Greetings, Anya1. What you are feeling is not a sign of failure, and it is not something going wrong. The rising heaviness from the toes, the awareness of blood flow, the heavy joints, the urge to move them, all of it is the body's normal response to deep relaxation, and you are describing it almost word for word in the published descriptions of what a light to medium
trance state feels like.
The
Determining the Depth of a Trance page lists exactly what you are reporting as markers of a light to medium
trance: the subject's limbs feel heavy, the breathing becomes slower and deeper, and there is an "intense feeling of deep relaxation (the subject does not feel like moving, speaking, or thinking)." That urge you feel in the joints to shift them is the body responding to the muscular relaxation setting in, not a warning. The
Self Hypnosis page goes further and says the heavy feeling itself is the signal that you have reached the first level of
trance, and that this level "is quite deep enough for projection." In other words, the heaviness is not the obstacle to where you want to go. It is the doorway.
So yes, keep going. Let the small impulses to move the joints pass on their own, continue the 6-6-6 breath and the mental falling effect until the heaviness arrives, and then follow the instruction on the
Trance page: stop the mental falling exercise at that point and keep the breath going for as long as it takes. Sit comfortably, do not lie down (you will fall asleep instead), and do not stop just because sensations arrive. As for the "can no longer feel my body" instruction in the
Blue Light Meditation and the
Brainwaves page's description of the alpha state as the
trance state "when the body can no longer be felt," that loss of body awareness is the destination, not something you are failing to reach on the first try. You are right at the threshold of it, and that is why the sensations are loud right now.
On the third question, do not invent a separate breath routine. The Clergy's published sequence for someone at your stage is the
Trance Meditation itself (the specific practice that develops the
trance state), daily aura cleaning, and the Kundalini Yoga set with its built-in pranayama as the supporting practice that builds the relaxation response and the energetic sensitivity that makes
trance easier over time. High Priestess Lydia's
Mastering the Breath teaching is the named-author anchor for this: pranayama calms the overstimulated nervous system, the breath automatically lengthens and deepens when you focus on it, the heart rate drops, and over days the body stops fighting the
trance. Do the Kundalini set as written, let its pranayama do the building work for you, and do not assemble a hybrid of your own from fragments. The published
Preparing the Mind for Meditation page is also explicit on the order: breathing exercises come immediately before every meditation session, they are not skipped or replaced.
A real-life parallel that may help. As High Priest Zevios put it in
a recent post, meditation is not the gym, and a beginner does not walk in and try to bench three hundred. Fifteen minutes a day, done consistently, builds more than an hour of sporadic, forcing practice. The heaviness you are hitting on attempt one is closer to the soreness of the first week of a new practice than to something dangerous. Your body will adapt to the new depth over the next few weeks, the urges to move will quiet down on their own, and the
trance will start arriving faster and with less fanfare. Depth is a function of daily repetition, not of pushing harder in a single session.
A practical next step. For the next week, do the
Trance Meditation exactly as written, sit in a chair with a straight spine, phone off and door closed (startling out of
trance can be quite painful, as the
Hypnosis page warns), and when the heaviness and the joint urges show up, treat them as the sign that you are arriving, not as a sign to stop. Pair it with daily aura cleaning and the Kundalini Yoga set as written, and let the breathwork in the Kundalini set quietly do the preparatory work your body is asking for. The sensations you described are exactly what the Clergy's published guidance says you should be feeling right before
trance arrives. You are on the right method, with the right sequence, and you are closer than you think.
Hail Zeus.
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