slightly increase the practice's effectiveness.

You hold this mudra with the BACK of your hands facing forwards while you walk.

Mode 3

For this you use the splayed hand mudra, in which all your fingers are splayed out as wide apart as possible - a bit tautly but not enough to be really stressful.

As you walk, this time you do so with your PALMS facing INWARDS, towards yourself.

Some general notes for all three modes

Pick and choose, or use all?

You may be aware of specific issues of yours that you want to address using specific Self-Power Walking modes. However, what your conscious mind thinks does not all that often tally with what is actually best for you. Generally speaking, although it is greatly beneficial to do any Self-Power Walking at all, in any mode(s) that you happen to choose, it is best, whenever practical, to fit all three modes into a session, whether or not in that particular session. If you use energy testing, you would be able to tell to what extent to use any particular Self-Power Walking mode in a particular session, but the general best practice is to give about equal time to all three modes.

The problem about being picky is not that you would do too much of one particular mode but simply that you would most likely be denying yourself some important clearance because of your not sufficiently using another particular mode as well.

One-handed operation

I think it is quite obvious that while your hands are holding things you cannot really do Self-Power Walking - at least, as I have described it above. So, if you regularly use a pair of trekking poles when you go walking or hiking, then you have got a little problem. In fact, using a pair of such poles is not the beneficial thing that at the moment it is almost universally being made out to be, as I explain in my Favourite Hiking Routes page. There are indeed various reasons why it is best not to use even one walking stick at all except where the terrain is seriously uneven or you have very unstable ankles. If you have the latter issue, as indeed I had myself at one time, the primary way to clear that problem is through using the Returning Life Sequence and the practices described on this page - though it would most likely take some months or even a year or two for the instability to go anything like completely.

However, if you are using just one walking stick (which is what I myself do on certain particularly uneven and hard-going walking routes) or are holding, say, a shopping bag in one hand, then you can hold the mudra with the free hand - BUT in this case it is very helpful to remember to periodically switch the use of the hands, so that the mudra is held for a roughly equal duration by both hands. As you can imagine, this is not as effective as holding the mudra with both hands simultaneously, but is still effective enough to be very much worth doing - especially if you are Power-Breathing.

If you do a session of Self-Power Walking in this manner, it is very helpful (though not essential) to do just a little two-handed Self-Power Walking in each of the modes before you finish that for the day - again remembering to use the End of Practice Procedure at the end.

Although I cover one-handed operation here, I do not really recommend it except in cases where one has very limited opportunities for Self-Power Walking at all, or one has a particular urgency at the time for doing a lot of Self-Power Walking (perhaps, for example, because of a current problem with dark force attacks), or, of course, if one has only one usable hand.

Gloves and mitts - not altogether a problem!

To some extent, wearing of gloves or mitts tends to reduce the effectiveness of Self-Power Walking, but my own experimentation and energy testing has shown that, with a positive intent to make it still work well, you can very effectively Power Walk while wearing gloves or mitts - especially good news for people with the so-called Raynaud's disease (one of my afflictions).

Indeed, mitts have an especial advantage, because when you are wearing them you can happily Power Walk even around town without any risk of people thinking you are an escape from the nearest psychiatric unit! That is, the mitts nicely conceal your strange-looking mudras - though some people may still give you slightly odd looks because you are still visibly holding your hands rather stiffly at slightly strange angles for walking.

Self-Power Walking indoors

If, for one reason or another you do not have access to a suitable route to Self-Power Walk, you can do it indoors with quite reasonable effectiveness, even though it is significantly more effective to be actually walking in a suitable outdoor location. If it is not practical to actually be walking around much (which of course would usually be the case indoors), you can do it standing, with your feet modestly apart and reasonably parallel to and aligned with each other, and with your knees very slightly bent, so that the legs are not stiffly straight. It helps then to imagine, as you swing your arms, that you really are walking, and to make it as much like a real outdoors Self-Power Walking session as possible. You can further improve the effectiveness of this standing practice by a slight oscillation of your body from side to side - not tilting but simply moving your centre of gravity more over one foot, then the other. This does not have to be synchronized with anything, and indeed could cause problems if, for example, synchronized with the breathing, for it might lead you into inadvertent hyperventilation.

Self-Power Walking for disabled people

I have belatedly experimented on this and found that apparently - if I am getting a correct picture from my own energy awareness and energy testing responses - I am able to do Self-Power Walking remarkably well as a sitting practice (!). I am not claiming that this is fully as effective as when one is walking, but it looks to be very much worth doing sitting if you really cannot get out walking or even do it as a standing practice. This, then, opens up Self-Power Walking for any disabled person who can at least sit upright, swing their arms reasonably vigorously to and fro as though walking briskly, holding the relevant mudras and also extra-complete or power breathing (preferably the latter, of course with pauses to avoid hyperventilation) with the tip of the tongue held to the palate.

You need to be sitting on a simple upright chair with no arms or wheels to get in the way of your loosely hanging arms, which both would need to be swinging to and fro without collisions with parts of the chair. Your back needs to be upright and reasonably straight, but not held stiffly. This comes easiest if you sit with your bottom pushed firmly against the back of the chair. Also, your gaze needs to average out at very roughly straight ahead, without your holding yourself in any one specific posture; rather, think of your head as being lightly and loosely poised on top of your neck. Your feet need to be placed reasonably apart with soles squarely on the floor, and with no leg crossing.

If at all possible, you would need to be sitting where you can gaze out of a window at some sort of view - the more expansive and distant the better. Failing that, a picture of an expansive natural landscape or seascape could be very helpful for you to be facing. As with standard Self-Power Walking you need to keep varying you gaze, looking at different details, both far and relatively close, and making sure that you do not start getting spaced out. It helps the effectiveness of the practice if you actually imagine for the whole duration of the session that you really are walking (briskly) - whether or not you are really able to walk. Thus you swing your arms as though you were walking briskly, and would be thus swinging them at the best sort of speed for this purpose. For this practice it would actually be helpful to be wearing shoes, to increase the impression of your actually walking when you are imagining it.

You may also assist yourself in making this a grounding 'outdoor' experience by playing a recording of suitable natural environmental sounds, such as bird choruses and meteorological phenomena such as thunderstorms. You would need sounds that engage and stimulate your awareness, and not ones that tend to send you to sleep or make your feel spaced out or out of body.

All other details of the practice are as described for the standard, walking version. Even if you cannot keep up this sitting version for very long, every bit that you do would be helping a great deal.

I would caution, however, that this is really untested apart from my own brief experiments and energy testing results from those experiments, so it is really up to each relevant person to find out for him/herself whether this 'sitting' version of Self-Power Walking works for them.

 'Après Self-Power Walking'...

Yes, it is really nice when all that intensity has stopped! You have excruciated yourself (perhaps) with the mudras for the Self-Power Walking, and now you can enjoy being fully relaxed as you continue walking (or simply are walking on another occasion when it is not appropriate to be doing Self-Power Walking). However, even now you can greatly benefit yourself by what is in a way a much gentler sort of Self-Power Walking, which adds no discomfort and virtually no effort to your walking - and does not look so strange to ordinary mortals that you could not do it around town. This can be done by anyone, and does not have to be associated with Self-Power Walking as such at all.

For this mode of walking you have your arms and hands swinging loose but each hand has the tip of thumb and forefinger touching, with the fingers otherwise loose (though held roughly together in a relaxed sort of way - and it helps for you to imagine that they are so loose that your arm, hand and finger bones could all float away out of their sockets.

In this mode of walking you actually keep clear of any notion that 'I am Self-Power Walking', and simply enjoy your walking and keeping it as relaxed as possible (the Alexander Technique greatly helps), whether it be in town or country. As well as the tips of thumb and forefinger gently touching, the tip of your tongue is held to your palate. You can at times do complete breathing, though I recommend that this not be maintained for long when you are in this walking mode, but power breathing is definitely 'out'.

You can do any walking, anytime, in this mode - even all day, though I recommend that it not be used in a rigidly continuous manner for very long periods, or it would start becoming one of your attachments and thus an obstacle for you. So, it is the sort of thing to periodically come back to at times while you are out and about.

This mode of walking, because it is gentle and you use it quite a bit of the time, does not particularly need the End of Practice Procedure, but you can still get a little benefit through using it on the odd occasion when you are aware that you have just stopped holding the mudra, or at the end of a walk.

Grounding Point (originally called Grounding Post)

Grounding Point is an extremely simple and focused procedure for clearing problematical and distorted 'energies' from your system. These can include energy implants, thought forms, beliefs, trauma memories, apparent past life memories, and any painful or problematical emotions. I originally called the procedure Grounding Post because, in its original implementation one used a wooden post to ground and disperse the problematical energies (which are subsequently returned to one's system transformed into healthy, fully life-supporting energy)*. Also, to a fair extent the use of this procedure helps ground your awareness. I belatedly renamed it Grounding Point in recognition of the fact that for me and probably most people, it is at least as effectively done using a polished sphere of a suitable type of stone, and, most effectively of all, using a Clarity-Sphere, instead of a wooden post.

* As already noted, I doubt very much whether that is really anything more than a figurative description of what really happens - which latter would be too subtle ever to be able to be described in an objectively accurate manner.

This is a lovely procedure to use when out on walks in the country (on which indeed you may also be doing some Self-Power Walking). When you come upon a suitable fence or stile post, or indeed wooden bollard, you can make a major impact on a significant issue of yours, painlessly, almost effortlessly, within half a minute - so that at a really inviting post you might well dispose of two or three significant issues all within just a short pause on the walk. There is something wonderfully joyful and empowering about using the procedure, as I hope you will find out yourself.

Grounding Point is completely safe (provided you do not go seriously overdoing the power breathing). It has proved extremely effective for me for clearing or very much weakening at least many illusory realities, including ones used in dark force attacks. I have much personal experience of this, and reports of similar experiences from other people who have used this procedure. It is great for clearing any limiting belief, and going at least some way to clearing very broadly identified emotional issues as well as some more specific ones - though I recommend using the 'broad' approach wherever possible, to minimize the number of Grounding Point sessions that are required.

For me personally, many of the things that I understand Grounding Point to be able to clear are a bit difficult to verify because I have other healing and clearance methods in ongoing use, and it is often difficult or impossible for me to ascribe a particular positive change to one method or another. So, the claims that I make for this procedure are not all tested in a precise manner but at least appear to be logically based with regard to what has been consistently observed to work, and are supported by my inner inquiry / energy testing.

It would always be helpful to hear from people who have had clear positive results from their use of Grounding Point, so that any claims that I make for it can be better supported by actual observations.

I do not regard Grounding Point as a replacement for ongoing use of the yogic practices such as the Returning Life Sequence and Self-Power Walking, ongoing use of which would be progressively dissolving a wide range problematical energy configurations in your system, very likely including implants and thought forms, without your having to identify any of them - but it would be a way of greatly speeding the clearance of certain specific issues of this type of which you are aware, without having to wait for them to gradually fade away during the overall, more gradual clearance process.

The basis of this procedure was given to me by the psychic surgeon CT, who, fortunately, passed the particular method to me freely without any 'ties' and no signs at all of it being meant to be kept private as any sort of 'intellectual property' of his. I tidied up the original, expanded it where necessary and removed or altered the odd details of CT's where certain problematical beliefs of his had led to his incorporating the odd unhelpful elements in the procedure. What I give here is the basic method that I then arrived at. More recently, on the basis of my own experimentation and use of inner inquiry, I further modified the procedure and added certain details, all to make the method more effective and efficient, but that was primarily aimed at using a polished stone sphere rather than a wooden post, and so I give that enhanced method on the Stone Spheres page.

I should mention here that in CT's original of this procedure he described the phenomenon that I call a thought form replica of an implant as a memory of the implant left in your DNA. If you encounter such a notion anywhere, it is as well to bear in mind that that is part of a big dark force sourced myth concerning the purported role of DNA in some purported big step forward for Humanity such as 'full consciousness' or 'ascension', which is actually a scheme from the dark force to ensnare a huge number of people in an illusory reality and thus the dark force's agenda of taking full control of those people for an extremely pernicious purpose as described in The True Nature of 'The Dark Force' and its Interference and Attacks. On this site I do my best to point to insights and methodology that are free from all such troublesome influences.

In the case of removing implants, it is important always to finish off the removal procedure by repeating it for the removal of any thought form replica of the implant you have just attempted to remove, for, according to my own inner inquiry results, virtually all energy implants can be expected to be accompanied by thought form replicas of themselves. Indeed, if you have ever had supposedly temporary healing implants put into your system by a healer or psychic surgeon (always seriously misguidedly!), even if the implants had dissolved as they were meant to (in some cases they do not dissolve, and need to be removed), their thought form replicas would in most cases still be present, being maintained by the dark force, and causing various problems in your system, including increased openness and vulnerability to the dark force.

For a specific implant you do not need to have an extremely precise knowledge of its location, because your own non-physical aspects can to a certain extent compensate for an error in positioning of your mental focus on the implant - but there are limits to how far such compensation can go. There is no harm at all, however, in doing some 'belt and braces' work, repeating the procedure using different guesstimates of where a particular device might be (remembering each time to repeat the procedure to remove any remaining thought form replica of the device).

But then again, if you use energy testing you would be able to ascertain where any particular device is, and also whether the procedure has worked on it and indeed on the thought form replica. Indeed, you would also (I hope!) energy-test first of all to see if it would be worthwhile / helpful for you to use that particular procedure in the first place. After all, I might have written a lot of useless dark force sourced fiction on this page - vigilance is always a great policy! Or your 'information' or hunch that you have a particular implant may itself be incorrect, and your energy testing, although not being able to tell you categorically whether you do or do not have the implant, would be able to indicate whether it would be helpful to act as though you do have it.

Notes about clearing thought forms and emotional material

There is never cause to worry about whether something such as an apparent past life memory would be appropriate to submit to Grounding Point for dissolution. Only what is not serving your deepest and ultimate good would be dissolved or disappear, so, if in doubt at all over something, just go ahead anyway and do it! If, for example, you make as though to dissolve a particular memory, if that memory needs to be kept (it would need to be kept if and only if it is genuinely yours and of this lifetime), then the memory would not dissolve, BUT a considerable proportion (or perhaps all) of any problematical 'energies' associated with it (such as trauma) would be dissolved. In other words, it would be 'cleaned up'.

In fact you do not really dissolve memories at all - that is just a convenient way of describing it. You dissolve your attachment to them. Thus no memories are actually being destroyed, and indeed you may still be able, if you have some particular reason to do so, to recall particular memories that are not even yours and you had actually let go of - but you would then much more readily recognise them as 'unlikely to be mine' or "something I have let go of now".

If you have a specific 'entity' or dark force interference problem, it can be worthwhile treating it as though it were a thought form or illusory reality and using Grounding Point on it. This has two advantages. One is that you may by that means actually dissipate some thought form / illusory reality material related to real 'entity' / dark force interferences that you are getting. The other is that, particularly if you have already been doing extensive self actualization and clearance work, any actual 'entities' may have actually already gone (though that would not be the case for dark force interferences), and what you are experiencing then is (yes, I say it again!) a thought form replica of the departed 'entity'. If the latter is the case, you may experience a dramatically rapid cessation of the particular issue just through using that simple and quick procedure a few times or maybe even just once.

Thought forms may seem to you to be rather an exotic sort of thing, but actually we ALL carry thought forms that we have picked up from all manner of people and sources. Also we unawarely create them and affect other people with them. I strongly recommend that the Grounding Point method described above be used to clear thought forms that you may have received from parents, partners (especially abusive ones), teachers and lecturers of any type, and doctors of any type. Doctors and therapists particularly tend to unawarely implant thought forms into everyone with whom they deal - not just patients / clients.

Psychiatric doctors, and also any type of therapist or healer who uses hypnosis among their methods, are among the worst offenders, because, generally speaking, they have strong patterns of wanting to control others (they usually do not recognise this at all themselves!), and it is these patterns that have put them into their professional positions. This happens regardless of how 'nice' the doctor or therapist may appear to be. The most problematical thought forms involved are almost invariably relating to power / control issues and they help predispose people to be deferential to those doctors and therapists and accept their control and supposed superiority. Those thought forms remain with the affected people and generally have a disempowering effect on them, so helping to keep them steered away from self empowerment and true self actualization. The passing on of such thought forms from doctors and therapists is so normal that hardly anyone bats an eyelid at it happening, yet actually it is all the working of the dark force, and extremely unhealthy for us all.

The simple and straightforward way of greatly expediting the clearance from yourself of such material - unless you know of specific thought forms to process - is to use your intent to visualize (in a vague sort of way) the particular doctor or other person in your cupped hands, together with all the thought forms, status, power and control agendas and any sort of emotional pressures from them, and then use the 'wooden post' procedure just as with a single thought form. This is extremely unlikely to completely clear everything relating to the particular person, but it is bound to clear a significant proportion, and is worth repeating a few times on, say, a monthly basis - though my current 'reading' is that, generally speaking, the remains of the particular thought form complex, if it is not a very strong and deeply held one, would spontaneously dissipate over a few weeks or perhaps a month or two, with no further action required.

Finally, as a cue and prompting for your using Grounding Point for clearing issues of your own, I list here a selection of thought forms and other things that I have delivered into wooden posts or by the same means into my stone sphere to my considerable benefit. I should explain that nearly all the thought forms and issues that I have been clearing are originated NOT from experiences of mine (and are thus NOT my own issues at all) but have been left in my system by the large collection of parasitic lost souls that were attached to me (I am not sure to what extent they are still attached or connected to me now). The strength of the nasty feelings associated with various of them has been caused by the dark force attacking me to give nightmarishly or even hellishly exaggerated experiences of the particular emotion feelings.

• Thought form: I am being overwhelmed / destroyed by this (with a specific and quite hellish emotional feeling)
• Thought form: I am going too fast!
• Thought form: the vow, I'll never, ever drive!
• Thought form: I can't pee because somebody might know I am peeing / trying to pee here.
• Thought form: Something unspeakably frightful has happened! (together with a strong and overpoweringly menacing ache at my solar plexus)
• Thought form: the vow, I'll never, ever again, form a close relationship!
• Thought form: the vow, I'll never, ever again compose music!
• Thought form complex: a past life memory of one of the attached lost souls - being in absolutely total darkness, terrified and being pursued by something unidentified which is repeatedly making a most terrifying sound - and then, still fleeing in total darkness in absolute terror, falling into what seems to be some extremely deep pit, presumably to my death. Some nasty emotion feelings unsurprisingly associated with this.
• Thought forms which I received from the psychiatric doctors at Wonford House and The Cedars in Exeter, including I am a patient, I am mentally ill, The doctors know best, and I must do what the doctors tell me to. I focused on mental images of the doctors and projected those images and all the related thought forms into my cupped hands for delivering into the wooden post.
• Thought form: Whenever fulfilment begins to look possible for me it is snatched away, so yet again I am going to die unfulfilled. (with a nasty, 'doomed' sort of emotional feeling)
• Emotion feelings: Sexual arousal and erotic ecstasy (These have been regularly used by the dark force to try to control me, as happens for almost everyone.)
• Thought form complex: a feeling of morbid dread at any thought of 'the occult' or 'dark practices'
• Thought form complex, centred around certain disturbing smells and generalized 'witchcraft', 'dark practices' and 'black magic' images with which the dark force repeatedly plied me to try to frighten me.
• Thought form: I am not worthy of another person's (and particularly a woman's) companionship or closeness.
• Thought form: I have done something wrong (accompanied by a specific very nasty - even hellish - feeling)
• Self doubt (with a specific, very nasty disempowering feeling)
• Anger (of alarming-feeling intensity)
  

  N.B. A reminder - as far as I can ascertain, I have no anger of my own; this is just dark force attack when it happens, and the same is true for the other problematical emotions in this list. They remain attached to my system as memories belonging to the parasitic lost souls that are or have been attached or connected to me, and are kept in place by the dark force. When I do get attacked with anger I do not get into a rage but simply feel the very nasty feelings and a pressure upon me from the dark force to get into a violently destructive rage (which I recognise for what it is, so that I then refocus my awareness and rebalance myself).

• Feeling of needing a companion or lover
• Illusory reality based on I need to exist and I need to know that I exist
• Illusory reality based on If I don't have supportive friendship / companionship I'll be annihilated
• Illusory reality based on If anyone disagrees with me or verbally attacks me, I'll be annihilated
• Illusory reality based on I mustn't be found to be wrong, for if that happens I'll be annihilated
• Illusory reality based on If  I don't succeed in proving myself to others I'll be annihilated
• Illusory reality based on I'll be annihilated if I fail to achieve 
• Other illusory realities based on If I don't xxxx, I'll be annihilated

  The latter seven, plus similar ones, relating to existential terror (usually hidden), are particularly important for people to 'zap' - especially for people who are no-soul incarnations, and especially anyone who has at least some element of the 'ungrounded' or 'Schizoid' character structure, in which cases existential terror is generally a major component of the person's life experience, whether or not they recognise it as such.

• "All apparent or illusory realities in which I have 'masters', entities or beings of any type who have ultimate control or command over me, and in which I cannot escape that control / interference no matter what I do."
• "All apparent or illusory realities in which there is any sort of 'higher' or 'ultimate' presence or power that is in any way external to myself."
  

  N.B. These latter two are a top priority for anyone to 'zap' with Grounding Point if they are serious about clearing themselves of all dark force interference and influence. They need 'zapping' even if you are sure you are not carrying such illusory realities, for they will be there somewhere, even if only in your soul programming.
  

  Actually the second of these two really includes the first, so the chances are that you would need to 'do' only that one, but because the particular issue is so crucial to clear I recommend 'zapping' both as a reassurance.

  As with all Grounding Point 'zappings', you can use specific wordings initially to clarify your intent, but for best results you need to then let go of the specific words and carry out the procedure with a sort of 'visualization by intent' rather than very much using the words.

Grounding Point for the most comprehensive, across-the-board healing

I do not mean by this that Grounding Point is a fully comprehensive healing method in itself - but for some people it might begin to seem like that! The point is this. There are bound to be at least many cases where one's healing - both non-physical and physical - is at least to some extent being obstructed by particular illusory realities or hidden beliefs that one may be completely unawarely carrying, typically covertly inserted by the dark force into more or less hidden aspects of one's mindspace. For this reason, it is actually extremely important to use Grounding Point to 'zap' all such illusory realities that one may be quite unawarely carrying.

You do not have to become aware of those illusory realities to 'zap' them; all you need is a little clear-mindedness about what might be getting in your way. I give below a list of some such postulated illusory realities that I have zapped for myself. I do not know to what extent I have actually been carrying any particular one in that list, but that is not important. What is important is to 'do' each illusory reality as though one is carrying it, because it is so little work to do a 'zap' and it simply does not make sense not to do it, for you cannot know for sure that you are not carrying such an illusory reality, and 'zapping' it just in case ensures that nothing important is missed. Because these are such all-embracing illusory realities, 'zapping' them can potentially have profound and far reaching beneficial effects, particularly if you are using other healing methods and one or more of the 'zapped' illusory realities had been to some extent reducing the effectiveness of those methods.

Illusory realities to 'zap' – including:

• Illusory reality in which my healing methods (including my use of stone spheres / Clarity-Sphere) are working less than 100%.
• Illusory reality in which there are external influences (including the dark force) that harmfully interfere with and attack me and other people.
• Illusory reality in which some or all of my physical and non-physical issues are not healing / resolving as much or as fast as is really possible.
• Illusory reality in which people are almost universally not motivated to work for their own balanced and fully comprehensive self actualization and clearance of their dark force and other adverse influences.
• Illusory reality in which my tinnitus and other physical annoyances are being magnified to an intrusive level by external influences, including the dark force.
• Illusory reality in which, each time I take a new measure that appears to be a significant step forward against the dark force's hold or interferences upon me / other people, the dark force 'retaliates' by launching a strong attack on me.
• Illusory reality in which people cannot properly connect or relate with me because of my own state of relatively balanced self actualization, and have progressively lost interest in me as I have progressively lost my confusions - virtually the only people still making such contact all having agendas to pull me down into their particular confusions.

This is not an exhaustive list, and you would need to make up your own list – no doubt based on this one, but with its own details that are specific to you, just as this one has the odd details that are specific to me.

One thing is particularly important in 'zapping' these illusory realities is that you do NOT use a literal 'form of words'. Yes, you start off with the words "An illusory reality in which..." - BUT that is only your 'handle' to use as a starting point. What you focus into your cupped hands is NOT those words but the meaning underlying them, complete with a generalized and not clearly defined flood of images, impressions and thoughts that are associated with it.

It is also important here to be clear that you are 'zapping' "an illusory reality in which..." rather than just, for example, "My healing methods not working 100%". The latter would work, BUT, it would be a much more narrowly defined illusory reality, and therefore 'zapping' it would have a much lesser effect than 'zapping' the entire illusory reality that is characterized by that postulated less than 100% working of my healing methods. Indeed, this is really the smart way to 'zap' ANY illusory reality - ALWAYS to focus on "the illusory reality in which..." rather than just the specific problem that you are seeking to address. And thus, when you are allowing all the crud to pour into your cupped hands, your focus is not only on the specific issue, but also drawing into your cupped hands everything from that illusory reality, which may contain all sorts of other issues and ramifications. As you do not have to visually see any particular details, this is actually no more work for you than if you were working in the more specific and narrower way - yet the result in many cases could be immensely greater.

Sometimes a more effective wording to pinpoint an illusory reality for 'zapping' would be "an apparent reality in which..." - or, in some cases, "all apparent or illusory realities in which...". If you are in any degree of doubt, energy testing would indicate for you which is likely to be the most effective for you on the current occasion.

As with all uses of Grounding Point, the 'zapping' of each illusory reality would need to be repeated about monthly until energy testing indicated that there was no further benefit in repeating it.

"Just one problem - I don't have a suitable post available!"

If you have a suitable stone sphere you can actually use it as though it were the top of a suitable post. Indeed, with just a little practice this becomes actually more effective than use of a wooden post, so it is actually my preferred way of going about the Grounding Point procedure - and it can be done anytime indoors. If you have a Clarity-Sphere or a sphere that you are in the process of programming for Clarity-Sphere functionality, the procedure would be the same, but I would expect the effectiveness to be greater, and with much less likelihood of your needing to repeat the particular 'zapping'.

Also, subject to the caveats that I give, Tonglen Breathing can be used to achieve the same thing - see further below.

'Visual' or 'Disseminated' Grounding Point

Once you are regularly using the Grounding Point procedure, it is bound to happen that sometimes you become aware of some particular issue or illusory reality that you need to 'zap' by that means, but you happen to be out and about and apparently you would have to wait till you get back home (to work with your stone sphere) or get out on a suitable walk (to work with a suitable wooden post) before you can do anything about that. There is actually a means by which you can reasonably effectively carry out a Grounding Point 'zap' simply by use of your eyes and your intent.

You do not need to stop walking in order to do this. You simply focus your gaze at the top of any wooden post that is firmly planted in the ground, even at a distance, and, instead of gathering the issues and distorted 'energies' in your cupped hands you simply use your intent to direct those issues / 'energies' in a stream to the top of the post as you continue walking. You can do this using successive fence posts, for example, or even the tops of wooden telegraph or power line posts. You can even do the same using whole trees, for when you are working this way you have no need to 'pounce' your hands on them (which might prove a tad difficult to achieve!). 

You can intensify this simple 'visualization with your intent' by power breathing or/and holding the tip of your tongue to your palate, but it is not essential to do so.

This particular variant of Grounding Point is unlikely to be a fully effective alternative to doing it on a wooden post or stone sphere, but it does give you the opportunity to initiate the dissolution of an issue before you have the opportunity to do it formally (and almost certainly more effectively and conclusively) by one of those means and thus to fully seal the fate of the particular issue(s). It also has a certain grounding effect for one's awareness, so that an issue or upset of some kind may clear from you at that point to a much greater extent than one might expect from the relatively small amount of actual clearance of the issue that has taken place at that point.

The only possible down-side of this variant that I can think of is in the event that a person uses it and then considers that (s)he has 'done' that issue and then does not bother to finish it off more securely by the standard Grounding Point procedure.

Why some illusory realities remain even when they have supposedly been 'zapped'

On the face of it, theoretically any illusory reality that you 'zap' with this method will then dissolve over a few weeks to a month or so, and not appear again. However, the real situation is not as simple as that, and for various reasons many of the illusory realities that one is carrying may need to be dissolved in stages. It may seem that they had been got rid of and yet have come back later on, but my understanding is that in general it is not the latter, but just that in many cases only part of the 'energy' of a particular illusory reality is 'visible' and accessible for 'zapping'. More of it becomes available for 'zapping' as your healing and clearance process continues, and so one or more periodic repeat 'zappings' are thus required. Typically you would notice this when some particular everyday situation - very likely some sort of upset - brings that illusory reality to light again.

For this reason it is important not to become concerned or discouraged because you get signs that some particular illusory reality that you had 'zapped' some time ago shows signs of still being with you (albeit very likely in a weaker state than previously). Although it is generally best policy to go straight for and 'zap' the highest level illusory reality that you can identify in a nested set of them (i.e. the one that appears to include all the others that you have in mind at the time), and 'zapping' that one would take with it all the illusory realities that it contains, that does not always work out. In such cases you may need to go 'zapping' some of the contained, more specific illusory realities before a 'zapping' of that containing one could be fully effective. Sometimes the process can be held up because some of the contained illusory realities are still hidden from your conscious awareness, and probably need some specific situation to flush them out so that you recognise them and can then 'zap' them.

'Positive Intent Grounding Point' to give a powerful push to positive and healing intents

 So far I have talked of the Grounding Point procedure as being one for 'zapping' undesirable 'things' and aspects in one's life experience. Indeed, that was my only perception of this procedure up till 19th December 2009, on which date, with a particularly troublesome and seemingly intractable type of dark force attack causing me a disruptive level of physical pain that was totally resistant to painkillers or local anaesthetic, I got seeking to find new options for speeding up my own clearance process. At this point one blindingly obvious thing that I had previously never thought of at all came to light - that you can use Grounding Point as a really powerful way of setting and activating a specific positive intent. In a fair number of cases it would serve as an alternative to a formal reading of a declaration of intent, and in some of those cases, when carried out by particularly deeply aware people (particularly no-soul people), would be very much more powerful, and indeed really about as powerful a healing method as one could come up with at all.

This non-zapping application of Grounding Point is simplicity itself if you are already used to the basic procedure. The one different thing in the procedure this time is in what you focus into your cupped hands, and your intent when you 'pounce' your hands onto the wooden post or (preferably, for this purpose) suitable stone sphere.

I commend the widest possible use of Grounding Point in this way (just substituting your own specific positive intents), and I recommend it too as a powerfully enhancing add-on to a formal reading of my set of affirmations. This use of Grounding Point is probably always superior to use of the Tonglen Breathing practice described below, and has none of the possible risks of that method.

However, it now appears to me that for many people a sort of hybrid between Grounding Point and the following practice - Tonglen breathing - would be more effective for this positive-intent version, and it has a more peaceful and less stressful feel about it. The difference in this case is simply that instead of focusing your intent into your cupped hands, you use a sort of 'visualization with intent' to inhale your positive intent through your partly closed lips, with your hands on either side of the top of the post or your working sphere, so you are breathing in a steady stream of 'it', and then you similarly breathe it out in a steady focused stream into the top of the post or your sphere. Towards or at the end of that exhalation you gently 'clap' your hands five times upon the post or sphere while maintaining your gaze upon it, and finish as though you had just 'pounced' your positive intent upon the post / sphere, but with only complete or extra-complete breathing - not power breathing.

I add a few details to this procedure in my account of it on my Stone Spheres page.

Tonglen Breathing

While I do strongly recommend this method, it is VERY important that you heed the caveats that I give further below on the manner and in what circumstances you can use it without possibly causing problems for yourself.

Indeed I recommend that, wherever possible, instead of this practice you use the 'positive intent' version of the Grounding Point procedure described above - so generally I nowadays think of Tonglen Breathing as being something to use when I do not have a suitable stone sphere or wooden post to use for Grounding Point.

Tonglen ('Giving and Receiving') is a practice particularly associated with Tibetan Buddhism, and, at the time that I became enlightened, at the beginning of 1997, I was reading books by Tibetan Buddhist 'masters', which made a lot of that practice. Indeed, what I read about that was one of the things that started putting me off those teachings, because as far as I could see, all one ever needed to do in order to carry out what was useful in Tonglen was to do a simple breathing visualization. You breathe in particular people's (or an individual's or everyone's) suffering and negativity and breathe it out to them transformed into healthy life force 'energy'. Yet the Tibetan Buddhist approach was to load that simple but profound healing technique with a lot of moralistic stuff about 'compassion' and indeed to add in a lot of ritual and completely superfluous visualizations - all of which I now understand to have been sourced from the dark force.

I do NOT call the technique that I developed from that just 'Tonglen', because that would in many people's minds still associate it with Buddhism and the various distortions that Tibetan Buddhism introduced into the real healing method to make it more of a 'spiritual' or even religious practice, so bringing in harmful elements and also limiting the effectiveness of the extremely beneficial basic procedure. That is why I always call it Tonglen Breathing rather than just Tonglen. In any case, I have added an important element to the most basic Tonglen breathing, to make it all maximally effective.

Tonglen Breathing is one of the most easy, beneficial and versatile healing practices / techniques that you can use, and it can even be incorporated into a hands-on healing session. It can be used for all sorts of distant healing, and it can be applied to ANY sort of 'entity' or dark force interference problem.

Additionally to its being a 'healing' method or technique, Tonglen Breathing, when used awarely and with a clear-minded discernment, is a powerful self actualization method, because such use of it is all the time cultivating the self perception that you are fundamentally 'the Ultimate', and that you do not need or have cause to rely upon any seemingly external beings or 'presence'.

Anything that can be done with the Grounding Point procedure can also be done with Tonglen Breathing, but also a lot more besides.

Tonglen Breathing is actually much simpler and easier to do than it is to read that screed above!

Notes on Tonglen Breathing

• Safety first!

  • You are breathing in only AIR - NOT anything harmful!
    I have already cautioned that it is effectively unwise and indeed very likely harmful to use this technique unless you can hold a clear understanding / perception that you, or at least your own deepest aspect, is 'the Ultimate' and the 'infinite Source'. This is for an interesting and important reason.

    The method itself is actually intrinsically safe as long as it is used in an aware, discriminating and suitably sparing way, BUT interferences from the dark force cause the problem. If you carry a deep seated belief that if one visualizes that one is breathing in the troublesome distorted (or 'negative') energies, one is actually breathing in such energies (in other words, that it is more than just a visualization), your non-physical aspects then gain 'imprints' of those troublesome 'energies'. Those imprints are NOT directly caused by those 'energies' but by the belief that you are actually breathing them in. Another way of regarding such beliefs, which can be completely hidden from the conscious mind, is as illusory realities - so, you can have a (quite possibly hidden) illusory reality somewhere in your awareness, in which if you did Tonglen Breathing you would actually be breathing in masses of 'negativity' and thus harming yourself.

    Unfortunately, that particular illusory reality, in a generalized form, is a standard part of people's soul programming, which has all come from the dark force. Thus, on the face of it, the only people for whom Tonglen Breathing would be a relatively safe proposition would be no-soul people, who simply have no soul programming in the first place - but the vast majority of people are not no-soul incarnations.

    However, there is an easy way round this - to dissolve any illusory reality or belief that you are carrying, to the effect that when you visualize that you are breathing in troublesome 'energies' (and indeed even actual 'entities') you are actually breathing in the real things and thus causing yourself harm, and indeed also to the effect that any other type of harm would come to you as a result of your using that visualization.

    The means to do that dissolution are given on this very page - the Grounding Point procedure. So, to ensure that you do not have problems through using the Tonglen Breathing technique, you simply prepare yourself by 'zapping' the abovementioned belief / illusory reality with Grounding Point. You would most likely need to repeat that 'zapping' monthly for a few months, and really you would need to use Energy Testing to establish when you were safely ready to use Tonglen Breathing.

    However, there is another way that you can go about 'zapping' that illusory reality, though I cannot guarantee that this would not cause some problems initially, which is why I do not give it a blanket recommendation. Really this is just for people who do not have access to a suitable wooden post (e.g. many city dwellers) and also do not have a suitable stone sphere to work with. Because Tonglen Breathing can be used to 'zap' illusory realities and everything else that Grounding Point can 'zap', you can use Tonglen Breathing to dissolve the illusory reality in which Tonglen Breathing would bring you harm. However, the problem could well be that that particular illusory reality would at once be starting to cause you to accumulate problems from your use of Tonglen Breathing to attempt the dissolution of that illusory reality. I am pretty sure that it would work out okay over a series of repeats of the process, but you might suffer some interim relatively minor harmful effects in your 'energy system' (of which you may well remain unaware), and the dissolution initially could well be very much hampered by this interference.

    However, each successive repeat of the session* would almost certainly be more effective and less harmful than the last, and you could at some point actually use Tonglen Breathing then to clear out any harm that you have accumulated through using it. Energy testing would indicate whether it is worthwhile to continue using that procedure, and indeed could be used to indicate whether it is best for you to try this method in the first place, and also (if you pick your test subjects well), if you did go ahead with it, whether it was causing enough problem to make it necessary to back off and find a different way to clear that illusory reality.

    * Perhaps daily for this purpose, though energy testing is really the answer, to establish just when would be most suitable to do the next repeat.

  • Maintaining your grounding Unlike the Grounding Point procedure, Tonglen Breathing is actually ungrounding. THAT is why I recommend no more than 3 cycles of (very slow) extra-complete breathing in a session. I used to use the method with gay abandon, and that was contributing significantly to the progressive ungrounding that led up to my major troubles with the dark force from late 2003.

    For this reason the use of the end of practice procedure is helpful not only for enhancing the effectiveness of the session but also for quickly re-grounding your awareness. Therefore, for healthy and safe use of Tonglen Breathing, the end of practice procedure counts as an essential part of it.

    Because of the grounding issue, I do not recommend for anyone a complete replacement of Grounding Point with Tonglen Breathing, and for some people who have particularly weak grounding it would be best to stick with Grounding Point and not use Tonglen Breathing till their energy testing indicated that they were sufficiently grounded to make it a sensible option at times. But there is no categorical rule or proscription about this. Really, energy testing is the key all along to finding out what particular method would be most helpful for you to use at any particular time.

• There is NO limit upon what you can 'breathe in' during a Tonglen Breathing session - though generally you can make it optimally effective by applying some thought to the particular issue to ensure that you focus on what is the most essential or fundamental aspect of the particular problem or issue - just as in the Grounding Point procedure.

  If, for example, your immediate concern is a cancer, then although you could just 'breathe in' that cancer, it would be more effective to focus your intent on the whole situation that has brought that cancer about. You do not need to know details of that, but you can still visualize yourself breathing in distorted energies from the whole person, which relate to the cancer in any way, and include the cancer itself - regarding the cancer as being just a product of the real problem that you are breathing in, rather than the problem itself.

  Provided you are clear of the sort of belief or illusory reality that I have already referred to as a problem, you can safely even 'breath in' all manner of night hell visuals, 'entities' and 'darknesses', never mind how terrible, horrific or depraved they may seem to be. If you have a phobia of vomit or vomiting, you can 'breathe in' images of vomit / vomiting (suitably defocused and generalized). You can 'breathe in' 'dark forces', entities, 'demons', 'astral beings', 'astral parasites' and so on in your Tonglen Breathing sessions - though for your own health working on such subject matter needs to be done sparingly and not as a regular thing, thus maintaining a healthy balance in your life.

  One really great issue to 'zap' with Tonglen Breathing is unbidden sexual arousals. You 'breathe in' not only the particular feelings, but all the 'energies' and issues surrounding it - the fears, longings, loneliness, griefs, desires, feelings of attachment, inability to live without 'it' or him/her, and so on. You can include indeed, by association, the dark force itself, because it would definitely be part of the problem, together with any attached parasitic lost souls that you are carrying. You do not have to know for sure whether you are carrying any of the latter; it is best practice to assume that you have some, and to include them in your Tonglen Breathing, for they are bound to be a good part of the problem - albeit through their being manipulated by the dark force rather than interfering directly. You need never fear that you would lose your natural sexual feelings or responses through using such a practice. You lose (really transform) only what is unhealthy and 'not you', even though it may be perfectly normal. Normal sexual function is highly dysfunctional, so by 'zapping' your 'normal' sexual dysfunctions you progressively uncover your genuine, truly natural sexual functioning.

  In all Tonglen Breathing, it is important to 'defocus' any images so that you are not seeing them in a very clear and 'visual' way. As I have already remarked, the need is to visualize with your intent rather than with clear 'visual' pictures. Similarly, you can use a session to give healing to a situation - even a world situation. However, as with ALL healing work, for your own health you need to keep primary focus on healing yourself, so any work on healing others or 'the world' needs to be kept to a quite small proportion of the total that you do.

• A variant of Tonglen Breathing to tune your Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg to a source of environmental or emotional stress.
  For this you look at the particular source (or a picture of it or another source of the same type of stress), concentrating on it briefly as you breathe in its stressful 'energy', then gently breathing all that out into a visualization of your Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg. This is particularly easy if you are wearing one of the ultra-mini-Clarity-Spheres in a neck pouch, for its discreet presence in the pouch hanging part-way down your front makes it especially easy to visualize its presence as just in front of you for you to breathe out the stressful 'energy' into that visualization.

  This method of tuning your Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg is particularly useful where the regular methods for doing so would draw unwanted attention to yourself; this particular method can be done with virtual impunity while you are in places where there are plenty of ordinary, unaware people closely around you. All that would be noticed is that you are concentrating on something and controlling your breathing for ten to fifteen seconds - so, although it would look like a very brief meditation, at least it would not draw attention to the Sphere or Egg or your doing any 'weird' things like cyclic blows or holding a mudra.

• Where is it best to do Tonglen Breathing?
  Anywhere! Indeed, the more flexible you are about where you do it, the more effective and less ungrounding it would be for you. For me, a particular favourite is to do it at times during walks or hikes out in the wilds (actually while walking - not sitting down and 'getting formal' about it). On the other hand, you can do it even when you are in bed. I do not recommend the latter as a general thing, but there can be times when in the middle of the night a particular issue comes to mind or is forced upon you by dark force or 'entity' interferences (e.g. an attack or some night hell visuals), or something in a particular dream has disturbed you, and it would make great sense to use Tonglen Breathing right there and then to 'zap' the particular issue, so that you can get more peaceful sleep again. You still need to do your end of practice procedure to finish the session off and re-ground your awareness.

  During a hands-on healing session you can at any point use Tonglen Breathing to address a particular issue, and this can be done even while your hands are still on the person. Rather than doing an end-of-practice procedure at the end of the Tonglen breathing then, it makes sense to do that at the end of the overall healing session. Indeed, some benefit can be gained by making an end-of-practice procedure a standard finish to all healing sessions, whether or not Tonglen Breathing is included.

Eight-point eye movements

The basic practice is done with your eyes closed, and involves your successively moving your 'gaze' (under the closed eyelids) from its central resting point at the centre of your field of 'view' to each absolute extremity in the eight main directions, and back to the resting point before moving to the next extremity point. Those extremity points can be 'visited' in any sequence, as long as none is repeated until all have been 'visited' - so, to avoid confusion you need to settle on a specific sequence and keep to it - but, on the face of it, in terms of effectiveness it does not matter what the sequence is.

In my experience, the most effective and comfortable way to do these is to do the movements from the centre to one extreme, then in a straight line to the opposite extreme and then returning to the centre each time. Like this there are just four main lines to 'trace' with your eyes - the two diagonals and vertical and horizontal. The order in which you do them does not matter as long as you stick to one sequence so that you are cycling through them and not repeating anything within individual cycles.

Generally speaking, you repeat this sequence a number of times in a session, but even one instance of that sequence fitted into an odd moment is highly beneficial.

This practice came to me from the Energy Egg people, in a specific form that they called Dyana Eye Weaving (the name giving it a quite unnecessary mystique), which gave a specific sequence for the eye movements. In fact I find that sequence to be the most directly intuitive (i.e. for me), and so I give it here:

• Far left to far right
• Far top to far bottom
• Far top-left to far bottom-right
• Far top-right to far bottom-left

As I understood it from the Energy Egg people, the primary purpose of this practice is to strengthen and activate particular 'energy' pathways that are responsible for grounded (i.e. healthy) non-physical 'energy' awareness. Ongoing use of this practice is claimed to steadily increase your grounded energy awareness and makes energy testing become more reliable (and thus, I inferred, decreasingly prone to any sort of interference from the dark force or entities)*, and assists you towards direct 'energy' sensing, which in many (but not all) situations would be a more convenient replacement for testing (though energy testing is still needed as a backup for the more important tests). My own subsequent inner inquiry points to the eye movements as having quite a number of other beneficial effects, even though cultivating one's 'energy awareness' and energy testing ability is still pointed to as a major part of the usefulness of this practice.

* I should point out here, however, that I personally seemed to have just as much dark force interference in my energy testing as ever, despite at least twice-a-day sessions of this practice - apart from in my use of a particular testing method using the sensation at the tops of the ear pinnae, which has always seemed to be relatively clear of such interference. 

On the other hand my repeated checks on eight-point eye movements with energy testing always give me a clear 'strengthening' response to my continuing to use the practice, so it must be doing something beneficial for me. My current understanding is that this is because I was very much mixing up 'mental testing' and 'deep level awareness testing'**, and it is the mental testing (which I was mostly using) that is so very prone to dark force interference, and it is actually primarily the deep level awareness testing that is improved by the eight-point eye movements. That helps underline the importance of keeping a clear distinction and separation between those two modes of energy testing.

** These are explained in the Energy Testing Guide.

Also, I am aware that the eight-point eye movements are an excellent training in grounding my visual awareness when my eyes are closed, particularly when the eye movements are done slowly and deliberately as described a little further below - and that is helpful for becoming increasingly able to stop in their tracks any assaults with night hell (aka night terrors) visuals or any other types of unwanted visual images.

As to the number of times to repeat the sequence, there is no specific maximum or minimum; anything from about 5 to 12 or so seems reasonable. However, I do caution about one thing. It is very important NOT to deliberately go for so-called sacred numbers in your number of repeats, because of their connection in the human consciousness with the dark force. There is no problem with the numbers in themselves, so they do not need to be actually avoided, but the problems come when the numbers are deliberately chosen for their supposedly having some special significance. When you do that you slightly increase the hold of the dark force upon you.

You can do this practice while sitting, lying or even standing (though would you normally be standing with your eyes shut?). You can do it when you have just got into bed, and I think some people find it helpful for getting speedily to sleep. I personally find it a bit distracting when used in the latter situation, so I do it actually while doing my 3-times-a-day lie-downs on the floor, which I do nominally as part of my application of the Alexander Technique.

Optimizing the practice's effectiveness

For optimal execution of the practice,

• You have the tip of your tongue to your palate.
• Although not actually specifically part of the eight-point eye movements practice as it was given to me, if all the eye movements are done slowly and deliberately, so that (with your eyes still closed) you clearly 'see' every bit of each linear route that the eye movements follow, you are effectively doing an additional practice, which has benefits of its own.
• You are looking at the inside of your eyelids during all the eye movements and ignoring any images that may appear (without actually trying to make them go away).
• You slightly force the eye movements at the end of travel (e.g. when you look top right, you force your eyes just slightly more still in that direction before returning). This is a little uncomfortable but considerably increases the effectiveness of the practice, and does not have any sort of deleterious effect - at least, for me.
  Indeed, it is best of all if, at each of the extreme positions you not only slightly force the eyes that little bit further, but also, with your intent you actually attempt to look even a little further along than your eyes have travelled.
• As far as possible you do NOT move your head with the eye movements, so that only the eyes move. You may well find it impossible not to move your head a bit (as has been the case for me!), but at least you can seek to minimize your head movements. Even just having the intention that your head be still and only the eyes move (while being peacefully aware of any head movements that are occurring) makes quite a big positive difference to the effectiveness of the practice.
• Ideally you are simultaneously doing complete breathing (not power breathing). However, I myself have so far found myself unable to concentrate on the eye movements and complete breathing at the same time, so I do not know how practical this would be for anyone.

An enhancement of the practice using mini-Clarity-Sphere or Energy Egg

You hold your mini-Clarity-Sphere or one end of your Energy Egg to your mid-brow position while you carry out the eye movements. At the end you use the Energy Egg for a close-of-practice procedure, in the manner already described. - All done!

Expanding the scope of the practice's effectiveness

This is a new intimation that I have gained from my inner inquiry, and thus is best seen as particularly experimental, but my indications are now that you can use a simple procedure to make the eye movements speed up the dissolution of the 'energy' pathways that enable the dark force to distort or amplify particular sensory experiences that you have. The dark force regularly magnifies pain and indeed causes minor discomforts often to be perceived as quite troublesome pains, and it also can distort smells and enormously amplify and distort certain elements of the background 'noise' in one's auditory system and make it be perceived as troublesome tinnitus.

According to my new understanding, what you can do to speed up the clearance of such nuisances is to use a specific declaration of intent (DOI) immediately before your session of the eye movements. Most people would need to repeat the DOI either before each session or, if they are having more than one session in a day, to make it daily, immediately before one of the day's sessions. The DOI is as follows, and, for best effectiveness, needs to be read in the manner described for reading my set of affirmations, which you can access from The Guide to Complete Self Actualization.

I affirm my intent that when I am carrying out the eight-point eye movements they are bringing about the dissolution of all pathways for dark force sourced distortion and amplification of my sensory experiences, including but not limited to what I feel, hear, smell, taste, see, or sense in any other manner, and including all internally sourced sensory experiences such as visual and auditory background 'noise' and their extensions into tinnitus and visual disturbances such as migraine auras - and that this dissolution is proceeding as speedily as can be.

Reading of this DOI is by far the most effective when used in conjunction with a suitable stone sphere, or particularly a Clarity-Sphere, which greatly assists you in gaining maximum focus and intensity of your intent.

Additional specific applications of the eight-point eye movements

It is now beginning to appear that particular aspects of use of the eight-point eye movements tally with particular procedures that are already recognised in other quarters as very helpful in particular types of healing situation. In particular, they can be used as at least part of, and possibly as a full replacement for, the so-called 9-Gamut sequence in the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). Also, almost certainly they would be a more effective version of a simple procedure that has recently been found to greatly help people diagnosed with 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. This procedure involves having the affected person keep his eyes pointed at a white card that is held alternately to the right and then to the left of centre of view, without moving his head significantly, while he is simultaneously doing what he can to relive the trauma flashback experiences.

Clearance of emotional trauma / stresses

The procedure here is to get in touch as strongly as possible with memories of a specific trauma / stress, while you are simultaneously carrying out the eight-point eye movements with eyes open (moving the head as little as reasonably possible).

However, that is not as easy as it sounds. Carrying out the eye movements effectively requires a fair amount of concentration and effort, and would tend to interfere with one's being sufficiently in touch with a particular emotional state for all that much benefit to result. For this reason, I recommend this procedure (i.e. as one for you to experiment with) primarily for situations where you have some traumatic or stressful experience coming up quite spontaneously and forcefully in your mind, so that your carrying out the eye movements and concentrating on them sufficiently would not interfere too much with your keeping focused on the trauma / stress.

On this basis, probably the method would be most helpful for people with what gets diagnosed as 'post traumatic stress disorder' and similar states, where there tend to be quite gross upwellings of emotional trauma / stress states (which actually I would expect to be generally little or nothing more than dark force attacks exploiting the effects of the particular people's trauma experiences).

Possible clearance of particular dark force attacks

Although I have not yet had the opportunity to test this properly, it looks very likely - and this is supported by my inner inquiry - that the same approach as can be used for trauma / stress (see above) can be used for any dark force or supposed 'entity' attack with strong emotion feelings, such as panic, fear, anxiety, 'depression' and also, if you are smart enough to recognise them as untoward, attacks with seemingly pleasurable 'emotions' such as sexual arousal and various 'flavours' of joy and ecstasy. You simply keep your focus on the attack experience in all its strength while carrying out the eye movements, which you would need to repeat through probably something like 10 cycles in a session - though any at all would be bound to help (i.e. assuming that this method does actually work at all).

However, in this case it would be important NOT to go encouraging an attack in order to carry out this procedure, except just possibly in the odd occasion where there is a particular reason why a particular action of yours that would push a strong emotional button, which would in turn trigger a significant dark force attack, would be beneficial. Very careful and vigilant use of energy testing is the way to find out if such an action would be helpful on any specific occasion.

An example of my own of such an action was when in early 2011 I had an intuition that it would be constructive for me to view an online video of the '9/11' terrorist destruction of the World Trade Centre - something that I had never seen 'in movie' before because I have no television. That indeed did bring up a quite major and intimidating-feeling dark force attack, which I had almost completely dissolved within an hour, but not using the eye movements then. I could do with another such opportunity to test the eye movements as a means for helping to dissolve such an attack, but it would not be healthy for me to go chasing after something; in time something appropriate will no doubt turn up!

Please note that for this particular use of the eye movements you carry them out with your eyes OPEN.

'Brain balancing' as part of self healing sessions

This is where you would be using the procedure as an alternative to the so-called 9-Gamut sequence that is used in the EFT. My understanding is that actually something like that sequence would enhance the effectiveness of just about any self healing session, and you can use the eight-point eye movements either in place of that sequence or just as a replacement of the eye movements specified in that procedure. There is no one right way here; you would do well to use energy testing to find out what is most helpful for you from time to time.

In this case your use of the eight-point eye movements would normally be just through two or possibly three cycles with eyes open, immediately followed by about two cycles of complete or extra-complete breathing, without the movements but with your eyes closed. You then resume the healing session in your 'normal' mode to the end of the session. There is no fixed point in the self healing session where it is best to use the eye movements or 9-Gamut sequence, but so far I have always been intuited to do this quite late in the session, so that there are not many further cycles of complete / extra-complete breathing still to go before closing the session.

A special application of this practice - for night hells (night terrors) and related 'dark' or hallucinatory displays

Displays of night hell (aka night terror) material - whether experienced as standard night hells or as 'dark' or hallucinatory displays by night or day - are caused by the dark force and would not occur if the person's awareness were sufficiently grounded. The weakness of grounding of the person's awareness has caused their awareness spontaneously to open into the astral sub-reality, and the dark force then has exploited the situation. This practice assists the person greatly with this problem in two related ways:

• It is immediately grounding, provided that the person carries out the movements with full and deliberate awareness, does not go flicking the eyes or hurrying the practice, and is consistently looking at the inside of the eyelids and ignoring any images that may appear or be swirling around;

• As already noted, ongoing use of the practice is claimed to progressively strengthen the 'energy' pathways that enable you to distinguish between grounded and ungrounded perceptions and indeed to spontaneously keep to grounded perceptions except in the event of your deliberately choosing to look into the astral sub-reality (for most people there would almost certainly never be good cause to do that).

The best way of using the practice when a night-hell-type of display (or indeed any sort of visual display that is not simply physical vision or something organically derived such as a migraine aura) has arisen, is NOT to avoid the display altogether, because you need to work with full awareness of what you are doing. Trying to escape from the display altogether is unaware behaviour which would obstruct your cultivating the grounded awareness that would clear this issue.

So, what I recommend is to look at the display for a few seconds - and to look with attention to detail and really see what is being shown to you, but merely as an observer, remembering that it is just a display, never mind what nasty feelings you may be having (almost certainly an attack from the dark force and not a genuine emotional response of your own) - and then to let go of it and carry out the eye movements practice for anything from one to ten repetitions. No need to count the repetitions - just do what seems comfortable for you and seems to have disrupted and more or less stopped the display. Then, in the event of the display recurring you repeat the practice.

Often just one or two short sessions of the practice done like that will be enough to stop the display for the time being, but in the case of more intrusive and persistent displays you may need to repeat this quite a number of times. In this event I recommend doing just one or two repetitions of the practice each time, to avoid fatigue of the eye muscles.

If you make a point of using this practice every day, whether or not you are getting the display then, you will be making yourself progressively more resistant to unhelpful dark force sourced perceptions generally, including night-hell-type displays.

This is thus an extremely important practice for anyone who is experiencing supposed mental illness and 'psychosis' resulting from drugs such as cannabis - for the major part of what such people are experiencing comes from the drug-related ungrounding of their awareness and their consequent opening to the astral sub-reality.

On the other hand, more recently I found I could stop nigh hell visuals with much less effort and distraction by simply focusing my attention on the insides of my eyelids without recourse to specific eye movements. This effectively grounds my visual awareness and so immediately tunes me out of the astral sub-reality and all its 'video nasties' which include all types of night hell visuals. Although doing this does not have the cumulative healing effects of using the eye movements practice, it can be helpful where, as in my case, the eye movements tend themselves to be a distraction from getting to sleep.

An intensifier for nearly all practices / procedures

For all the practices / procedures that involve extra-complete or power breathing, you can give them an extremely helpful final 'push', as follows.

At the point where you would otherwise finish and move on to the close-of-practice procedure, you do a further inhalation through your nostrils to the point of slight straining, with tip of tongue to your palate, and then, with the lungs maximally full and the tongue still to the palate, rapidly deliver two loud claps with your hands. You can then relax, for the practice has finished, and so the exhalation then does not need to be controlled. You then pass on to the close-of-practice procedure.

Writhing-stretching - for late-stages 'mopping up'

In its most natural form, writhing-stretching is more a process or 'thing that happens' rather than a 'practice' or 'procedure'. However, I have found a way of intensifying it by making it into a more formal vigorous yogic practice, and in this form it may be of benefit to some people who would not at this stage get into spontaneous writhing-stretching.

Writhing-stretching is really a natural release process, in the same category as emotional release processes such as crying, trembling, laughing, and ordinary yawning and stretching. Indeed, it is really an advanced development or extension of ordinary yawning and stretching, but is apparently virtually universally not known about.

People generally inhibit ordinary yawning and stretching at least to some extent, and indeed distort it when it is allowed to manifest at all. It is actually a natural and essential part of one's healing and indeed everyday self maintenance, and so needs to be very much encouraged and generally extended beyond what you may feel is proper or 'appropriate'. You need to allow yourself to yawn frequently, and fully openly, really stretching the mouth and lips wide open to their fullest possible extent (with a sense of complete enjoyment and not the slightest hint of apology for it - and no sighed "Oh dear"!), and to make a real thing of stretching every part of your body that is possible to stretch, and in every possible direction, that is achievable without serious risk of doing yourself undue pain or 'a mischief'.

What I am calling writhing-stretching is, as I say, a development / extension from ordinary yawning and stretching, and, as far as I can ascertain, cannot occur in a more or less spontaneous manner until you have cleared out a considerable proportion of the emotional issues that you had been carrying, including any belonging to attached lost souls and any other entities. Once you are thus sufficiently free of emotional issues from any source, it becomes possible for an essential inner 'freeing up' process to occur, and this is 'spearheaded' by the essential physical process of writhing-stretching.

I had not read nor heard anywhere about this writhing-stretching prior to its starting to happen to me a few months into 2009. I had always been ready to yawn and stretch very thoroughly, but now what I found happening was that when I stretched my arms above my head, this triggered a deep physical urge to 'writhe-stretch' my arms, my shoulders and my torso, also doing so as much as could be managed by my legs, and keep this up for anything up from a few seconds to about half a minute. This is energetic, especially with the rotational writhings of the shoulders and sort of undulatory writhe-stretchings of the torso. The torso undulations might appear superficially to be a sort of energetic copulatory movement, but there is absolutely no sexual or erotic aspect of this happening at all - and for me this is particularly notable, because the dark force would link it to sexual arousal if it possibly could, but at least so far I have not experienced even the slightest trace of that.

Although writhing-stretching occurs most effectively when standing, it is best done also when sitting and indeed when lying on your back. At all times you allow your breaths to occur as your body wills, with no inhibitions - exhaling freely through the mouth, which, if it is being properly allowed, would give out bright and very positive sounding sighs and even at times near-bellows (but generally not greatly loud). Some individuals might have a 'showing off' pattern of seeking to make a loud noise, and that would need interrupting, though the best approach there would be to use Grounding Point, to 'zap' any illusory reality underlying such a pattern. If you just go suppressing loud sound production you may well end up suppressing what you do actually need to be doing.

You do not need specific instructions for spontaneous writhing-stretching, for when you are ready for it, as long as you encourage and allow it, you own body will lead the way. Typically, it would occur when you start what you may expect to be a perfectly ordinary stretch. 

My own inner inquiry points to writhing-stretching resulting in a progressive deep freeing up - a shaking off of the shackles of all manner of residual patterns of feeling, thought and outlook. First one needs to have cleared the garbage - the emotional issues and significant dark force and 'entity' interferences that had been the 'substance' of the patterns. After all that the patterns are all weakened (to varying extents depending on each particular pattern), but they are all still to some extent present in your brain and nervous system connections. That is where writhing-stretching comes in, and this is why a physical process is required to assist their clearance, and you would get nowhere by expecting, say, some healing device to do it all for you.

My own experience is that concurrently with my doing writhing-stretching several times per day, my sense of really stable inner clarity, vibrant happiness and freedom has been increasing distinctly, also with the dark force intrusions seeming still less and less consequential. I feel dramatically much more to be a truly self actualized person, despite any (now completely futile) attempts by the dark force to hide that.

Although, as far as I can tell, real writhing-stretching is specific to people who are very advanced in the clearance of their emotional issues and 'entity' attachments, I do not mean this in a restrictive elitist way, and would encourage anyone to be open to the possibility of at least a bit of it happening for them. Any hint of it, if occurring naturally, 'from within', would be greatly helpful.

If you simply 'do' writhing-stretching without being ready for it to happen naturally (i.e. you force a simulation of it by 'going through the motions'), a small amount of benefit would most likely be gained, BUT that may be outweighed by the negative, awareness limiting effects of the operation of the end-gaining 'doing' mentality, which is particularly associated with people who still have soul programming. Generally speaking, this sort of thing needs to be encouraged and allowed to occur naturally and not to be 'done' as a simulation. Indeed, if you 'do' it like that you may well be simply deceiving yourself that you are much more advanced than you really are in your clearance process - something the dark force and any soul programming that you carry would tend to encourage. That would be a serious obstacle to your self actualization process.

Having given that general caveat, however, I now proceed to the formalization of the writhing-stretching process into an actual yogic practice.

Writhing-stretching - a yogic equivalent

This is much more simple to carry out than may appear from the description. There are actually two complementary versions of this practice - a standing one and a lying-down one, and my best understanding here is that they do rather different things and so they are not alternatives to each other, and therefore they are best regarded as Part 1 and Part 2 of a single practice. Indeed, Part 2 actually has two parts.

Part 1 - Standing

• Stand with your feet about 30 cm (1 foot) or a little more apart, depending on how long your legs are, and more or less parallel and aligned, though in a relaxed way, without getting very fussy about it.

• Allow yourself to yawn and stretch very thoroughly and openly, as intensely as you can reasonably manage, acting into it if necessary to break through any inhibiting patterns, and stretch your arms as hard as you can above your head and out to the sides, and, while stretching them thus, start moving them simultaneously, so that your hands, with fingers splayed out and themselves individually making 'stretching' movements, are synchronously describing circles, which may be initially above your head or shoulders or out at the sides or out in front (it really depends on what is giving you the most effective 'stretch' at that time) - the right arm moving in a clockwise manner (as you look along your arm) and the left one doing a synchronized counter-clockwise mirror image of that.

• Allow those circles to expand and move out, with your arms becoming very roughly horizontally out at the sides, continuing the stretching-circling movement, and with your fingers splayed out. This necessitates a major circling movement of your shoulders (up in front, and down at the back), and now you increase that shoulder movement.

• Rather than repeat that circle with arms stretched out laterally, you continue the movement, now worked in a very energetic fashion from your shoulders, with your arms bent and fore-arms moving in front of you and probably round to the sides almost as though you were swimming using the breast stroke, with your fingers now still well separated but not splayed out, and slightly bent, as though scooping the air from in front of you out to both sides. However, the emphasis here is not really on what the hands are doing, but on the vigorous and 'heavy' circling movement of the shoulders, which very powerfully leads the 'action' here. That circling movement is clockwise for your right shoulder, as you look in that direction, and thus your left shoulder, working synchronously with it, appears to be moving anti-clockwise if you look in that direction. Probably about two rotation cycles per second is most effective.

  Your legs are slightly bent at this stage, and you now control your breathing, doing cyclic breathing - inhaling through your nostrils and exhaling through almost closed lips with a 'pffff' sound. The cyclic breathing needs to be synchronized with the arm movements. For me the optimal synchronization speed seemed to be one cyclic breath cycle per three arm rotation cycles, but your own energy testing may indicate something a little different. It is important to pause this if you start to feel light-headed (in other words you are getting hyperventilated) - though as long as you keep the cyclic breaths reasonably shallow you are unlikely to get that problem significantly.

• Allow this very energetic 'breast stroke' movement to become briefly as big and vigorous as you can sensibly take, always sourcing the movement from the rotational movement of the shoulders, your hands NOT leading the movements but being directed really by the shoulder rotations.

• As soon as your shoulder blade muscles start to feel fatigued, or you otherwise sense that the 'steam' has gone out of that session, at the next 'empty' point in your breathing cycle, stop the movements and hold your hands in the sharp roof mudra, close in front of your lower chest region and pointing upward. Simultaneously you are breathing in through your nostrils, and at full-to-straining point you let go of the mudra and rapidly deliver two loud hand-claps, in as rapid succession as you can manage. You then release your position and relax.

• For best results, then carry out your chosen end of practice procedure.

Actually, although I have given here a specific movement to begin this practice, really the important thing is not what your initial movements are, but simply that you start with a very vigorous yawning and stretching and allow / encourage that to transform into the particular circular movement of the shoulders. The details of how you make that transition are not all that important, and indeed I myself often do it differently, and it varies from session to session.

Part 2 - Lying down

• (Part 2a - for arms / shoulders)
  Get yourself lying on your back on a flat, firm surface such as the floor, using something suitable as a comfortable headrest at the best height to maintain optimal head / neck alignment. Your legs extend straight out, but loosely so - not held - and a little apart but not greatly so. You have enough room beyond your head for free arm-stretching movements.

• Allow yourself to yawn and stretch, concentrating on the stretching of your arms, and particularly move around and really tense, release and stretch your upper arm and shoulder muscles, and indeed your shoulder blade muscles. With your shoulder blades, stretch as hard as possible 'upwards' (relative), i.e. towards your head, and then pulling strongly to your back and then 'down' towards your feet.

• Allow these stretching movements to resolve into a strenuous repeated describing of a circle by the shoulders (in the same relative direction as in Part 1), carrying the upper arms with them, while your arms are bent, with forearms and hands writhing-stretching, reaching out in front of you (i.e. upwards in absolute terms), with the wrists and fingers all individually 'writhing-stretching'. Some of this movement may also be occurring in the legs - though if you have some weak tendons / ligaments in the legs, it is possible that you may need to limit what the legs do, as indeed is the case for me, because of mild strains that this can cause or aggravate.

  While this is going on, for best results you are cyclic-breathing, in the same way that I have described for Part 1.

• When your shoulder(blade) muscles are starting to feel fatigued or the process is beginning to feel to be 'running out of steam', abruptly cease the movements, bringing your hands into the sharp roof mudra - and bring them like that to be next to your lower chest, pointing towards your head, while also you have the tip of your tongue to your palate. Holding that position, you empty your lungs and immediately inhale to slightly straining-full, and when you reach that point of maximum inhalation, you rapidly deliver two loud claps with your hands. You then release your position and relax, preferably then immediately passing on to Part 2b.

• (Part 2b - for legs and pelvic region)

  This part of the practice can be significantly uncomfortable when being done really effectively, because it is intended to resonate very much with a sense of consistently pushing at your perceived limits, as part of your process of breaking and dissolving patterns. It is also a great strengthening exercise for various of your leg muscle groups - especially the quadriceps. Although it is uncomfortable, it also feels greatly invigorating. Energy testing can inform you as to whether you need to 'go easy' on any particular movements in order to avoid physical strains.

  You are still lying there on your back on the floor, now with your arms relaxed and your hands loosely resting somewhere on your abdomen.

• You bring your feet towards you, placing the soles flat on the floor (the knees raising, of course, as you do this), and do so to the point that you have actually raised your bottom off the floor and your feet are only just in front of your bottom. This may move your torso a little towards the head, so you may need to move the headrest a little back in order still to support the head properly.

• Remaining in this position with your bottom well off the floor, and your feet somewhat apart and your knees initially almost together, you start a cycle of clenching your front-of-thigh muscles, as though trying to straighten your legs, but not actually straightening them significantly, so that your bottom's height off the floor does not vary much, and then relaxing, but with your bottom still kept well off the floor. Each front-thigh clenching is transient but as strong as you can sensibly manage, and after each you move your knees outward just a little before you do the next thigh-clenching. You do likewise, doing it a total of about 6 times from the start till you are somewhat straining at your limit of outward travel of your knees, and you attempt the thigh clenching there too, but are probably not able to produce more than a very slight clenching in that position.

• You then repeat the process with the knees progressively moving back to their starting point, till they are almost together - again with about 6* thigh clenches en route. Repeat that whole out-and-back process with some 6 thigh clenches in each direction, as many times as your energy testing indicates as being best for you. In my case it is generally four whole out-and-back cycles of this. I find all this decidedly uncomfortable - though of course you can choose how strongly to strain at each thigh clenching and also how strongly to strain at the limit of outward travel of your knees.

  * There is nothing 'special' about the number 6, and it is important not to start making it 'special'. It's just that in my own experience that was the number of thigh clenchings that seemed to fit best (on average) in the outward or return travel of my knees - but it might be rather less for somebody who has more restricted outward travel of their knees in this practice, or of course it could be more for somebody who can move their knees further apart that I can.

• In principle, synchronized cyclic breathing could aid the effectiveness of this practice, BUT I, for one, find that, as with the eight-point eye movements, my attention is already fully occupied by the practice without cyclic breathing, and the latter would be too much of a distraction. However, a very helpful enhancer here in lieu of cyclic breathing is for the tip of your tongue to be held to your palate. Your breathing is through the nostrils, with closed mouth.

• When your knees have come to their nearly-together point for the last time, hold a clenching of the thighs in that position, and bring your hands together into the sharp roof mudra, bringing them like that to be next to your lower chest, pointing towards your head, while also you have the tip of your tongue to your palate. Holding that position, you empty your lungs and inhale to slightly straining-full, and when you reach that point of maximum inhalation, you rapidly let go of the mudra and deliver two loud claps with your hands. You then release your position and relax, lowering your bottom as you straighten your legs once more, and you are now lying relaxed.

• For best results, then carry out your chosen end of practice procedure.

An enhancement of part 2b of the practice is to hold your bottom as far off the floor as reasonably possible, endeavouring to be maintaining a (necessarily approximate!) straight line described by your body from the raised knees to your shoulders (on the floor). That is decidedly uncomfortable, and you would almost certainly find that you can do only slight additional transient clenchings of the thigh muscles as you gradually move your knees outwards to their limit and then back to their position of balance.

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