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Zen meditation music is used in a form of Zen called Blowing Zen|In a kind of Zen called Blowing Zen is applied in Zen meditation music. This form of Zen uses the shakuhachi flute to enhance the meditation experience and soothe the body and spirit. Still used today, this form of meditation music was used for many centuries by the Buddhists.

You will want to prefer music that lets you to be comforted and calmed when you go for the selection of Zen meditation music. Flute music is typically applied because of its soft, dovish tones. From Time To Time with over 3 players, you can find the shakuhachi flute melodies done as duets and solos. To improve the experience of meditation, these melodies specifically played to this end.

You can pick your own tracks, if you want something a bit different from shakuhachi Zen medtitation music. Nevertheless, there are a few criteria that the music has to meet in order for it to achieve the sensations that you desire. Calming music is the first thing. The genre does not matter, as long as the melodies are instrumentals. Because music that has words tends to distract from Zen meditation, it is an unfitting music for this particular style of meditation.

A key feature of Zen meditation music is that it is played via speakers. While you can wear ear buds or headsets, it is often suggested that it is played by speaker so that you do not encounter any discomfort from wearing the ear buds or headsets for long periods of time.

Something you may want to consider is what are the aims you want to achieve with meditation, when you are selecting Zen meditation music. It can sometimes aid you in selecting the optimal music for your mood. If the accomplishment of enhanced self esteem is your target, you will want to play a pretty uplifting melody, and if you want serenity, your ideal music is that of tranquility. The music must not distract you from the meditations, no matter the style of meditation that’s your choice.

You can obtain Zen meditation music by downloading it online to your computer, playing it online from one of many streaming files through your web browser, or you can purchase a cd. CDs can be purchased at local stores or can be bought online and mailed straight to your home.

There are some people who casually compose and play Zen meditation music and make their songs accessible to the Zen meditation community for free. You can select to use this Zen meditation music, or support professional players by buying their albums or songs.

Zen meditation music is used in a form of Zen named Blowing Zen|In a form of Zen named Blowing Zen is applied in Zen meditation music. This form of Zen uses the shakuhachi flute to improve the meditation experience and soothe the body and spirit. This kind of meditation music was practiced for centuries by the Buddhists, and is still applied today.

When you go to pick Zen meditation music, you will wish to pick music that allows you to be comforted and calmed. As a result of its dovish and mild tones, flute music is typically applied. You can find the shakuhachi flute melodies done as solos, duets, and from time to time with three or more players. These melodies are played specifically to help improve the meditation experience.

You can pick your own tracks, if you need something a bit different from shakuhachi Zen medtitation music. Nonetheless, the music has to meet some criteria so as to attain the sensations that you need. First, it must be calming music. The genre does not matter, as long as the melodies are instrumentals. Music with words tends to distract from Zen meditation, and hence is unfitting music for this style of meditation.

A key feature of Zen meditation music is that it is played through speakers. Although you can put on headsets or ear buds, however it is sometimes recommended that it is played by speaker in order that you do not encounter any discomfort from wearing the headsets or ear buds for long time.

Something you may want to consider is what are the aims you want to attain with meditation, when you are choosing Zen meditation music. It can sometimes aid you in choosing the best music for your mood. If you want serenity, tranquil music is the style you want. If you seek to accomplish improved self esteem, you will need to play a more uplifting melody. However, no matter what style of meditation you are searching for, the music must not distract you from the meditations.

You can obtain Zen meditation music by downloading it online to your computer, playing it online from one of many streaming files through your web browser, or you can purchase a cd. CDs can be purchased at local stores or can be bought online and mailed straight to your home.

There also many individuals who casually compose and play Zen meditation music, and give their songs to the community of Zen meditation free of charge. You can either support professional players through the purchase of their songs or entire albums or you can choose to utilize the Zen meditation music.

Here in Part 6 you’ll find out how to use the sun to avoid the #1 mistake in O.B.E.s & how to optimize your brain chemistry.

Plus - The ONE O.B.E. induction I would use if I was not allowed to use any others.

The #1 Biggest Mistake Almost Everyone Makes!!

Here’s a mistake I see almost EVERYBODY make. This is not their fault since most of the books on O.B.E.s are actually telling them to make this mistake. People often ask for advice on forums about how to induce O.B.E.s. The posts often start out saying: “Last night I went to bed to do an O.B.E.”

Here they’ve actually already made the cardinal O.B.E mistake. The mistake is: Don’t do your O.B.E. attempts at night (like most books say). Instead do them in the early morning!!!

Optimal Brain Chemistry Is All About Timing

Optimal O.B.E. brain chemistry is all about timing and your body’s circadian rhythm. I’ve had literally thousands of O.B.E.s in the early morning. I’ve had fewer than ten at night.

Circadian Rhythm Brain Chemistry

The two main chemicals involved are called serotonin and melatonin

Serotonin Is Your ‘on’ Switch

Serotonin is your on switch and helps you stay alert and lucid. It’s a “feel-good” neurotransmitter which helps your brain’s neurons transmit signals more freely.

Melatonin Is Your ‘off’ Switch

Your body uses serotonin to make melatonin which is your off switch and helps you relax. It tells your body to shut down for sleep and begin repairing. Melatonin stimulates the immune system. It’s also associated with anti-aging and the human growth hormone and is an antioxidant.

The Melatonin Circadian Rhythm

Serotonin is made when your body is exposed to light. Melatonin is made from serotonin at night in the dark. Melatonin breaks down under light. This creates the melatonin circadian rhythm

At night time you have very little melatonin. It starts increasing around dusk and peaks around 2 to 4 AM. It then breaks down again at dawn.

The Cortisol Circadian Rhythm

The other secret ingredient is the ‘fight or flight’ hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is depleted throughout the day but then surges back in the early morning in preparation to wake you up. The interplay between cortisol and melatonin creates THE ideal sweet spot for O.B.E.s in the early morning.

The Circadian Sweet Spot: 4 To 5:30 Am

This sweet spot is between around 4 AM and 5:30 AM. During the sweet spot relaxation is easy because of relatively high melatonin levels and you’ve been relaxed for several hours during sleep. Alertness is easy because cortisol brings with it a rush of two other stimulants called epinephrine and norepinephrin. These stimulants are meant to help wake you up but you can use them for dream alertness instead

The Worst Time For O.B.E.s

Bed time is the single worst time of all for O.B.E.s because your brain chemistry is geared for the opposite of lucidity at that point. Instead it’s geared for zonking out which is what always happens in the questions I see in forums. At bed time you’re low on cortisol and melatonin. By the time you’ve relaxed enough to fall asleep your cortisol levels are so low you have virtually no chance or regaining lucidity.

“wake Back To Bed”Is The Single Most Powerful Trick!

So that’s the wrong way to do it. Here’s the right way to do it. In fact if there was only one method I could use, this is the one. It’s called “wake-back-to-bed” and was invented by former NASA engineer Dr. Albert Taylor.

He’s also the author of an excellent book called “Soul Traveler” which I definitely recommend.

How To Use The Circadian Sweet Spot

Here’s how wake-back-to-bed works. Get up in the early morning during the O.B.E sweet spot, stay awake for a period of time then go back to sleep. Use the sleep paralysis methods we covered earlier and you’ll likely have spontaneous O.B.E.s and lucid dreams. We’ll use wake back to bed as the foundation for more an even more advanced induction later on called the timer method.

Why Wake Back To Bed Rocks The Hizzouse

The reason wake back to bed works so well is because of the fundamental theorem of sleep paralysis. If you wake up and fall asleep in the early morning you’re pretty much begging for sleep paralysis and spontaneous lucid dreams. In fact before I knew anything about O.B.E.s I used to have waking paralysis episodes all the time and didn’t know why. It was really irritating to wake up and not be able to move. I later realized it was because I was not sleeping well and was waking up for a few minutes and then going back to sleep without moving. That caused the paralysis and it’s the basis for pretty much all our other induction tricks.

So how do you improve on wake back to bed? The immediate answer is to tweak the amount of time you stay awake before going to sleep again.

Tweaking The Time You Stay Up: Two Options

You have two options:

Option 1: Wbtb + No Movement

1.) The first is to stay up a short period. For this strategy you wake up, don’t move at all (don’t even move your eyes), fall back to sleep and keep awareness on your body for the sleep paralysis wave to come.

Option 2: Wbtb + Get Up In Between

2.) The second strategy is the long period. You wake up, get up, stay up for a while, then go back to bed.

Both approaches work well but which should you use?

Going right back to sleep without moving makes it very easy to fall asleep again. However it’s very likely that you’ll fall completely asleep and not become lucid. Even so this is the method I use most because it requires no planning or effort.

With option 2 where you get up from bed for a while, it’s harder to fall asleep again. However it is very likely that you will become lucid if you do sleep. Research by Dr. Stephen LaBerge has shown getting up for an hour before going back to bed significantly increases lucidity.

My personal experience and most the people I’ve advised suggests 45 minutes works a slightly better than an hour. Several people who were not able to have success by staying up for an hour were able to have O.B.E.s simply by changing the wakefulness period to 45 minutes. Waiting until you start yawning again is a good rule of thumb.

Daytime Sunlight Increases Obes

The amount of sun you get has a giant impact on your ability to have O.B.E.s because your body needs sun in order to make serotonin. Get at least an hour of outside sunlight at day break and sundown. Those are the best times to get sunlight without risk of a sunburn because the sun is so low in the sky.

1 Hour Of Gradual Darkness Before Bed Slays Insomnia

At night, make sure to turn the lights down at least an hour or so before going to bed. The body is not designed for the abrupt light to dark change that you get with artificial lighting. By turning the lights down gradually, you’ll simulate sunset and greatly reduce and chance of insomnia.

Tv Before Bed Wrecks O.B.E Inductions

Finally, always avoid TV at night. The first problem with TV is that it prevents the gradual period of darkness you need before sleep.

The second problem is more subtle. Research by psychophysiologist Thomas Mulholland showed that within 30 seconds of watching TV your brain enters an alpha state. There isn’t anything wrong with an alpha state by itself, in fact there are a lot of benefits to alpha waves which are beyond the scope of this section.

Tv & Pot Put The Brain In Alpha

The problem is that in alpha the mind is much more suggestible than normal. Alpha is actually the state the brain enters in response to smoking pot. Watching TV is not the same as smoking pot but that is the direction TV is taking your brain by putting it in alpha.

Tv Causes Switch To Emotional Thinking And Numbs Critical Thinking

Herbert Krugman also showed that TV causes the left hemisphere to virtually shut down and the right hemisphere to become twice as active as the left. The left hemisphere is what the brain uses for critical thinking and analysis while the right side is more emotional. This switch from left to right causes the brain to release a surge of opioids into the bloodstream which has an anesthetic effect on the mind.

Brain Mush Mode Is Bad News For O.B.E.s

This is why watching TV for a long time makes it feel like your brain has turned to mush. The combination of these three effects:

First being awash in opioids, secondly having a numbed left hemisphere and third being tuned to an alpha state leaves the brain very susceptible to suggestion.

Brain mush mode opens the gate for all the commercials and other junk on TV to go directly past the mind’s usual critical thinking defenses. If you go to sleep in that state it leads to hazy dreams. If you do have an O.B.E in that state it’s very unlikely to be very clear.

In the next section we’ll cover the fastest way ever to have O.B.E.s and lucid dreams. This technique is the missing piece that I wish I’d had when I first started doing O.B.E.s. It’s is called “the timer method” and allows you to cheat and easily trigger as many O.B.E.s as you want - without using visualizations at any point.

Here in part 10 you’ll find out why everything you’ve read about O.B.E vibrations in books is wrong and you’ll find out the 3 easiest ways to tell how close you are to an O.B.E.

The Top 3 Signals To Tell How Close You Are To An Obe

If you’ve never done an O.B.E before, it’s extremely difficult to know if you’re making any progress until you’re actually already out of your body or in a lucid dream. What you need are easy to detect signals that you can use like road signs to tell you how close you are to succeeding. In this section we’ll cover the top 3 most common road signs. These are:

1 - The sleep paralysis wave 2 - Pre O.B.E rushing noises 3 - Vibrations

Sleep Paralysis Wave: Your Primary Signal

We already covered the sleep paralysis wave in Lucidology 101 part 2. Essentially when your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis you’ll feel something like a heavy lead blanket feeling being laid on your body. This feeling is unmistakable and a sign that you’re very close to success and you can use the exit techniques we’ll cover in part 12 to turn the paralysis into an O.B.E.

Pre-O.B.E. Rushing Noises: The Second Most Frequent Signal

The second road sign to watch for are pre-O.B.E rushing noises. When you tune in between stations on a radio you get the sound of random static and white noise. Once you’re back on a station again things come in clearly. It’s the same thing with O.B.E.s. You start out completely focused in your normal waking environment and as you drop into a subconscious focus you pass through a kind of no man’s land where you’re not really conscious and you’re not really subconscious.

Rushing Noises Can Sound Like A Tornado Or Freight Train

When you’re tuned to that no-man’s land frequency you hear rushing noises that sound like random static or a train rushing by.

Vibrations: The Most Famous Progress Signal

About the same time you hear rushing noises you may feel what are called O.B.E vibrations. Vibrations are probably the most famous phenomenon associated with O.B.E.s and they’re also the effect that has the most misconceptions. Almost everything to be found in books on O.B.E.s about vibrations is simply wrong and so this is a place where a lot of people get stuck. They reach the vibration stage and then get hung up because they use an ineffective method from bad advice they read in a book.

The 3 Critical Vibrations Misconceptions

The 3 misconceptions about vibrations are:

1.) What they are

2.) What they mean

3.) How to use them.

What Vibrations Are Not

Here’s what vibrations are not. Vibrations are not a subjective kind of thing where you it’s like you’re “feeling the vibes, man, far out!”. Vibrations are much more mundane than that.

What Are Vibrations Like?

If you make a VVVVV sound, the feeling of vibrations in your lips is very similar to the feeling of vibrations that often appear along with medium stages of paralysis. Sometimes the vibrations can been extremely strong and feel like electricity, other times they are entirely absent. It’s very rare for vibrations to be strong enough to be painful, usually they just feel like a harmless buzzing in your head and chest area.

Types Of O.B.E Vibrations

However sometimes they can go throughout your entire body. These can be incredibly loud and feel like you’re holding on to a chain saw. A lot of people report feeling them in the spine. In one case I woke up into an O.B.E in my bed and it sounded exactly like there was someone with a hedge trimmer outside my window. I realized it was because I had off the chart vibrations that were coming from what I later found to be the L1 lumbar vertebrae in my lower back. I used deep breathing to return myself from the O.B.E because I was running more energy than what seemed safe.

Most O.B.E Vibrations Are Harmless

That was a very unusual experience and most of the time you actually won’t have any vibrations at all and if you do it’s no more powerful than the feeling of a vibrating cell phone.

The basic thing to know is that once you’ve had vibrations, you will know it. There won’t be any question in your mind about it because it’s just a buzzing feeling and noise.

Misconception #2: What O.B.E Vibrations Mean

The second misconception is that most books will tell you that when you have vibrations you’re ready to exit into the O.B.E. This is completely the polar opposite of reality. Vibrations mean that you are NOT ready to exit and here’s why.

Double Energy From Two Signals

Physical and nonphysical awarenesses are both types of signals that you focus on. During the middle stage of an O.B.E exit you’re making the transition from one to the other and you experience both physical and nonphysical signals. These signals have energy. When you sum both of these signals together you pass through a phase where you’re running double the amount of energy you normally would.

Double Energy Can Result In Intermodulation Distortion

If this energy is more than your system can comfortably handle, you get distortion. The big fancy signal processing name for this is intermodulation distortion. The name is not so important as the fact that this energy hump does not go on forever, it comes and then goes and this is critical to understanding how to deal with vibrations.

Vibrations Mean You’re Not Ready To Exit: Wait For “The Quiet Zone”

Because the excess energy hump comes and goes, you get a ‘quiet zone’ once you’ve focused completely out of physical focus and in to nonphysical focus. So it looks like this: you start out in physical focus with no vibes. You relax into a near O.B.E and get light vibes. You relax almost to the point of separation and get majorly heavy vibes. This is where most people screw it up because of the bad advice in books. The trick is to simply continue to relax deeper and deeper past the vibrations until the vibes have smoothed out completely. Once you’re in the quiet zone after the vibes, that’s how you know you’ve completely shifted into the O.B.E.

Unbalanced Tires Analogy

The energy hump is like a truck I used to have with unbalanced tires. When it got up to 45 MPH it would start vibrating the entire truck. At 55 MPH it would smooth out again. The range of 45 to 55 MPH was a transition range that caused the tires to vibrate with each other. Pre O.B.E. rushing noises and vibrations are the same thing: you’re coming in and out of phase with two different physical and nonphysical signals.

What About Vibrationless O.B.E.s?

Keep in mind that the vibrations only happen when the total energy goes beyond what your nonphysical body is capable of conducting. The more O.B.E.s you do, the more energy you can run without problems and the less vibrations you’ll have. Eventually almost all your O.B.E.s will be vibration-free.

Vibrationless O.B.E.s

You’ll go from waking awareness, with no vibes, all the way to the O.B.E with no vibes which means you’ll have to rely on other signals that we’ll cover later to tell if you’re in the O.B.E. The up side to this is that vibrationless O.B.E.s are much brighter and clearer than O.B.E.s where you have to punch through massive vibrations.

Why Vibrationless O.B.E.s Are Brighter And Clearer

Why would that be? In a chainsaw, the noise is caused by friction. Vibrations are a form of noise, so vibrations are a form of friction. Friction is waste of energy. Chainsaw noise is a waste of physical energy and so vibrations are a waste of nonphysical energy.

When you’re in vibrations you’re wasting energy so it’s a state you want to relax through as quickly as possible.

Misconception #3: What To Do With Vibrations

The next misconception is what to do once you’re in vibrations. For instance, Robert Monroe wrote that you should try to ’sweep’ the vibrations up and down your body before separating. Is this good advice or not?

Relaxation Is The Only Solution

The only way to reduce vibrations is to reduce the pressure that causes friction and that means relaxing.

If you reach vibrations and then try to do something, whether it’s running the vibrations up and down your body or anything else, then the one thing you’re NOT doing is relaxing. And relaxing is exactly the one thing that you need to do when you have vibrations because only way to release the friction is to relax. No other solution will work.

This is why vibrations are a major obstacle for more OBEers, because when they try to do something, anything, they are unable to simply relax into the quiet zone.

Definitely do NOT try to force your way out when you’re in the middle of vibrations. You’ll almost certainly just get pulled right back into your body since you haven’t yet matched up with a nonphysical focus.

The “How Close To An O.B.E? Meter”: Relax Through Vibrations

Even if you do manage to muscle your way out, you’ll have spent so much energy on the exit that the resulting O.B.E will probably be so dark and low energy that you’ll just stagger around and not be able to do anything fun anyway. It’s far better to relax through vibrations into the quiet zone and then slip out of body effortlessly.

The Sneaky Loop Hole: Photographic Trance

By the way, there is a sneaky loop hole that allows you to cheat so you can do O.B.E.s even when you’re in the middle of vibrations. We’ll cover this sneaky cheat in Lucidology 102 part 3. The trick is to enter something called a photographic trance which allow you to have O.B.E.s at much lighter levels of trance so you don’t have to be in full sleep paralysis to separate.

Exiting Even In The Middle Of Vibrations

This loophole also opens the door to a technique called ‘trance recycling’ . Trance recycling allows you to have a dozen or more O.B.E.s in a row and quickly rack up a massive number of O.B.E.s in a single session. To find out more about Lucidology 102, visit www.Lucidology.com

Because many O.B.E.s are completely vibrationless, you need several other road signs to tell how close you are to success. In the next section we’ll cover the 5 crucial progress signals to tell how close you are to an O.B.E.

Here in Lucidology 101 part 3 you’re about to find out use the “stop, drop & roll” sleep command to fall asleep quickly by making your body ask to fall asleep & then giving it the “yes” command to tell it to fall asleep.

In the last section we found that sleep paralysis is most likely when you wake up and fall asleep again without moving at all. So to do that you need a way to fall asleep quickly and reliably. The question is, how do you do that?

Mind Body Independence

The key is in the principle of “mind-body independence”. Mind-body independence means that your mind and body never know precisely what the other is doing. For instance, your body is growing hair, transcribing DNA, digesting food, making blood cells and regenerating tissue. Your mind is mostly unaware of all these. If you had to think about each one you’d never get anything else done. This is mind-body independence.

Mind-body independence also works the other way. When you mind falls asleep your body never really knows completely for sure what happened and if your mind is really asleep or not. So how does your body know when to enter sleep paralysis?

The key is that even though the mind and body act independently, they still communicate using a language. By learning the words in this language you can talk to your body biologically and make it fall asleep when you want it to.

Your First Word In This Language

Your first word in this language is called the “roll over signal”. When your body has been very still and relaxed for a long period, your body starts to wonder if maybe your mind has fallen asleep. It would be a very serious mistake if the body went to sleep too early, so the body sends a test signal to the mind. This test signal feels like a strong urge to roll over.

The Roll Over Signal

If the mind is asleep, then mind does not respond and the body decides that the mind really is asleep and shuts down. If the mind does respond to the roll over signal and you move, then the body knows the mind is still awake and does not fall asleep. So this a major mistake that you need to avoid: Never respond to the body’s roll over signal because it sends a message to stay awake rather than fall asleep. This can be difficult because the signal can become so strong that it’s excruciatingly painful.

You can visualize the way this works with the two dotted arrows on this chart: As you become more relaxed, the blue dotted line gets lower and lower. At the same time, the red dotted line represents the strength of the roll over signal that the body sends out which grows and grows. When these two lines meet the body decides to enter sleep paralysis and shuts down.

So the question is: what can you do improve this?

The 4 Types Of Roll Over Signals

There are four types of roll over signals you’ll encounter.

Fast Relax

1.) The first type is the ‘fast relax’ case. This happens when you relax quickly and deeply and the body decides to just go ahead and paralyze without sending much of a roll over signal, if any. This is a good case to have because it happens quickly.

Slow Relax

2.) The second type is the opposite case. If you’re tense but stay still long enough and if the body is tired enough, the roll over signal builds and builds until it becomes very painful and extremely hard to ignore. However, if you’re too tense the body won’t paralyze no matter how long you’ve been still. This is called a “signal swell”.

Urge Surge

3.) The third type is called an “urge surge” which is a very useful case. In an urge surge, the body sends out a strong signal out of nowhere. If you’re able to resist the signal for three or four seconds the body ends the surge and paralyses all at once. If you’re not relaxed enough, this will probably result in only partial sleep paralysis which is not ideal. We’ll cover ways to transform partial sleep paralysis into a successful exit in Lucidology 102.

The Quick Switch Roll Signal

Finally forth type of roll signal is called a “Quick Switch”.

4.) If sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new OBEers, the quick switch signal is the holy grail of urge surges. It happens quickly and rewards you with nice and deep sleep paralysis almost instantly. It’s also a very unmistakable feeling which is extremely useful because it lets you know what’s going on.

The Two Cases That Cause A Quick Switch Signal

This usually happens in one of two cases:

First: when the body is really tired and wants to go to sleep right now

Second: when the body was very recently asleep and is deeply relaxed.

In order to make those cases more likely you need a way to bring on the roll signal as fast as possible.

So how do you do that? The trick is to use the right body position.

Body Position Is Key

The body position that brings it on the roll signal faster than any other position is to simply lay flat on your back with your arms at your side. When you lay with your arms at your side you will probably tempted to place your hands on your stomach or cross your ankles. This is a veiled form of the roll over signal. If you get that sensation it means you’re on the right track, just make sure not to give in. Keep your arms at your side and your ankles slightly separated.

Using this simple bit of information we can eradicate the single biggest cause of insomnia: the toss and turn syndrome.

The Tossing And Turning Syndrome: Big Time Cause Of Insomnia

When you toss and turn in bed, what you’re doing is resetting your body’s internal sleep timer each time you roll over. The body is trying to go to sleep by sending you a roll-over test signal but you keep telling it not to sleep when you move. So you end up stuck in a toss and turn loop and never get to sleep. This results in insomnia.

So you may be thinking is that it?? You just lay there? Not quite There are a few things you can do actively to speed things up and tell your body to fall asleep.

3 Body Positions

What we do is add body positions before and after the hands-at-your-side position. The first position is to lay with your hands above your head. The final position is where you roll over and then fall asleep in that position.

We choose these positions very carefully so that when you move from one step to the next you release the maximum amount of tension possible.

“Stop, Drop And Roll” Releases Tension In Chunks

This way instead of haphazardly releasing small amounts of tension by tossing and turning over and over, you release it in a exactly two calculated big chunks and get it over with all at once:

Make The Body Ask To Sleep Then Tell It “Yes”

Here’s what is happening at each step.

1.) “Stop” - The Relax Step: In this step you have your arms above your head and relax as deeply as you can. Once you feel you’ve relaxed as far as you can, “drop” your arms down to your side which releases all the shoulder tension that you couldn’t get rid of from just laying there. This is the purpose of the first body position - to get rid of shoulder tension all at once.

2.) “Drop” - The Ask Step: When you drop your arms down to your side and relax the body will seriously start to consider that maybe the mind is asking it to go to sleep. This position will make you want to roll over which is what you want. The stronger the roll over signal, the more the body is asking for permission to sleep. If you get to a point where it feels like it’s plateaued, slowly roll over which puts you in step 3.

3.) “Roll” - The Yes Step: In this step you tell the body, “yes it’s time to sleep.” Simply roll over and then don’t move until you’re asleep. Your goal is to not move again the rest of the night.

Roll Over Signal Changes Depending On Your Position

The sneaky thing is that the roll over signal changes based on how you’re laying and that may trick you into moving. The roll over signal when you’re on your back tends to center in your chest. However the roll over signal when you’re on your side tends to make you want to move your legs. Don’t fall for that! Don’t bend them or straighten them or anything. Keep your legs perfectly still. The urge to move your legs is actually a disguised form of the roll over signal and you must resist it at all costs!

Best Body Position For Healthy Sleep

Here’s the best final body position that’s the healthiest for your back according to researchers at the University of Cleveland. You want to lay on your side so your neck and spine are neutral and relaxed Bend your hips and knees a bit to lower pressure on your spine To relieve sciatic nerve strain, put a pillow between your kneeson Sleeping on your stomach is not recommended because it puts your back in an odd position

Bonus Secret To Build Up Roll Signal

We have one last very powerful trick in reserve that you can use when you have a really hard time falling asleep.

The key is to build up a super strong roll over signal before even getting into bed. Rather than trying to fall asleep in your bed, lay down on the floor next to your bed on your back and relax.

This is unpleasant and after forcing yourself to lay there perfectly still for 10 or 15 minutes, when you finally allow yourself back into bed your body will be so grateful that it will grab the chance to fall asleep as quickly as it can.

In extreme cases you can even lay on an uncarpeted floor such as in your kitchen which will build up the roll signal very quickly.

In the next section we’ll cover 5 more powerful sleep commands you can use to trick your body to fall asleep while you keep your mind awake to have O.B.E.s.

Meditation sound technology brings the benefits of meditation to those of us who lack the time or inclination to learn by traditional means. Technology can create problems for us, but it can also, occasionally, give us a solution.

Going to guided meditation classes was highly beneficial for me. I enjoyed several hours of calm and tranquility after each session. Work contributed to me needing them, and also forced me to give them up.

The skill of meditation is like any other, and requires time and practice to master. Lacking this practice and now without guidance, I wasn’t able to reach those same levels of relaxation that I had enjoyed.

Meditation sound technology was the answer. By the use of binaural beats, it causes your brain to enter a state of deep meditation through the process of entrainment. You just listen with headphones and it is automatic.

Sounds of different frequency are applied to each ear. The brain resolves these two sounds by producing brainwaves of the difference between them. You are automatically at the meditative level that you are trying to reach.

You do not need to practice any of the normal meditation routines. You are still fully conscious while the process takes place so it is your choice how to use the time.

You can still use your normal meditation practice or just use the time to quietly reflect. It doesn’t matter if you think about what you have to do today, or remember your last vacation. In the background, the meditation sound is working on autopilot.

Sometimes, if you are very tired, you might even nod out. Normally that would be the end of your meditation session. But with meditation sounds, that is not true. If you are still wearing your headphones, it is still working.

The wide selection of relaxation audio CDs and mp3s are mostly just soothing tones or music to help with your own meditation. If you are experienced, these might help, but for a lot of people, they won’t.

Binaural meditation solutions have been around since the nineteen seventies. By a process called entrainment, it can reliably put you into a calming meditative state without effort on your part.

Your brain produces various frequencies of electrical waves. In the range from fully conscious to sleeping without dreaming, the order is beta, alpha, theta and delta.

Each side of your brain produces all of these frequencies, all of the time but the strength of each signal depends on what activity you are engaged in. The aim of meditation is to reach the lower, more relaxed frequencies.

It is possible with traditional meditation to reach alpha or occasionally theta, but long practice is needed. It is hard to maintain these levels consistently, or even to know that you have reached them.

The binaural beat meditation method plays a different tone in each ear. The brain generates an electrical signal which is equivalent to the difference between the two original sounds.

This reliably puts you into this deep meditative state. As long as you are wearing the headphones, it is working. You know you are reaping the benefits of meditation, regardless of how you are feeling or what you think about.

You can’t know subjectively if you are meditating, but with binaural beat relaxation audios, you don’t have to worry. This tried and tested technology means that you reach these deep meditation levels every time.

Hypnosis is a word we?re all familiar with. At the same time, many of us are not particularly familiar with what hypnosis really is. We have a natural tendency to be skeptical of what we don?t understand and for most of us; hypnosis is one of these grey areas. What does being hypnotized feel like? It?s a sensation which is very similar to some you?ve experienced before. For example, have you ever been so engrossed in something that you couldn?t even hear a family member or friend trying to talk to you? We?ve all had this experience and this is very much like the trancelike state seen in hypnosis.

Having a basic understanding of hypnosis and hypnotherapy is often needed to make people comfortable with the idea of undergoing the procedure themselves. Hypnotherapy involves the subject being placed in a hypnotic state; hypnosis is the first step in a hypnotherapy session. In hypnotherapy, the therapist gives the subject suggestions which reach their subconscious mind. The goal of these suggestions is to bring about more positive patterns of thinking. While hypnotized, you?ll feel relaxed and calm while simultaneously being focused and open to suggestions.

There are many people that want to change things about themselves and they have a difficult time getting themselves to start making these changes, which is where the use of hypnotherapy or hypnosis can come into play. This had proven time and time again to work well for those wanting to kick a bad habit such as smoking or for people who want to loose weight. This can be done by self hypnosis, hypnotherapy with a trusted physician or some people even go to where seminars are conducted that help people work on these issues.

Hypnosis works because the subject is completely relaxed and enters a mental state where the subconscious mind can be communicated with directly. The subconscious picks up on the suggestions given by the therapist and upon returning to normal consciousness, the subject can use these new thought patterns to overcome many problems.

Many people can benefit from using hypnotherapy such as people that suffer with weight problems, people who want to quit smoking, people who have trouble with stress or anxiety and even people that have trouble with bed-wetting at night.

If you?ve been struggling to make positive changes in your own life, the answer may be hypnotherapy. Hypnosis can be a very effective treatment for many conditions and a good alternative to medications whose side effects often make the cure worse than the disease. Hypnotherapy has been able to help a great many to resolve a variety of problems and it is something which certainly merits consideration.

Most everyone has heard of hypnosis but many people are not aware of what it actually is. People can be very skeptical about things that they do not understand and hypnosis is one of those things that people are skeptical about. If you really want to know what it is like to be hypnotized then you will be surprised to find that you most likely have been through it already and never felt a thing. Think about when you are so into your favorite television show that you never even hear your spouse talking to you. This is what it is like to experience the trance like state that hypnosis induces.

In order to be comfortable with being hypnotized or under going hypnotherapy, then you will need to know what hypnosis really is. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy is pretty much the same thing. They both involve pretty much the same thing which is changing your thinking pattern to a more positive one. When you are hypnotized, you will be more focused with your attention and you will feel totally calm and relaxed. When you are in this state of mind, you will find that you are open to seeing things differently. This can mean the world to those who are having a hard time making changes in their life for the better.

Hypnotherapy is a treatment which people often seek out when they?re trying to change behaviors which are causing them health, psychological or even social problems. Many have been able to quit smoking using hypnosis, become motivated to lose weight, deal with depression and to overcome mental blocks which prevented them from achieving their professional or personal goals through hypnotherapy. Whether in the form of personal sessions with a trained hypnotherapist, self-hypnosis practices or group hypnosis sessions at seminars and conferences, hypnosis can be a very effective therapy.

It is believed that hypnosis works by putting you body in a totally relaxed state that your subconscious is open to the power of suggestion. This is when you can completely give in to complete concentration which can help you to change those unwanted behaviors and to improve your well being and over all health.

People looking for a treatment which can help them to lose weight, stop smoking and other bad habits, cope with stress or even cease bed wetting may find hypnotherapy to be an effective solution.

This is something to look into if you want a fresh start and a new way to get things changed in your life. You can lower your blood pressure and even help with certain ailments such as asthma. Hypnosis is a great alternative to help people with many issues, without them having to resort to medications that they do not want to take.

Running your own Online Business requires a certain strength of character.

The things that are relatively easy, are learning the technical skills and techniques. What sets you apart from your competitors and what will bring you great success however, is your mindset and strength of character.

How do you stay inspired, balanced, focused, enthusiastic and energised every single day? How do you maintain your clarity, dedication and industriousness on a day to day basis? What about maintaining a daily state of positivity and happiness and of belief, certainty and faith?

There are many, many techniques out there to help achieve this state of personal peak performance. Courses, books, personal development programs and systems, affirmations, visualisations, programming, you name it-i’ve tried it!

Of all these techniques, I have found nothing to be as beneficial as regular, daily meditation, combined with a short period of inner reflection or character building.

Scientific studies into the practice of meditation, have shown incredible results in brain activity, brain synchrony and neurohormone levels. The results in neurohormones is the most noticeable effect I have felt.

Planetary Peace Meditation is my preferred choice of meditation. PPM has shown increases in neurohormones, serum serotonin and plasma melatonin of up to 300%.

What does this 300% increase of neurohormones, serum serotonin and plasma melatonin do? Well, this means that I feel much happier after meditation. I feel more relaxed and more positive about the day ahead, my business and life in general. I am more centred and have much more clarity about what I am doing.

I’m also able to handle obstacles a lot easier, as I have more energy to deal with them. These obstacles could have the potential to put me behind schedule or put me in a negative mental place.

So, do you think this has an effect on your Online Business and internet marketing? You bet it does! If you’re familiar with the Law of Attraction, have read books by Abraham-Hicks or watched ‘The Secret’, you’ll know what I mean.

The better we’re feeling, the higher our Energy level is, the more we attract what we want towards us. So if its a constant stream of new prospects hungry to buy into your business idea that you want, thats what you’ll get!

It’s a good idea to use the time immediately after mediation when you’re feeling great, to do things for your business. Update your blog, make a video, write your adcopy, write an article, etc. All you do will be infused with the wonderful energy you generated during meditation. This will be picked up on by your prospects, and will make them more receptive to you and your business.

For me, I prefer to meditate first thing in the morning after a shower. It’s the perfect set-up for the day ahead. But any time during the day or evening is fine too. All you need is half an hour.

The meditation I recommend most highly is available online 24 hours a day, is fully guided, is free and only takes 20 minutes. You can find it at http://ppmaudiostream.org. Just click on Planetary Meditation for Peace.

There’s so much more to say on the benefits of meditation, which would take us beyond the scope of this article.

Look out for my other articles about this incredible meditation (Planetary Peace Meditation) in which I share more tips on how to specifically energise and accelerate any goals you may have in business and in life. Enjoy your meditations!…and your increased financial successes!

To find out more about my recommended meditation, visit PPMAudioStream.org

Wishing you tremendous Success and Happiness, Graeme Stuart