Recently @AMASH told me I should listen to Alchemist. So, I figured I’d try it for a few days, which makes my stack the Alchemic Ecstasy of Khan. Or is it the Ecstatic Alchemy of Khan? Alchemy of the Ecstatic Khan? Whatever it may be, I’ve been thinking more about stuff I don’t fully understand yet. So allow me to post a something a Native American Taoist Shaman told me (apparently they exist). Maybe you’ll get it, maybe you won’t. Maybe you will find it applicable, maybe you won’t.
Everything you do in meditation has some correlation with the body. How well you relax determines how much of what you accomplish in the meditation gets transferred back when you come out of meditation. Whether you are working on a physical or emotional issue, or opening up your third eye. When you are tense, little is gained. When you are profoundly relaxed, almost everything you do in meditation transfers back with you.
In Taoist teachings this is referred to as “building a bridge”. Through relaxation we are building a bridge from the one place where everything is possible back to the present. A place of duality, of night and day. That is where we live, that is what we do. There is no way around it. Yet we are heading toward a place of unity. And we get there through this place of meditation.
In some meditations you will visualize you are on a beach by the ocean. Or in a cave, for example. Although your physical body is sitting in a chair in your living room, there is an energetic aspect of you by the ocean or in that cave. And your mind controls it. Whatever you do in that place of your visualization, transfers back to the totality of the physical body. When you draw that energetic aspect back to the present, you carry it back with you over the bridge.
When people first learn to meditate, often they don’t relax very well. They think they are relaxed, but it really takes a while to effectively do so. Relaxation is a process that should not be rushed. 40 to 50 minutes of relaxation is more important than 10 minutes of mental imaging or visualizing in any exercise you are doing.
When you first start to meditate, you are building a string bridge. That string bridge doesn’t hold much, and maybe can not hold the weight of what you did in your meditation. But the more capable you are of relaxing, the stronger the bridge becomes. Eventually it becomes a wooden bridge. Then a steel bridge. Thus, an increasingly higher percentage of what you do in your meditation is transferred back to the body.
It is a very curious phenomenon when people first experience a truly relaxed state. When their body feels like a shell and the mind can float. And then they apply their energy to mental imaging. The results can be phenomenal.
So, @RockyHandsome, if you put half as much energy into the visualizations as you put into manifesting reruns of Game of Thrones, you’ll probably get better than @anon3072973, the man that visualized money out of thin air without these superchargers. And English isn’t even his first language. Not even similar.