This isn't your typical going into yourself or raising energy type of meditation, this is more for use around people, in social situations, and with open eyes. I got it from I ledochowski a hypnotist(but I do think he got it from Martial Arts practices or it is originally from Hermetic Monks who could raise their awareness into the little spoken about Gamma brain waves), but I find that it can be used for so much more. After practicing this for a while, I notice that time seems to slow, or that everything just seems to slow down.
Heightened awareness exercise
So, as you're ready to learn this heightened state of awareness now, just sit down somewhere comfortably, or better still, stand up.
And I'd like you to just focus all of your attentions on a point, somewhere above eye level. Maybe where the ceiling and the wall meet. Or a corner of the room. And I want you to find a specific point that you can focus all of your attention on.
So you're beginning to feel all your focus narrowing down, like a tunnel vision, on this specific point.
Focus every ounce of your concentration now. Try and make out every little bit of detail that you can get a hold of. Now you'll realize as you're doing this, that is actually takes a lot of strain and effort to do this.
So, when you're ready, just allow your eyes to relax. Keep looking at this point. But your eyes begin to soften, and as they relax the muscles in the eyes, you'll notice your vision tends to expand.
You can see more of the room that you're in: Maybe the ceiling, the walls, the corners of the room, the colour of the carpet or whatever the floor is made of.
And as you continue to relax with your eyes open, you'll notice that your vision tends to expand, all the way around you. Allow it to expand, so that you can almost get a sense of knowing what it would be like to see through the back of your head.
And as you continue to do this, allow your breathing to change. You'll notice, at some point, your breathing just relaxes even more, whilst your vision expands and you're totally aware of the outside world.
As soon as your breathing becomes automatic and calm and relaxed, you can bring your eyes down to a normal eye-level only as slowly as you maintain this heightened state of awareness, seeing everything around you.
Now as you're doing this, I'd like you to go ahead and pay attention to your ears.
Now, your ears are like sonar devices. And I'd like you to pay attention to all the little sound you can hear. First will be the sound of my voice. Perhaps you can hear some background noises in the house, or outside in the street, or in the garden outside were you are.
Begin to expand your hearing, so that the more you hear, the more you become aware of your own sight and vision.
Vision and hearing blend together.
That's right. And now, turn your attention towards your feelings. Imagine, if you would, a giant ball of energy inside of you. Beginning to glow and grow all around you. Beginning to expand, so that it begins to actually fill the room around you.
And where this ball of energy seems to touch, I'd like you to get a sense of what it would feel like to touch that surface with your own hand.
So that your feelings are reaching out, and touching the furniture, the things lying around in the room.
All the way out to the walls. So you get a sense of distinctions between the things in the room, becoming a part of it all together.
Now allow all of your attention to focus on the three senses at the same time.
So you see everything around you. And as you see it, you get a sense of what it would feel like to touch it. And at the same time you are hearing sounds. And all these sensations blending into one.
You're totally connected to everything around you.
If there are people in the room, you can connect to them also.
A sense of total awareness, calm awareness, relaxed awareness. Maintain your focus on the outside, whilst maintaining a complete comfort and calmness on the inside You will have noticed that your thinking has slowed down. In time, the thoughts inside your mind will stop all together.
For now, just enjoy this state. And know that you can come back to this at any time that you wish to.
This state is also a state of heightened awareness for learning. So were you to choose to enter this accelerated learning state, then you would probably find yourself learning more quickly, and understanding things more clearly.
And you can do that anytime you wish.
Heightened awareness exercise
So, as you're ready to learn this heightened state of awareness now, just sit down somewhere comfortably, or better still, stand up.
And I'd like you to just focus all of your attentions on a point, somewhere above eye level. Maybe where the ceiling and the wall meet. Or a corner of the room. And I want you to find a specific point that you can focus all of your attention on.
So you're beginning to feel all your focus narrowing down, like a tunnel vision, on this specific point.
Focus every ounce of your concentration now. Try and make out every little bit of detail that you can get a hold of. Now you'll realize as you're doing this, that is actually takes a lot of strain and effort to do this.
So, when you're ready, just allow your eyes to relax. Keep looking at this point. But your eyes begin to soften, and as they relax the muscles in the eyes, you'll notice your vision tends to expand.
You can see more of the room that you're in: Maybe the ceiling, the walls, the corners of the room, the colour of the carpet or whatever the floor is made of.
And as you continue to relax with your eyes open, you'll notice that your vision tends to expand, all the way around you. Allow it to expand, so that you can almost get a sense of knowing what it would be like to see through the back of your head.
And as you continue to do this, allow your breathing to change. You'll notice, at some point, your breathing just relaxes even more, whilst your vision expands and you're totally aware of the outside world.
As soon as your breathing becomes automatic and calm and relaxed, you can bring your eyes down to a normal eye-level only as slowly as you maintain this heightened state of awareness, seeing everything around you.
Now as you're doing this, I'd like you to go ahead and pay attention to your ears.
Now, your ears are like sonar devices. And I'd like you to pay attention to all the little sound you can hear. First will be the sound of my voice. Perhaps you can hear some background noises in the house, or outside in the street, or in the garden outside were you are.
Begin to expand your hearing, so that the more you hear, the more you become aware of your own sight and vision.
Vision and hearing blend together.
That's right. And now, turn your attention towards your feelings. Imagine, if you would, a giant ball of energy inside of you. Beginning to glow and grow all around you. Beginning to expand, so that it begins to actually fill the room around you.
And where this ball of energy seems to touch, I'd like you to get a sense of what it would feel like to touch that surface with your own hand.
So that your feelings are reaching out, and touching the furniture, the things lying around in the room.
All the way out to the walls. So you get a sense of distinctions between the things in the room, becoming a part of it all together.
Now allow all of your attention to focus on the three senses at the same time.
So you see everything around you. And as you see it, you get a sense of what it would feel like to touch it. And at the same time you are hearing sounds. And all these sensations blending into one.
You're totally connected to everything around you.
If there are people in the room, you can connect to them also.
A sense of total awareness, calm awareness, relaxed awareness. Maintain your focus on the outside, whilst maintaining a complete comfort and calmness on the inside You will have noticed that your thinking has slowed down. In time, the thoughts inside your mind will stop all together.
For now, just enjoy this state. And know that you can come back to this at any time that you wish to.
This state is also a state of heightened awareness for learning. So were you to choose to enter this accelerated learning state, then you would probably find yourself learning more quickly, and understanding things more clearly.
And you can do that anytime you wish.
