Meditation - Imagining going down

[Awakened_Mind]

I seemed to notice, or more so, pay attention to the way I woke up this morning. I was still in my body but awoke in a deep trance. You'll notice that you feel like you are 'coming up' as you begin to become fully awake in the physical world.

It might be a good idea if after say progressive muscle relaxation you imagine yourself going down. More specifically the feeling of it. Like climbing down a ladder, or walking down stairs, or in an elevator. Focussing intently on the feeling of going down. I've found this can help enter trance.

-AM

[Vvid1012]

I notice this too...kinda like I'm floating to the surface in some pool of water. 

I find that it helps to configure my breathing to help my overall sensation of feeling the drift downward.  Usually I go down on the exhale and stop/rest on the inhale

[Awakened_Mind]

Yes breathing can help create the falling sensation. It's important to know most techniques are very general and thus flexible. We all mould them into things that we best prefer.

"Like floating to the surface in a pool of water" Nice quote

-AM

[Werp Weg Alles]

Going down on the exhale and staying in the same place on the inhale is the method that Robert Bruce describes to enter a trance in his 7 part treatise on Astral Projection.  When I first started meditating, thats all I used. 

[Awakened_Mind]

How would you describe it when ou're falling asleep?

To me, it feels like something closing over the top of me. Once under, then the descent.

-AM

[Lucid_Learner]

I have induced vibes a few times using the technique. It took me a while to realise that I wasn't sposed to be picturing myself goin down the ladder as such... More like the feelings that would occur as I AM going down the ladder. I also used the breathing to control my descent. I found it very useful 

Peace LL