Some potent self-actualization / healing practices

Introduction — Self-actualization 'practices' with a difference!

I give details below of some simple but very potent procedures that will take you forward easily, safely and painlessly in various major aspects of your self healing / self-actualization process.

A fair proportion of the methods are not fully original creations of my own, but adaptations, sometimes extensively so, of particular methods that I'd gained from various sources (the originals indeed having come from sources that I nowadays regard as more or less unwholesome!).

Thus what could be said to be 'uniquely mine' isn't so much a full origination of individual methods (surely no good reason why they should be!), but really this particular compendium of methods and the genuine self-actualization context within which I present them, together with my very practical and non-belief-based understanding of how the methods work.

Indeed, the new phase of my methodology, publicly adopted in September 2018, based in a pioneering, radically different mindset revolving around cultivation of and opening up one's connection and communication channel between 'ordinary mind' and one's deepest aspects, makes a laughing-stock of anyone who sets out to make out that I'm passing-off anyone's work as my own!

It would thus be uningenuous of people in certain quarters to go claiming — as has been happening from one particular quarter* — that I'm passing off their own methods (which they claimed to be their own 'intellectual property') as my own creations. Clearly I'm not doing so, and I never have been! There's actually no issue of copyright in any case, because that would arise only if I were reproducing somebody's copyright descriptions / instructions of particular practices here, and I've been consistent in not doing that and instead writing on this site only my own original presentations. Methods themselves are not copyright — though appropriate methods may be patentable (but very unlikely for self-actualization methods!).

Although the practices are effective as they are, their potency can be greatly enhanced by ongoing use of both of the following:

• 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, if used with sufficient mental focus and clarity, 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 further below).

The practices that I describe on this page each carry out a particular range of functions, so, generally speaking, 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'm not playing 'little dictator' here, and would say that any use at all of any of these practices would at least potentially bring significant benefit, so nobody need be put off using them because they feel that the practices would involve too much time 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 Process or 'Path' — Part 2 — but I'd stress that that's merely an example of extremely effective use of the methods, and isn't a stipulation about how anyone else should be going about it.

The lack of videos or photos for most of the practices described…

I empathize with those who bemoan that deficiency. In fact so far there are NO videos, though in 2019 at last I got a bunch of photos taken of me demonstrating some of the procedures (hearty thanks to Daisy Powell), and I've now incorporated what I sensibly can out of those on this page. The deficiency is for the very simple reason that I'm a lone operator, and have so far, apart from the just-mentioned occasion, had nobody at hand who I could use as either photographer of me demonstrating the practices, or a 'model' for me to photograph them doing the practices.

The order in which to carry out several practices in a session

Actually I've no indication that there's any general rule about this. Just because I carry out my own practices in a certain order in my early morning session doesn't mean that that order would necessarily be best for anyone else. Best to use Helpfulness Testing to see what's most harmonious / effective specifically for you. Otherwise, for the most part simply what feels to you to be a harmonious sequence would suffice. In any case, generally speaking, even if you made some less-than-optimal choice of order, it would be a very minor issue.

However, as in all fields of life, it makes great sense to cultivate your Helpfulness Testing ability and to use that procedure to test any prospective choice of yours.

One particular advantage of having a fixed order of practices within a session would be that it's then much less likely that you'd inadvertently omit one or more practices that you'd meant to include.

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 don't recognise. Those people would do well to read and 'take on board' the contents of On the nature of reality and truth — Too simple to believe! :-), 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 bound to lead us into a plethora of harmful misinterpretations and misunderstandings.

Once you've 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's what all the following practices are about. They're mostly yogic and what you might call 'semi-yogic' practices, but very different from what people widely know as 'Yoga', and certain of them are quite vigorous.

One thing all these practices (apart from Consciousness Integrator and Perception Integrator) have in common, unlike what people widely know as 'spiritual healing', is that they're strongly grounding. That is, if they're awarely used they'd 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 non-reality of illusion and delusion, through which operates the garbage, which appears to be 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!

"How could any of these mumbo-jumbo methods possibly work?"

I do empathize with the great scepticism that many people would have towards the methods presented here — especially as, earlier in my life, I too would have been fairly dismissive of such methods as a lot of, yes, 'mumbo-jumbo', even though I still always had a little open-minded reserve about such views that I did hold.

Note that the methods I present on this site in their different ways all work on a very simple, belief-free, non-magic, practical principle. They're all based on the understanding (part of my overall working model) that if we were fully-functioning, optimally self-actualized people we would be something like fully rational (shock horror!), deeply and consistently aware, loving in a way that only a tiny proportion of people in the world at large could even dream of being, and always creative, positive and constructive in outlook.

Not only that, but in that fully-functional state each person would be spontaneously powerful in their self-healing / self-recovery when they'd become harmed in some way, whether physically or 'mentally' / emotionally.

Yet that's not at all what we see of people in general. In this 'real world', people are ALL in their different ways and degrees dysfunctional and largely failing to manifest at least the fullness of their true underlying nature. My observations over many years have all pointed to a whole plethora of distortions, weak points and actual obstructive externally-sourced programming that each of us has in our non-physical aspects, lying obstructively between our conscious minds and our deeper aspects where our full true nature still exists as a potential.

If we're to tap the self-healing power of our deepest aspects — our underlying true nature — to enable that tremendous potential to increasingly manifest in our lives, we need somehow to bypass, or better, to dissolve, the blocks and distortions in our system to get some sort of co-ordination between 'ordinary mind' and our deeper aspects ('deeper consciousness', if you like).

Many, many, 'healing' and 'self-realization' systems and traditions are attempts to achieve this, but they're generally limited in what they can achieve, and are mostly harmful, because of the distortions in the various methodologies that are caused by the practitioners' belief systems and their corresponding lack of proper empirically-based rational understanding of what they're working with. (For example, anyone who thinks they're working with their 'aura' or structured 'energy system' is actually in seriously deep trouble, regardless of whether they'd ever be aware of the fact in this lifetime.)

My methodology differs in being based on a practical working model (not a belief system), where all the healing / self-actualization methods are actually understood NOT directly to heal or 'self-actualize' you. What each of them does instead is to facilitate a particular aspect of your necessary spontaneous self-healing, which would remain inaccessible otherwise. And that facilitation, again, is neither magic nor mumbo-jumbo but simply particular means of focusing our conscious intent in such a way that that conscious intent becomes properly aligned with the fuller and much more powerful healing intent of our deeper aspects. That then begins to enable the deeply-sourced spontaneous healing and clearance processes to start operating.

Of course I can't know details and specifics about how that operates, because in this methodology we're working with consciousness itself, and the true nature and modus operandi of consciousness is completely unknowable to anyone. What has become apparent, however, is that the methods that I've taken up or worked out by myself, based on my working model of human function and dysfunction, actually deliver the goods. I myself was the initial 'guinea-pig' for testing the methods as I myself was in a pretty desperate situation, with what I nowadays call the garbage repeatedly trying to destroy me.

Bit by bit I used my own inner inquiry method to get pointers as to how I could get myself out of that desperate hole and become immune to the garbage. I used only methods that seemed to help, and in time I'd accumulated a set of sufficiently effective methods to be systematically immunizing myself to the garbage's attacks, not to mention being able to nip any further incipient attacks in the bud — and have experienced ongoing wonderful improvements in my overall life experience as all sorts of inner issues progressively dissolved.

Many people who've been in desperate situations and repeatedly going from 'healer' / therapist / practitioner to 'healer' / therapist / practitioner only to find that their situation (usually) was getting progressively worse, have suddenly found on this site a whole different approach that not only made sense of their situation but gave them the ability to turn their lives right around.

You have only to look through the entries in my websites' Visitors' Book to see clear evidence of dramatically changed lives resulting from taking up these methods — just through at last using means to bring one's conscious intent into proper alignment with one's deeply-sourced intent for healing and positive change. That's the fundamental principle of all the supposed 'mumbo-jumbo' that I present here!

Techniques / procedures common to various practices

Tapping

Instructions are given in the description of the respective procedures further below — but here I'm referring to two points that are common to all uses.

• All tapping is carried out with the Five-Finger Tapping Mudra:
  

  

• Maximize effectiveness:
  For greatest effectiveness, do NOT involve the arm in the tapping movements. Least effective (and hardest work) is to use the whole arm in the movements. Middling effective is to allow only the forearm to carry out the movements (pivoting at elbow and wrist).
  

  Most effective is with only the hand significantly moving — in other words, the pivoting is only at the wrist. As a bonus, the latter mode is also the least physical work, and feels the most joyful and relaxed.

  This applies just the same if you're tapping with both hands (For example, see Alignment of Intent and Grounding Point, further below).

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've effectively done is made the 'practice' an attachment, and thus an obstruction to your self-actualization process.

It's 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's 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's 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've 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've 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're 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'd 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're 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're 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 Helpfulness Testing, for it will increase the potency of the particular practice, whatever it is. However, it's 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 isn't 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's particularly grounding, provided that one doesn't 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 garbage connections and influence, whose clearance is essential for full self-actualization.

  Caution! If you use Power Breathing for anything, such as in Self-Power Walking, you need frequently to pause the breathing and hold, in order to avoid significant hyperventilation. The latter is harmfully ungrounding and opens one readily to the astral and all its problems.

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're not actually breathing forcefully, so, in all respects apart from the slight over-filling and over-emptying, it's 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's 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're not fully filling nor fully emptying your lungs. Indeed, in some procedures the cyclic breaths are very quick and thus shallow.

Here are a couple of WAV file recordings of cyclic breaths to give you a better idea:

• One cyclic breath

• Three cyclic breaths

I use the term 'cyclic blows', not to mean hitting anything but to signify cyclic breaths that are being directed at something. Thus, I'd call cyclic breaths that are directed at something 'cyclic blows' upon or towards the particular object.

Aligning your intent — potentially a really big deal!

The alignment we're speaking of here is that of the intent of your conscious 'ordinary mind' with that of your deepest aspects. If you were optimally self-actualized there would be no issue about this, because you'd naturally be a continuum of awareness between 'mind' and 'deepest aspects', and so 'top' and 'bottom' (figuratively speaking) would always be more or less in sync and in excellent alignment with regard to all intents.

In the 'real world', everyone is to some extent screwed up directly or indirectly by the garbage, whether they recognise it or not, so having all sorts of programming, distortions and weak spots that lie between mind and deepest aspects, so reducing co-ordination and alignment of intent and purpose to a dreadful shambles, so that for much of the time 'the tail is trying to wag the dog'.

Recovering the necessary realignment is progressively brought about through the clearance of all the programming, distortions and so-on, as indeed results from use of the methods given on this site. However, the methods themselves would be much more effective if we had a means to force at the very least a 'sneak preview' temporary alignment (which would still be only partial) for while we're using any of these methods, including Helpfulness Testing.

Many of these methods already have some opening procedure that does achieve that end to some extent, but here I give a new and most likely more effective intent-aligning procedure, which makes sense to use before any method, practice or procedure, and which in some or even all cases could replace any existing 'opening' procedure. Use it too preceding any Helpfulness Testing you do, to help increase the strength of the genuine 'signal' and thus weaken interference in your Helpfulness Testing from the garbage or indeed your 'sticky layer'.

I've come up with three levels of this procedure, to give one a choice of compromise between strength and speed / convenience

The basic procedure is delivering five firm but not uncomfortable taps (in about three seconds) on the top of the end of the forearm bone (radius) immediately proximal to the wrist joint, with that hand allowed to loosely hang down from a more or less horizontal or somewhat raised forearm, using the five-fingertip tapping mudra, with the clear conscious intent that you're aligning your conscious intent with your deepest-sourced healing and self-actualization intent.

I originally gave the tapping position as the end of the hand bones immediately next to the wrist, but after further experimentation after feeling something wasn't quite right with using that position on the hand, I came conclusively to the current position, which feels altogether more robust and secure as well as being actually more effective. It's necessary always to avoid tapping into the wrist joint at all, because that's definitely weakening, so you need always to ensure that you're tapping exclusively the very solid-feeling top of the end of the forearm bones (radius and ulna).

The main weight of the tapping needs to be on the thicker and more robust radius, but in practice your tapping position spans both bones. It's best not to bend the wrist at all tightly, for then it's all too easy to be effectively tapping on the edge of the bone's joint cartilage, which is really part of the joint. If you do a lot of tapping in the latter position, you may well in time cause joint inflammation there.

My understanding is that this procedure becomes more effective the more it's used, so that if you do use it as an opener for each practice / procedure that you do carry out, and indeed also use it anytime in everyday life where you need to get your wits about you for carrying out a task or handling a situation that would benefit from greater connection with your deepest intent, you'd be starting to cultivate an increasing more permanent alignment. That in turn would make your various self-actualization methods increasingly effective, and also very likely enable a gradual progressive increase in spontaneous operation of your self-actualization process in addition to any results from specific methods that you use.

The most balanced and comprehensive alignment of intent

I've come up with an Intermediate and Power level of strength for this.

Intermediate — the Basic procedure immediately followed by a similar five taps on the prominence of your sacrum, where it turns fairly sharply forward / inward (i.e., anteriorly). Find the spot by running your hand down the lower part of your spine, to where it turns forward, and the prominence formed by that angle is where you tap.

Power — the Basic, then Intermediate procedure, immediately followed by five firm taps on the top of the sternum, using both hands in the five-finger tapping mudra, side-by-side, against each other, and with the tapping fully synchronized so that you're giving a clear unison series of taps. Because this is a three-stage procedure, it makes best sense normally to reserve this for the beginning of multi-practice sessions.

 New, 2023 — the 'fundamental power-word', to take you further still…

My aim is always towards simplicity in one's choice and use of the various self-actualization methods, and this is a case in point.

In July 2023, in the course of working-out solutions for particular universal issues, my inner inquiry came up with an experimental 'fundamental power-word', which embodies both concept of and intent for fully open connection and communication channel(s) between ordinary 'mind' and one's deepest aspects, for oneself and for every human-type being in the whole of 'Existence'.

In order to minimize further extension of this over-long page, I refer you to relevant details in my Project 'Fix the Human Condition' page for details about it.

Use the power-word as an add-on at the start of any alignment of intent procedure, and as an overall reinforcer after each close-of-practice procedure (including any subsidiary close-of-practice procedure). That would not only improve the effectiveness of the particular practice / procedure, but would be incrementally opening your communication channel between deepest aspects and 'ordinary mind' beyond what could be achieved by the tapping procedures alone.

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.

I've changed my recommendations here over the years in order to focus on the greatest effectiveness and simplicity, with minimum possibilities of confusions. There's nothing to prevent you from using Helpfulness Testing to find an alternative procedure that might work better for you, but what follows is what I myself have found to be the best with regard not only to direct effectiveness but also the need not to have any confusions with other procedures or to cause anyone confusions with religious gestures (I'm thinking especially of the 'sharp roof' mudra there, which I did originally give as an end-of-practice procedure).

I've reduced the short list here to one two-step procedure, for greatest simplicity and effectiveness, plus a 'secondary' procedure for use in multi-practice sessions (primarily one's Regular Core Practices).

In the main procedure, if you're in a hurry you can miss the first step, but you need to be aware that the preceding practice / procedure would be more effective with that step included.

The two-step regular version

First, use Intensifier Tapping. For this, immediately upon completion of a practice you use the Tapping Mudra to deliver three taps to the top of your sternum, in the form of two very rapid taps followed by the third about a half-second later — 'TaTa—Ta', ideally with the first tap unstressed.

Finally, you use the same mudra, holding the fingertips gently but securely on the mid-brow position while you swallow twice. It doesn't matter if you have nothing to swallow — it's the swallowing movements that are required here.

If you have long fingernails this would be uncomfortable and not very effective. However, the real message for you there isn't to use a different method because of that, but to cut your nails to a sensible length (almost zero)! For most people there's NO good reason for long fingernails! They gather dirt and can cause minor injuries to oneself or other people — and tend to be one of the elements of gender stereotyping, which we all need to get clear of.

Power-level version

For close of practice procedure at the end of a multi-practice session, particularly if you've used the Power-level Alignment of Intent procedure at the beginning, it makes sense to raise this procedure too to Power level (three stages) by first delivering five firm taps on the top of the sternum, using both hands in the five-finger tapping mudra, side-by-side, against each other, and with the tapping fully synchronized so that you're giving a clear unison series of taps, then continuing with the regular two-stage procedure.

An 'interim' or 'secondary' end of practice procedure

This is for situations where you're carrying out a series of related practices / procedures, such as a set of Regular Core Practices, where it all works most efficiently if you have an end-of practice procedure to be used for 'end of session' and then need a different end-of practice procedure to use after each individual practice within that session. At the end of the final practice you'd then use just the primary procedure for 'end of session' (see above).

For years I'd been using the briefly-held sharp-roof mudra for this purpose and was giving it here. Although it does work fine, its disadvantages are:

• I got it originally from the Energy Egg people, about whom I've expressed considerable reservations further below and elsewhere on this site, and it's really best for me to maintain a policy of progressively moving away from methods taken from that source whenever I come up with an alternative that's at least as effective and easy to execute;

• When that mudra is held briefly for this purpose it does push a lot of buttons because of its superficial resemblance then to one's making a reverential or praying gesture.

In place of that, an excellent quick procedure is simply to use the Tapping Mudra to deliver a rapid double-tap on the top of your sternum — as always, with a clear intent that that double-tap is your secondary end of practice procedure. A bit of self-discipline is called for, for it's tempting to tap unnecessarily strongly. Being more gentle about it would help maintain maximum awareness and respect for yourself.

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're still not fundamentally changing the way they live, and are still making many everyday choices that are weakening for them.

That's NOT how the true self-actualization process operates. If you're serious about self-actualization, rather than just 'bumping along the bottom' with occasional 'recharges', then you're 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's 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're living with intent, at least to a fair degree, your practices — especially ones free of garbage connections (i.e., such as the practices given on this page) — are not 'recharges' but incremental strengthenings or 'upward' steps, so that you're 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 Helpfulness Testing guide.

By introducing you to the methodology of Helpfulness Testing and developing the proper grounded energy awareness that enables you to effortlessly and securely live with intent (joyfully!), the Helpfulness 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 Helpfulness Testing before committing yourself by taking up particular options and acting upon your provisional or prospective choices.

'Cleaning up' after a session

I hadn't paid any attention to this till well on into 2013, but actually my understanding now is that to varying extents the different practices / procedures tend to leave subtle 'imprints' of the material that we're clearing, on the area of floor or ground upon or over which we have been carrying out the various practices / procedures. This is particularly true of Self-Power Walking and Grounding Point, but to some extent any other methods we use could also leave such 'imprints' — including doing formal readings of the Affirmations. In the case of Self-Power Walking, this isn't really an issue if you're simply walking out in the open, but if you're doing the stationary version in your own living abode, then it definitely would be.

Although for practical purposes I talk of 'imprints' being left on the floor / ground, nobody could know the exact true nature of those imprints, and I assume that most likely these subtle effects aren't objectively on the particular physical surfaces at all but rather, are within one's own 'mental image' of those surfaces.

Anyway, whatever their exact true nature, they progressively dissolve over a few weeks, but the catch is that if you're repeatedly carrying out practices over the same bit of floor / ground, there's a net accumulation until a certain level of 'unwholesomeness' has built up and the overall dissolution rate matches the renewal rate. This would generally not be a very major issue, but it would be rather weakening for you to be on that area of affected surface for any significant amount of time, and so it's worthwhile using a simple 'cleaning up' operation at the end of any major session (i.e., indoors).

We need to remember to disregard all the 'psychic cleaning' methods used and put forward by psychics and 'healers', for the garbage has got those individuals habitually using ineffective and even harmful methods. The method that my own inner inquiry pointed me to was palm-rolling my desktop Clarity-Sphere to-and-fro over the affected area in a tight zigzag, with the conscious intent that I was initiating / facilitating the dissolution of any adverse 'energy' imprints on the floor there.

Now that I'm working without spheres or other external aids, what I'm doing instead, which is simpler and quicker, is simply to move the palm of my dominant hand very lightly in that tight zigzag over the carpet or other surface, including the seat of any chair I've been using while carrying out procedures. Again, though, it's necessary to maintain that clear intent of 'cleaning up' while doing that, and not to be simply going through the motions and maybe thinking about shopping to be done or who'd 'liked' what on Facebook!

For this to be effective you need to align your intent first, using the tapping method I give for that, and it's best done at the end of a session of Regular Core Practices, as your deeply-sourced intent should be maximally opened-up then.

I recommend that this procedure normally be used weekly where you're having daily sessions. To 'clean up' at the end of each session may be a bit more strengthening in some ways, but it also can readily lead you into a slightly anxious and even paranoid mindset, or to go into an auto-pilot routine and not really be engaging your deeply-sourced intent. Therefore weekly is a good compromise. In fact, for people who are well advanced in their self-actualization process and apparently have little or no emotional crap left, just a monthly 'clean-up' would be enough — except that then it's more likely to get forgotten altogether, so still a weekly execution would be better.

I myself do my weekly clean-up immediately following my early-morning practices session on the Saturday. If I miss the session that day (e.g., because of it being a hiking day), then usually I do it after the next early morning practices session after that 'miss' — though skipping that one occasion wouldn't be a problem.

Cleaning-up of spaces?

It wasn't till well into 2019 that I woke up to the fact that although I'd been doing weekly brief 'clean-up' sessions on the floor and chairs under which I'd been using practices / procedures, I hadn't ever done any similar 'clean-up' for my whole living space, in which I'd gone through a whole mass of very 'dark' and troublesome shenanigans from the garbage, especially in 2003–7!

The answer to that one of course is brazenly simple. Just make the same sort of movements with your palm in the air while standing in the middle of the room, using more of a circular movement. Because presumably the untoward 'imprints' are actually not in the space at all, but in your own mental 'image' of the space and all it contains, this should work simply and straightforwardly, provided you're applying your deeply-sourced intent. So clearly you need to start with using the procedures for full alignment of intent, and, I'd suggest, making sure to go through the procedure with a joyful, playful and forward-looking state of mind and physical bearing.

Just face one side of the room, 'do' that, then turn to the next side, and repeat till all four side are done, then similarly 'do' the ceiling and the whole floor (this time from standing height). Do it for every space in your abode in which you've been. This way you can easily 'do' a whole room of any size easily within a minute — at least, if you're carrying it out with the requisite joyful 'lightness of touch'.

This sort of clean-up can be more or less a one-off thing if done retrospectively when you're no longer going through major troubles and have cleared much of your stuff, but I suggest to do it weekly while such major shenanigans are still ongoing.

"Can I clean-up my friend's home or any other space?"

Can I be a ghost-buster?

Generally no, at least to the extent that you would normally mean — for a reason that I strongly implied above. The point is, what you're really cleaning up is your own polluted mental image of the particular space. Clearly, then, this is something that cannot be done on other people's behalf — they'd need to do that for themselves.

There may be a partial exception to this as something of a rarity, where there are one or more elementals (including 'ghosts') involved, for they apparently have some sort of external, physically located existence. Then your intent would need to be particularly strongly aligned for dissolving any elementals in that space when you're going through the procedure. However, unless those elementals already have a connection with you, your effectiveness would be nothing like that of a person who already has some connection with those elementals. Also, it would be a fairly unhealthy thing for you to be trying, so would need really exceptional circumstances to make it 'strengthening' on balance for you to do.

So, no, sadly, neither I nor anyone could make an honest or healthy living out of visiting people's abodes as a supposed 'ghost-buster' or dissolver of elementals! However, what one can do, which should work at least tolerably, is for one simply to give careful and full instruction to a person in aligning their own intent and then doing the requisite 'clean-up' work for themselves.

Such instruction would need to include emphasizing that at least most of what they are really cleaning up is their own mental image of the particular space and its contents, and that anything non-physical or paranormal they're experiencing there is being brought about by things going on within their own non-physical aspects, thanks to their garbage interference, maybe mediated in part by an elemental.

Cleaning-up in an abode to which a 'healer' / psychic / 'magic' practitioner has given or sent purported 'healing', 'space clearance' or other 'energy' treatment

When you've come to this site and begun to recognise the enormity and multiplicity of the problems being spread by virtually anyone who seeks to operate as a 'healer', psychic or related type of practitioner, you may be concerned about your own abode having had 'healing' or 'energy cleaning [/clearance]' in the past, and wondering what the hell to do about it.

Here, with some editing and the odd small addition, is my response to somebody who wrote in with this sort of issue. See what you can learn from it.

Actually, I'm sure that in objective terms the issue concerning you isn't the big deal it appears to you to be. I note from what you've written, that you're still to some extent holding onto a belief that these confounded 'healers', psychics and so forth are or could be sending out stuff that objectively exists — notwithstanding that some would be sending out elementals (always untoward), which do appear to have a rather dubiously objective existence.

I'm pretty sure that most of the time, even when elementals have been sent, the primary thing that's really been going on is an interaction between the supposed 'healer' and the person being 'helped' (i.e., the victim!). So, the changes that are experienced will in the hugely vast majority of cases NOT be in the property / abode but in the target person's subjective experience of living in that space.

Therefore, although Grounding Point is undoubtedly important, provided one is accurate in identifying the illusory realities to zap, the 'space clearance' procedure I've added to the site — or some close equivalent of it — is at least very helpful and probably necessary. But neither of those procedures will work well for you for that issue until you've cleared your remaining illusory realities / beliefs in which what those 'healers' etc. are offering or supposedly sending out is, or even possibly could be, genuine or 'real' — whether harmful or supposedly beneficial.

Most of those practitioners at least sort-of believe that it's all genuine, but that's the point — it's all belief-based, and as long as you give weight at all to anything belief-based you're actually self-sabotaging.

So, your basic need is a major mindset change, which would greatly improve your whole life experience. Both Grounding Point and The Work are indicated for that, and I also recommend a thorough (re-)reading of Crisis emergency self-help — Life upturn the SMART way, regardless of whether you've read it before, looking particularly for the relevance of certain sections there to your perceived issue.

My own personal approach to the odd individuals (including me of course, during my period of involvement in various sorts of 'spiritual healing') having supposedly done space cleaning on my own abode has been intuitively NOT to get het up about it. Instead I actually observed that when I made a practical assumption that apparent untoward effects weren't objectively real (i.e., in 'the physical') but were simply bits of attack and menacing 'story' that the garbage was feeding into my system, any issue about non-physical crud in my abode fell apart. It was then just a matter of dissolving the bits of garbage attack that were giving me the impression that I had any sort of issue in my abode. Simple! (well, sort-of!)

And of course, if your head is at all properly screwed on, you never, ever again, even contemplate getting such a practitioner to do any supposed 'cleaning' or 'clearance' work for you, and rejoice in how much better and simpler things have become (/ are becoming) since you yourself took command of your situation!

Important warning — keep up-to-date with these methods!

It's become clear to me from emails from various people who consider that they're benefiting from the methods they've picked up from this site, that it's normal for them to keep using the versions they originally picked up, and to omit taking on new versions as I post them on this site. A small proportion do take the trouble to update reasonably promptly, but I think the majority are persistently self-sabotaging by sticking to what they know and seems to be working for them.

I can understand that reluctance to embrace change, when the methods they've originally picked up seem to be helping so much — but these people generally write in describing further shenanigans they're experiencing, which actually they would be experiencing to a much lesser extent or not at all if only they took on the new versions of the methods (or indeed replacements for certain of them) that I post on this site.

It needs remembering, that my methodology is NEVER set in stone (i.e., fossilized into a tradition or orthodoxy), at least, by me. It's an ongoing process of exploration and experimentation to find what makes best sense and works best for our self-actualization and clearance of all the problems that the garbage brings us. I develop new versions precisely because I'm aware that, however helpful they may be, there's always room for improvement.

I shan't be fully satisfied until we are able to close altogether the connection between the astral and our ordinary 'minds' (or that closure happens for all of us anyway), so that then the garbage is finally eliminated from our life experience altogether.

One particularly important watershed / quantum-leap point was in September 2018, when I finally reworked the whole methodology to be fully free from use of external aids — together with putting consistent prime focus on alignment of intent. If you use methods involving use of external aids, you're liable to run into the sort of troubles I occasionally ran into while I was still using the Clarity-Sphere in my methods — when for a few months at a time the garbage was able to attack me repeatedly while my methods were unable significantly to dissolve those attacks.

That was because working with external aids rather than the current incarnation of my methodology allowed a distorted, messed up 'level' of consciousness (what I referred to as the 'sticky layer') to remain in its screwed-up state, whereas the current versions of the methods 'tunnel' straight through that, and progressively clean it up, so that such shenanigans as I experienced in 2015 to 2017 are extremely unlikely to happen for me again. The same would apply for anyone else.

Somebody recently (in 2019) wrote in to me detailing some weird and untoward experience he'd recently had, wondering what I thought about that, but what jumped out at me as most significant was that he mentioned his carrying out 'Grounding Post' — the original version of what I call Grounding Point nowadays. He was thus self-sabotaging by persistently using the earliest and least effective version of the procedure, and staying attached to it! At least he had the good sense to take on board my urging to get using the current version of each of my methods.

So, please don't self-sabotage, for it helps no-one at all! For your own good, please therefore reasonably frequently check the What's New page for news of updates, and ensure you really are using the latest versions of the methods!

The Practices / Procedures

Regular Core Practices

These are what I'd been calling Clarity-Sphere Companion Practices until I finally declared the Clarity-Sphere redundant because of advances in my methods. They're simply a selection of methods, which, when regularly used in a daily session, would give the most effective facilitation of a purposeful broad-spectrum self-actualization process. Other practices / procedures would also be needed at times, but the core practices are the 'torso' that gives your process its basic 'oomph'.

Because it may not be practical to use all relevant practices in daily sessions, I don't prescribe a specific set, but indicate which practices would be particularly suitable for that use.

As an example, in November 2018 my early morning session included the following:

• Self-Power Walking — the standing stationary version (successively using each of the three mudras) — 6 Power Breathing cycles for each mudra
• Clarity-Power Opening-Out — 6 cycles
• Filtration Bed (alternating each day between the two versions)
• Clarity-Power Rocking Feet
• Clarity-Power Marching, including 'Look-Everywhere' enhancement — 8 cycles of the latter
• Expanding Clarity
• Feedback-loop Zapper (following notional closure of session)

By 2022 that had become (totals c. 12–13 minutes):

• Self-Power Walking — the standing stationary version (successively using each of the three mudras) — 6 Power Breathing cycles for each mudra
• Clarity-Power Opening-Out — 6 cycles
• Clarity-Power Rocking Feet
• Clarity-Power Marching, including 'Look-Everywhere' enhancement — 8 cycles of the latter
• Expanding Clarity
• Perception Integrator
• Consciousness Integrator (only weekly)
• Feedback-loop Zapper (following notional closure of session)
• Session workspace clearance (relevant part of floor)

— but outside that session I use other practices / procedures too. It's greatly helpful to use Helpfulness Testing to find out or at least confirm as to what are currently your best choices, and to repeat the Helpfulness Testing once in a while to see if you could do with the odd change or addition.

Expanding Clarity

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's 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 (from the Energy Egg people), had quite bizarrely been called 'Stations of the Way' — thus lumbering it with a real chunk of religion baggage and thus garbage-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'd 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 (or, to a certain extent, particular beliefs).

So, when I use the name 'Expanding Clarity' for the practice that I've derived from that other one, I don't 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'm 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're 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 garbage interferences.

I've 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're undergoing some sort of severe karmic penance!

Guide to the basic practice

• You are standing in an upright and relaxed manner, with your feet preferably together at the heels, but if that's uncomfortable, just enough apart to avoid stress or significant discomfort, and turned out at an angle as close to a right-angle (90º) to each other (i.e., each turned outwards up to 45º) as you can easily manage without causing actual stress or strains — and your legs are slightly bent*.

  * As in some other standing yogic practices, this is quite important, though not because it's bad to have straight legs but because, when they're slightly bent, one direct result is that one's back has a little less, or in some cases quite a bit less, excess curvature. It's minimizing of excess curvature of the back that really helps the inner process of the practice.

  However, if you sought to directly hold your back in a straight posture you'd be hindering the practice. The Alexander Technique enables you to learn a healthy and maximally helpful way of minimizing or eliminating excess curvature of the back, without one's consciously trying to make one's back a specific shape at all.

  Your arms are initially loosely hanging by your sides, and you're looking more or less straight ahead (but not rigidly so), and the tip of your tongue is held to your palate for the whole practice. If your gaze can be at a reasonably distant and especially not too urban or industrial view out of a window during the session, that would be very helpful — though it's important not to gaze in an unfocused way that gets you spacing yourself out and ungrounding your awareness.

• Starting a slow and measured extra-complete breathing, you open your hands to form the splayed hands mudra — i.e., you keep the fingers all well splayed out — and start very slowly moving your arms from their vertical alignment, out at the sides to horizontal, and on upwards till eventually your hands are about to meet above your head.

  During this process, initially your hands are trying to face upwards but in practice face forward at first and then obliquely forward and up, but as your arms raise further your hands do actually face upwards, and, as the arms get higher than horizontal, your hands increasingly come to face each other above your head.

  The speed of ascent of your arms is slow, generally taking two or three extra-complete breathing cycles to rise from bottom to top — and the breathing itself is fairly slow. However, there's no specific rule about the speed apart from it being slow rather than fast, and you may find that you use a rather different speed on different occasions and especially when you use the practice in different contexts. Helpfulness Testing would indicate for you what's the best speed to use in a particular session.

• As your hands come towards meeting above your head, you draw the fingers of each hand together, so that your hands meet to form the sharp roof mudra; opposing fingers are thus touching only at their tips — and, as they meet, you stretch your arms to raise that sharp roof formation as far as possible above your head.

  Exactly what happens at this point depends on where you are in the current extra-complete breathing cycle. If your opposing fingertips meet just as you come to a (slightly straining) full point in the breathing cycle, your upward stretch can be minimal and you start bringing your hands, still in sharp roof mudra formation, smoothly down in front of you (still pointing upwards until that becomes impossible).

  On the other hand, if you've just missed a full-point of your breathing you do the vertical stretch maximally, and hold it there till the next full-point in the breathing cycle, and then start bringing your hands (in sharp roof mudra) smoothly down in front of you, synchronized with that (single) exhalation.

  In other words, while your arms are rising there's no specific synchronization with the breathing cycles, but at the top you always arrange things so that your hands do an exhalation-synchronized descent from the straining-upward-limit to where the hands part, nearly at the bottom.

• Either way, you bring your hands smoothly down closely in front of you, still holding the sharp roof mudra, over the duration of the one exhalation, which is still slow. Near the bottom of their travel your hands naturally have to part (by which time they're pointing more or less downwards), and then they're ready to repeat the cycle, with the fingers splayed out again.

• The cycle is generally repeated several times, though even just one complete cycle would be beneficial.

• The final cycle ends differently, as follows. When your hands, in sharp roof mudra formation, have descended to just in front of your lower chest (still pointing upwards), you hold them there in that mudra, while you empty your lungs and then inhale to slightly straining-full point, at which you let go of the mudra and rapidly deliver two loud claps in quick succession.

• You then release your position, relax, and carry out your chosen end-of-practice procedure.

I myself generally find that about 5 to 7 cycles of this practice are indicated by my Helpfulness Testing. I don't count the cycles, however, but sneak in the odd quick Helpfulness Test when I'm 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 Helpfulness Testing for this when I've 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 Helpfulness Test on finishing at that point isn't 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.

A variation of the standard practice — hands just to top of head

I was starting often to get a slight but increasingly troublesome strain at the back of my right shoulder, which turned out to be caused largely by my stretching my arms up for this and two other practices. My Helpfulness Testing then supported my amending the practice as follows.

When the arms are out at the sides and starting to rise above the level of your head, their movement continues but in a different direction, the forearms drawing in towards the middle, to place the heels of the hands on either side of the top of the head, with the hands then sitting there in sharp roof mudra (i.e., with fingers of each hand together, and just the fingertips touching the corresponding fingertips of the other hand).

You still have the intent that they're rising up to as high as your arms can stretch (i.e., notionally), but, physically, the highest they go is just sitting on top of your head. Again, as with the standard version, you keep your hands there just till you can synchronize their descent (still in sharp roof mudra) with the next exhalation.

Even if you haven't run into the sort of strain issue that I had, it's well worth Helpfulness Testing to see which version would be most beneficial for you at the present time.

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's a particular major enhancement that you can add to it.

For your final exhalation, instead of finishing with the sharp roof mudra held at lower chest level, you bring the hands, in that formation, rapidly down from their highest position, synchronized with a rapid exhalation, to come to rest both in the five-finger tapping mudra, with fingertips closely together on the top of your sternum.

Then, with your fingertips held there, at once power-inhale. Hold your breath at the over-full point as you rapidly extend your arms somewhat to give the rapid double-clap to finish the practice. You then have just the end of practice procedure to do.

Exactly what the beneficial effects of this enhancement would be would 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'd 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's 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.

Clarity-Power Opening-Out

This is an adaptation of another practice that I got from the Energy Egg people, who called it The Shining Sun. Among other things, it functions as a great and much more powerful replacement for the 'core point' visualization that I did have on this site, and it feels wonderful! So, anyone who wants an alternative to that little visualization, this is it, Big Time!

I added this in here very belatedly, because I myself had run into trouble with it almost at once when I started using it back in 2007, for the reaching as far as possible up and outwards repeatedly caused me a slight strain in one of my right shoulder muscles, and also I got some return of lower back pain (having a chronically weak back with significantly worn vertebrae).

This was frustrating as I sensed even then that this would be a particularly beneficial practice, and it was clear that I couldn't sensibly use it myself — and so I shelved it. It didn't seem to be a good idea to put on this site a method that I myself couldn't sensibly use (and so wouldn't be testing).

In September 2018, having found that my leg muscles had apparently very rapidly become less injury-prone, so that I was able to resume certain physio exercises that I'd had to avoid for decades, I decided to revisit 'The Shining Sun' and see if there was a way I could get using it at last. I found that it was still causing me that shoulder strain a bit, but I tried repeating it a few days apart, with only four cycles of it in my early morning Regular Core Practices sessions, and being careful not to be fully forceful in stretching my arms up and out — and similarly not trying to force my hands towards the floor at the lowest part of the cycle (my back has somewhat limited movement).

By means of tempering the practice I found that I was beginning to be able to use it without accumulating shoulder or back muscle strain, and so at last it made sense for me to make it available here for all.

I've modified the original practice in one particular detail, in that at the bottom of the cycle, in the original version one's arms were crossed at the wrists. With the use of this physical practice with our more focused and comprehensive self-actualization intent for it, that crossing of the wrists is a distracting and inharmonious little complexity, devoid of useful function, so it's not included here.

The basic practice

You're standing in a relaxed and upright position with your feet somewhat apart (a little more apart than for most of my other practices done while standing) and reasonably parallel (but without getting over-fussy about that), and sufficient space around you for the expansive arm movements.

With your legs remaining straight, allow your torso gently to droop till it can go no further without forcing (and please don't force it!), with your arms hanging loosely but with hands held loosely straight and flat, with all fingers together, allowing the fingertips to touch the floor if that can happen without your forcing anything or bending the legs.

If you can't reach the floor without bending the legs, that's fully okay, but you maintain the intent that each time you descend like that to your lowest point your fingertips are actually touching the floor. In other words, this is like the quite effective 'fudge' used in Expanding Clarity, where you can put the heels of your hands on top of your head rather than stretching your arms as far as they can easily go, but maintaining an intent that they're still doing that upward extension each time.

After about a second at that low point, you gently unfurl, drawing your arms up and out in front of you, with your hands gently opening out into the splayed hand mudra during that movement.

Near the top, as you gently stretch upwards, your arms are gracefully changing direction, moving outwards, as your unfurling continues to a modest degree of backward-bending of the back — your arms thus also coming back a bit as they each describe a graceful 'unfurling' arc, then starting to descend and approach each other, soon hanging loose again in front of your torso, as you now start gently drooping forward again to reach the bottom point once more, the hands having steadily returned to their loosely straight state during their descent, with fingers together.

At the lowest position your head needs to be hanging loosely so that you're effectively looking between your legs — not at the floor. At the furthest-back bending point, again your head needs to be allowed to hang slightly under its own weight, but now so that you're looking upwards and behind yourself from that high position.

You repeat this cycle for the number of times indicated by your Helpfulness Testing. If you're not yet using Helpfulness Testing, I recommend anything from four to eight cycles total in a session. If you're using this in a daily sequence of Regular Core Practices, just six or maybe even just four cycles would make sense in order to help keep the overall session to a sensible and grounding-friendly (i.e., reasonably minimal) length.

For best results, immediately precede this practice with the Alignment of Intent procedure, and similarly, follow it by a Close of Practice procedure — unless it's being used within a series of Regular Core Practices, which itself was included between an Alignment of Intent and Close of Practice procedure.

Older people in particular would need to be especially vigilant for strain pains that may develop within a day or two of the practice having caused them; you'd not necessarily feel any problem actually while carrying out the practice (I myself didn't). In the event of any such strains, the initial need isn't to use the practice till the particular pains have gone, and then to return to the practice more cautiously, maybe a smaller number of cycles, perhaps not every day, and with the top and / or bottom of each cycle not pushed quite so far. You may be able to build up more strength of the relevant muscles over time and so be able gradually to build up to a fuller execution of the practice without keeping on injuring yourself.

Another thing to be vigilant about — particularly older people — is ensuring you don't lose balance and fall over, especially when bending backwards.

Filtration Bed

This is for addressing direction-related imbalances.

Yes, the odd name I've given to this practice, which latter I came up with by means of my own inner inquiry, does refer to a sewage filtration bed, because it has a schematic resemblance to one. I'm thinking here of those round sewage filtration beds, where one or more radially arranged pipes bearing a line of spray nozzles very slowly moves round, evenly spraying the sewage onto the filtration material, relatively clean water being drained off at the bottom.

So, you stand upright and as loose and relaxed as possible, with feet about a shoulder-width apart, and your arms hanging loosely — except that they aren't hanging completely so because your hands are in the Splayed Hands mudra, with palms facing roughly upwards and fingers of each hand thus pointing out in a 'fan' low down in front of you on either side. You now imagine that all distortions in your non-physical aspects — with particular reference to the directional ones — are now being sprayed out from your fingertips into a notional but invisible filter bed around you, and you commence slowly turning round like that, using a discreet shuffling motion of the feet.

While doing this, you're doing a fairly slow cyclic breathing, so that you inhale through your nose over about 45° of your turning, then exhale through your partially closed lips (pfffff) during the following 45°, and so on for one whole revolution, in which you thus go through four full breathing cycles. Then, for best effectiveness, repeat the procedure, with the full 360° revolution displaced by 45° so that you now inhale where you previously exhaled, and vice versa. Your Helpfulness Testing may indicate a preference for doing more revolutions in a session, so it's always worth checking on that.

As with the other practices, it's best policy to finish off with your chosen end-of-practice procedure (or end-of-stage procedure if you're doing it in a sequence of Regular Core Practices).

Alternative method — hand on crown

This is extremely simple and quick to perform. As with Filtration Bed as described further above, this alternative involves your standing, looking ahead, and slowly turning around on the spot in a full circle (so I include it as a variant of Filtration Bed rather than giving it a separate name), but here you simply hold the palm of your dominant hand lightly on your crown (absolute top of your head), with all fingers straight and together, and the whole hand being stiffly straight and having no tendency to curl around the top of the head — and you've no need to do a second turn.

Your gaze itself, then, is the filtration-bed 'sprinkler'. When you've turned full circle, remain standing, peacefully looking straight ahead, with your palm held on your crown for about ten seconds. That's all there is to it. Follow it of course with the appropriate end of practice procedure.

My own Helpfulness Testing indications (for myself) have so far been to alternate from day to day between this and the splayed hands version of Filtration Bed — I think the point being that each such practice does the main job required but has its own particular additional benefits, so alternation from day to day gets you the best of both worlds.

Clarity-Power Marching

This and the next practice I was given (with different names from the ones I'm using for them) by the Energy Egg people in 2007. Of course, the two practices were claimed to have certain quite specific 'energy' effects, and were thus, with those individuals' outlook and intent, relatively narrow in functional scope. I'm presenting them here with a much broader-based intent and 'remit'.

Unlike Self-Power Walking, which I describe in the section after next, Clarity-Power Marching isn't 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've got the knack of it.

• You're standing in an upright and relaxed manner, with your feet roughly parallel and about a shoulder's width apart. Have your arms hanging loosely so that your hands are against the front of your thighs, with the backs of both hands each loosely against the respective thigh, and palms thus facing forward, and all fingers fully splayed out.

• 1. Arm movements

  • Without significantly moving your upper arms, keeping your fingers well splayed out, rapidly raise the right hand so that its palm gently slaps you in the upper chest / collarbone area on that side, and hold it there for nearly a second.

  • Now do the same with your left hand, simultaneously dropping your right hand back to its resting position, so gently slapping yourself on the thigh with the back of that hand. There are thus two simultaneous gentle slaps — one on your left upper chest / collarbone area and the other on your right thigh, with a nearly one-second pause before the next reciprocating movement.

  • Repeat this a few times, with alternating sides, till you're confident in this movement.

• 2. Add in leg movements

  • As each hand drops, you markedly raise the rear of the foot on that side, so causing the knee to bend forward and the thigh to raise to meet the descending hand.

  • Repeat this a few times till you're confident in co-ordinating the leg and arm movements.

• 3. Add in synchronized cyclic breaths

  • As each hand approaches the respective shoulder, do an extremely short inhalation through the nostrils and immediate somewhat longer slightly forced exhalation through loosely closed lips — the 'P' of the 'Pfff' to coincide exactly with the gentle 'slap' of the hands on collarbone and thigh. The rhythm can be represented as:

    

    — where the semiquaver represents inhalation and the crotchet represents the exhalation, and the speed is one cycle per 1–1½ seconds. You thus pause breathing and indeed your movements between the very short cyclic breath cycles. That rhythm / speed isn't meant to be adhered to slavishly; I give it just as a guide to the general 'feel' of the practice. Here is a recording of me myself executing the practice.

    This now is the full practice. If your Helpfulness Testing indicates 'strengthening' for doing the practice faster, even without the pauses altogether, try that and Helpfulness-Test again to see if your Helpfulness Testing is still indicating for that or for some degree of pause between breathing cycles.

    
    

Please note that producing a sound from the 'slapping' is purely incidental and is NOT the point of the practice; what's 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're synchronizing your movements; for best effectiveness the movements and breaths do need to be fairly precisely synchronized.

As for uses for this practice, I've been using it regularly as one of my three Regular Core Practices — though originally I was given it (with an irrelevant name) supposedly to carry out a certain energy balancing function for me. It's a powerful practice, and is best used in short sessions of only about 1–1½ minutes — or at least, that's how it's worked out for me. Your own Helpfulness 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.

An add-on enhancement — Look Everywhere!

Once you're proficient with the practice as described above, there's actually what is in effect another practice in its own right that can be beneficially added onto it. With each 'action moment' you turn your head in a different direction in a fixed sequence. As with the eight-point eye movements, it doesn't matter really what the sequence is, as long as you stick to it. If you 'fluff' on the odd occasion, just continue and be aware of the 'fluff' but don't worry yourself about it; just aim to keep it all as regular and complete as reasonably possible.

I myself use the sequence: left — centre — right — centre — up — centre — down — centre. So, one cycle of 'looks' is completed in eight 'action moments'. For myself my Helpfulness Testing has so far consistently supported my carrying out eight of those cycles in my early morning sequence of Regular Core Practices. I count them by thinking the number of the cycle with each exhalation — imagining that I'm actually saying the number as I exhale.

For this to be fully effective you need to be using your neck well, as you'd learn to with the Alexander Technique. In other words, as far as possible your neck doesn't move the head, but the head pivots lightly on the top of the neck, turning to the limit of its easy travel in each direction — and also no part of the torso turns or twists to 'assist' the head in its turning.

I don't know specifically what benefits come from this add-on, but, for myself, my Helpfulness Testing consistently indicates that it's significantly beneficial and very much worth continuing with. Clearly it makes sense to use Helpfulness Testing yourself before choosing whether to use this add-on for yourself at the present time.

Clarity-Power Rocking Feet

An adaptation of yet another practice I originally got from the Energy Egg people.

• Be standing upright in a relaxed way, looking flexibly ahead, with feet a little apart and arms hanging loosely. Allow yourself to slightly come up on the balls of both your feet, so that the heels rise just a very little, then gently allow the heels to lower, and then allow your weight to transfer to both your heels and the front of your feet to rise just very slightly.

  Repeat this rocking oscillation of the feet gently a number of times, while remaining upright and relaxed, with your attention out of the window if possible, much as with standing-stationary Self-Power Walking (see further below).

• In synchronization with those movements, you're carrying out short, shallow cyclic breathing, inhaling through the nose while your heels are (slightly) raising, and breathing out between just-closed lips (Pfffff) during the change-over to the front of your feet rising. You may need to insert some pauses into the practice in order not to get significantly hyperventilated.

This is an addition to the list of Regular Core Practices, which helps make for a more balanced and comprehensive self-actualization and system-strengthening process. As with all the practices and methods, your own Helpfulness Testing would inform you as to whether this practice would be helpful for you at the present time.

Please note that if carried out at all strongly, this practice can cause muscle / tendon strains for people with particular weaknesses in the lower leg musculature — actually for many years an issue for me. A sneaky thing about such strains, in my experience at least, is that they aren't felt at the time of their creation, so it can be very difficult to be clear as to what's caused them.

So, if you do find you get strain pains in the calf muscle complex, or lower leg tendon pain, or indeed certain types of foot pain (especially under-arch), which can be referred pains actually sourced in minor tendon or muscle strains in the lower leg, and no other cause is indicated, you need to be ready to suspect this practice and to lay off it temporarily and then, when you resume it, to ensure that you carry it out very gently, with minimal actual rising up of either end of the feet.

Fortunately, a strong rising-up doesn't increase the power of this practice, so, unless you mean to treat it as a fairly aggressive physio exercise for strengthening your calf musculature, it really is best done in the 'minimal' way that I suggest.

Also, it's necessary to be very careful about your balance for this practice — if possible, having the odd secure object in front of or beside you, which you can grab if you start falling forwards or backwards. This would be an issue particularly for older people, whose balance tends not to be so good anyway, and also if you're rising significantly at the front end of the rocking movement.

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's 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 I was given.

Main features of Self-Power Walking

• Your hands are both formed into the splayed hand mudra, the backs of the hands facing outwards laterally. In this mudra all your fingers are splayed out as wide apart as possible — a bit tautly but not enough to be really stressful.

• 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's important to remember to temporarily remove it from that position any time you use Helpfulness Testing.

• You're 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's 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'd tread in if you were just looking into the distance), while still maintaining most attention on the distance.

  And again, it's 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's ungrounding, and this practice is of greatest benefit if it's 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's important that you simply allow such an 'energy' flow to occur and don't use your conscious mind to try to direct the notional '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's really some sort of energy flowing out of you (apart from the inevitable heat!), even temporarily, when you're 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's 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 more satisfactorily explained how it is that the Energy Egg people were able to 'demonstrate' that harmful / distorted energies pass out of a person into the ground when (s)he is doing Power Walking (Helpfulness 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're very actively and 'energetically' processing problematical material, as occurs in Self-Power Walking.

  However, it's still helpful in practical terms to get some sense of problematical 'something' passing out of you into the ground when you're 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's 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 with an empty mind but with an unattached one.

• While Self-Power Walking will work wherever you do it, it's most effective when you're 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 the short version of this procedure (a rapid double-tap on top of sternum) at the end of each mode of Self-Power Walking during your session. That's definitely non-essential, but 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'd 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'd 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'd ascertain this 'on the fly' by Helpfulness Testing or grounded direct inner communication (which latter very few people indeed are yet able to use to any really helpful extent). I myself do so partially by the latter mode, but generally backing it up with Helpfulness Testing.

  However, if you don't yet have either means (ordinary dowsing or channelling would be unreliable and can cause you serious trouble), then a good general recommendation is for 5 to 10 minutes.

  Just two or three minutes per day would be very effective, but if you have some particular urgency to clear stuff out (e.g., because of particular garbage attacks or an abusive relationship situation), there's nothing to stop you having even 30–40-minute sessions — though it would be best to periodically Helpfulness-Test to see what's 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 Helpfulness Testing (for yourself) may indicate differently.

  That may sound like some sort of troublesome commitment, but truly it's not like that. Nobody is saying you've got to do 'x amount' of Self-Power Walking every day. I'm just suggesting what's likely to be optimal for you. Indeed, if you get in the odd five minutes of Self-Power Walking in a week you'd 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's doing or would be doing for you, you'd 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.

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

Some general notes

One-handed operation

I think it's quite obvious that while your hands are holding things you can't really do Self-Power Walking — at least, as I've described it above. So, if you regularly use a pair of trekking poles when you go walking or hiking, then you've got a little problem. In fact, using a pair of such poles isn't the beneficial thing that at the moment it's almost universally being made out to be, as I explain in my Favourite Hiking Routes page.

There are indeed various reasons why it's 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 or, more likely mitigate, that problem is through using the Regular Core Practices — 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're 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's 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 isn't as effective as holding the mudra with both hands simultaneously, but is still effective enough to be very much worth doing — especially if you're Power-Breathing.

If you do a session of Self-Power Walking in this manner, it's 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 don't 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 garbage 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 Helpfulness 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're wearing them you can happily Power Walk even around town without any risk of people thinking you're 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're still visibly holding your hands rather stiffly at slightly strange angles for walking.

Self-Power Walking indoors

If, for one reason or another you don't have access to a suitable route to Self-Power Walk, you can do it indoors with quite reasonable effectiveness, even though it's significantly more effective to be actually walking in a suitable outdoor location. If it's not practical actually to be walking around much (which of course would usually be the case indoors), you can do it standing, with your feet somewhat apart and reasonably parallel to and aligned with each other, and with your knees very slightly bent, so that the legs aren't 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 doesn't 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.

The best way I've found so far of doing this practice while stationary-standing is to make leg movements as though walking, but without your feet fully leaving the floor. In other words, you raise the heel of each foot alternately, so causing the knee of the respective leg to bend, then lower that again as you raise the other heel similarly.

Initially I found it difficult synchronizing my arm-swinging with those movements, and my Helpfulness Testing indicated that in those circumstances it was actually better for me not to swing the arms and let them hang as loosely as I could manage while holding the successive mudras. In practice (sic), I find that if I let the arms hang as loosely as possible, they do gradually fall into a gentle properly synchronized swing, and this is really what you want to aim for. It's just that if you try to force it to happen, you'd be disrupting the 'flow' and indeed the effectiveness of the practice.

When it's working in correct sync, the forward movement of each arm is synchronized with the forward movement of the opposite knee, so that you have a reciprocation between the two sides.

My indications are that carrying out the practice like this is almost as effective (at least, for me) as the standard outdoor version. For other people, however, I think a lot would depend on the clarity and depth of one's intent in carrying out the practice.

It's this above version of the practice that I now recommend as one of the Regular Core Practices. When carried out thus, the practice can't be very usefully compared with the outdoor walking version, because it's effectively being used as a different practice (because of the different intent in its use), with a more comprehensive 'energy' effect. That doesn't mean, however, that you can't use it with the standard Self-Power Walking intent in other sessions, so you can only gain, not lose anything worthwhile, by using the practice as one of your Regular Core Practices.

It distinctly helps the practice if you can be looking out of a window at some reasonably expansive view, but even a wall-mounted picture of an expansive view would be better than nothing. Otherwise it would be helpful to visualize some place with open countryside and distant views, which you know well. If you can visualize that reasonably well it might indeed be more effective that a picture (though depending on what the picture is, of course).

Self-Power Walking lying down — 'Self-Power Lie-downs'?

If you have regular lie-downs in the manner that I describe for the Alexander Technique (AT), one option for you is to 'kill two birds with one stone' and incorporate the essence of Self-Power Walking into part of a lie-down. Although this isn't as effective as doing standard or standing Self-Power Walking, in my case this lying down version still appeared to work remarkably well, considering.

I can't promise that it would work as well for just anyone, because most likely a prime factor in my case is that I'm already well practised and 'tuned in' to standard Self-Power Walking — but it's worth anyone trying it when one can't sensibly get out for a walk. If you want to try it, it's naturally best to use Helpfulness Testing to get a reasonable idea of whether this particular method is working sufficiently well for you that it's worth your using it at the present time.

I carried out this practice daily during my after-breakfast AT lie-down (taking up something near half of that lie-down), but not in the other AT lie-downs that I'd have during the day. So, to carry out this practice, first, I'm lying in the standard way for an AT lie-down, on my back on the floor, with a headrest of suitable height (in my case quite low), and my legs fairly well but not fully drawn up so that the knees are considerably raised, and the legs are both very loose and in balance so that either would fall over if given just a little nudge to one side or the other.

Then, with my arms loosely straight at my sides, use the spayed hands mudra. With the tip of my tongue held to my palate, I hold the mudra probably for two to four minutes (i.e., through several cycles of complete or extra-complete breathing), though the exact duration isn't important, and, for each, I imagine myself actually doing the full, walking version of the practice with the respective mudra in a location where I've often been doing it, and where it's felt particularly empowering, invigorating and freeing, and I get into touch with those latter impressions, also with the (schematic) impression of disturbed or distorted 'energies' freely releasing from me out of my hands and indeed fingertips, then to be transformed.

At the end I finish off the whole practice with my standard end-of-practice procedure.

During the practice I aim to keep my hands facing / pointing reasonably in the same direction relative to myself as they'd be if I were walking.

My understanding from my use of inner inquiry is that this lying down method is potentially almost as effective as the standard version in some respects, but much less so in others, and for this reason it's best for your indoor sessions to use the standing method if reasonably possible. However, the lying version is much better than nothing.

Self-Power Walking for disabled people

I've belatedly experimented on this and found that apparently — if I'm getting a correct picture from my own energy awareness and Helpfulness Testing responses — I'm able to do Self-Power Walking remarkably well as a sitting practice (!). I'm 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 can't 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'd 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 don't 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're 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're 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'd 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 can't keep up this sitting version for very long, every bit that you do would be helping a great deal.

I'd caution, however, that this is really untested apart from my own brief experiments and Helpfulness Testing results from those experiments, so it's 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's really nice when all that intensity has stopped! You've 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's not appropriate to be doing Self-Power Walking). However, even now you can greatly benefit yourself by what's in a way a much gentler sort of Self-Power Walking, which adds no discomfort and virtually no effort to your walking — and doesn't look so strange to ordinary mortals that you couldn't do it around town. This can be done by anyone, and doesn't 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're 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'm 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're 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's the sort of thing to periodically come back to at times while you're out and about.

This mode of walking, because it's gentle and you use it quite a bit of the time, doesn't particularly need the End of Practice Procedure, but you can still get a little benefit through using it on the odd occasion when you're aware that you've 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' and what you could loosely call 'thought patterns' from your system. These can include energy implants, thought forms, beliefs, illusory realities, vows, curses and (black) magic of any kind, 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 the top of 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 to Grounding Point in recognition of the fact that for me and probably most people, it was 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.

However, things have moved on, and now for simplicity and increased effectiveness I'm presenting here a newer and more efficient version of the procedure in place of the confusion of versions that had accumulated here. This new, upgraded version has the tremendous advantage of not using the Clarity-Sphere, nor indeed any external aid at all, and is fully portable, so you can use it pretty-well anywhere, apart from where there are people close-by who you probably wouldn't want to see you doing something a little 'odd'.

Grounding Point is completely safe — at least, as far as anything is completely safe! It's proved extremely effective for me for clearing or very much weakening at least many illusory realities, including ones used in garbage attacks. I have much personal experience of this, and reports of similar experiences from other people who've used this procedure. It's 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's 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 aren't all tested in a precise manner but at least appear to be logically based with regard to what's been consistently observed to work, and are supported by my inner inquiry / Helpfulness Testing.

It would always be helpful to hear from people who've 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 don't regard Grounding Point as a replacement for ongoing use of the yogic practices such as the Regular Core Practices and Self-Power Walking, ongoing use of which would be progressively dissolving a wide range of 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're aware, without having to wait for them to gradually fade away during the overall, more gradual clearance process.

The basis of this procedure (actually using the top of a wooden post out in the countryside) was given to me by the psychic surgeon Chris Thomas, who, fortunately, passed the particular method to me freely without any 'ties', to assist me with issues I had at that time, with no signs at all of it being meant to be kept private as any sort of 'intellectual property' of his. I developed the procedure through a series of different ways to get the same effect more conveniently and efficiently, and the version I now give is a far cry from that early starting-point, using the top of your own sternum as the 'grounding point'.

Please note, however, that my methods are still evolving. Look at what I've written about the Feedback-Loop Zapper procedure, which follows this Grounding Point section. Basically, it's looking as though, at least for the more experienced users, the functions of Grounding Point can become included in the use of Feedback-Loop Zapper, so rendering a separate Grounding Point procedure to some extent redundant and simplifying things a lot.

If I become satisfied that that combined functionality works sufficiently well for all users, then maybe we could dispense altogether with this separate Grounding Point procedure — though that isn't the situation for the time being. The latter then might still have a separate section here, but it would be just a variant of Feedback-Loop Zapper in just the same way as Environmental Stress Zapper has already become.

• Normally you'd be sitting for this, though if you have some particular reason to do it standing, that would still work fine. If you're sitting you need to be sitting in a relaxed upright position.

• Particularly importantly, first carry out the tapping procedure for alignment of intent.

• Have your dominant hand formed into the five-finger tapping mudra, and hold it so you're looking into the little 'hole' between the bunched fingertips, at a comfortable reading distance.

  

• Regard that little 'hole' as a 'black hole' into which you now focus the problematical thing that you intend to zap (illusory reality, notion, belief, person, thought, supposed 'implant', etc., or nodal point of an elemental (see further below)), taking probably a minute or two of complete (but not power-) breathing while you concentrate on your target and focus it into that 'black hole'.

• When you're ready, rapidly bring that hand, carrying the occupied 'black hole' in the tapping mudra, to land with fingertips on the top of your sternum, and immediately do a burst of rapid tapping there with the one hand, immediately followed by a single firm tap there with both tapping mudras together;

• then continue with two further bursts of tapping, both followed by a single firm tap with the five-finger mudras of both hands at the same position — the rapid tapping always being done just by the dominant hand, with the other held just out of the way.

• That third firm tap with both hands' tapping mudra differs this time in that they stay put on the top of the sternum for a moment and then execute together five firm taps, then staying put there again while you execute five cyclic breaths.

• Continue to hold the mudra there while you power-inhale to full-to-slightly-straining and then immediately release the mudra to do a strong rapid double-clap (obviously with both hands — we're not Zen here! ), at which point you release your breath and breathe normally once more.

• Use the full two-stage end-of-practice procedure.

• It's always best to follow this procedure (or succession of them) with Feedback-loop Zapper.

I did originally write here at some length about how to go about removing supposed implants — but really I was being swayed then by a lot of illusory-reality-based notions I'd picked up from Chris Thomas and the 'lightworker' Dalibor Zaviska, and nowadays I see all that as a gratuitous complication of the procedure, and also harmful as it goes against the most helpful understanding of supposed 'implants', that each is just a particular type of illusory reality, and needs to be addressed in that light. That's all the more so nowadays, with the current version of this methodology (i.e., since discontinuing using external aids), which works in a simple and more deeply focused way than ever before.

>>> Dissolving elementals (New, 2021 — experimental) <<<

I'd assumed for many years that elementals, being effectively constructs of thought forms, could be cleared by 'doing Grounding Point' on them — but I myself didn't have obvious elementals to test this on. It's thus taken me a long time, gleaning scraps of data from various people's valiant struggles, using Grounding Point against very troublesome elementals that were attached to them, for me to build up a picture of what was going on. I reluctantly came to the conclusion that for some reason Grounding Point appeared to be insufficiently effective or indeed actually ineffective against at least those very troublesome elementals referred to above.

In March 2021, while reviewing in greater depth than hitherto the nature of ghosts and other elementals, through inner inquiry I came up with a possible solution to this problem. What I'm now picking up is that although it's apparently true that Grounding Point is mostly ineffective in dissolving any but the most simple elementals in the direct way I'd been using, ALL elementals have a fundamental 'Achilles heel' that we can exploit.

According to what I've picked up now, each elemental has a discrete single small part (a 'nodal point') that holds together and co-ordinates its constituent thought forms / programming modules. In order for Grounding Point to be effective against an elemental, what you need to do differently is NOT to try to zap the overall elemental, but to make its nodal point the focus of your 'zap'. My indications so far are that that would work reliably, subject to reasonably effective use of the procedure generally.

For this to work, you need to get really clear about the meaning of the term 'nodal point' as I've given it here — for zapping the words 'nodal point' without the necessary understanding would be just zapping those words — a pointless exercise!

Allegedly, once the nodal point is dissolving (over a minute or two to possibly a day or two), the elemental loses function as its constituent thought forms fall apart, the latter then to dissolve over time, generally being harmless in their 'orphaned' state and thus not needing to be zapped unless, perhaps, the odd one actually does come to your notice.

We need to bear in mind that in everyday life what looks too good to be true probably really is, and thus not to get excited and hyped up about this without actual results that show to what extent it works. At least, if this does work well, anyone who's succeeded in dissolving such things as illusory realities with Grounding Point ought to be equally successful in clearing themselves of any elemental.

I ask that people report to me on their success or otherwise in using this method to clear themselves of an 'elemental' issue (including apparent 'spirit attachments', which would generally be elementals). Thank you. — I shan't know whether the method works until I get some reports in!

One big caution, however!!

Although the procedure itself is totally benign and harmless (the worst-case scenario being that no change occurs), sweet little garbage is of course always awaiting opportunities to get in on the act and make it appear that a procedure you've just used has done you great harm.

It's important therefore that anyone who is having major and disruptive interferences, whether directly from the garbage or via a troublesome entity-like elemental, first carries out a Grounding Point 'zapping' of: any apparent or illusory reality in which my dissolving this elemental's nodal point will have any harmful or troublesome effect or consequence, including come-backs from the garbage — and all container illusory realities in which any of that scenario is real or true. It's best then to wait one to a few days to give any such illusory realities time to dissolve to a reasonable extent before one proceeds with having one's go at the elemental's nodal point.

Otherwise, what would be liable to happen for such people is that, once they've had a go at the elemental's nodal point, the garbage would very likely give them a rough and frightening time with a big attack based on the fiction that the procedure has harmed them and made them fully open to the elemental / entities / little green trans-gender newts or whatever illusions it chooses to torment one with!

For other people, that would be less of a need — but it would still make sense for anyone to carry out that pre-procedure zapping as a prudent measure. However, for those people there would be less need for a significant wait before 'doing' the elemental.

Dissolving 'maybe elementals' that could underlie particular issues that Grounding Point fails to clear directly

It seems pretty general that people using my methods find that the methods work brilliantly for some things, yet there are particular issues that seem frustratingly resistant to all methods tried on them. I myself have the odd issues like that, such as shy bladder syndrome, and my getting interfered with by the garbage at night in bed with sexual arousal — more often than is helpful or healthy.

It's good policy once in a while, when being awarely affected by the particular issue, to make a working assumption that at that point you're connected with an elemental that the garbage is using to give you the particular interferences, and to proceed to zap that possible elemental's nodal point. No harm would be done if there was no such elemental, and you just might find that you've initiated speedy clearance of the particular issue.

Dissolving elementals that aren't attached to you — great caution required!

In a nutshell, as they say with a goose-pimply shiver, Put me down — You don't know where I've been!

The method given above is referring to elementals that are already attached to you (so, hopefully, things can only get better) — but what about other elementals? Some of those can be seriously troublesome too and really need to be similarly dismembered.

My indications are that this really is possible, using the procedure given above. However, in order to achieve that you need to be connected to the target elemental. There's the catch! Depending on the nature of the particular elemental, your innocently connecting with it could in some cases result in its attaching to you and causing you a massive problem. All very well if you can immediately zap its nodal point, and the method really does work, and speedily — but this is so far untested.

For this reason, I warn that everyone be aware of that hazard and think very carefully before seriously considering connecting with an elemental that isn't already attached to or connected with the prospective 'elemental slayer'! — And of course that careful thinking always needs to be done with the aid of vigilant and rigorous Helpfulness Testing before trying anything of the sort.

Having said that, however, I understand that RARE individuals are advanced enough in their self-actualization process to be able fairly reliably to connect with target elementals in a limited, 'single-purpose' mode that poses a much lower risk, while enabling the necessary zapping of the nodal point to be done. Also such people would be much more secure about being able to zap the nodal point even of an attached troublesome elemental quickly and securely.

But at the moment even such people would need some experience of dismembering reasonably harmless elementals first, so they have genuine cause for confidence that a troublesome elemental that does attach to them really could be speedily despatched using Grounding Point on its supposed nodal point. If they get it wrong, they'd have nobody worthwhile to turn to for assistance!

Thus common sense indicates that clearing of troublesome or 'dubious' elementals not attached to one is really for the future, once the method has been shown to work well.

If for some reason you're still determined to take the very great risk before clear evidence of the effectiveness of the method has become available, then I advise that if at all possible you make the attempt in broad daylight, preferably in sunlit conditions, when you would be better grounded and less vulnerable than in low- or no-light conditions.

I also caution against anyone providing an elemental-busting service to others — whether or not for payment. If you make a practice of going after elementals, you'd be getting stuck into a very unhealthy preoccupation, which would be bound to impact progressively on your mental and physical health in a similar way to what happens to standard 'healers'. Just a very occasional one-off as a favour to a friend or neighbour might well be appropriate if you genuinely could handle the particular issue, and the method really does work, but anything more is asking for trouble long-term, and would be a major side-track from one's self-actualization process, and would be feeding a personal status issue that one is carrying and needs to be dissolving, not feeding!

Exceptions to these warnings

Normally, apart from already-attached elementals, the ones that one would encounter in real life situations would be ones that have simply come to your attention. Once you're aware of the elemental, say through some impression or illusory manifestation it's giving you, you're already connected to it sufficiently to give it the works. In that case, even if it seems frightening, it would make great sense then to zap its nodal point before getting clear of it. It's just important not to involve yourself with any 'story' or agenda that it might be seeking to entangle you in, or get fascinated with it in any other way. You just focus on its nodal point, zap that, and then get out of the elemental's 'interference zone' without further delay, but also without any sense of paranoia about your retreat.

So, my warnings apply specifically to deliberately seeking out or connecting with elementals, and also getting involved with any elemental beyond just focusing on its nodal point for zapping it.

But again the situation isn't fully clear-cut, because, as I found myself, one can encounter the odd ghost elemental that actually contains very useful historical memories, which in some cases could be worth 'reading' and noting down to check against known historical details. In my case it was musical memories — in particular a pallbearers' lament-song or chant — though I had no idea at the time what the source of the men's choir sound in my mind was.

Notes about clearing thought forms and emotional material

There's 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 isn't 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's genuinely yours and of this lifetime), then the memory itself wouldn't dissolve, BUT your attachment to that memory would be dissolved, generally together with its (untoward) emotional associations. In other words, it would be 'cleaned up'.

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 aren't even yours and you'd actually let go of — but you'd then much more readily recognise them as 'unlikely to be mine' or something I've let go of now.

If you have a specific 'entity' or garbage 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' / garbage interferences that you're getting.

The other is that, particularly if you've already been doing extensive self-actualization and clearance work, any actual 'entities' may have actually already gone (though that wouldn't be the case for garbage interferences), and what you're 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 don't recognise this at all themselves!), and it's 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's all the working of the garbage, 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 mudra-contained 'black hole', together with all the thought forms, status, power and control agendas and any sort of emotional pressures from them, and then use the Grounding Point procedure just as with a single thought form.

This is extremely unlikely to completely clear everything relating to the particular person, but it's 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's not a very strong and deeply held one, would spontaneously dissipate over a few weeks or perhaps a month or two after a single zapping, 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've zapped to my considerable benefit. I should explain that nearly all the thought forms and issues that I've 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, or are sourced from particular archetypes to which I'm connected. The strength of the nasty feelings associated with various of them has been caused by the garbage attacking me to give nightmarishly or even hellishly exaggerated experiences of the particular emotion feelings.

• Thought form: I'm being overwhelmed / destroyed by this (with a specific and quite hellish emotional feeling)

• Thought form: I'm going too fast!

• Thought form: the vow, I'll never, ever drive!

• Thought form: I can't pee because somebody might know I'm 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'm a patient, I'm 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's snatched away, so yet again I'm 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 garbage 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 garbage repeatedly plied me to try to frighten me.

• Thought form: I'm not worthy of another person's (and particularly a woman's) companionship or closeness.

• Thought form: I've 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 stored anger of my own; this is just garbage 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 garbage.

  When I do get attacked with anger I don't get into a rage but simply feel the very nasty feelings and a pressure upon me from the garbage 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 can't escape that control / interference no matter what I do."

• "All apparent or illusory realities in which there's any sort of 'higher' or 'ultimate' presence or power that's in any way external to myself."

  N.B. These latter two are a top priority for anyone to 'zap' with Grounding Point if they're serious about clearing themselves of all garbage interference and influence. They need 'zapping' even if you're sure you're 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'd 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 don't 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 garbage into more or less hidden aspects of one's mindspace. For this reason, it's extremely important to use Grounding Point to 'zap' all such illusory realities that one may be quite unawarely carrying.

You don't 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've zapped for myself. I don't know to what extent I've actually been carrying any particular one in that list, but that's not important.

What's important is to 'do' each illusory reality as though one is carrying it, because it's so little work to do a 'zap' and it simply doesn't make sense not to do it, for you can't know for sure that you're 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're 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 there are external influences (including the garbage) that harmfully interfere with and attack me and other people.

• Illusory reality in which some or all of my physical and non-physical issues aren't 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 garbage 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 garbage.

• Illusory reality in which, each time I take a new measure that appears to be a significant step forward against the garbage's hold or interferences upon me / other people, the garbage 'retaliates' by launching a strong attack on me.

• Illusory reality in which people can't 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've progressively lost my confusions — virtually the only people still making such contact all having agendas to pull me down into their particular confusions.

This isn't an exhaustive list, and you'd 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 All (apparent or) illusory realities in which… — BUT that's only your 'handle' to use as a starting point. What you focus into your temporary 'black hole' 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's also important here to be clear that you're 'zapping' All (apparent or) illusory realities 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 bunch of illusory realities that are 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 All (apparent or) illusory realities in which… rather than just the specific problem that you're seeking to address.

And thus, when you're allowing all the crud to pour into your temporary 'black hole', your focus isn't only on the specific issue, but also drawing into your 'black hole' everything from that illusory reality, which may contain all sorts of other issues and ramifications. As you don't 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.

Note how I use and strongly recommend the expression all apparent or illusory realities in which… always instead of ever referring just to a single illusory reality.

As with all uses of Grounding Point, the 'zapping' of each illusory reality might need to be repeated about monthly until Helpfulness Testing indicates that there was no further benefit in repeating it. However, even if one zapping doesn't complete the job, if your clearance process is going well and you're not getting significant restimulation of the particular issue, the particular illusory realities are likely gradually to dissolve anyway, because, as a sort of thought form, without periodic reinforcement they naturally dissolve over some months.

Why some illusory realities remain even when they've 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 isn't 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'd been got rid of and yet have come back later on, but my understanding is that in general it's 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'd notice this when some particular everyday situation — very likely some sort of upset — brings that illusory reality to light again.

For this reason it's important not to become concerned or discouraged because you get signs that some particular illusory reality that you'd 'zapped' some time ago shows signs of still being with you (albeit very likely in a weaker state than previously). Although it's 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 doesn't 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've 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 garbage 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'd 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're already used to the basic procedure. The one different thing in the procedure this time is in what you focus into your temporary 'black hole', and your intent when you rapidly triple-tap the 'black hole' contents onto the top of your sternum.

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.

Grounding Point not working or stopped working?

Please see the equivalent subsection below for Feedback-Loop Zapper.

Progressing beyond use of a separate 'Grounding Point' procedure?

I'm finding that, with the current (post-September 2018) version of this methodology, I'm decreasingly having cause to use Grounding Point, at least as described above. Instead, normally I use what is now the current version of Feedback-Loop Zapper, as described further below — because use of that procedure (and my methodology generally) over a period, including all the alignments of one's intent, makes that procedure progressively more comprehensive and 'flexi' in its effects, so that then for much of the time it becomes almost a catch-all procedure, effective for a whole range of functions, each determined by your focused and aligned intent at that point.

This is great news, because it means a further simplification of the methodology, as well as a continuing gradual increase in effectiveness.

Of course, it's still important to use Helpfulness Testing to make sure as to what option really is best for you to use at the present time. I don't want people to go compulsively misusing this information, using it as prompt for them to use methods of mine in a manner that's actually less effective for them. So many people have self-sabotaging patterns that would have them do just that!

Feedback-Loop Zapper

Although I coined the above name for this procedure late in 2017, this has been one of my essential procedures right from the start, for use in stalling garbage attacks by stopping emotional button-pushing and initiating healing of the particular vulnerabilities that are being exploited by the garbage in those attacks for the emotional button-pushing to occur. Ongoing use of this procedure for stalling attacks progressively builds immunity to further attack using the same vulnerabilities, so repeatedly reducing the options for further attacks.

Actually this procedure's remit was always considerably broader than that — to stall a wide range of feedback loops that may occur in one's awareness, including particularly those involved in environmental stresses. My understanding is that most environmental stresses occur through the setting-up of covert feedback loops within one's awareness — which should come as no surprise if one understands that specific types of garbage interference are largely responsible for noticeable environmental stress effects.

My original method for this (actually a legacy from the methods I took on from the Energy Egg people) notionally required one to have a Clarity-Sphere setup, and so it was described not here at all but only in the Clarity-Sphere User Guide, and without the current name. I eventually brought it here, because with regular use of the Alignment of Intent procedure before practices / procedures you're progressively dissolving the blocks to your deepest healing source anyway, so you no longer need a Clarity-Sphere to use this particular procedure effectively.

Initially it might not be quite so effective, BUT, as with all tapping procedures, it would fairly quickly improve in effectiveness as you continue to use it — a sort of 'breaking-in' process. Indeed, preceded by the Aligning of Intent procedure and followed by the current two-stage close-of-practice procedure, it would rapidly become still more effective.

I presented here two roughly alternative methods, and a little later an additional 'Immediate' version, which had much more potential but I was still in the early stages of trialling it then. In February 2020 I finally decided to deprecate the first two methods and remove them from here, and to make the 'Immediate' version the 'official' version, as I don't want to be presenting less than the most effective versions of anything. People with self-sabotaging habits would always tend to go for less effective versions, and I have no intention to support anyone's self-sabotaging — nice little spoilsport that I am!

The method
The method is simplicity itself. After alignment of your intent, with the five-finger tapping mudra execute three gentle bursts of rapid tapping on the top of your sternum. Each burst of tapping lasts about three seconds (the duration doesn't matter exactly), with about two seconds' pause between them. And then do your (two-stage) close-of-practice procedure. — That's it.

For this procedure your eyes are normally open (better for keeping awareness grounded, and indeed regrounding in the case of already compromised grounding), and your tongue is 'at ease' (i.e., tip not held to palate).

It appears that as you become increasingly attuned to using this version of the procedure you eventually need to carry out less or even no repeats in order to clear attacks, particularly if you maintain a conscious intent that the procedure initiates the healing of not just the current vulnerability that the garbage is exploiting, but also each successive vulnerability that it exploits in the current attack and even any future attack or interference, plus initiating dissolution of each illusory reality that is being exploited.

Thus we're talking here about a great simplification and increase of efficiency. Certainly I myself haven't had to repeat the procedure much or usually at all for any particular attack (though nowadays noticeable attacks are pretty rare), and nowadays rarely have cause to use Grounding Point as such.

In fact I think what's actually happening for me is that my use of this procedure is to a large extent combining the effects of Feedback-Loop Zapper and Grounding Point, so whenever I'm aware of some stress or likelihood of stress I quickly use this Feedback Loop Zapper procedure, while being aware of any illusory reality that's likely to be involved. Like that, my deeper aspects have more freedom to work on clearing the whole attack, often with no further execution of physical procedures required.

I strongly recommend that users of Feedback-Loop Zapper similarly cultivate an intent that it will function as Grounding Point in tandem with its nominate function — but of course always to check, using Helpfulness Testing, to ensure that you're making the right choices for your current degree of alignment of intent and of attunement to the procedure. The more we can achieve with fewer procedures, the better — obviously!

Use this for persistent and phantom pains

Also, although I haven't recently had significant phantom pain occurrences to test this with, my indications are that use of this current version of Feedback-Loop Zapper, with regular use over time, becomes more effective at stalling phantom pains (which all involve feedback loops) than my earlier long-standing Phantom-Pain Zapper procedures could.

Generally, phantom pains would be caused by the garbage creating troublesome feedback loops, and it may well project the pain sensation to different locations over time. These can, at least theoretically, be stalled and more or less fully dissolved.

However, genuine physically sourced pains cannot altogether be eliminated without resolving the physical cause of the pain. On the other hand, in most cases it would at least theoretically still be possible to reduce the subjective pain experience significantly by using this procedure, because the garbage typically intensifies the pain experience by setting up a fear-based feedback-loop incorporating that pain. That at least can be dissolved, after which the actual physical pain would in most cases seem significantly less troublesome.

Feedback-Loop Zapper not working or stopped working?

First, here's the Bad News. This and Grounding Point, at least as used for speedily dissolving ('zapping') garbage attacks, can be or become ineffective, even for months or potentially years. So, just when you most need to zap attacks coming to you, you may be unable to zap them! I know this well because it's happened to me.

Now for the Good News. This is very unlikely to be a major issue for you unless you're still using a Clarity-Sphere setup or some equivalent external aid. If you're regularly using the current (post-Clarity-Sphere) incarnation of my methodology, any such issue, if it occurs at all, should fairly speedily resolve without recourse to special methods, because, apparently, the frequent ongoing use of the Alignment of Intent procedures (using the respective tapping procedures) would be progressively fixing that one.

Environmental Stress (ES) Zapper

Yes, the current version of this is another variant of Feedback Loop Zapper.

• Start the session with full Alignment of Intent procedure and then the Feedback-Loop Zapper three bursts of gentle tapping on the top of the sternum.
• To initiate dissolution or at least minimization of stress from a visible or at least located ES source, simply hold the tapping mudra with your dominant hand, pointing it at the particular actual or possible ES source, with a single slight jab motion (moving from forearm and wrist only) to emphasize the purposefulness of your pointing, and immediately bring the tapping mudra to the top of your sternum and deliver a gentle rapid double-tap.

  Note that the use of cyclic breaths or blows for this procedure is now deprecated.

• If there are multiple sources, then repeat this quick procedure for each one.
• To finish off, repeat the Feedback-Loop Zapper three bursts of rapid tapping on the top of your sternum, followed by the full two-stage close-of-practice procedure.

This makes remarkably quick work if, for example, you want to minimize ES effects in a new abode. You methodically go round from room to room using that procedure on every little detail that might just possibly have some stressful effect. It's usually quicker doing that than Helpfulness-Testing on each possible ES source to see if you need to 'do' it.

When using this procedure myself my Helpfulness Testing indicates that it's better without holding a mudra of any kind with the other hand. However, I recommend that you use Helpfulness Testing likewise, because you might find that in your own case it would be helpful for you at that time to hold a mudra with that hand — probably either the Signal-Strengthener or indeed another instance of the five-finger tapping mudra.

For invisible / non-located ES sources, or a multiplicity of visible ones, you use the Feedback-Loop Zapper procedure given in the previous section.

For initiating healing of accumulated ES damage to your non-physical aspects (which may or may not yet have manifested physically in any obvious way)

For healing the effects of past ES harm. For this you need to be looking at an example of the source (substance, object, person, situation, etc.), which if necessary can be viewed in a photo. In the case of substances, it's naturally best to be looking directly at the substance or a photo of it, but I understand that it still works reasonably well if you're looking instead at a container or packet of that substance, even if the container / packet is now empty.

You can thus go at least some way to progressively healing yourself of the effects of any psychiatric (or other) medication you've ever taken, provided you know in the first place what it is. It doesn't matter if a substance is invisible, such as sulphur dioxide, ammonia or mercury vapour.

For each item you simply carry out the procedure for zapping current visible ES sources that are right in front of you, though naturally this time you're doing it with the intent that this is for healing any harm caused to you in the past by each respective ES source that you focus on.

It's a good thing first to make a long list of such things that are likely to have had some sort of harmful ES effect on you in the past, and then to use search engine listings, say in Google Image Resource, for each respective item on your list, and then 'zap' it before then bringing up a search listing for the next item.

My own distinctly long list included such things as mercury vapour, which was poisoning me in laboratories when I was at school in the 1950s, and, also in that period, the solvent in Rentokil wood preservative, which back then had a different and probably more harmful formulation than the modern equivalent, and was apparently a major causative factor in my inability to get a full night's sleep, even up to the present time.

Archetype Zapper

First, the 'bad' news…
In July 2020 I finally and absurdly belatedly removed the Archetype Zapper procedure from here — prompted to do so by yet another user of that procedure writing in to me, who was clearly not yet in a fit state to use it, and was ignoring the cautions I'd given about its use, and so causing himself more garbage attack problems, not less. Quite a long time ago I'd tentatively come to the conclusion that Archetype Zapper was of limited usefulness, and for most people would do more harm than good, i.e., because of the strong ungrounding effects of opening one's awareness to primary archetypes.

I strongly recommend (read, 'caution'!) ALL people currently using Archetype Zapper to STOP doing so, and to read on here…

Now the good news…
For a start, my removing the procedure from here is actually good news in itself, because in the light of the effectiveness of my post-Clarity-Sphere methodology (post-September 2018) it was really an anachronism and pointing people into an unhelpful direction (deliberately looking 'full-frontal' at primary archetypes). Thus plenty of susceptible people would now be spared the tribulations caused by their ignoring my warnings and using that procedure.

Also, I am aware of one thing that absolutely anyone can safely and helpfully do towards minimizing the impact of archetypes and especially primary archetypes upon them. Unfortunately it does appear that 'minimizing' is the operative word here at the moment, because my current indications are that apparently there's no means by which anyone as an individual can close his/her basic primary archetype connections or dissolve any of the archetypes themselves.

In real practical terms, however, most of the troublesome effects upon us of those connections are caused by various illusory realities that we're carrying, which tie our awareness and perceptions to those connections. So, what each of us needs to do is simply to use Grounding Point to dissolve the relevant illusory realities. I reckon that for at least most people the top-priority 'zap' target would be something like:

All apparent or illusory realities in which I have any connections at all to any primary or other archetypes, and in which any archetypes have any importance or relevance at all to me and my life experience or indeed for anyone else — and all 'container' illusory realities in which any of that is 'real' or 'true'

Apart from that, you also need to be carrying out the current versions of an appropriate selection of the Regular Core Practices, and using Helpfulness Testing to assist you in making the healthiest possible choices in your everyday life, all to cultivate your broad-based self-actualization process. That would all be progressively cleaning up any primary archetype connections of yours, so that you are less and less affected by them, even though for the time being they would still be there.

As for actual elimination of the archetypes themselves, that may already be accomplished, if Project Fix the Human Condition is working out as intended. Even if it has, however, people may still for a while (but decreasingly) experience primary archetypes or their effects as left-over patterns containing 'recordings' of them dissolve over a reasonably short time-scale.

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 doesn't 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 doesn't matter as long as you stick to one sequence so that you're 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 Helpfulness Testing become more reliable (and thus, I inferred, decreasingly prone to any sort of interference from the garbage 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 Helpfulness Testing is still needed as a backup for the more important tests).

Optimizing the practice's effectiveness

For optimal execution of the practice,

• You have the tip of your tongue to your palate.

• Although not 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're 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 doesn't have any sort of deleterious effect — at least, for me.

  Indeed, it's 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're 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 don't know how practical this would be for anyone.

An enhancement of the practice

You hold all fingertips of your dominant hand (in the five-finger Tapping Mudra) to your mid-brow position while you carry out the eye movements (of course also with the tip of your tongue to your palate). At the end you carry out a close of practice procedure. — All done!

Expanding the scope of the practice's effectiveness

This is a new intimation that I've 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 garbage to distort or amplify particular sensory experiences that you have.

The garbage 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're 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 Affirmations & declarations of intent for healing & self-actualization.

With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that when I'm carrying out the eight-point eye movements they are bringing about the dissolution of all pathways for garbage-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 (aka ocular migraines) — and that this dissolution is proceeding with all speed.

Reading of this DOI is by far the most effective when done in the manner described further below.

Additional specific applications of the eight-point eye movements

It's 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 original Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT).

Also, almost certainly they'd be a more effective version of a simple procedure that has recently been found to greatly help people diagnosed with 'post-traumatic stress disorder'. That procedure involves having the affected person keep his eyes pointed at a white card that's 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're simultaneously carrying out the eight-point eye movements with eyes open (moving the head as little as reasonably possible).

However, that's 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 wouldn't 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'd expect to be generally little or nothing more than garbage attacks exploiting the effects of the particular people's trauma experiences).

Possible clearance of particular garbage attacks

Although I haven't 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 garbage or supposed 'entity' attack with strong emotion feelings, such as panic, fear, anxiety, 'depression' and also, if you're 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'd 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's a particular reason why a particular action of yours that would push a strong emotional button, which would in turn trigger a significant garbage attack, would be beneficial. Very careful and vigilant use of Helpfulness 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'd never seen 'in movie' before because I have no television. That indeed did bring up a quite major and intimidating-feeling garbage attack, which I'd 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 wouldn't be healthy for me to go 'storm chasing' (i.e., attack chasing); 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 (seriously ungrounding in this context with eyes closed)!

'Brain balancing' as part of self-healing sessions

This is where you'd be using the procedure as an alternative to the so-called 9-Gamut sequence that's used in the original EFT. My understanding is that 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's no one right way here; you'd do well to use Helpfulness Testing to find out what's 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 self-healing session in your 'normal' mode to the end of the session. There's no fixed point in the self-healing session where it's best to use the eye movements or 9-Gamut sequence, but so far I've always been intuited to do this quite late in the session, so that there aren't many further cycles of complete / extra-complete breathing still to go before closing the session.

A special application of this practice — for hells / 'night terrors' and related 'dark' or hallucinatory displays

Displays of hell / 'night terror' material — whether experienced as standard hells or as 'dark' or hallucinatory displays by night or day — are caused by the garbage and wouldn't 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 non-reality, and the garbage then has exploited the situation. This practice assists the person greatly with this problem in two related ways:

• It's immediately grounding, provided that the person carries out the movements with full and deliberate awareness, doesn't 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 non-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 isn't 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're 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's being shown to you, but merely as an observer, remembering that it's just a display, never mind what nasty feelings you may be having (almost certainly an attack from the garbage 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're getting the display then, you will be making yourself progressively more resistant to unhelpful garbage-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 non-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 non-reality and all its 'video nasties' which include all types of hell visuals. Although doing this doesn't 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.

When best NOT to use this practice

Particularly as one gets older, certain eye conditions tend to develop, which result in internal weaknesses / instability within the eyeball, and it may be best policy then either to use this practice more gently than normal, or simply not normally to use it until / unless the eye condition has resolved or at least stabilized. I'm thinking particularly about posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), whose noticeable symptoms are usually flashes (mostly upon blinking) and various dark floaters appearing.

While you have that process occurring (the jelly-like 'vitreous humour' in the rear section of the eye gradually shrinking and pulling away from the retina in the back of the eyeball), there's an ongoing risk of a bit of the retina getting pulled away from its moorings, so to speak (the serious condition known as retinal detachment or detached retina). The latter condition needs urgent medical attention once it occurs even in the slightest, as otherwise it would quite rapidly get worse and lead to full blindness.

My understanding, both from medics' opinions and my own inner inquiry, is that while PVD is occurring (new flashes or changes in the flashed images already present, or new floaters appearing), it's wise to be particularly gentle with the eyes, because that's when retinal detachment could occur spontaneously anyway, but also could get triggered by a particular stress or jolt to the respective eye and its internals.

Stopping phantom pains

By phantom pains I mean pains that have a non-physical cause — though they often mimic actual physically caused pains, often superimposing an amplified, distorted version of a real slight pain or mere discomfort onto the uncomfortable part (or indeed another part of the body) to make it subjectively very painful and indeed, and in the case of the anus and sometimes perhaps elsewhere, extremely so. The general cause of these phantom pains is a particular type of interference from the garbage.

Phantom pains can often be recognised as such because of the way they tend to come and go without any obvious logical relationship with what you're doing with yourself physically, and they often tend to come on more strongly in response to particular adverse emotional stimuli — and for some people they may come on at particular times and in particular situations that appear to be calculated to be intimidating.

Typically, when you apply firm pressure / massage to the painful area, you discover that the pain doesn't intensify there at all as it normally would with a genuine physical pain — or the pain may transiently intensify there and, with persistent hand pressure / massage, then immediately evaporate or withdraw to a sort of unfocused 'halo' around the now actually more or less painless area that you're handling.

Another quite common characteristic of such phantom pains — again highly suggestive of garbage involvement — is that they readily shift location or at least primary focus, and may mimic one problem one minute and then switch to mimicking another the next minute.

In my case, I've had a rather spasm-like twinging pain in my right knee suddenly transfer to my left testicle (where I have a varicocele), and, much more recently, a phantom pain primarily mimicking plantar fasciitis, centred under my left heel when I put weight on it, readily migrate its primary focus to the whole under-arch area or / and either or both of the main tendons on either side of the ankle, thus mimicking strains there.

My understanding is that the severe pain for which anal fissures are so notorious is very largely such phantom pain. The garbage routinely uses the much lesser genuine physical discomfort there (more of a moderately tiresome soreness rather than any sort of agonizing pain) as the basis, and amplifies and distorts this, then referring it back to the anus, so the hapless person can feel as though (s)he has broken glass or barbed wire in his/her anus and indeed also contained in every single turd that pushes its way out.

Painkillers and local anaesthetic preparations tend to be more or less ineffective against such phantom pains.

I've now removed the Phantom-Pain Zapper practice from here, because it never seemed to be very effective, and in practice, with the current version of my methodology, which is based on alignment of intent and not using any external aids, we can simplify things a lot.

Basically, until a more effective approach comes to my notice, I point you to Feedback-Loop Zapper. At first it may seem as ineffective as Phantom-Pain Zapper, but its effectiveness increases markedly over time with regular use.

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've 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 wouldn't 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's 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's allowed to manifest at all. It's 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's possible to stretch, and in every possible direction, that is achievable without serious risk of doing yourself undue pain or 'a mischief'.

What I'm calling writhing-stretching is, as I say, a development / extension from ordinary yawning and stretching, and, as far as I can ascertain, can't occur in a more or less spontaneous manner until you've cleared out a considerable proportion of the emotional issues that you'd been carrying, including any belonging to attached lost souls and any other entities. Once you're 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 hadn't read nor heard anywhere about this writhing-stretching prior to its starting to happen to me a few months into 2009. I'd 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's absolutely no sexual or erotic aspect of this happening at all — and for me this is particularly notable, because the garbage would link it to sexual arousal if it possibly could, but at least so far I haven't experienced even the slightest trace of that.

Although writhing-stretching occurs most effectively when standing, it's 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's 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 don't need specific instructions for spontaneous writhing-stretching, for when you're 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 garbage 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're all still to some extent present in your brain and nervous system connections. That's where writhing-stretching comes in, and this is why a physical process is required to assist their clearance, and you'd 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 garbage 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 garbage 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 don't 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're much more advanced than you really are in your clearance process — something the garbage 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 aren't alternatives to each other, and therefore they're 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.

  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's 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 isn't 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 Helpfulness Testing may indicate something a little different.

  It's important to pause this if you start to feel light-headed (in other words you're getting hyperventilated) — though as long as you keep the cyclic breaths reasonably shallow you're 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're 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've given here a specific movement to begin this practice, really the important thing isn't 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 aren't 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's 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're cyclic-breathing, in the same way that I've 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's 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's also a great strengthening exercise for various of your leg muscle groups — especially the quadriceps. Although it is uncomfortable, it also feels greatly invigorating. Helpfulness 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 doesn't 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're 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're almost together — again with about 6 to 8* thigh clenches en route. Repeat that whole out-and-back process with some 6 thigh clenches in each direction, as many times as your Helpfulness Testing indicates as being best for you. In my case it's generally four whole out-and-back cycles of this.

  * There's nothing 'special' about the particular number, and it's 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.

  I used to use 6 clenches in either direction, but in recent years it's been 8.

  I find all this a bit 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.

• 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're now lying relaxed.

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

Facial writhing-stretching — for flexibility and vigour!

This is a highly beneficial extension of ordinary yawning and stretching, so it's arguable as to whether it be best described as a practice or as an exercise, and there's no need to wait for this to happen spontaneously. For it to be effective, and also not to run a significant risk of its developing into an unfortunate mannerism in your everyday life, it's best kept specifically for one or two scheduled intensive yawning and stretching sessions in a day — though if you're having writhing-stretching sessions anyway, it would be best reserved for including in them. Make it a daily exercise through the rest of your life, for you'd always benefit from it.

Really, all this is, is an extension of the facial stretching that's a part of good yawning, to pull a whole fluid sequence of the most intense facial expressions possible, with no limit on their bizarreness / grotesqueness. Start off with a thorough standard yawning and stretching, and, while you're still in that, extend your facial stretching.

Try to go to every extreme of expression, stretching / clenching / distorting your face in every direction and all directions. Screw your eyes up, bulge them, look manic, look horrific, look horrified, look devastated with grief, out of your mind with terror, anxiety, panic, revulsion, fury, joyful, surprised, excited, 'psychopathic', withdrawn, wonky one way then the other, and every other variation and possibility, imaginable or even unimaginable! Spend only a minute or two on this in a session, and then just let go of it all and enjoy the feeling of relief and relaxation in your face and most likely your whole being.

Actually, although I hit upon this exercise belatedly, in 2014, it looks to be an important and extremely beneficial one, particularly because many of our more deep-seated emotional issues create for us rigid patterns of outlook and behaviour, which incorporate fixed aspects of one's facial expression (i.e., even when in repose), which become more pronounced with age.

By daily use of facial writhing-stretching you'd be powerfully helping to break up those deep seated patterns that have been affecting your facial expression, so that you'd not only be making your face more flexible and 'youthful' again (or preventing it from accumulating the standard 'age-fossilization' in the first place) but also very considerably helping the clearance of a whole range of emotional issues that you're carrying (whether or not you're aware of them), and thus increasing your overall flexibility and vigour, both physical and mental.

Clearly it's good policy to keep this exercise private, and probably to keep it out of sight of even your very closest friends or partner because of the emotional button-pushing that they're pretty well bound to experience if they see that sort of thing — an obvious exception being where you're actually demonstrating in order to explain this simple but powerful health-giving exercise to another person.

Consciousness Integrator and Perception Integrator

Consciousness Integrator

For a considerable proportion of people with little or no soul programming, this little procedure can be remarkably powerful and effective. It was actually discovered by somebody who emailed me in response to this site and the great advances that he himself had been making through using my methods.

The procedure depends on the person having a very clear and deep understanding of my working model of human consciousness, as presented on this site. All it consists of is that, with both hands in the five-finger Tapping Mudra, you hold all your fingertips together on your mid-brow position, and think with real 'meaning' My deepest aspects, holding it there with that thought for probably about 15 seconds. That's all! No benefit comes from using a close-of-practice procedure for this one — though it wouldn't do any harm either.

As always with this sort of thing, the words are just a handle, and the real focus needs to be on what's actually meant by the words. That includes a clear understanding that each of us is fundamentally (i.e., barring problems introduced by the garbage) a seamless continuum of consciousness from the non-duality of fundamental consciousness right through to your conceptual 'ordinary mind'.

Among the many positive changes that this procedure is expected to facilitate would be the speeding-up of all aspects of one's self-actualization process and strengthening of the genuine 'signal' in Helpfulness Testing. For people with some soul programming, ongoing use of the procedure would quite powerfully facilitate dissolution of that programming. The only pity is that generally people with more than very little soul programming wouldn't have the motivation or indeed mental capacity to use the procedure, at least in an effective way.

Also, for people who've used my full set of Affirmations many times and deeply understand their meaning and significance, using this procedure can additionally have an effect similar to carrying out a formal reading of the full set of Affirmations. However, I'd still recommend that one carries out periodic, even if infrequent, formal readings of them in addition, to ensure that one doesn't progressively lose focus on particular items. Use Helpfulness Testing to check when it would be best for you to do a formal reading.

My indications are that a general optimal frequency for using this procedure would be once a week, though naturally I encourage anyone to Helpfulness-Test and find what's best for them individually.

It's NOT a good idea to use the procedure more frequently, because for most people it's intrinsically ungrounding. When you do use it, you need to follow it by being particularly attentive to refocusing on the physical 'here and now', and getting on with something physical and practical. For this reason, if it's included in a sequence of practices it's best made the last in the sequence, even after the final end-of-practice procedure of the session.

Perception Integrator

This one is done either standing loosely in good alignment or lying on your back with a suitable low headrest and legs a little apart and not bent; a sitting position is best not used for this. Gently hold the centre of the palm of your dominant hand (held stiffly straight, with all fingers together) on your crown — the very topmost point on your head when your spine / head are healthily aligned.

Keeping your eyes open and flexibly looking more or less straight ahead, be aware of the solid reality and oneness of ALL aspects of yourself and all you can see in your physical surroundings — so, this is like a very grounded extension of Consciousness Integrator. After about three cycles of reasonably slow complete breathing, execute three rapid cyclic breaths and then remove your hand from your crown, then carrying out your close-of-practice procedure.

Like all the practices, it would be most effective when preceded by the Alignment of Intent procedure, or carried out within a session that was started off with that procedure.

Because this little procedure is quick and easy to do, and is so beneficial, I recommend using it normally twice or three times a day — though of course your ultimate guide to that needs to be your Helpfulness Testing. I particularly recommend it for initially more frequent use if you have serious weakness / disturbance of your grounding, such as can be brought about by a supposed 'kundalini awakening'.

When used well, this is a tremendous grounding and general integration aid — BUT the garbage is very inclined to give one 'interesting' or 'powerful' impressions while holding your palm to your crown, like powerful energy or 'light' coming in through one's crown, or euphoria, or any sort of revelationary impressions, and it's seriously important completely to disregard any such impressions and put your full attention on what's physically visible, without any interpretations or appraisals.

If you do get any of those alluring but extremely unhelpful impressions and they're too distracting to ignore, a good approach is to have a Grounding Point session to dissolve all illusory realities in which any of those impressions that you get are 'real', important, desirable or indeed meaningful for you in any helpful sense, so that over a short time-span you should find that those impressions, even if they continue to occur at all, no longer have any distracting pull on you, so that you can ignore them and gain the genuine benefit of Perception Integrator instead. Remember also to use Feedback-Loop Zapper a few times a day.

Seeing the '3D-ness' of Objects and Surroundings

I (indeed, we!) have Bowei Zhao in the USA to thank for sending me this one, and he described it so clearly and precisely that I quoted him here (with the odd minor edit) rather than write my own version of it. He wrote figuratively about 'wrapping one's eyes around' an object.

However, as he and I sharpened-up the description and I added revisions, it got confusing for some people wanting to use this method, so in April 2022 I decided to replace all that with a notionally final synthesis.

This is really not a practice, procedure or method in any usual sense, but simply a very helpful way of looking at your surroundings — both individual objects and your surroundings more generally. I'd describe it as a mental discipline, much as the Alexander Technique or Dzogchen (in Tibetan Buddhism) is.

All this involves is, for each object or detail in your surroundings that you're noticing, you maintain an awareness of it as being a whole lot more than your eyes are seeing. That includes other sides or aspects that are currently hidden from you, and what is or might be, and is or might be going on, within it (if it has a significant 'inside').

I also now add into the mix an awareness of the object or detail as being effectively a node on a timeline, so we add in an awareness of a trail of causes and conditions that have led up to that object or detail being as you see it now, and also a 'developmental trajectory' of change, consequences and repercussions, extending into a postulated 'future'. Every thing we see is part of a process of inexorable change, never mind how solid and static it may appear to be.

I'm not at all saying we need to apply ourselves to imagine all those unseen aspects in any detail / precision unless there's some very specific reason to do so in some special case, but it's more just a general awareness of that much broader context of causality and change that exists for everything and every little detail that our eyes see.

That could be taken to imply looking at everything in a spaced-out ungrounded way, so I emphasize that I do NOT mean that. Think of it as cultivating the deepest-possible practical understanding of everything that you can have while being a practical old sod like this funny little man and keeping attention on basic everyday practicalities too. So, this is about enhancing the vividness and 'practical clarity' of your observations in everyday life.

Oh, and before we forget, we'd all do well to do much the same for what we hear too, so making our environmental sounds into a much more vivid, varied and intriguing experience for us.

If always applied in a practical, grounded manner, this would be strongly cultivating improved mental function and flexibility.

I should think that those who are using what I'd call the 'essence of Dzogchen' would be much better-off simply dropping that distorted, one-sided mental discipline altogether and using this one instead, for it would be inclined progressively to open up all aspects of one's perception of 'What Is', including its non-dual aspects, while always cultivating the most grounded perceptions possible at the present time — and it would undoubtedly be a great facilitator towards becoming enlightened.

One-Legged Balancer

This is actually a physiotherapy exercise that I'd been using for a few years before eventually (in 2016) using inner inquiry on it and getting clear indications (tallying with an intuition that had been seeping up over some days) that this exercise is extremely beneficial for the whole being, and therefore doubles as a fully-fledged self-actualization practice — in much the same way that the Alexander Technique does.

Although superficially One-Legged Balancer doesn't look as though starting off as a mental discipline as the AT does, actually the way you have to focus your awareness while carrying out the exercise makes it remarkably similar nonetheless. The way you keep your awareness focused on being physically balanced while moving your free leg has an extremely beneficial balancing, grounding and integrating effect within your non-physical aspects, and in integrating physical and non-physical aspects of your life experience.

I came up with the exercise myself as an attempt to improve my physical balance, which was getting worse, especially on my hikes often on steep and uneven ground, and to strengthen the muscles and tendons supporting the ankles. I've no idea as to whether any professional physiotherapists get their clients doing this, though I'd be surprised if they didn't, because it's so obviously beneficial physically.

For safety, you always do this exercise facing and sufficiently close to a stable reasonably tall object that you can grab upon if you start losing your balance more than you can restore with simple rebalancing body movements. I myself do it facing a tall chest of drawers, though keeping aware that any horizontal pressure on it needs to be quite light, otherwise I might push it over, even falling on top of it — hardly the aim of the exercise! On the other hand you clearly need to be sufficiently removed from the support object that the knee of the moving leg doesn't hit it.

The procedure is as follows, having removed footwear apart from socks.

Stand on your left leg, with the other one drawn up, best to the point of the upper leg being more or less horizontal, the lower leg hanging loosely, and wait a second or so to gain some sense of stability in that position. I'm not talking about being rigidly still, but rather, without any real sense of overbalancing. You're bound to waver or wobble a bit, though actual wobbling is something you aim to minimize and progressively eliminate as far as reasonably possible over the days, weeks and months.

As soon as you get that sense of relative stability, start a fairly gentle rhythmic series of backward 'kicks' or 'stabs' with the raised leg. In other words you lower the knee with a slight increase in its bend, so that the lower leg points not at the floor any more but obliquely behind you. The normal movement is really smoother than a real kick or stab — it's more like a sawing motion, maintaining the bend of the leg while you swing the upper leg to and fro.

For myself, I do six of those oscillations, then switch legs and do six with the other one, and repeat on alternating legs for three more times, so in each session I have four sets of six 'sawing' oscillations for each leg — and normally I have two sessions of this exercise per day. The exact number of repetitions, and indeed of sessions, that's best for you at any particular time can be ascertained by means of Helpfulness Testing.

There's no single 'right' speed or strength of the movement, and my indications are that it's most helpful to vary it from time to time, even within a session, so you can make it more of a kick at times, and vary the speed between a running speed and a more deliberate weighty and forceful 'striding' movement — though still with the foot pushing back behind you each time, keeping well clear of the floor.

By maintaining some variety in the movement and not just doing it mechanically, you're cultivating an invigorating alertness and clarity, whereas the mechanical approach minimizes them and dulls awareness — NOT the aim of the exercise!

In the photos below, the funny little man is 'ignorantly' but pragmatically wearing sandals, because the slight unevenness of the ground felt directly on his feet there would adversely affect his already pretty shaky balance.

The raising of the knee as far as you can without losing balance, and holding it there for a second or two, is a more recently added optional extra. This is done at the end of each group of six swings, as a little extra leg-strengthening and an additional challenge to one's balance on one leg.

To aid balance (my sense of balance has never been brilliant, and for anyone it generally gets poorer with age), I visually focus on some particular object ahead of me, though in a flexible, gentle, 'non-fanatical', sort-of way, allowing myself to be peacefully enjoying my little current task. That not only assists my balance mechanism fairly directly, but also takes my focus away from any anxious thoughts or feelings about whether I can remain balanced on the one leg — for it's those anxiety manifestations rather than intrinsic physical issues that appear to be the main thing that tends to subvert my balance. I expect this would be the case for most people.

A balancing aid I discovered more recently is to use a 'visualization of intent' that one's centre of gravity is way down, around one's feet, so that, if it really were the case, there would be little risk of overbalancing because there would then be almost no weight on top to make you topple over! That may sound silly, but I often find it very helpful.

At the end of each six oscillations, finish that stage by raising that knee a bit again (optionally as far as you can raise it, as illustrated above), holding it up there with the lower leg hanging loosely, just for a second or two, in order to confirm your sense of control over your balance. If your balance fails at that point, never mind about spending time trying to get it right — just move on, and you'd probably do better at the end of the next set of six oscillations.

If you still have balancing difficulty then, just move on to the next set of oscillations (or next exercise, as appropriate), because spending time trying to balance at that point can actually feed the little anxiety that was causing your balancing difficulty to start with, and it's generally better simply to draw a line under the little 'fluffs' and failures, just keeping aware that that's something that you intend to, and is very likely to, improve over time — but without getting worked up about it.

I find this exercise is actually quite a good exerciser of various thigh muscles of the swinging leg, including the all-important quadriceps (front thigh) ones. It's also a beautifully concentrated example of the healthy sort of meditation — at least, what works really brilliantly as a superior and much more healthy replacement for formal sitting meditation. In other words, it achieves the positive things while bringing in no hidden payload of problems such as regular formal meditation tends to bring.

You get the benefits plus a lot more, without ever needing to be thinking I'm meditating (indeed, it's by far the best never to get into an I'm meditating mindset at all!). That's true also in various degrees for all the self-actualization practices that I give on this site. Sessions of this exercise are very time-efficient, taking a very few minutes, as against the considerable amounts of time that can be spent relatively uselessly 'meditating' and usually unawarely gaining little increments of insidious and ultimately serious harm into the bargain.

Caution! If you notice signs of strain or simply stress condition in either or both of the main tendons either side of one or both your ankles, or in the calf muscles that they join into, the need is temporarily NOT to use this exercise or any other exercise that's likely to put significant stress on them, until you can no longer feel or see any signs of a problem there.

Then the name of the game is to cautiously phase in the exercise, say, doing just three rather than six oscillations of the lifted leg, and perhaps just one session, on the first day, and then increase in stages over the next couple of days, laying off again if you notice again any signs of stress or strain. I often get minor stresses or very slight strains of those tendons on my more demanding hikes, and usually my Helpfulness Testing indicates to lay off from most of my leg-involving physio exercises on the first day after the hike, and then a phasing in, usually over the following day or two.

Physical healing and corrective change

1. Affirmations / declarations of intent

Although these may not appear to do much in themselves for physical healing and strengthening (prevention of issues), use of appropriate affirmations / declarations of intent form a very helpful foundation and 'cultivation bed' for the necessary alignment of intent when you use a focused method for addressing a particular issue. Please see the section on affirmations / declarations of intent below for details of creation / execution of these.

2. Tapping for healing / correction of physical issues

This is based on, and a significant improvement upon, the procedure given in the now deprecated and removed Clarity-Sphere User Guide, in which you would palm-roll a mini Clarity-Sphere upon or over the relevant part(s) of the body, with the intent that this was enabling one's deepest aspects to connect more effectively with one's dualistic aspects for more effective healing or strengthening.

The difference here is that, without the Clarity-Sphere, we are working more directly, and, as with the rest of this current version of the methodology, this makes for more efficient and effective working, which also becomes more and more effective over time with ongoing use. The procedure, then, would be very familiar to you if you're already using other methods given on this page. Here follows the sequence.

1. Make sure that you're clear about what you want to heal, strengthen or correctively change (or for which you want to prevent future specific issues), and, if possible, use Helpfulness Testing to establish whether use of this procedure would be worthwhile currently for addressing the issue that you have in mind. If you get a 'weakening' response to that, best not to proceed, but to re-test once in a while.

2. Ascertain where you'll need to tap for best effectiveness for the particular issue, using Helpfulness Testing if at all possible. You can try out tapping on particular positions and then Helpfulness Testing to see which, if any, of those would be best for that issue.

3. Alignment of intent. Carry out the 'Power-level' three-stage Alignment of Intent procedure, and get your conscious intent focused on the tapping that you're about to do, as your means to enable your deepest aspects to get to work (or work more effectively) on the issue you have in mind.

4. Rapid-tapping on relevant location(s). This is what I shall normally call the 'local-tapping' stage. Use the regular five-finger tapping mudra in your dominant hand, doing gentle rapid-tapping on the chosen point or area. This will usually involve your moving your hand over or along an area as your continue rapid-tapping.

   For the odd places where you have to use your non-dominant hand instead, this is fine to do, but every time you do that, it's greatly helpful to have the clear intent that that hand is operating as a proxy for the dominant hand, and thus, that you are still effectively tapping with the dominant hand. I hope that makes sense to you!

   If you want to 'do' one or more further physical issues in this session, use the interim end of practice procedure (a rapid double-tap on the top of the sternum) when you've rapid-tapped for one, then do the tapping for the next one, and so on till you've no more to do, following each with that double-tap on the top of the sternum. After the last you don't need to do the interim end of practice procedure (though it wouldn't do any harm), and you move on to 5.

5. Rapid-tapping on top of head. Normally tapping on top of the head is to be avoided because of its quite strong weakening effects. However, for this purpose, and done this way, any brief weakening effects are outweighed by the strong intent-focusing effect.
   You do NOT tap on the crown itself (strongly weakening), but you rapid-tap in a full circle, one to a few times quite closely around the crown (i.e. around the actual top of the head when your head and neck are in good alignment with the rest of your body.

6. Intent intensifier. Use the dominant hand (5-finger tapping mudra) to deliver three bursts of gentle rapid-tapping on the top of the sternum.

7. End of practice procedure. Carry out the full two-stage end of practice procedure.

Until you're well experienced in using this method, and your Helpfulness Testing indicates no advantage in carrying out repeats, repeat the method for each issue periodically, say weekly, though even just monthly would get you there (i.e., assuming that the method is working at all!), though probably more slowly. In some cases monthly would actually be more effective. Use Helpfulness Testing for precise indications for your own particular situation and issues.

No-soul people in particular may well become so well-connected internally through ongoing use of this method (and this whole methodology generally) that their Helpfulness Testing normally indicates no need to repeat this method for a particular issue after the first execution. Repeats are necessary only for people who have blockages that would run the healing / corrective change process into the long grass if the method were not periodically repeated to reinforce the process and cumulatively weaken the blockages.

Healing physical injuries

For physical injuries you use the sequence described above, if possible tapping ON and as closely as sensibly possible AROUND the injury. If it isn't sensible to tap on the injury itself (e.g., in the case of an open wound), do your tapping closely around the injury a little more thoroughly than otherwise, with a clear intent that you are also (i.e., notionally) tapping on the wound. For certain types of injury, for best results you need to extend the tapping along connected parts that may also have been harmed or stressed by that injury.

In particular, tap along the full length of an injured muscle AND the tendons that connects it to the respective bones. Typically, a twisted or sprained ankle would need tapping along the main inner and outer lateral supporting tendons (peroneal and posterior tibial), following each right up into the rear calf muscle group, AND down under the foot. You may also need to do similar for tendons connecting into the front calf muscle groups.

Repeat the procedure daily if possible for a week, subject to your own carefully executed Helpfulness Testing, and thereafter, once a week would be helpful until either the injury is more or less healed or your rigorous use of Helpfulness Testing indicates it's no longer particularly strengthening to continue.

General notes on using tapping for physical healing and corrective change

Note that, as in the rest of my methodology, it's important NEVER to pray to or invoke any being or 'presence' or 'source' — even something that you're calling your own deepest aspects. The moment you do that, you're invoking and trying to work with the garbage — for whatever good that would do you! Your own deepest aspects never need to be invoked, any more than you need to invoke your nose or your anus for them to do their respective jobs!

Like the rest of my methodology, this is experimental, but I have already had one big and remarkably rapid improvement that has come about — a recovery of my leg musculature and supporting tissues such as tendons from a gradually increasing injury-proneness that had resulted in many hikes leaving me with minor strains, and even most leg-muscle stretching / strengthening exercises also doing so, so that I'd had to keep off all those exercises for probably a couple of decades.

I'm now suddenly able to do all those exercises once more without injury, so stretching and lengthening over-shortened muscles and gaining steadily increasing flexibility of leg function, and no strains from hikes, and also being able to walk better and more safely without using my walking stick even on tricky bits of very steep or uneven ground. It's a bit like learning to be young(ish) again — at actual age of well into my 70s!

My inner inquiry indicates a number of other physical healing processes that are under way in my own system as a result of my using this method, but of course I await observable improvements in each of those areas before I can usefully say anything about progress or outcomes.

My indications are that for each issue there would generally be a quite long waiting period (as little as a few weeks, but commonly more like a year), during which various changes occur at deep, non-physical levels (actually the creation of a 'developmental template'), but then when physical changes do start occurring, in many cases they would occur rapidly or even almost suddenly.

Clearly not everything can change that quickly. If a limb bone needs to be lengthened, for example, it may still grow at more or less normal speed once the waiting or 'gestation' period is over — and bone isn't renowned for speed of growth! Many other changes, however, would be more a matter of correcting various physiological imbalances, so that once the under-the-bonnet preparatory processes have completed, the noticeable change really can be remarkably quick, with no magic at all involved.

But still no instant 'miracle cure'! It's necessary therefore not to be discouraged, and to continue periodically using the method given above for the particular issues, until / unless one's rigorous use of Helpfulness Testing indicates that the particular changes are under way and don't need further use of a dedicated practice / procedure, or maybe no further progress can be made with that for the time being.

If you do get such an indication and it's genuine, although it's quite possible that some obstacle has been found that renders the particular healing process unworkable, it could likewise be because the waiting period is already more or less over and the physical change is imminent or already under way.

One of the most ambitious healing intents that I'd been working on (my inner inquiry consistently indicated that it wasn't only possible but the underlying preparatory process for it had been under way for a little while) was to lengthen my left femur by about an inch, to rectify the unequal lengths of my legs.

That inequality has been a general weakening influence for me through my life so far, and causes specific issues related to spinal distortion (scoliosis), distorted standing position and slightly distorted and awkward walking (each of which in turn is also a weakening influence and giving rise to other issues), so it's something really needing fixing if at all possible. I did think that this had actually come about, but it now appears that any attempt to gauge the degree of equality of leg lengths is difficult to do with sufficient accuracy, so sometimes it appears that they're equal, and other times it looks as though they're unequal. For the time being therefore, I eat humble pie and assume that no very significant degree of change has occurred there yet after all.

Another ambitious one is dissolution of as much floater and detached 'vitreous' material as possible in my eyes, for that has become quite a nuisance for me, thanks to age-related PVD (posterior vitreous detachment) and has degraded my vision in various ambient light conditions.

A jackpot scored?

So, I said I was working on a seemingly outlandish corrective physical change — getting my left femur to grow an extra inch and so to equalize my leg lengths and enable the undoing of all the lateral distortions and consequent internal weaknesses caused by that inequality.

It did appear after about a year that indeed my legs were of equal length, and my checks consistently supported that. So eventually I announced that in my Blog and right here. But then after some months I re-checked — and then periodically re-checked, and found that my various tests were giving conflicting results between different occasions.

The trouble is that in order to measure my legs or compare their lengths reliably I really need to take them both off first! Without taking up space here with a lot of details, basically over several months I came to the conclusion that it was necessary to withdraw all claims that I'd achieved equal leg length. All my means of comparing the leg lengths with them in situ on my body have proved hopelessly unreliable, and so I simply cannot know what the real situation is — and I absolutely refuse to take them off!

Also, I came to recognise that relative leg length isn't the whole story anyway, for there can easily be minor asymmetries in the pelvis. So, trying to equalize leg lengths per se could be problematical. One would need to take the possibility of such pelvis asymmetry into account it seeking to equalize the 'effective leg lengths'.

That aside, though, if you want to make a sporting try towards some corrective physical change, you'd need to bear in mind that some changes people want to make for themselves would be inappropriate or are wanted for an unhelpful reason, such as seeking to project a particular self-image. So you'd need to use Helpfulness Testing rigorously and vigilantly to establish what corrective changes would be 'strengthening' for you.

Also, it's as well to recognise that you could be chasing after all sorts of 'holy grails' that could never be realized, and which would be a side-track from your self-actualization process, and thus you'd be getting progressively very discouraged. Your own deepest aspects wouldn't carry out a change that you were wanting but would be 'weakening' for you to seek to bring about.

Focus Sharpener — means to clear particular barriers to your progress

A considerable proportion of people who write in to me are making only slow to almost no progress in spite of their using the methods presented on this and other pages on this site. What I notice is that they all in their own ways are self-sabotaging, often completely unawarely. Many of those people appear to be truly lost, because they lack sufficient motivation or focus of intent to improve their motivation / focus. They try Helpfulness Testing a bit and seem unable to get it to work, and just give up on it, which itself is self-sabotage because of the importance of that procedure for the security and efficiency of one's self-actualization process.

Also, a fair proportion of those who contact me think they're doing pretty well with these methods, but show clear signs in what they write, that really they're making only small gains and in particular they're still very vulnerable to the garbage attacking them and plying them with crazy 'story'. — And in each such case I also note that despite often a lot of reading on this site, most or all of these individuals are still regarding the garbage as being actual conscious beings of some sort or another, with a conscious will to do one harm.

You point out to these individuals their error and the need to regard supposed 'entities' as illusory manifestations created in one's mind by the garbage, which itself is just rogue programming, like a computer virus — and they usually thank you, even profusely, for pointing that out, but in fact continue in exactly the same way as ever, so perpetuating their garbage interferences through continuing to persistently misinterpret what they're experiencing. It appears to me that these individuals are in particular trouble because of a seemingly intractable inability to recognise their garbage-sourced illusions as other than 'reality'.

However, among all these intractable self-sabotagers, most of whom, sadly, are seriously 'lost', is a small proportion of individuals who do get understanding that they have a particular difficulty in getting their act together in a consistent way, so they keep hopefully working away with my methods even though they're making so little progress.

So, what I give here is a valiant attempt to give the latter category of people a handle for possibly clearing their particular obstacles so that their overall progress and clearance of garbage interferences could then become much, much faster and more efficient.

What I have for them here (new in 2020) is a simple procedure to carry out, which in some cases should greatly assist their drawing in upon their focus and consistency, and getting more efficient and methodical in using this methodology. This is for use at least daily as long as there is still any significant issue for it to address.

• Do a formal reading of a declaration of intent (DOI), as described in the next section, which would read something like:

  With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that the procedure I'm about to use is opening up my innate and intrinsic strength and consistency of motivation for every aspect of my self-actualization, together with a concentration of my mental focus and dissolution of any 'discouragement' responses as they arise — and that this is coming about with all speed.

  And if you're still habitually regarding any apparent non-physical 'entities' or beings as real rather than illusory and for completely disregarding, use this one too:

  With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that the procedure I'm about to use is opening up my innate and intrinsic strength and consistency of motivation for every aspect of my self-actualization, together with an opening-up of my fundamental ability to recognise all illusory manifestations as such and clearly distinguish them from anything real, and to spontaneously disregard them — and that this is coming about with all speed.

• Be standing loosely yet as tall as possible without forcing it — no drooping neck, slouching, sticking-out tummy! Your feet are roughly 30cm (1 foot) apart between their mid-lines, and reasonably parallel to each other.

• Three-stage Alignment of Intent procedure, not just as the hand movements, but with a clear intent that from now on the intent of your conscious 'mind' is precisely and deeply aligned with the self-actualization intent of all your deeper aspects.

• The core procedure — Holding in your awareness the clear conscious intent that is expressed in the DOI(s) that you've just read (but without the words), do a burst of rapid tapping on top of sternum with dominant hand in five-finger tapping mudra, immediately followed by a single tap on the same position (and stay put there for a second or two) by BOTH hands in that mudra (landing with the two tapping mudras together as one) — repeating that pair of actions to make a total of, say, three to five iterations.

  Do it with a real sense of opening up your focus and rock-solid integrity of perception and discernment through drilling down through all obstructions to the solidity and consistency of your own deepest aspects — but NOT actually visualizing anything (the garbage would exploit that).

• Final 'tapping-in' — At the end of the final iteration of the above, keep your two tapping mudras held to your sternum top for a second or so, then carry out five ponderous taps there with both mudras together, then hold them there while you inhale forcefully through your nostrils to mild straining-point, then execute a rapid double clap with both hands and release your breath.

• Carry out the full two-stage end-of practice procedure.

This procedure is generally best used once a day as long as you have a particular difficulty — scattered focus, tendency to regard entities and other illusory manifestations as 'real', and so forth. For people with seemingly intractable difficulties of that sort, it's likely to be best to use the procedure twice a day — say, early morning and early evening until they've got the routine well established. Then generally once a day would be best.

Enabling Helpfulness Testing to work sufficiently for you

Use this procedure too for difficulties with getting Helpfulness Testing to work sufficiently for you — or indeed for enhancing your Helpfulness Testing if you're already getting useful results from it. In most cases it would be best done separately from and in addition to the procedure as described above, with the preceding DOI reading something like:

With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that the procedure I'm about to use is opening up all communication channels between my deepest aspects and my conscious 'mind', enabling Helpfulness Testing to work effectively for me, and also enabling direct communications from my deeper aspects to be clearly distinguishable from any attempts by the garbage to mimic it — and that this is coming about with all speed.

Formal affirmations and declarations of intent

This extremely important method, completely omitted from most healing and self-actualization traditions and systems, overlaps with Grounding Point (particularly its Positive Intent version) in what it aims to achieve, but actually works in a superficially different way, so that the two methods are actually complementary to each other and mutually reinforcing. They're best therefore both used, but generally each is more practical for particular situations than is the other.

The formal reading of affirmations or declarations of intent (DOIs) works at a very basic — or you could say, fundamental — level: laying a powerful catalysing foundation for whatever healing and positive life change measures you may take, and making them greatly more effective.

Formal readings of a full set of affirmations / DOIs for comprehensive self-actualization bring about positive effects not only in the background but also enables you progressively to gain conscious focus upon and alignment with your deeper self-actualization intent, so making it progressively easier to recognise and let go of obstructive influences or factors in your life experience — whether any particular influences / factors appear to be 'internal' or 'external'.

I've produced a comprehensive set of affirmations and DOIs for comprehensive self-healing, self-actualization and clearance of 'entities' and all manner of negative or obstructive influences. At first glance they may appear too challenging to stomach, but by the same token they demonstrate how incomplete and wide of the mark are almost everyone's aspirations and measures that are supposedly towards self-actualization. No wonder virtually nobody's yet got genuinely clear of interferences and influences from the garbage!

These affirmations can be obtained from Affirmations & declarations of intent for healing & self-actualization. To make all your healing, clearance and self-actualization process and all your methods and measures immensely more effective for you, use the affirmations regularly — preferably weekly — for, say, a month or two (but ANY use will assist greatly) before you reduce the frequency to monthly or less (but best to follow the indications of careful and rigorous Helpfulness Testing as to when or how often to read them). Remember, the need is to progressively wean yourself off doing formal readings of them, and onto taking action measures instead!

That doesn't preclude your once in a while doing just a quick scan through the set of affirmations just to see if there's something you've forgotten or let run into the long grass, so to speak.

Actually, when you're new to that set of affirmations it may be helpful to repeat the reading the day after the first reading, but I caution against daily readings otherwise (very unbalancing!).

Important! There's both a specific optimal format and a specific optimal way of carrying out a formal reading of these or any individual affirmations or DOIs, and I give it further below. Just to read them, even if done in a formal manner out aloud, although better than nothing, is of limited effectiveness. So this is one of the many situations where this site's much more focused methods really shine and stand out against the competition in the 'life improvement' jungle out there!

Creation of affirmations / declarations of intent

I now give here a number of examples of specific DOIs that I myself have used, just to show the way you do this, and the necessary format for greatest effectiveness.You will note that there's no trace in these of invoking, asking or communicating with any external presence(s) or 'energies'. Various other people's DOIs or supposed affirmations are replete with such features, and they're all weakening in their effect, not to mention their tending to increase connections with the garbage.

For each DOI or affirmation that you want to use, you need to write it down first if you haven't already got it in writing or print, and then carry out the formal reading procedure that I describe further below. Formally reading a DOI that you yourself have written / printed makes more connection with your deepest aspects than does just thinking or saying something that's in your mind (or which has been written / printed by somebody else), and thus is much more effective.

You will note in the following examples that, for greatest effectiveness, the future tense isn't used in any DOIs or affirmation — only the present tense. This is important and so easily gets forgotten. Even if your health appears to be really poor, you still affirm your intent that you are 100% healthy now and at all times. If you weaken on that by writing With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I will be 100% healthy, you're presenting yourself with a pie-in-the-sky declaration, which reflects a lack of real commitment to your intent and thus weakens its healing effect.

I originally tended to use and that this is coming about as speedily as possible to complete DOIs. The problem with that wording is that 'as possible' tends to carry connotations of doubt and of limited expectations, so actually it's best avoided in favour of the expression used in the DOIs below. Indeed, for some affirmations / DOIs, 'with all speed' is best replaced by 'now'. Use Helpfulness Testing to check which would be best for the particular DOIs / affirmations you're creating.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm clear of all connections that would be weakening for me, and that this is coming about with all speed.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm 100% healthy physically and that I have no remaining adverse effects from any previous environmental stresses, and that this is coming about with all speed.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm free of all obstructions to my relating in a maximally healthy and fulfilling manner with other people at all levels, and that this is coming about with all speed.

  Note that I've amended this one, because it was referring to manifesting relationships, which was throwing in a pretty toxic preconceived notion. It's important never to seek to gain what people call 'relationships', because their basis is in attachment and mutual reinforcement of issues that actually need to be dissolved and cleared from the system.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that my anus, bladder sphincter and all other sphincters, and all other parts of my body, have full and undistorted function, free from the interference of external entities, influences or agencies of any type, and that this is coming about with all speed.

  This one is specifically for people with problems at the anus or bladder sphincter — a major proportion of which are, to my best current understanding, caused by interference from the garbage.

• Use this:
  With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm free of all obstructions to my having in my life whatever would genuinely benefit me and enable me to be of maximum benefit to others, and that this is coming about with all speed.

  Not this:
  With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm free of all obstructions to my having abundance in all aspects of my life, and that that abundance is manifesting for me to the greatest extent that is genuinely beneficial for me, and that this is coming about with all speed.

  Reason: seeking to manifest 'abundance' is a popular thing in various 'spiritual' and New-Age type traditions, and really it's all a hankering after some sort of black magic to enable you to have whatever you want or like or crave for — which would be harmful in various ways and divert you fully from genuine self-actualization — and is at least potentially harmful environmentally. It's really just the same even if you try to make it look acceptable by qualifying it as I did above.

  Best to let go entirely of the notion of 'abundance' as anything to seek, and just concentrate on making the most of your life in the most constructive ways possible. Just allow yourself to enjoy whatever abundance does come your way, but best not to dwell on it, and to draw a line under every bit of it, for nothing we experience is permanent, and 'abundance' readily becomes a distraction from and all-too-often a full block to one's self-actualization direction.

  In any case, what 'abundance' you do have at any time needs to be used sensibly to help your self-actualization process in various ways, and so at least indirectly be of benefit to others as well as yourself. If you treat it as your personal luxury and indulgence, then you've lost touch with your underlying life task, which would always involve being in some way of benefit in the most constructive ways to other people.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that my approach to all my life events and issues is consistently positive and constructive, and that I'm without any feelings of or tendencies towards depression, apathy or powerlessness, and that I'm making consistently strengthening and constructive choices in my life, and am following those choices through in my actions as long as they continue to be strengthening for me (as determined by careful use of Helpfulness Testing).

  If you've been having some sort of 'depression', please be aware that it's no good just depending on the relevant declaration of intent to clear it on its own.

  You ALSO need to take a range of positive measures to ensure that you speedily get out of depression when it comes on (i.e., get your awareness properly grounded and focused on positive aspects of your surroundings and situation), and to make it much more difficult for depression to take a hold in the first place.

  It would also be very helpful to have a proper understanding of what depression really is (i.e., as far as I can tell on the basis of my own observations and insights) — please see The true nature of 'the forces of darkness' and its interference and attacks.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that I'm clear of all entities, garbage interferences and influences, soul programming, implants, thought forms and other foreign 'energies', and that this is coming about with all speed.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that any human consciousnesses, including 'soul fragments', that are currently attached to or connected with me are themselves clear of all garbage or 'entity' interferences and influences, soul programming, implants, thought forms and other 'foreign energies', and are thus free to revert to fundamental consciousness, and that this is coming about with all speed.

• With clear conscious choice, I affirm my intent that the astral non-reality is no longer accessible to the 'ordinary mind' of ALL humans and other human-type beings in the whole of 'Existence', and consequently all its illegitimate, harmful contents are rapidly dissolving, and that this is coming about now.

How to read affirmations / declarations of intent most effectively

Just reading the words of a declaration of intent (DOI) or affirmation would undoubtedly be better than nothing, but in most cases only marginally effective. The following is the most potent and efficient way I've yet come up with, to make such formal readings really come into their own as powerful procedures alongside the other practices and procedures presented here.

• You're sitting in a relaxed upright state at a desk or table with your printed or written-out DOI or affirmation in front of you at reading distance without your neck or upper back drooping (you may need to adjust your sitting height to make that possible).

• Carry out the Alignment of Intent procedure — preferably the full three-stage Power version. (This is just once for the session, even if there are multiple items to process)

• 'Opening' gesture (i.e., opening of this procedure — also just once for the session). Form your dominant hand into the five-finger tapping mudra, and with that, deliver three rapid taps on the top of your sternum. Maintain that mudra, but now with the hand at rest on the desk beside the item you're about to read.

• Spend normally up to half a minute reading through the printed or written-out item, making sure you properly understand it and fully mean it.

• Starting the activation. Using a 'visualization of intent', with your lips partially closed, steadily breathe in through that partial opening between your lips, with your gaze still on what you've just been reading, drawing in with your inhalation the full substance, meaning and intent of that item, as though you're drawing the print off the page.

• Completing the activation. Then, again with partially closed lips, immediately blow all that meaning and intent into the little 'black hole' formed between your fingertips held in the Tapping Mudra, and at once rapidly bring up that hand, still holding the mudra, to deliver three rapid taps on the top of your sternum, in order to 'tap-in the contents of the 'black hole''.

• If you're working through a list, for each item repeat the last three steps — i.e., each time starting with the 'reading' stage.

• Rounding-off the session. When there are no further items to read:

  •  Particularly if you've used the full Power version of the Alignment of Intent procedure, now execute five ponderous taps on the top of the sternum, by the tapping mudra in both hands together in unison — just the same as the third stage of the Alignment of Intent procedure's Power version.

    • Continue to hold your two tapping mudras together on the top of the sternum and execute five rapid cyclic breaths.

    • Immediately, still holding your mudras there, power-inhale to mild straining point, then quickly remove your hands and deliver a rapid double-clap.

  • Carry out the full two-step end of practice procedure, and that's it.

In the case of a reading of my set of Affirmations I recommend always following that reading with Feedback-Loop Zapper, followed by Perception Integrator — each of those followed by its own end of practice procedure.

When doing a formal reading of my set of Affirmations, it's important not to get bogged down in anxieties about whether you're sufficiently understanding what you're reading. The need is to be reasonably brief about reading each item before activating it and moving on. If you're taking as much as an hour on that set, you need to sharpen up and become more efficient. (Indeed, I myself take 30–40 minutes on the whole set, taking my time about it!) Taking a long time means that anxiety patterns are playing out, and they'd largely obstruct the effectiveness of the reading anyway.

Think of this as a light-hearted joyful 'tripping through' the items rather than seriously dwelling on each in an attempt to make the affirmations / DOIs more effective. Any sense of 'trying to' needs to be amusedly, lightly, blown out of the window.

A good way of getting round that sort of issue is to do a pre-reading of the whole set first, so that you make sure you understand what each item means, if necessary looking up the odd terms on this site's Glossary page and elsewhere on this site.

Then, when you sit down for the formal reading, you then no longer have cause to try to understand each item as you read it, because you already understand it (at least, as well as you can at that time). So you then read the item more as a reminder, being aware of your understanding of that item already gained, and then go through the procedure for activating it before moving on to next.