How 8-Minutes of Meditation Give can Change Your Life Forever

What exactly is meditation? How can I meditate at home? What are the advantages of meditation? Can meditation really improve my life? It seems that so many people nowadays are hooked up with this form of activity. By definition, meditation is often used to describe the individual's state of intense attention on an object of awareness or thought. The individual tries to turn his or her attention inward. Meditation is said to be of Vedic Hinduism origin. This is usually practiced in the eastern religions but now even the western culture is already involved in such activity.

People want to practice meditation so that they can focus their mind to "God" for their personal development, to attain peace of mind, and to be healthier.

Millions of people around the world are now involved in some form of meditation. According to Time Magazine there is one meditation practice that can be used by almost anyone. This can be considered as the basic primer of anyone who wants to begin meditation but have no idea where to start.

There was a book published last November 2005 authored by Victor Davich that is all about the 8 minute meditation. If you purchase the book and study it carefully, you will learn a lot of things about meditation, and you can do it in just 8 minutes.

Almost every individual who starts with anything new to him or her will often have lingering questions, hopes, and doubts about it. There are even people who hopes that when they begin to meditate, they will be enlightened. Or perhaps you're one of those individuals who think that meditation is just like an exercise or diet that you've been trying to do for the past few months. But these things are normal; so don’t be surprised if you're also like that.

The best thing to do is to face all the positive and/or negative expectations, and after doing so, forget about them and start with a clean slate. If you want to try the 8-minute program of meditation, you should learn how to approach it one minute at a time.

While many people think that meditation is a simple practice, then you'd better think twice. You might not notice it, but your mind is always racing from here to there. You can't concentrate. According to the book's author, you must watch your breath. This is the very first step to meditation. Do your inhalation and exhalation by breathing deeply. If you always do this and just keep on practicing, you can become good in meditation. 

As a word of reminder, if you catch yourself thinking about other things, or in other words your mind strays off, focus again on your breathing. After all, meditation is all about concentrating and if you realize that you're not on the right track, you can always return to that state of mind gently. Don’t get discouraged easily and just keep on practicing. There is a popular saying that says practice makes perfect; so always keep that in mind. If you quit easily, then you will remain a quitter.

Meditation can help you in achieving peace of mind. With all your problems at work, in your family, and the entire world, you should at least experience a few minutes of peace. Don’t miss this chance to attain personal development at no cost at all. 

Learn How to Hypnosis Handshake Induction Explained Lesson Tutorial Hypn...

Ever wondered how to Hypnotize people? What is the best way to hypnotize a person? Whats the fastest type of hypnotic induction? 

Hypnosis or hypnotherapy can have a variety of uses and real world applications hypnosis for weight loss, hypnosis for sleep, hypnosis for success, hypnosis for relaxation, past life regressions, increase confidence or even to quit smoking. Hypnosis is like a guided meditation. In fact meditation, prayer, sleep and hypnosis are all different aspects of the same thing. It allows you to access your subconscious mind and a higher self and a higher form of consciousness.

In this video we will be looking at the hand shake induction. The handshake induction is a method you can use to take a person from a normal everyday waking state into a deep trance like state. There are many different types of hypnotic induction. The hand shake induction is one the fastest and easiest inductions there is.

This deep trance like state is what Franz Mesmer referred to as Magnetic Sleep in his work on animal magnetism. Hypnosis has been perfected as an art form through the years by the likes of Milton Erickson, Richard Bandler and Paul McKenna. 

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Which Foods are Good for Psychics? PSYCHIC DIET TIPS AND INFO

Is it as simple as this? I hope not, I hate broccoli!

People are always asking me questions about best diets for psychics. What food are good for developing psychic powers? Are all psychics vegetarian or vegan? Is drinking beer bad for my psychic health? Is caffience bad for psychic health? Does fluoride in toothpaste block the third eye? What goods are bad for psychics? Questions like this.

There are many people in the world who are afraid to admit when they don't know something. I am not that guy, for me I love finding questions I don't know the answers to. After all isn't that what the quest for knowledge is all about? So rather than pretend that I knew all the answers, as some people would, I turned to an old friend  of mine Sifu Amin Jani. He is an accomplished energy practitioner and tai chi teacher from North Virginia, U.S.A who runs energy-cultivation.com

Sifu Anim Jani holding a... well I'm not sure what that is!

Here is what he had to say:

"As an Energy Guy, diet has a huge role and impact on how your internal energy is effected. We have found that there are certain foods that will help increase the internal energy and help if flow smoothly through out the body.

Most psions has no idea that energy work has a lot to do with hormones in the body and the neural transmitters in our brain.  Certain foods work on them both like Fish! Eating fish is great for psions.  

Spices are very powerful too!  Garlic, Cayenne, Turmeric, Black Pepper and Ginger all great to clean the energy channels in the body so they open up nice and wide. These kind of spices can be added to anything you eat! They even taste good all together!!

Certain Herbs help with building the mental energy that psions use too like Valerian Root.
This list goes on, so pay attention to what you eat and research the health benefits of everything, its worth knowing!"

I'm always one to help spread the word about psi and psi phenomena and help the psi community in any way that I can. So i am proud to be able to share with you guys a cool site run by my friend Sifu Amin Jani.

The site is busting with information about eastern philosophy and practices, exploring ideas about ancient martial arts, the benefits of yoga, tai chi, qi gong and meditations. Real mind body and soul stuff. If you are interested in learning how to control your chi and manipulate the flow of energy through your body then energy-cultivation.com is must see site.

How to Meet your Spirit Guide and Spirit Animal Meditation Hypnosis

How to meet your spirit guide with Hypnosis

Many people have asked me "what is a spirit guide?" and "how do i discover my spirit guide?" which are both excellent questions if you too are learning to harness and develop your own inner psychic powers. A spirit guide acts as a medium between you and 'the other side' in much the same way as a Ouija board, pendulum or dowsing rods can be used to relay information from spirits. Rather than using a physical tool a Psychic or medium who is in contact with a spirit guide can receive clairvoyant messages at any time.

Many mediums and psychics describe their spirit guide as an entity or spirit which acts as a guide or protector over their soul. A spirit guide can take many forms and is unique to each individual. Your spirit guide could be an old family member who has passed away, a significant figure from history such as Abraham Lincoln or Pythagoras, theres nothing that says your spirit guide even has to be human! The notion of spirit guides are not something new its a phenomena that has been recorded across many cultures and times. The Native Americans, Chinese and Egyptians all have examples of spirit beings and mystical guides in their folk lore. 

The Native Americans for example would embark on a spiritual journey known as a 'Vision Quest' where a teenager or someone approaching 'manhood' would enter the woods and be deprived of food and water in an attempt to achieve an altered state of consciousness in order to encounter and interact with the spirit world. In the case of Native Americans this spirit guide or totem would usually come in the form of an animal, known as a Power Animal. Each power animal guide has a different skill and representing different supernatural abilities which would then be transferred to you, so you could be strong and powerful like a bear or cunning like a fox.  

Often a medicine man or shaman would use hallucinogenic drugs such as mescal, peyote cactus, thorn apple, psilocybin mushroom, green tobacco, jimsonweed and devil's weed to achieve these spirit visions. This again is a common experience in the ancient world, of 'tripping balls' and 'becoming a man'. I have a way that you can meet you spirit guide, a way for you to discover your spirit guide in a way which isn't harmful to your brain, you can meet your spirit guardian without having to take illegal drugs or starving yourself in a field somewhere. We know through our studies that achieving these kinds of altered states can be achieved through a number of methods. Clairvoyant visions can occur in meditation, prayer, lucid dreaming and even hypnosis. 

Please try the guided meditation / hypnosis session at the top of the page and you too can discover your spirit guide. I would love to hear about your experience? Did it work for you? What form did your spirit guide take? Please head over to the forum and join in the discussion:

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How to Clear your Mind for Meditation Trance State

What do you think about during meditation?

One common problem my followers report is that during meditation they can sometimes find it difficult to clear their minds. They say that they struggle to switch off their brains, that even if they are alone, relaxed, in a quiet or calm environment they cannot consciously stop making pictures and images in their heads or talking to themselves, chattering away with their internal dialogue. They ask me, how do I clear my mind?

If you are a regular reader you will have seen this article which offers three basic meditation techniques, the Hindu method, the candle induction and the dark-side meditation. if you haven't seen that please check it out. choose whichever method will suit your needs and style best:

http://markmauvais.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/three-basic-easy-meditation-techniques.html 

If you are struggling to get into a trance like state because of external noises then you can use them to your advantage. Focus on each noise, try and flow with its rhythms and this will help you achieve a deeper trance experience. Some times though the noises and distractions can be internal rather than created by an outside source.

This isn't always the case though, sometimes even in an environment where you have little to no sensory input your brain will automatically attempt to entertainment itself. These types of thoughts can be distracting during meditation and there are a few techniques you can use to silence them. 

The first thing you need to consider is the content of these distracting thoughts. it is possible that your subconscious is making you think of these things for a reason. If it is an issue in your life that is bothering you or a problem which needs solving then you should use this meditative time constructively. You often hear people say they 'will meditate on an issue' or 'sleep on a decision'. This is because the subconscious is a great problem solver. Rather than trying to block these thoughts you should embrace them, think through the issues and resolve them. 

Are you Visually Minded or Auditory Minded?

If you are a more visually minded person then your distractions will most likely be in a video like form, you imagine what you might do tomorrow or re-experience a memory from history. Again use this to your advantage. Make a picture in your mind of looking down on yourself from above, like an out of body experience. Keeping your eyes closed, visualize all of your surroundings in as much detail as you can. Slowly zoom the image out in your mind as if you are gradually flying away. Slowly let the outer edges fade away into blankness. The further you zoom out the more the picture disappears until you can see nothing but blankness. 

A person who is more auditory minded could be distracted by the little voice in their mind, who talks to them. The voice that we hear inside our heads, our consciousness, life force or soul, or whatever you personally call it. These people would benefit from the use of a mantra. A mantra is when you repeat a word or phrase over and over. These have been used for centuries in meditation from the ancient Ohm to Hare Krishna. Repeatedly saying a word or phrase will stop your conscious mind from talking to you during the trance state.

The main point to be taken here is not to ignore these thoughts that you have. Generally there is a reason why your mind says "hey, think about this". You may have sat down to open your third eye or something but if you solve a personal problem or have an epiphany moment then that can be equally rewarding. If your brain is working against you then you can use those things to your advantage. Its your brain, we all experience the world and meditation in our own ways. Do what suits you and your way of thinking.

Investigating Psychic Yogis: Achieve Siddhi Conscioussness and UNLOCK PSYCHIC POWERS

Here in the West, J.B. Rhine and Karl Zener demonstrated the existence of Extrasensory Perception in the 1930s under laboratory conditions. However in the East, the gurus and mystics in far off lands such as India and China have possessed this knowledge for over a  thousand years.

The Psychic Investigations model requires that we study the processes and methods used by those who can demonstrate Psychical abilities. Whilst India was under British rule stories would flood back to England of these wise men in loin cloths with 'special abilities' such as levitation, clairvoyance and telekinesis. For hundreds of years these tales were told and the mystics gained great fame.

These mystical Yogis would meditate all day, for weeks, months, and even years in the forests or in the mountains, all in the quest to achieve what they called 'Siddhi Consciousness' or 'Siddhi Awareness'. Once this state was achieved the Yogis were able to demonstrate these extrasensory abilities. So, what is Siddhi Consciousness? How do I achieve Siddhi Consciousness? All great questions. 

I think the answer lies in China. You see there is an incredible over lap in what the Indian and Chinese cultures believe about how the body works. For example Prana, the Indian word for internal energy or life force, is the same concept as the Chinese notion of Chi. An energy which flows through your Chakras (Indian) or Dantiens (Chinese) and can be harnessed through exercise and meditation. Whilst the Indians practice meditation to achieve this 'Siddhi Consciousness' the Chinese do it in the quest for Enlightenment. Could these two be the same thing? 

Siddhi Consciousness is when all your energies are balanced and pure, when your third eye chakra has been fully opened and you are able to channel your energy in a way which allows you access to a higher realm of knowledge. You will be able to sense things you could not before, be in tune with the life force, know things you could not know and move matter with your mind.

The Gurus used Yoga as a way to meditate and regulate their energy flow. The positions they used in their exercises would unlock any issues and allow the Prana to flow freely through their body. The way in which you position your body has a direct effect on your brain chemistry and ergo your biological responses. 

The Chinese use an exercise known as Qi Gong. This exercise is still practiced many millions of people in China who report great health benefits as well as spiritual ones. Qi Gong teaches you how to direct your psychic energy around your body using non strenuous exercise. Its very similar to Kung Fu or Tai Chi in a physical sense, yet like Yoga and mediation in a more esoteric way, both relaxing and spiritually rewarding.

My personal experience with Qi Gong has been very positive. I picked up a few moves from the great Ken Cohen and I use them daily in my routine. Qi Gong really helps with directing your energy before the release part in 'How to Develop Telekinesis: Lesson Two' where you actually knock over the target object. I know many of you have been struggling with the release part so I would suggest you practice some Qi Gong until you understand how to move the energy around in your body.

Please try this and leave a comment about how it made you feel!

On studying the Yogi phenomenon and the quest to achieve Siddhi consciousness I was reminded once again that meditation is an absolutey most important part of developing your mental abilities. Time and time again, each case we look at Meditation is a common denominator, from Edgar Cayces trance like visions, to Nostradamus scrying in a water bowl.

How to Lucid Dream Control your Dreams and Manipulate your Dreaming Experience

In a Lucid dream you are no longer bound by the laws of space or time.

Have you ever wondered How to Lucid Dream? Ever wished that you were able to control or manipulate your dreams? We have found that Lucid dreaming is an ideal place to train your psychic powers as you are not restricted by the laws of time and space. However, Lucid dreaming is not just for those with psychic abilities. Its something we can all do, and something I would strongly suggest as it is one of the most fun and enjoyable, life changing experiences you can have.

For me, the most important thing about lucid dreaming is that you, the dreamer, must be able to distinguish between being awake and being in the dream state. 

We've all had experiences where we've awoken from a dream and felt "that was so real" or later in the day have been unable to decide whether something you experienced was real or in that dream state. I have in the past woken up from a dream, in which my wife has been horrid to me and I have felt actual anger towards her lying there sleeping because the dream I just had felt so realistic, conversely sometimes I hear my phone alarm go off during the day and think "I better not be asleep right now!"

So how do you know if you are dreaming? Well the cliched method is to pinch oneself. The logic being that in the dream world you won't experience the physical pain that you would whilst being awake. However how do you remember to check whether your in a dream state whilst you are dreaming. If your subconscious mind is in control of what you are seeing, hearing, sensing and thinking how can you control that consciously?

Obviously the key is to make this process of testing whether you are awake into a subconscious one. There are countless things we do subconsciously without even realizing, both in the dream state and whilst awake, things such as breathing, regulating heart rate, or digestion. If you are able to make it so that you subconsciously check which reality you are experiencing every so often, eventually you will find yourself doing this in a dream state.

And what an eye opener it is the first time it happens to you. The moment you become conscious in a dream state for the first time is incredible, its literally like being god. You are able to manipulate your physical environment, you can fly, you can transform, anybody you want can be there and you can do whatever you want, however you want. If you can imagine it you can do it. What could be more kick ass than that?

Telepathy Ganzfeld Experiment Mind Reading

What is the Ganzfeld Experiment?

The Ganzfeld Experiment is a parapsychological experiment which consists of two participants in separate rooms trying to communicate with each other using thought transference or telepathy. Telepathy is the transmission of information from one person to another without using any of our known senses or physical interaction. This experiment demonstrates that Telepathy is a real phenomenon, that information can be both sent and received using psychic methods.

Person A is deprived of sensory input and is bathed in a red light whilst person B views images on a TV screen and attempts to relay them to the next room. Person A vocalizes any words or feelings felt during the telepathic transmission which are recorded on tape or whatever. These telepathic thoughts and feelings are then compared with the original images send from Person A. 

The results are astonishingly accurate. Time and time again the Ganzfeld experiments have yielded results that deviate from randomness to a significant degree. But this is nothing new is it? We know that Rhine and Zener demonstrated scientifically that Telepathy is a real phenomenon, or that Stamford Research Institute showed us that Remote Viewing and clairvoyance are real too.

Over the course of thousands of experiments, by the standards applied to any other science, ESP has been proven to exist.

Three Basic Easy Meditation Techniques for Beginners

The question here is pretty obvious. What are your meditation techniques? How do you meditate? There are many people out there in need of more meditation ideas. Many websites tell you meditation is important and offer a simple meditation technique. Here we are going to look at a few examples of ways you can induce a meditative trance like state, like those used by the famous psychics across history most notably Edgar Cayce.

I generally offer the classic Hindu method of meditation to beginners as it is a simple method and is similar to what they are expecting to have to do. After all this standard meditation exercise has been spoon fed to us through the media for our whole lives since its legend came over from India in Victorian times. Meditation and visualization techniques can help to can calm your mind and enter a relaxing state. The Hindu method goes something like this:

The Classic Hindu Induction

1. Sit with your back straight and your hands face up in your lap.

2. Breathe in a Pranayama style: breathe with your diaphragm rather than your lungs.

3. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

4. Begin a mantra of gentle "Ohm's" allow the word to 'drag slightly' as if your singing and you will experience a vibration sensation in your body.

5. Clear your mind of all thoughts and allow a gentle stillness to overcome you.

However this classic Hindu style method may not be the meditation technique you are looking for. Everybody thinks in different ways and may need different meditative methods for inducing a trance like state.  The work of Franz Mesmer into mesmerism kick started a revolution in trance induction in Europe and thus many more inductions were developed. 

The Candle Induction

1. Light a candle and place it on a solid surface where it cannot fall.

2. Sit down approximately one metre away from the candle with your legs crossed.

3. Focus all of your attention onto the flame, watch it dance.

4. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

5. Clear your mind of all thoughts and allow a gentle stillness to overcome you.

This candle light induction is more more useful for those whole are visually minded and struggle to concentrate for long periods of time. You will be amazed when you notice how easy it is to 'zone out' using this meditation method. Soon the area around the candle will start to disappear from your sight and a white blankness will start to form around the edges of your vision. Sound interesting? Altering your perception through meditation... Well this next one will blow your mind. If you are the kind of person who scares easily then this one isn't for you. If you are still wrestling with the idea that using psychic powers may be some kind of dark satanic thing then this next meditation is not one for you! 

The Dark side Induction

1. Light a candle in a dark room at night and place it on a solid surface opposite a mirror.

2. Sit down approximately one metre away from the candle facing the mirror with your back to the candle.

3. Ensure that the candle is in an area behind your head and that you cannot see the flame in your reflection.

4. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.

5. Stare into your own face, and observe the surreal events that occur.

This last method is not for the feint of heart, trust me it will show you things that you won't believe. Your reading this now in your chair or on your phone thinking "pah!" and those people I challenge to try this. The frankly weird things that you will see differ from person to person. There are those who claim they have had precognitive experiences while doing this exercise, for me something much more terrible happens.

Edgar Cayce

 “Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.” 

-Edgar Cayce

 Edgar Cayce was an American psychic, in the in the late 1800s and early 1900s, who allegedly possessed the ability to answer questions on subjects as varied as healing and wars, and had visions of the world ending. 

He would famously lie at the bottom of his bed in a "hypnotic like state" and dictate his prophecies. It was done in such a fashion because Cayce said he generally would not remember what he had said while in this state. His predictions are numerous and many of his prophecies have been exacted.

Some of his predictions are wild and yet still to occur, such as the recovery of the lost city of Atlantis, that information as to the whereabouts of the lost continent could be found in a secret compartment under the foot of the Sphinx in Egypt. Cayce also claimed a golden city would be discovered in the Gobi desert, with lifts, escalators and electric cars no less. 

We know from case studies of the other great psychics from history including, Helena Blavatsky and Michel de Nostradame, that trance work was used in their prophecies. In this trance like state Cayce was able to access the 'Akashic records' and reveal information from anywhere in the universe at any point in time. The Akashic record is described as containing all knowledge of human experience and all experiences as well as the history of the cosmos encoded or written in the very aether or fabric of all existence. The records, or The Book of Life in the Bible, are metaphorically on a non-physical plane described as a library.

So the big question for us now is how did Cayce enter this trance like state? how was he able to access the Akashic record and see into the past and/or future? how do we go about replicating this and doing it now today in our own homes?

Learn more about accessing the Akashic Record

About the Third Eye - How to open your 3rd Eye

One question people ask me regularly is what is the chakra associated for clairvoyant abilities? There are 7 chakras in the human body, each is responsible for different things. The root chakra, the spleen chakra, the solar plexus chakra, the heart chakra, the throat chakra, the mind's eye chakra and the crown chakra. 

The sixth Chakra: The third eye.

Studies show that the more mystical traditions, like those of Ancient Egypt, the Guru's and Swammis of India, and the Chinese have long known that the pineal gland to be associated with the psychic third eye and works as the connecting link between both the physical and spiritual worlds. It located on the middle of the forehead above the brows.

The Egyptians knew more about the Brain that we give them credit for

Opening your third eye is important in developing extrasensory perception and improving your psychic powers such as: how to see the future, astral projection, telepathy and precognition. 

In the brain the Pineal gland is responsible for regulating our more primitive survival based urges including thirst, hunger and sexual desire. It also plays an important role as the pacemaker for our biological clock. This means that if one were able to manipulate this area you could slow your perception of time and even slow down the aging process. Its this important link with time/space that makes the 3rd eye so important.

There are many different exercises that one can do to open your third eye. Doing this simple exercise for about an ten minutes a day will really boost your psychic powers and increase your ability to predict the future, read peoples minds and see far off places.

The Pineal gland is photosensitive (this is how it regulates the body clock using circadian rhythms) so the best time to do this psychic training exercise is during the morning. Find a comfortable place in your home or garden where you know you wont be disturbed. Light a candle or some incense or whatever...

     1. Sit with your back straight and your hands face up in your lap.
     2. Breathe in a Pranayama style: breathe with your diaphragm rather than your lungs.
     3. Relax your facial muscles and jaw, let your mouth hang open.
     4. Inhale, and as you exhale say "Ohm", drag the word out and let it vibrate through you.
     5. Repeat for about ten minutes.

You will notice an increase pressure in the center of your forehead, or you may hear a pulsing or throbbing. These are good signs and shows that your third eye is trying to awaken. (However if this pain doesn't fade away after a couple of minutes I would suggest you stop with this exercise.) I always tell people that you can't just say I want big muscles and get them, you have to work hard, go to the gym and eat right. This is exactly the same with increasing your psychic ability. In the early days your 'psychic muscles' are weaker and you need to do these exercises to build up your power.

For more help with opening the Third Eye CLICK HERE

HOW TO DIRECT YOUR PSYCHIC ENERGY CHAKRA AND DAN TIEN

Chi is the vital life force that flows through all animate objects. It is a manifestation of your will and interal energies. Similar concepts can be found in almost all cultures of the world. In Japan it is called 'Ki', the Guru's of India call it 'Prana', the Hebrew word for it is 'Rauch' and the ancient Greeks knew it as 'Pneuma'. The ability to focus ones Chi, or Psi, is an important part of developing Psychic powers.

First one must enter a 'trance like state' there are many ways of inducing a state like this, the easiest being to stare at a lit candle, and as you watch the flame dancing you will find your self relaxing in mind and body. You must be relaxed and have good posture for Chi to flow correctly through your body.

When you are in a deep trance like state you must focus on the area known as the Dantian. In Chinese culture the Dantian is considered to be the center of Chi energy and is an important point of reference in neidan, qigong, neigong, tao yin, meditation, as well as in martial arts and in traditional Chinese medicine.

Focus all of your energy in the lower Dantian. Draw Chi from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Build it all up in the lower Dantian and feel it swirling around inside your body. Its interesting that Indian system of 'Chakras' and the Chinese idea about dantians has such a large over lap. Note that all three dantians, have corresponding 'chakras'. The upper dantian is comparable to the Anja Chakra, which is found behind the psychic third eye, the middle dantian is like the Anahata Chakra, which is found near the Heart and the lower dantian which is the same at the Muladhara or the root chakra. 

It can be helpful to visualize your chi as a ball of white energetic light. When you have manifested all of your energy in the lower dantian, or the the root chakra then you must allow your chi to flow from here to the middle dantian. When it reaches the middle dantian you must double the size of the ball. You see that multiplication is a subconscious act and if you imagine an increase in your chi then it will be so. Finally move the ball of energy into your minds eye, or the upper dantian. Again double the ball in size.

Now imagine that there is an invisible force connecting your psychic third eye with your lower dantian. Allow your ball of Chi energy to flow back down to the root chakra and form a psychic loop. Now no chi can escape, and you are able to repeat the process over and over. Swirling the chi through your body, multiplying its power time after time until you are ready to release it on an unsuspecting object.

Investigating the effects of Lucid Dreaming vs. Meditation

It all started out when I realised the french word for "lucid" is "clair" as in "clairvoyance". Clairvoyance literally translates as "clair" clear or lucid and "voyance" meaning vision.

I realised that the two may have some kind of link.

The effects of meditation are well documented. Neurologists have used the most up to date modern scientific techniques, such as fMRI and EEG, to see how their bodies and brain change. The effects of meditation can include changes in metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and brain chemistry.

Similar effects are reported in dreaming, prayer and hypnosis. I am convinced their is a link, to do with accessing the subconcious mind.

                                 Freud seen here smoking what only he would describe as 
                                                               a little brown willy.

Frueds model of the mind see's three distinct parts, the id, the ego and the super ego. The Id represents our primal, evolutionary drives; the need for food and sex. This is subconcious. The ego is representive of our more civilised, social, machiavellian mind. The part that knows how to manipulate our surroudnings to achieve our goals. Then finally. This is our conscious mind. The super ego is a doorway between the two parts, allowing certain ideas like "hunger" to filter through from the id to the ego to become "I'm hungry, I wonder how I can get food", while turning away less appealing thoughts such as "how can I sleep with my mother?"

Was Sigmund Freud right or was just "Sick-man Fraud"? I mean even the word psychoanalysis has anal right in the middle of it.

I deduce that this process of unlocking the subconcious mind is key to accessing your extra sensory abilities. We know from case studies of the great psychics from history including, Edgar Cacye and Michel de Nostradame, that trance work was used in their prophecies.

                                                       Edgar Cayce looking pensive.

Edgar Cacye would famously lie at the bottom of his bed in a "hypnotic like state" and dictate his prophecies. It was done in such a fashion because Cayce said he generally would not remember what he had said while in this state. His predictions are numerous and many of his prophecies have been exacted.

Cayce argued that the unconscious mind has access to information that the conscious mind does not.

And where better to explore the unconcious mind but in a lucid dream?