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Technique 2.2: Remain conscious no matter what My most recent version. - Preparation: Get into your tiredness sweet spot. I guess mine is currently somewhere between 20 and 35 hours of no sleep. Alarm clock snooze option set on one minute. Less than 1 minute would be even better. If you don't find an alarm clock app with that option, you could just keep your eyes open for 20 seconds and then do the technique for the remaining 40 seconds. Or do some push ups lol. Or maybe even more brutal, reverse blinking. Or listen to some motivation music. - The technique: FILD + counting each FILD movement. Start at cero again after snoozing the alarm. So this is what is new. Upon snoozing the alarm you ask yourself some questions, only after seriously answering them are you allowed to continue practicing: "Did I lose consciousness?" or "did I fall asleep?". If you did fall alseep and then woke up due to the alarm, you probably don't realise that you were asleep. And after snoozing the alarm, immediately fall back asleep without even trying to do sleep yoga. If you train yourself to always ask that question, this can be prevented. Rate your sleepiness on a scale from 0-10. This requires that you put your attention on your level of sleepiness and find out how sleepy you actually are. Doing this, you might realise that you are more sleepy than you assumed. It also gives you an idea how quickly you are getting sleepy. And you will get a sense of what each number signifies to you. For example, you could make it as a rule that you switch to a more uncomfortable body postion if the number is above 5. So the question to ask is "what is my level of sleepiness?". And then give a number and continue accordingly. " Will I notice the next alarm (in 1 minute) and ask the 3 questions?" This reminds you of it, so you don't forget. You are bringing it into your awareness and re-strengthening your determination. You don't need to ponder long. 10 seconds might be enough for all 3 questions. You can come up with your own questions suited to your personal challenges, or don't ask anything at all. But for my practice, these questions are important. You should ask these questions ALWAYS. Unless this is a strong habit, there is a good chance you won't do it if the alarm clock just pulled you out of sleep. And yes, asking these questions every minute gets boring AF haha. If you still lose consciousness, you need to either increase your willpower, or reduce the time between alarm clocks, or increase discomfort (like holding one hand up), or do anything with similar effects. Tips: When you are tired but not yet in your sleepiness sweet spot, don't close your eyes (not even for a few seconds). Only close your eyes during sleep yoga practice. If you think you will just chill for 3 seconds, there's a good chance you will fall asleep. Add whatever other tools (like for example ellbow up or brainwave entrainment) seem helpful from my previous posts. If you want to further increase discomfort, you could vertically hold up one arm (straight), above your head, that it is in line with your upper body. And then switch arms one your muscles tire. And in case you lose consciousness, your arm drops all the way down, likely waking you up. In my experience, when doing this technique properly, success pretty much only depends on your motivation, determination and willpower. Your meditation skills and brainwave skills are comparably insignificant. Which is good news because it means you can force results. No months of practice and experience required. If you want it bad enough, you might achieve it the first try. But that's still not likely, because you are likely to mess up the technique without even noticing it, for example by forgetting to keep counting your FILD numbers or answering all 3 questions, because your willpower and determination wasn't strong enough. So it takes many attempts to become aware of all the sneaky ways which make you fail. And then you need enough determination to prevent them the next time. This sounds easy in theory but then when you are damn tired it feels sooooo good to just close your eyes and fall asleep. So all the months of my practice have been mostly about figuring out the right technique. There haven't been many instances where I did the technique + had the necessary willpower. But several times my willpower was enough for my body to fall asleep while remaining concious. So for me this technique + sufficent willpower works. The shift in consciousness is pretty nice. It happens within a few seconds. But it never lasted long because my alarm clock always rings a few seconds later lol. The plan would be that with more practice you will be able to eaily return to that state after snoozing the alarm. And then you progressively lengthen the snooze time, so you can spend more and more time there. Thinking about that post, and then writing it, actually hyped me a bit again for sleep yoga. I think I should keep doing sleep yoga, at least whenever my will power seems to be strong enough. The reason why I stopped sleep yoga was that I wanted to put all my attention on light body practices, because they are my clear number 1 priority currently. Doing sleep yoga might leave me with less will power for these practcies and they might make me more tired which would also reduce the efficency of the light body practices. But right now I think that I would make quickes progress spiritually if I do both at once. So that's my current plan. But let's see, I tend to change my mind quite often lol.

@m0hsen If I ever get back back into yoga I'm gonna try nadi sodhana again. I had been thinking about getting into yoga again, but currently I don't think I will, because channeling energy is currently more intense than kriya supreme fire, so I guess I'm fine with that. But I'm still doing some kriya supreme fire every now and then. How long have you been doing kriya yoga?

@m0hsen Interesting, thanks for sharing! I don't hear the om vibrations. Maybe I shouldn't have skipped Nadi Sodhana when I was practicing kriya yoga, but I thought it is weak sauce. I did the sushuma breathing though. Chanting om seems to have a nice effect for me, maybe I should add it to some of my practices.

When I made that first post, I didn't have as much clarity as now. I thought that the effects I felt were mostly from the transmissions themselves. But now it seems like the strong effects are only when I try to channel energy at the same time. Back then, I wasn't as much aware of how much I did that and what effect it had. If I watch these transmissions without trying to amplify them, they are sublte. I'm wondering what led to the ability to channel energy. I think the first time I experienced a strong energy channeling effect was when watching Kai Shanti's videos. So I thought it's her transmissions. But now I think that her transmissions might have activated something in me, the ability to channel energy myself, and therefore her transmissions are that strong for me. But without trying to channel energy, her transmissions are subtle too. In case her transmissions actually activated something in me, I wonder how/why that happened. I guess I had an affinity with her transmissions and also was ready.

Thanks guys for all the recommendations!! @roopepa Nice! I recently started listening to a lot of light language and some intuitive singing stuff too. I like the videos by Mariella La Cunza for that. @Seraphim I gotta look him up more closely. Do you remember which of his videos caused that awakening? @OBEler Yes, I liked that. I think the music might have some supportive role. @EmptyVase He seems like a good channeler! @knakoo Yes. live transmissions are stronger for me. @kieranperez Interesting! He seems to have strong energy. I didn't feel anything spectaculous yet, gotta watch some more of his videos.

Update Around mid February, I think some affirmations of my sleep yoga subliminal suddenly kicked in (or it was the result of other manifestation practices). I made it myself and included affirmations about sleeping 12 hours each day. I thought that is a good idea, because one of my obstacles had been that I wasn't tired enough and therefore couldn't practice much. The affirmations seemed to work in the way I envisioned, by increasing my sleep need, but it seems like they manifested in an unforseen way too, they somehow made it extremely difficult to stay wake when very tired. It got so much harder to resist the urge to just fall asleep, and thus the affirmations resulted in me sleeping more, and ruining my sleep yoga practice, lol. I struggled with that for around 2 weeks, then I overpowered the affirmations with my willpower, and was back to normal while keeping the ability to have higher sleep needs. Perfect. But then, almost at that exact time, I had my deepest awakening up to that point, which was a complete shock, totally unexpected realizations which recontextualized everything on a yet deeper level. I had thought awakening couldn't get too radical for me, LOL. For the next 4-6 weeks, I was basically just sitting on my couch trying to process it. And was completely unable to do sleep yoga. Around 3 weeks ago I managed to get back into the illusion far enough to have enough motivation and willpower to do intense stuff like sleep yoga again. At that point, my biggest challenge was that my alarm clocks were not reliable at all to wake me up after unintentionally falling asleep. Not even when setting them every minute (I didn't find an app with the snooze duration for less than 1 minute + the the option to ring only via headphones). Anyway, I came up with some solutions to deal with that. My LP is becoming a spiritual teacher, and I had been contemplating for quite some time how to become very skilled at awakening others. I think baseline consciousness is one of the most important factors. I had been thinking sleep yoga would be most powerful for raising my baseline consciousness (6h extremely deep meditation + 2h psychedelic lucid dreaming each day). That had been my motivation for sleep yoga. Around 2 weeks ago I discovered something which I believe is more powerful (at least for me) for raising my baseline consciousness. Or more precisely, raising baseline consciousness in the way I intend it. Because there is more than just one dimension to raising baseline. Anyways, I became so enthusiastic about that new approach that I instantly dropped most of my practices like sleep yoga, self inquiry, meditation,... My new goal is furthering the development of my light body. I think the main difference between people like Buddha and the people here on the forum is, that their light body was much more developed. Their peak God-Realizations were probably similiar to those of advanced people here on the forum. But their baseline was probably astonishingly close to such peak awakenings. Such a high baseline is - the way I currently see it - always very closely related to a high development of the light body. The normal 21st century human body is not able to hold that baseline. You wouldn't be able to function that way, or you would just go insane, die or do mahasamadhi. To be able to sustain these higher states of consciousness requires an upgrade of the physcial body. Which is best done by developing the light body. The more developed your light body, the higher your baseline, and vice versa. But the most effective way to further the development of the light body is not by raising your baseline, but by channeling a lot of divine energy into your body. Over the past months I had noticed how I got a lot more energy sensitive and developed the ability to channel energy (I guess one of the biggest contributors during the past half year was devotion, contacting spirits and listening to YouTube Transmissions. Kriya yoga would be good for it too.). So that's what I'm currently doing, channeling divine energy to further the development of the light body. I do think that at one point there will come a phase again when I will have high motivation for sleep yoga. And then I will go for it too. With my most recent technique upgrade + high motivation, it should be easy. I'm going to post the upgraded technique soon. Ah, and here is my subliminal guide:

@SilentTears Do you listen to sapien medicine on YouTube or did you buy the paid (and probably boosted) version on gumroad? I think sapien med is more powerful.

@artcastle I just read your whole post. Interesting experience! The explanation, that you still indentified with a body from a dream, seems plausible. At least more likely than other explanations I can think of. One of them being that you reality-shifted (which is possible) from a very similar reality where you had a larger body.

No difference. Thoughts and visualisations are just as real like stuff you see or hear like a chair or a bird. Both direct experience. Both imagination. A thought or a concept is real, it exists. But the thing that the concept describes / points to, isn't real.

@Big Steve Welcome to the forum:) Everything is possible because Reality is Infinite and God's imagination. Therefore I believe this kind of resurrection is undoubtedly possible. But we can't be sure whether Jesus actually did it because you never know which parts of the bible are literal or metaphorical or both at once. But my guess is that Jesus did it.

I stumbled on Sapien Medicine too, but haven't really listened to these audios yet. I really should start. Thanks for the reminder! So far, I've been listening to the audios by Maitreya Fields. I guess they are quite similar.

@GreenLight wow that's impressive! For me, these youtube transmissions are only very subtle. Except those by Kai Shanti. (But I guess that's only because I combine it with a certain meditation technique of trying to receive the transmission.) From nowhere? Or did you or someone else induce it? Most people with these abilities are born with it. But some aquire them in this life. Either through activation or blessing/grace by someone else or through much effort and practice.

Why wouldn't it be possible lol. Even from the relative perspective it seems quite plausible. I guess on the forum it is already well accepted that you can have an OBE, leave your body, do some stuff and return. If you can return to 'your' body, then why shouldn't it possible to return to a different body. It's not easy because the other body is different and you don't have a connection with it. But a highly advanced yogi should easily be able to do it. I read several reports of people achieving something of the like. Don't know whether their stories are true, though. One person said that by being in someone else's body, he actually became different. He became that person and I think he said that he didn't remember his old body. But I don't think this is like this in all cases. I think it is possible to remain your old self and remember your old body and life. Also, this is basically what possession is. There is countless evidence for possesion, so it's probably true. And isn't changing your body quite similar as what some people experience on salvia (for example becoming a stone or a book)?

If you believe it is bullshit, then it is What makes you a frog? There are certain criteria that must be fullfilled so that you can be considered a frog. And it is 100% onto you to set these criteria. The only authority there is, is your authority. If the criteria/definition which you set (of what is a frog) is met then you are effectively a frog! From your dad's pov, you are not a frog, but that doesn't matter, only your judgement matters. So if you believe that your criteria is met, and when you believe that you are therefore a frog, you LITERALLY are a frog. What else would make you a frog? What would make you be no frog? Not the judgement of somebody else. Only your judgement matters. You live in your own 'universe'. So if your judgement says that you are a frog, then that is what is true for you. If you believe you are a frog, saying that you are a human is completely false.

watch that one too: https://www.actualized.org/insights/sense-organs-are-imaginary

@Someone here If you believe you are a frog, you are a frog. You are the ultimate Authority. Whether your body actually changes and takes the form of a frog, and thus satisfies the common idea of what a frog is, doesn't matter. Human body or frog body, as long as you believe you are a frog, you are a frog lol.

For many people shamanic breathing is strenuous and requires much effort and will power. This might even be the number one reason why hardly anyone is doing it regularly . To solve that, we can make it more enjoyable or find ways that make the effects appear earlier, so less time spent breathing is required. So far I've come up with these ideas: more potent breathing technique running for 2-10 minutes just before starting. (Running has a similiar effect as the first few minutes of shamanic breathing, thus you reduce total breathing time). And, the exhaustion can melt resistance. You could additionally take a quick shower after running. Maybe 30 seconds cold (to pump up motivation and discipline) and then warm/hot so you are not cold for your breathing session. Alternatively or additionally you could masturbate just before shamanic breathing. ( Just edging, ejaculation likely decreases your willpower for shamanic breathing.) And try to spread the sexual energy to your upper body at the same time. That might make the breathing later on more pleasurable (if not all sexual energy dissolves). You could maybe also try to keep masturbating while shamanic breathing. Listening to drumming music or music you like And you could do anything that makes you motivated before starting or do things that reduce resistance, like self love or meditation to reduce ego. Have you come up with tricks? Or any spontaneous ideas?

@BipolarGrowth I did some more inquiry and I think you are right.

Is it possible during night dreams? Then it is possible in this dream too. How? Absolute perspective: God imagines the appearance of a body flying in the exact same way as the appearance of a body walking. Relative perspective: you need more control. Which comes as a result of psychic power + high consciousness.

@levani plateauing is fine. I thought you meant that the benefits went away rather than just plateauing. I never experienced long plateaus because after at most a few weeks of semen preservation I'm usually set back due to wet dreams

@levani ?? I wonder why the positive effects would wear off. Did you have any wet dreams? If you do 4-5 day retentions, then maybe do it like Connor and drink the juice He says he doesn't lose the benefits of semen retention that way. Though I don't see how that would be possible.

Both masculine and feminine energies have their part in spirituality. At the heart of spirituality is surrender, which is feminine. The more you surrender, the more your ego gets reduced. In that sense, masculine energy could be regarded to correlate with ego. But in order to do hardcore practices (which also result in less ego) you need masculine energy. So the best is when you have both energies and are very flexible, so that you can effortlessly tap into whatever energy suits the current situation best. After walking the path for a long time, you will likely have more feminine energy. Because high baseline consciousness is only possible with high surrender.

For me, masturbation with and without ejaculation both make meditation afterward deeper. Due to sexual energy in the body and some kind of exhaustion (from ejaculation) (which results in less resistance and increased surrender). But it is different for different types of meditations. For me, it has a positive impact on most types of meditations. I very rarely ejaculate though, because I usually do semen preservation.

Demons are most likely real. Most people just aren't able to perceive them. Be careful with your intentions. If you want to do shadow work, rephrase your intention to something like "meeting the part of me which I most fear".

That's not true. Some reasons why an awakened one wouldn't teach if acting from the absolute perspective: others are imagination there will be no future there is no good or bad In that sense, there is no reason to teach. However, by the same 'logic' there is also no reason not to teach. That's the mindfuck I'm currently struggling with (not only in terms of being selfless, but doing anything at all). And knowing that there is no self to decide either way only adds to the mindfuck. If that paradox gets integrated, teaching others can happen even from the absolute perspective. There is only Love. Love is the only 'reason' to do anything (or nothing). And even though Love loves unconditionally, good and evil equally, I still feel like there is a tendency towards selflessness and maximizing Love. It's hard to put into words, and I might be deluded here, but that's what it seems to me. This is what happens if the paradoxes are integrated and transcended. It might seem contradictory, and in some sense it might be, but what I'm trying to point to is beyond logic. @freejoy Maybe this is also an answer to that question/situation: