MEDITATION
Controlled Waking Dream (Meditation)
Enter a state of controlled waking dream, akin to sleep, where you consciously direct your imagination. Steady your attention to observe the world as if your…
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- Relax in a comfortable chair or bed.
- Close your eyes and imagine you are sleepy, entering a drowsy, passive state.
- In this state, consciously control your imagination.
- Steady your attention on the desired state, observing the world as if your prayer were answered.
- Extend your senses: mentally hear voices, see scenes, and feel the changed relationship to your world.
- Trust this inner observation as real.
- Enter a relaxed, dream-like state (controlled waking dream).
- Steady your attention on the desired state.
- Observe the world as it would be if your prayer were answered, using all senses.
- Intensely sense, touch, hear, and see the new reality from within.
- Trust these inner observations as real.
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How To Manifest Your Desires
Enter a state of controlled waking dream, akin to sleep, where you consciously direct your imagination. Steady your attention to observe the world as if your prayer is already answered, extending your senses to perceive the changed reality.
Prayer is a controlled waking dream. If we are to pray successfully, we must steady our attention to observe the world as it would be seen by us were our prayer answered. Steadying attention makes no call upon any special faculty, but it does demand control of imagination. We must extend our senses – observe our changed relationship to our world and trust this observation.
This technique uses a relaxed, meditative state to impress the subconscious. By vividly sensing and observing the desired reality in imagination, one gives it the sensory vividness needed to manifest.
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To pray successfully, enter a 'controlled waking dream' state. Steady your attention to observe the world as if your prayer were already answered, extending your senses to perceive the new reality. This involves intensely sensing, touching, hearing, and seeing from within, as if the desired state is already physically present.
Prayer is a controlled waking dream. If we are to pray successfully, we must steady our attention to observe the world as it would be seen by us were our prayer answered. Steadying attention makes no call upon any special faculty, but it does demand control of imagination. We must extend our senses – observe our changed relationship to our world and trust this observation. The new world is not there to grasp, but to sense, to touch. The best way to observe it is to be intensely aware of it. In other words, we can, by listening as through we heard and by looking as though we saw, actually hear voices and see scenes from within ourselves that are otherwise not audible or visible.
This technique emphasizes the use of all sensory imagination in a focused, dream-like state to make the desired reality vivid and tangible internally, thereby manifesting it externally.