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STEP ONE: DESIRE

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Most early travels are ‘unintentional’. They are subconsciously motivated by desire and poof you’re out. As you’ve read, my tumble from bed followed the basic principle that drives both the ‘subconscious unintentional’ travel and the ‘conscious intentional’ travel. The principle is desire. I’m tired of the word ‘tumble’ now.

Desire is the first step, the real oomph pushing the ‘nonphysical travel’. For instance, if I ask you to go over and pick up that penny, you have a few choices. You can choose to pick up the penny; you can choose not to pick up the penny; or you can choose not to believe there is a penny. Regardless of your choice, I’ve tricked you into visualizing the penny, even if you think there is none, which is important and we’ll get to that soon. We’re not in a hurry. Well, at least I’m not. If you have things to do, stop back later. And bring me some nachos.

To continue, if you chose not to pick up the penny or chose not to believe it exists, then you’re no fun at all. But, nonphysically speaking, if you chose to pick up the penny, that becomes your ‘desire’ that triggers your ‘action’ that becomes your ‘destination’ and so you travel from your body to fulfill your desire. It’s a happy circle that brings you what you desire. Weeeeeeee.

As you can see, even a simple desired ‘action’ like picking up a penny can ‘trigger your travel’. Say that three times fast. But what if the penny meant a lot to you? What if you and that penny had been through some good times together? That penny and you are the best of friends. So now, instead of going to pick up the penny as an ‘action’, your bond with your beloved penny aims you like an arrow of desire. You want to be with penny. Penny means everything to you. Penny is calling you. Off you go!

That’s one example of ‘ramping up’ your desire to reach your ‘destination’. You simply ‘focus’ your emotional bond with a person, place, object, or action, and allow yourself to go to it or do it.

Instead of penny you could’ve used a loved one as your ‘desired destination’. It’s been so long since you’ve seen (insert a name of someone you can tolerate here). It sure would be good to see them again. Remember all the fabulous times (make up some lies) that (insert name again) and you used to share. You really want to be there with them. You’re so looking forward to being there. Off you go.

That’s another example of ramping up an emotional desire that ‘pushes’ you from your physical body. But maybe you don’t like anybody. Maybe you’d rather be alone at that creek by your house where it’s nice and quiet and water rushes by and trees sway and there are birds and tadpoles and it smells so fresh just hanging out by the creek. Off you go.

That’s the final example of ramping up an emotional desire, until I change my mind and write more later. I think you get the concept, but I’ll repeat it anyway. You take your strong emotional desire for a person, place, object, or action, and you focus on the bond that connects you. You want to be there. You want to go now. Off you go.

FOCUS AND DESIRE

Any emotion may be used as a ‘focus’ to keep you ‘alert’ until you’re ready to get out of your body. Happy emotions include joy and love. Unhappy emotions include anger and fear. Anything that you feel in your day-to-day life may be used as a ‘focus’. The happy emotions are usually more pleasant to use as a ‘focus’ but the unhappy emotions can be useful and fulfilling as well, if kept in check.

Another instance from my experience, since I’m the only one typing here: I hate-hate-hated working at this store in my past. The store was a combination glass bricabrac and jewelry shop. The work was sooooo boring and inane. After work, while home in my bed, I’d ponder the last wretched eight hours. I’d ‘focus’ on letting it all go in the best way possible: I wrecked the place in my thoughts. The store never stood a chance. Although I would never do this in my real life, as I’m the non-violent type, I would trash a few things while relaxing in bed. You can too and it’s a lot of fun.

You may utilize your anger and aggression as a ‘focus’. This intense ‘focus’ keeps you ‘alert’ as you drift off towards physical sleep. By being ‘alert’, while your body sleeps, your chances of achieving a conscious travel greatly increase. Another benefit of this method is the release of the unhappy emotion. Like a primal scream, the volume of your anger will relieve you of stress. You simply focus on the emotion until your physical is snoozing. Then you let go of the emotions and re-focus on your traveling ‘plan’.

For example, I’d imagine smashing the displays in the empty store with a baseball bat. Glass shattered and soared from the blows. I’ll get you, hand-crafted glass ashtray! Take that, silver necklace trinkets! I’d run around the store smashing and thrashing. Nothing was safe from my baseball bat. And then I’d hear myself snore. During my focused frenzy my physical was being ignored and did what it was supposed to do, it fell asleep. The snoring was my ‘signal’ to now re-focus on my ‘desire’ and go traveling.

When you use an ‘emotional focus’ as a method to leave your body your ‘imagery’ will be all encompassing. It will exclude other thoughts. It will center you. You will be in that moment of emotion and release. And then POW!, you’ll realize that your physical body is sleeping while you are completely awake and alert. It may be that you hear yourself snore while using an emotional focus or any number of other ‘signals’. As I’ll explain soon, you have time to make a cup of tea, these ‘signals’ will alert you that your body in bed doesn’t give a care if you venture out for a while.

As we’re here anyway, I’ll give a brief example of a focused emotion that scares you into staying alert while your physical sleeps. I was going to present a happy emotion as the example here, but I figure you can imagine little bunnies hopping around a flower garden without my help. Instead, I’ll talk about sharks.

I love man-eating sharks. They are just so cool with their skills and teeth. I studied them quite a bit following that movie that scared everyone out of the water. They are fascinating creatures. And if I were ever to be stranded, clutching that big toilet-looking ring out in the ocean, I would be scared beyond words. I just know I’m going to be mistaken for a seal or floppy fish.

This method of emotional focus works almost too well. What we are afraid of creates an intense imagery. You simply allow yourself to get sucked into that vortex of fright, if you can handle it. You take the ride until your physical falls asleep, and then you re-focus on your desire and it pulls you from your body.

The water is so dark. All I can see is the ocean’s surface reflecting starlight and wave caps. I wish I’d remembered to put that five dollar plug back in the bottom of the boat. Hey, what was that?! A ripple in the water just moved past, twelve feet long at least. Ack, there’s another one! Something nudged me, I just felt it! Oh, this is it. I’m creeping myself out. I have to stop.

During the shark imagery my physical would quickly drift off to sleep. When I could no longer take the scariness I’d break myself free of the fright by recognizing that it was not real. I’d then re-focus on a desire to be above the water, flying over the moonlit ocean nearest my home. Because I was completely alert I was instantly pulled from my physical and speeding past the houses hundreds of feet below. I arrived at the ocean in a few seconds. I moved closer to the rolling surface. To be there, unsupported above all that water, is an experience not to be forgotten. You really must try it. And the sharks look so cute and cuddly from up there. You can’t hurt me! Oh sure, a shark might scare me if they took a physical snap at my nonphysical body, but there’s no damage done. Except that you’d call me Fishbait from now on. That would be rude.

Your first attempt at an emotional focus might be somewhat closer to home and less adventurous than shark-infested waters. Those little bunnies hopping around a flower garden, for instance.

DEAR DIARY

Hello friendly reader. Please pay attention to your night time activity by writing it down. Simply write a few sentences that describe in minor detail the ‘events’ you recall. Even if your ‘event’ doesn’t seem nonphysical, write it down. Then date it and put it under your pillow. I’m kidding. Don’t do that very last bit. But do all the rest of what I said, like so:

September 22

Last night I accidentally scared a cat that was lounging in the yard near the bird baths. I then watched as my neighbor arrived home late from somewhere and fell out of his car. And lastly, I zoomed past my bedroom window and ran into a tree. Another eventful night.

You can see how great ‘event’ diaries can be and why you should keep one. And now that I’ve talked you into it, I should tell you that I hate writing in a diary. Oh my, it’s boring. But I did it anyway from about the age of ten. I started writing in one of those blank diaries sold to kids. My first one was a manly blue diary so stop making fun of me. These days I keep a small voice recorder near the bed and mumble into it, on ‘return’ from wherever I just was. I call this a lazy-diary and it works just as well as writing things down. So do either one and make me happy.

The point of keeping a diary is to pay attention pay attention. Yes, I typed that twice. It’s very good of you to pay attention. Do I have your attention? Then let’s move on. Pay attention to the small details of your ‘events’ and put them in your diary. You may notice, as an instance of paying attention, that I have avoided using the word “dream” and have replaced that word with ‘event’. Your event may be a dream in your physical or a dream ‘acted’ outside of your physical. Your event may occur while you are semiconscious or unconscious. Your event may be a fully conscious nonphysical travel. You can learn from all of your ‘events’ to improve your chances at traveling the next time.

It is your attitude, focused upon the desire to recall your events, that helps you to do so. It is your unbridled wish to ponder this previously unpondered state that allows you to see it clearly. It is your intentional intensity of attention that enhances your ability to grasp what you are up to while your physical sleeps!

So if you scared a cat near the birdbath or zoomed past your window, Pay Attention. And when you watch from above as your neighbor pours out of his car at 2am, Pay Attention. You may be in your body and dreaming or out of your body and dreaming. You may be traveling semiconsciously. Your attention to the event will ‘wake you up’. Paying attention to the ‘details’ of your event will also help you to improve your out of body skills. I’ll get to those later, so mellow out.

YOU SCORE

As you’ve read (if you weren’t skipping chapters willy nilly) your desire is the force pushing the travel. It is such a strong force in fact that you can use desire, which is step one of seven, without having any working knowledge of the other steps at all! How’s that for getting right to the point?

Tonight, in your bed or futon or dresser drawer or whatever you sleep on, think of an emotional ‘goal’. A ‘goal’ includes an ‘action’ you take that is pushed by desire, resulting in what you set out to do.

For instance, your emotional ‘goal’ might be to visit your sweetie two towns over. You desire to be there. You focus on your ‘action’ which, in this case, is the route you plan to travel as your physical relaxes down to sleep. You’ll go out your window, down the block, up a few hundred feet, ‘home’ in on your wittle whoosy woowoo, and rocket your way there. Pet names are so embarrassing.

The emotional goal is just one type of ‘goal’ you might set for yourself. Your goal might be ‘inquisitive’, a desire to learn something. You might wish to see what’s on the other side of that hill, or take a gander at your neighbor’s new rider mower, or you might want to visit a place that you’ve read about. Although there is an emotional aspect present, in wanting to learn something through these goals, they are more ‘action’ motivated. Your desire pushes you forward in action towards your goal of knowing this or that.

Another type of goal is ‘experience’. You want to achieve something, to do it and feel it. You want to leave your house by walking through the front door. You want to float out over your porch and look up in the night sky. You want to blast off at full throttle, up up up up. Your goal is to ‘experience’ being there thousands of feet above your house. Your goal is fueled by desire, which initiates the action, so that you get what you want. And who deserves it more than you?

As you see, you can use desire and a goal without really knowing anything more of what I plan to tell you. You could just take a week or so of nighttimes and give this streamlined version of traveling a try. It’s simple and almost always brings interesting results. It’s also a good jumping-off point for learning the other six steps, whether you want to know about them or not.

TEN TO SEVENTEEN

My years from ten to seventeen were probably like yours. I was facing the usual demands that most kids encounter. I handled the pressures. I wasn’t the most popular nor the least. I was just average with an unusual hobby.

My out of body travels were in full force. I traveled occasionally by choice and constantly by whim on an average of at least once a day. The unintentional travels brought me to places I hadn’t planned to go, but later I could rationalize why I had gone there. The intentional travels could be frustrating since a method I used might work one time but not the next. This turned out to be a good learning experience, as I’ll explain on another page when I get there. Another page, I said. Stop looking here for the reason. Stop it. I mean it. I’m just going to move on, then. You can keep looking here if you want but you’re wasting your time.