[pumpineemob]

So, last night after reading through these forums for the first time in a while, I decided to try a projection. I didn't expect it to work because of my absence from this stuff, and the fact that it was night and I was slightly tired, but I gave it a try nevertheless.

I've found that the body reacts to signals. You don't need science to figure this out. In this case, I recently figured that if I'm sending a signal to relax, I can maintain this signal in the same way that if I want to push my arm down, I have the option to KEEP pushing it down.

So, this is what I did with my whole body, with relaxing.

Observation number two is that the longer a signal is prolonged, the less localized the signal becomes. If you tighten your fist as hard as you possibly can, after a while, the muscles in your arm, then shoulder and finally upper abdomen will start to tense. You might even grit your teeth in effort, and clench your neck.

The relaxation, in this way, becomes less localized, and spreads to parts of your (my) body where you're less used to controlling muscles.

In my situation, my breathing became autonomous and I could observe it without influencing it (a first for me). My jaw fell open within thirty seconds, and my facial and neck muscles relaxed to a point which I wasn't familiar with while awake.

I then fell asleep, physically, in a record time for me, while remaining totally awake, to a record level for me. I know this because I have a congestion problem right now, and I heard my first snore through that loud, tin-can like perception, and it scared the hell out of me.

So, no OBE for you guys, but try this. Try relaxing your arm. Unrelax, then relax again. Remember this movement just like you'd remember physical movement, and then sustain it. Lie down, and let it spread. Ignore your head falling to the side, there's no need to be symmetrical.

Hope it works for you guys! And tell me if it does.

[sbrpkkl]

Yeah, I can second that the "letting go" signal can be observed and applied if the mind recognises it and can recreate it. This not only works for muscles, but for any kind of tension - physical, emotional, mental. If you look, irritations in the emotions and the mind have similar qualities to physical tension and the same letting go signal can be applied to them.

Bruce Moen says this can also be generalised to the process of intention. If you can find the moment before an action, the moment it only exists in your intention, then you can remember this quality and apply it again to manifest and create.

Oliver

[pumpineemob]

That's a good point. I relax my emotions instantaneously much in the same way the I relax a muscle... which would explain why I feel emotionally dead after doing so, because I guess there's no emotion? Or less thought?

Better than being angry or randomly hateful.

[sbrpkkl]

Relaxing an emotion just removes the blocked aspects from it - then it is neutral. The energy finishes in your body and that emotion is gone.

Like removing the resistance from a slide - instead of blocking part of the slide by stuff getting stuck somewhere where there is too much friction everything just slides through. Coming and going. I would not say dead, though. It has different qualities.

Definitely less thought so. Emotion can create spontaneous, habitual monkey mind thought. If you relax an emotion, it is one source of distraction less. It was never meant to stick around that long anyway.

Oliver