Psychology
- Conscious and unconscious in the human psyche
- What is trance
- Techniques for entering trance
- Specific forms of behavior in a state of unconsciousness
- What is the difference between trance in psychology and trance in mystical teachings?
- What are the benefits of trance?
Psychology is a rational science that helps you understand your thoughts and feelings in order to live happily and calmly. But there are methods in psychology that do not belong to rational, but rather to irrational spheres. This, for example, is considered a state called trance - a kind of “bridge” between the conscious and unconscious.
What is a trance state (trance)
The trance state is a special slow state of the brain. From the table below these are Alpha and Theta states .
Thus, trance is a functional state of the psyche in which the degree of control of consciousness over information processing changes . In this state, critical perception decreases. In addition, other perception filters that a person has in a conscious state also go away.
In addition, medical trance is recognized as a healing state of consciousness in which a person receives twice as much rest as during sleep.
Historically, shamans were the first to learn how to use the trance state to benefit themselves and others.
No special conditions needed
Having mastered the process using auxiliary means, you need to learn how to change consciousness in uncomfortable conditions. After all, the modern pace of life will not allow you to enter the alpha state every day with musical accompaniment or rocking on a chair.
Knowing how to enter the alpha state in noisy and crowded places can help you calm down before an important meeting, make the best decisions, and reduce stress levels. The self-hypnosis technique in this case is based on the fact that the body and brain have already remembered the state of half-asleep, and consists of simply counting from 20 to 1, with your eyes closed.
Characteristics of the trance state
- Special logic when there are no restrictions and the impossible is perceived as possible
- Absorption by oneself and one's inner experiences. The greater the degree of self-absorption, the deeper the trance
- Altered perception of time (it seems to a person that 20 minutes have passed, although 2 hours have passed)
- Altered perception of space - when the client is present in two places at the same time. He hears the specialist’s voice and understands that he is in a session. At the same time, he is absorbed in his own experiences - living through situations that he now remembers
- Living and participating in the history that is remembered
- A special perception of information - a person can look at himself from the outside, look through the eyes of other participants, look at the situation from above. All this helps to understand why the situation was planned, why it happened to him and what ways out of the situation there are.
- Partial amnesia - a person forgets almost everything he said during the session. This is why an audio recording of the session is made.
What are the benefits of a trance state?
It's no secret that we now live in an era of overabundance of information and an acute shortage of trance states. There is so much information falling on us from all sides that not all people know how to “digest” this stream and not succumb to other people’s opinions.
Thus, we have a high need to “digest” everything that happens to us and around us. And we can do this by going deep inside ourselves, that is, in a trance state.
Therefore, trance is a resource state and it is our biological necessity .
On the other hand, trance is also a way of achieving wholeness when there is no resistance from any “offended” or “protesting” parts of oneself. At the same time, all “parts” strive for unification and integrity.
In other words, it is in a trance state that it is possible to hear the voice of intuition and the voice of your Soul .
Stephen Gelligen says that trance “is a safe state that you can always fall back on when you need support. Your unconscious is your ally .”
Hypnotizability/suggestibility
Here it is useful to remember the theory of the triune brain. Hypnotizable (suggestible) people easily disconnect from their conscious part - the analytical mind. Apparently they have:
- the conscious part is quite weak;
- the situation in which a person finds himself is conducive to trance.
Such an inviting situation could be, for example, a road - trees and pillars flash by, a monotonous state arises in which the analytical part of the brain simply turns off as unnecessary or falls into some kind of daydream, because nothing new is happening, there is nothing to analyze in the surrounding environment . A so-called road trance occurs.
The trance state allows you to find a solution to the problem
Brian Weiss said that “trance is the concentration of the mind with a relaxed body”
Jean Becchio believed that trance is “activation of consciousness”
M.R. Ginsburg said that “trance is an internal focus of attention turned inward”
On the other hand, trance is also a state of learning, when a person can perceive new information without resistance. New for your personality, but not new for your Soul.
Because at the Soul level we are all connected to the entire Universal “data bank”. Each of us has access there, but we can only use it in a state of trance.
In addition, trance states of the brain promote the perception of creative flow, relief from stress, and accelerated physical and emotional healing.
Therefore, it is the trance state that is the usual “working” state of artists, writers, inventors, psychics and healers.
What problems can be solved while in a trance state:
- find a way out of recurring situations
- eliminate difficulties in relationships, take relationships to a new level
- find a way out of painful loneliness
- eliminate psychological complexes, fears, phobias
- get out of the deadlock, find the meaning of life
- find your purpose
- learn how to cope with the loss of loved ones
- find and eliminate the cause of the disease
What can you remember in a trance state?
- birth
- intrauterine period
- moment of conception
- planning the current implementation
- past lives
- planning any other incarnation
- conclusions that the Soul made after incarnation
- the presence of the Soul in the space between lives
In addition, the trance state makes it possible to communicate at the Soul level with those people with whom there is no fruitful cooperation. Then you can come to an agreement and solve the problem. Perhaps the relationship has reached a dead end or the person has already died, but you want to understand something or ask him a question.
After such communication at the level of Souls, relationships in real life also improve.
What changes in a person after immersion in past lives?
Attitude to life
After a regression session, the client has an understanding of Who I am and why I am here . A more responsible attitude towards your life appears. A person begins to take a more responsible and meaningful approach to the choices that face him every day.
Attitude towards death
There is an understanding that death is not the end, but a transition to a new state. That with the arrival of death the Soul does not die, but moves to another space where it plans the next incarnation.
There is also an understanding that the state in which we meet death affects what our next life will be like.
Attitude to birth
After watching your birth, you clearly understand that a child feels absolutely everything during birth. And the state of mom, and the state of dad, and their thoughts, and their fears.
And that at this moment the child still remembers why he came here, with what task. Then he forgets it, for various reasons. First of all, under the influence of society and close surroundings.
But you can remember the birth, relive it and remember why you came into incarnation.
Attitude towards children
You begin to understand that children are not the property of their parents. And in terms of the level of development of their Soul, they can be much higher than their parents. The question arises: do parents really teach their children something, or, on the contrary, do our children teach us?
Attitude towards the dying
After a regression session, you begin to understand that it is not at all necessary to lie to a dying relative, that he will definitely recover. And we can talk honestly about this.
Attitude towards yourself
You begin to understand that I am not only a physical body, but also something more. That I have already gone through the experience of many thousands of incarnations. You begin to realize that you are eternal and have never died.
In addition, in past lives you were in different “roles” and have behind you a large store of skills, abilities, talents, and wisdom. You already have it, but it may be dormant. And this can be remembered and activated.
Attitude towards other people
When you understand that you were in different “roles” in your past lives, then claims and demands on other people go away. If you yourself were a poor homeless person, a despot king, a greedy miser, a homosexual, and a slave owner, then the level of claims decreases.
Everyone has many thousands of these roles. This understanding makes the level of claims against other people ridiculous and groundless. After all, you yourself are no different.
Why is it difficult to relax
We live in a time when we have to spend a large number of hours in a sitting position. Both at work and at school. Physical inactivity has a bad effect on a person’s physical and energetic body.
If the physical body is in an inactive state all day, then later, during meditation, it will be difficult to relax it. And if it is difficult to relax, then you will not be able to feel your second energy body and perform an OBE.
A very small number of people can simply lie down and relax so much that they forget about the sensations of their body. This is difficult for the majority of people to do. Due to the increased pace of life, stress and psychophysical stress, it has become more difficult for us to experience such a simple thing as relaxation.
Ways to go into trance
The easiest way to enter a trance is to close your eyes, listen to your breathing, or concentrate on your pulse. At the same time, you can remember something from the past and try to remember in detail. Or, imagine something, concentrating on the details and your feelings.
The ancient Slavs used special songs with special sounds and rhythms that put the listener into a trance state.
Shamans used and use certain rhythms, sounds, and dances to immerse themselves in a trance.
Prayers and meditations are also suitable for inducing trance.
The specialist’s ability to quickly enter trance also affects the client’s ability to enter trance. That is why it is faster and easier with a specialist.
This happens because the specialist already knows how to do it. He spent many hours of training to hone this skill. That is why he helps his client enter a trance quickly.
Indeed, during the session, a common energy-information field is created in which both the client, the specialist, and their Spiritual Guides work.
Milton Erickson (1901-1980) identified three types of trance:
- everyday - when a person is distracted from external circumstances and, as it were, thinking, while the focus of attention is transferred from external objects to himself
- in-depth – which is achieved in a session with a specialist
- somnambulistic - when in a trance a person behaves as if he were not in a trance. This can happen in a session with a specialist after going through the deep trance phase. This person can wave his arms, behave actively, while he feels and perceives himself in exactly the place that he remembers at that moment.
The depth of trance is determined by the degree of self-absorption of a person, that is, the degree of his concentration on himself and his inner world. Most often - on the task that he solves for himself with the help of trance.
Technique "Gradual relaxation"
First circle of relaxation
While lying on your back, mentally walk through all parts of your body, trying to relax them to a state where physical sensations are barely noticeable (the ideal option is to be completely absent). This won't happen right away. Therefore, you need to constantly practice to learn how to relax deeply.
First, walk your mind's eye over your body, imagining that it is relaxing. Start with your feet. Mentally tell yourself:
My right leg relaxes, relaxes, relaxes... this at least three times, imagining - imagining the right leg relaxing.
Then do the same with your left leg. Repeating mentally to herself that she is relaxing.
Then turn your attention to your left hand. Repeat to yourself: my left hand relaxes, relaxes, relaxes...
Next, turn your attention to your right hand and repeat the suggestion.
Then we turn our attention to the stomach. Repeat mentally: my stomach relaxes, relaxes, relaxes...
Then move on to the chest. Use the same formula to relax her.
After that the face, then the whole head.
Particular emphasis should be placed on the most tense part of the body. Usually this is the face, this is where (especially in the lower jaw) the greatest tension occurs.
Second circle of relaxation
Start relaxing again. Only this time repeat mentally: My legs relax, relax, relax... (on the second circle we relax two legs at once)
Then we relax both hands at once.
After this, the entire body (immediately the stomach and chest).
At the end is the head (along with the face).
Third circle of relaxation
It is the simplest and most effective. We relax our whole body at once.
Mentally repeat to yourself: my body is relaxing, relaxing, relaxing...
Connect your breathing to the technique. As you exhale, visualize—imagine your body relaxing more and more. Here the number of repetitions needs to be increased, the main thing is that you feel that you are relaxing. (Your body dissolves and remains somewhere behind).
Particular emphasis in the gradual relaxation technique should be placed on the third circle.
The main thing is not to overdo it. If you try too hard to relax, you may not get the desired results. (Your brain will focus all its attention on the body and because of this it will be difficult to achieve a state of complete relaxation).
When you feel that your body is no longer relaxing, forget about it. Bring your attention to your third eye (just look between your eyebrows with your eyes closed).
When you feel that your thoughts have begun to wander and you are being carried away from practice, return again to gradual relaxation. Walk over your entire body again, looking for tense spots. Using your imagination (as you exhale), relax them (imagining - imagining them relaxing). Then again turn your attention between the eyebrows.
If during the practice you feel that the energy has gone to the third eye (a feeling of immersion in infinite space will begin to appear), then forget about relaxation and focus on immersion in infinity.
On the third circle, you are no longer just relaxing, you are meditating. Learn more about the technique here (Out-of-body experience through meditation).
When you learn to relax well, you will no longer need the whole gradual relaxation method. It will be enough to do only the third round of relaxation. Just lie down, mentally (with imagination - idea) relax as you exhale and wait for infinite space to begin to appear. With experience, this usually happens within a minute or two.
