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[sphinx-witchcraft]

Was anyone else told during therapy that people with DID are more prone to autohypnosis? It makes sense, hypnosis can be used to manage pain and stress. And since someone is more suggestible during hypnosis, actually think this might be how sourced parts come to be. If you self hypnotize to cope with trauma, you're escaping to a safe space, and that safe space might be with fictional characters. These then begin to integrate with yourself and eventually become parts (the suggestion being that these fictional characters are real and care about you, when in reality they're basically objects).

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[scionofchaos]

Grounding from a Head State

Today, I am going to provide a guided meditation that starts with grounding from a head state, for anyone to try who so desires. If you don't want to try it, that is totally fine, and you may read it casually or just skip this post.

Like I said, we are going to attempt a guided meditation that starts with grounding from a head state, then works down through your Conscious state to your root patterns, then back up into a Conscious state. If you're going to try it, please find a comfortable place where you can spend about 20-30 minutes uninterrupted.

We begin in your Head State. Right now, what you are sensing is of little consequence to you, balanced against the stream of thoughts and emotions dominating your mind, keeping you up in your headspace instead of out in the world. Depending on your level of awareness, you may be experiencing your Mindscape in more extravagant ways. We are here to ground this state in the material and return you to the Conscious.

Narrow your field of view, narrow the range of thoughts you are trying to explore. Set aside your dreams, your memories, your hidden ambitions. Put away your schedule, put away your hobbies, your work, your family. Put away your internal turmoil, your joy, sorrow, fear, rage. Only one thing is worthy of your thoughts right now. In this moment. Focus your thoughts on this screen, on the words typed on it. Any emotion you feel right now, direct it at these words. Feel it about these words, and nothing else. Focus on the order of words, on the length of sentences. Focus on the spelling, the grammar, the punctuation. Beyond all else, direct as much attention as possible to the meaning of these words. Try to imagine how the voice sounds, of the speaker who is telling you these things. There is no wrong answer. I sound exactly as you are imagining. Hear the nuance of my words, my accent, my cadence and tone. Make the sound real.

Put into your mind the smell of apples. The smell of cinnamon and vanilla. Put into your mind another smell within this haze of scents. The smell of a human being, recently bathed, but bearing traces of work in the kitchen. The smell of cooked things. Identify that these are the smells of the person speaking, and the place the words are coming from.

Visualize your dominant hand reaching out in front of you. Fingers up, palm forward. Feel the slight sense of pressure as another hand lightly touches yours. Palm to palm, fingers touching ever so lightly. Feel my hand press firmly now against yours, reassuring you that I am here, calling your attention to the forefront. Feel the warmth of that hand, the confidence of the gesture. Feel the strength in the arm behind it. Gentle, but assured. Try to sense that I am here, that I am with you.

I call you to be Conscious in this place. With these projected senses, I call you from the depths of your mind, from the sanctuary of your own thoughts, from the river of your own emotions. I lift you from that with your hand in mine. We breathe together, in deeply, and you become strongly aware of the real scents in the room around you, leaving my projected smell behind. We breathe out, slowly, and you become strongly aware of the real temperature of the room around you. We breathe again, and you hear only yourself breathing, forgetting what I have suggested you hear.

You breathe again, taking in the sights of what is around you, every image, every color, every change in brightness. Putting the projected images aside. Leaving imagined senses and telling only what is true of the world around you. You are here. You are present in this room, in this moment, in this life. No thought, no feeling matters so much in this moment, as the experience of being alive and being here.

Take a minute or two to ground yourself. I have posted a guided meditation on grounding from a Conscious state. Use that if you prefer.

When you have completed grounding, move back into that Conscious state. Your eyes see the world around you, the screen these words are on, and everything else in the room. If the room is dark, then there's not much left to divert your eyes. Your ears hear every subtle noise, every sound of the wind or rain, every falling leaf, every bird and bug. You hear every air conditioner, fan, or heater nearby. You may hear other people or living beings in the house. Your nose picks up on the fine composition of all material things, wafting toward you through the air. Your tongue likely tastes your last meal, your saliva, or whatever freshens your breath. On your skin, you feel every light pressure, the presence of the air, the temperature of the room around you, and the heat coming from your own body. But there is more. You feel a sense of where your head sits, what your hands and arms are doing, how you have your feet and legs positioned. You feel yourself breathing. You feel your heart beating. You have an innate sense of your place in the room.

Take a minute to appreciate your transformation from cerebral, to purely conscious, to grounded, and now back into a healthy state of consciousness. Remember it, so that whenever you are in a Head state, and you need to ground yourself, you can call back this feeling.

Be at Peace.

[auvikogue]

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[auvikogue]

participating for 1 minute #autohypnosis thx pedro. #mailart #mailartproject #experimental #mutesound https://www.instagram.com/p/CgfG7bUomZQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[scionofchaos]

Deliberate Head State

Today, I am going to provide a guided meditation for entering an intensely focused Head state, for anyone to try who so desires. If you don't want to try it, that is totally fine, and you may read it casually or just skip this post.

In the previous post, I gave you a way to bring yourself out of a Head state. That is useful for when you are consumed with thoughts or feelings, and unable to focus on your moment. But now I am going to provide you with the opposite: a constructive way to enter a Mind state of intense focus, leaving behind the world around you for the inner world. If you're going to try it, please find a comfortable place where you can spend about 20-30 minutes uninterrupted.

Take a minute or two to ground yourself. If you feel the need, consult one of my guided meditation suggestions, depending on if you're feeling more Conscious or Head state. When you are good and grounded, we can begin.

Narrow your field of view, narrow the range of things there to see, narrow the range of thoughts you are trying to explore. Draw your attention away from the room behind you and to your sides. Draw your attention away from errant or intrusive thoughts. Select an object immediately in front of you, other than the screen you are reading this on. I am about to give you some instructions, which you are to follow when I give you leave. Focus your eyes and your thoughts on that selected object. On its outer attributes, on what it is made of, on its behavior or its stationary presence, on its position in the room, on the reason it is there. Let the object's every attribute consume your thoughts. Any emotion you feel, direct it at that object. Feel it about that object, and nothing else. If the object is making noise, focus your ears on every component and clue about that noise. If the object has a noticeable smell, focus your nose on analyzing and appreciating that smell.

Begin now. When you feel you are ready to proceed, continue reading.

I am about to give you some instructions, which you are to follow when I give you leave. Resume your intense focus on that object. This time, visualize your hands reaching out to grab that object, but do not move your physical hands. Do this slowly and deliberately, so as to make the sensation all the more real and tangible. When your visualized hands touch the object, picture them taking the object and holding it, feeling its every contour, its temperature. In your mind, imagine the brightness and the color drifting out and away from the object, passing into your hands, up your arms, into your chest. Imagine the sound the object is making (if any) becoming quieter, as the volume is drawn into your hands. Imagine the smell of the object (if any) becoming fainter, as the potency is drawn into your hands. Imagine every attribute that you feel of it, melting and washing away, sinking into your hands. When the whole of this object is held in your heart, release your hand-hold, and visualize that absorbed object being drawn up your spine, up your neck, into your brain. Hold it there.

Begin now. When you feel you are ready to proceed, continue reading.

I am about to give you some instructions, which you are to follow when I give you leave. With that object held firmly in your brain, follow it inside. Use what you have learned from my past meditations to enter your body, leaving behind your outer layers like they are distant structures. Move up into your mind, but do not ground. This is very important. Once there, picture the object is on a surface. If that surface is the floor or ground, describe that floor or the ground. If that surface is furniture or other scenery, describe that first, then the ground on which it sits. Follow the ground out away from the object until you find walls, or see a distant horizon. You have now visited the first glimpse of your Mindscape. Keep the object and its surroundings close at mind.

Begin now. When you feel you are ready to proceed, continue reading.

Search your Mindscape for a pencil, pen, or other such instrument, and write "Anchor" near this object you have focused so intently upon. This object will help you return to a state of intense focus, should you become distracted or need assistance next time. Put the writing tool back where you found it. Now, search near that tool for more drawers, cabinets, boxes, or other forms of storage. It may even be entire rooms. When you have done so, find the container that fleeting, surface thoughts go in and out of. Carefully select one thought that has been on your mind recently, and contemplate it. Get a good sense of it, but do not let your mind wander. Put that thought in the container, and assure yourself that it will remain there, easily accessible for when you need it. Now, select another topic recently on your mind, and contemplate and store that one. You may do this in the future, whenever you need to organize your thoughts. When you have a firm command of this, you may eventually be able to pull thoughts out of that container on command, examine them, and put them back with ease. Before we leave, identify the containers for your recent memories, childhood memories, your dark secrets, your traumas, and any other categories you find important. We don't need to work with those today, but it is good to know where in your Mindscape they are.

Continue to examine your Mindscape as you wish, but be cautious not to over-explore or over-tamper with anything. When you are ready, continue reading.

Find the door that you will use to manually leave your Mindscape. Before you open it, place a hand firmly on the surface, and concentrate. Will a message to appear on the door, containing my guided meditation for grounding out of Head state (or at least the abridged notes on it; it's a long post). Now you will have a good procedure for what to do when you're done focusing this intently. Every time you are finished here, leave through that door, close and lock it securely, and go through the grounding procedure.

Take a minute to appreciate your use of intense psychic focus, and the work you have done in your Mindscape. Remember your Anchor, so that you can use it later.

Be at Peace.

[scionofchaos]

Today, I am going to attempt something I have not done before. Some people like to write spells on here, or show you how to draw sigils, but what I am going to do is offer a form of guided spiritual meditation. This will not follow the self-guided methods I have described, but will still operate on some of the principles of energywork I have explored with you. If you don't want to try it, that is totally fine, and you may read it casually or just skip this post.

That being said, we are going to attempt a guided meditation that starts with grounding from a conscious state, then works down through your root patterns to the source of Earth's energy, and your connection to that source. If you have some trauma regarding family or your gender identity, I again caution you to proceed safely. Next time, we will begin from a head state instead of conscious. If you're going to try it, please find a comfortable place where you can spend about 20-30 minutes uninterrupted.

We begin in your Conscious State. Your eyes see the world around you, the screen these words are on, and everything else in the room. If the room is dark, then there's not much left to divert your eyes. Your ears hear every subtle noise, every sound of the wind or rain, every falling leaf, every bird and bug. You hear every air conditioner, fan, or heater nearby. You may hear other people or living beings in the house. Your nose picks up on the fine composition of all material things, wafting toward you through the air. Your tongue likely tastes your last meal, your saliva, or whatever freshens your breath. On your skin, you feel every light pressure, the presence of the air, the temperature of the room around you, and the heat coming from your own body. But there is more. You feel a sense of where your head sits, what your hands and arms are doing, how you have your feet and legs positioned. You feel yourself breathing. You feel your heart beating. You have an innate sense of your place in the room. Depending on your level of awareness, you may be sensing things not based in the material. We are here to ground this state in the material, to ground this state in yourself.

Narrow your field of view, narrow the range that things should be seen. There is nothing to see behind you. There is nothing to see to your left. There is nothing to see to your right. There is nothing to see beyond your screen. Your eyes only see these words. You are not focused on the order of words, or the length of sentences. You are not focused on spelling or grammar or punctuation. Only the meaning is important.

Identify a sound you hear nearby. Focus on it for three seconds, then send it away. Tell the sound that you know it is there, but you are done listening. There is no need to hear, only to see, only to read. When you have done this, move to the next sound. Do this again for each sound, until you have sent them all away. Identify the most prominent smell meeting your nose. Focus on it for three seconds, then blow it away. Tell the scent that you know it is there, but you do not need it. Speak the taste of it off of your tongue. There is no need to smell, only to see, only to read. When you have done this, move to the next weakest scent. Do this again for each scent, until you have blown them all away.

Identify the most noticeable thing touching you, other than the floor, other than whatever feeling sits beneath you. Focus on it for three seconds, then will that feeling to move farther away from your body, away and away until it is gone. Tell the feeling that you know it is there, but you are moving away. Let your heartbeat and your expanding lungs push it off. There is no need to feel it.

When you have pushed away each feeling, get a sense of the heat or cold in your room. If the room is too warm, visualize a cold wind blowing away from your body, down and out. Push the heat away. If the room is too cold, picture an icy swirl traveling into your mouth, down past your heart, and into your core. Feel that cold air burning, heating, expanding, escaping. Move the air you heat up around you, and out. Continue this breathing until you are filled and surrounded by heat. Whichever of these you do, do it until the room feels right.

If you are feeling discomfort, distance yourself from it. Tell your discomfort that it is far away. Tell your body that the discomfort is not here. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize the source of your discomfort moving further off. Continue this until you feel safely away from whatever is causing it.

Direct your mind to the room ahead. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the wall, and all closer objects. Tell that wall and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize that wall and those things moving further off.

Direct your mind to the right side of the room. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the wall, and all closer objects. Tell that wall and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize that wall and those things moving further off.

Direct your mind to the room behind you. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the wall, and all closer objects. Tell that wall and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize that wall and those things moving further off.

Direct your mind to the left side of the room. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the wall, and all closer objects. Tell that wall and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize that wall and those things moving further off.

Direct your mind to the ceiling, to everything mounted on it or hanging from it. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the ceiling, and all objects fixed to it. Tell the ceiling and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here, that only the sky is above you. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize the ceiling and those things moving further off.

Direct your mind to the floor, to everything sitting on the floor, to the surface that you are sitting on. Don't look at it, just think it, keep it in your thoughts. Note the feeling of the floor, and all objects sitting on it, any objects you are sitting on. Tell the floor and those objects that they are far away. Tell your body that those things are not here, that they are far, far below you. Repeat this to yourself, and visualize the floor and those things moving further down, your body floating in the air. There is no need to feel, only to see, only to read.

Allow your senses to fall into a relaxed place, a quiet place, a safe place. You will continue to see and understand these words, but you will not have to try. They will just appear before your eyes, and your mind will get them perfectly. Withdraw your consciousness beneath your skin, beneath the organs that give you senses. Feel only your blood moving evenly through your body, your heart beating, lungs pushing in and out. The outside of your body is a great hall. It is vast in scale, and it is far away.

Withdraw deeper still, beneath the flesh and blood. Feel only the heart of your bones, feel the barest nerves connecting to your brain. The flesh is a vast cavern. The lungs are the wind. The heart is the Sun. All enormous and distant, all far away.

Withdraw deeper still, pulling your consciousness away from the furthest nerves, into the base of your spine. Up the small of your back. Up the middle of your back. Between your shoulders. Up the brain stem. Your consciousness is only in your brain. All else is millions of miles away.

Withdraw deeper still, pulling your consciousness into the very center of your brain, then away. You are not your brain. The brain is flesh. The brain is distant. The brain is not you. You are the living energy pulsing through those faraway places. You are traveling. But you are home. No matter how far you travel, you are always on Earth. Always connected to Earth.

You are connected to the people who brought you into this world. Visualize them, make it clear who they are. Look at this image, and see how it has been changed by your opinion, your experience. Pull that away. See the person without your opinion, without your experience. See only who that person is. Draw yourself toward these people.

These people who brought you into this world are themselves connected to parents. Visualize them. Become aware of their parents, and the parents before them. Realize that each of these people has been brought into this world by people before them. You were a part of your parents. They were parts of their parents. Who were parts of their parents.

Move away from Self. Move away from individual. Move away from desire, from opinion. What remains is experience, the lives of all these people. Dive into those lives. Feel them drawing further back in human events. Further back in time. Traveling the surface of the Earth.

Move away from Humanity. Move away from people, from individuals, from societies. Move away from rules and consequences. What remains is the female and the male. However those humans identified, however they were seen. Their bodies and their purposes in the species were defined this way. They either bore children, or gave the code that helped those children take shape. This primal truth goes beyond gender roles, beyond Self. Feel the divine masculine moving through countless species, driving them, spurring them to breed. Realize that this is an important part of the puzzle, but it is not the whole picture. Set that piece aside.

Move away from the Divine Masculine. Move away from breeding, away from conflict, away from preserving the species. What remains is the Divine Feminine. Feel the divine feminine moving through countless species, embracing, learning, adapting, bringing new life, showing a way forward for the next generation. Protecting the young. Learning from the old.

Realize that She is more than Animal. Realize that She is more than Life.

Realize that She exists, beneath the skin, beneath the burning blood, in the great Yolk of this world. At the heart of all of Planet Earth, She is there.

Feel her presence. Feel her in all life. Feel her in every rock and stream and breeze. Stay there. Drink it in.

Feel the heartbeat of the World. Feel the breathing lungs of the World. Feel the drives of the World. Feel the skin of the World, and every rock and tree and stream and breeze on Her surface. On the surfaces of every Animal. On the surfaces of every Mammal. On the surfaces of every Primate. On the surfaces of every Human. On the surfaces of your every living relative. On your skin. In your blood. In your breath.

Breathe in deeply, feeling the Her power filling your lungs. And exhale, knowing you are one with Her.

Draw yourself in. Draw power in close, as you are conscious of the Earth and your place in it. Bring yourself back to center. Back to the room. Settle in your head, your chest, your limbs. Take a minute to appreciate what you have just felt. Remember it, so that whenever you are in a Conscious state, and you need to ground yourself, you can call back this feeling.

Be at Peace.