My approach to phasing

[blis]

I read a post where someone said the phasing tutorial began and ended with looking at the back of your eyelids and expecting to astral travel. So I thought I'd mention some things you can do with your eyes that makes the noticing approach to phasing easier in my opinion. Personally, I cant phase without doing this.

If you check you'll find that when you close your eyes to go to sleep they look downwards. And when you open them again they look back up. It's like your eyes want to be in sync with your upper eyelids.

When phasing, the first thing I do after closing my eyes is lift my gaze a little. Not quite as far as a right angle with my head. Somewhere between 60 and 80 degrees in relation to my face. You might find it lets a bit more light through your eyelids but it's not really a hinderance. You'll find a point that's as far as you can look up and still be relaxed without your eyes opening by themselves.

The next thing I do is move my eye's focus farther away from my face. Maybe about a foot. Like if you were holding your finger a foot infront of your face and looking at it. You're going to hold your focus at this point.

You might find the combination of these two actions has the effect of moving the blackness a little farther from your face, as if giving it some depth. Doing these things brings on visuals SO much faster for me.

Now you just wait for the flashes of colour and stuff. The key to not losing it when you start to see stuff is keeping your focus away from your face. It's almost like the visuals are occuring in the space between your eyes and where you're focusing. Your eyes will want to try and look at them but of course they cant because there isnt actually anything there to look at. So for a while you need to kind of ignore the visuals. Be aware that stuff is there but dont concern yourself with what it is. As it progresses you'll be able to tell what you're seeing more clearly. It's a natural process.

It's like a transition period between using your physical eyes and your minds eye. Both are active. The longer you can keep your eyes from trying to focus on the visuals the more your physical sight will disengage and the visiuals will start to take more shape and become clearer.

Theres nothing more to it. Thats all I do.

There is a slightly different method I use sometimes that works as well.

With your eyes closed, imagine you were looking at you finger out infront of your face. I dont mean actually visualise a finger but just move your eye's focus to where it would be if you were looking at one. Now slowly bring it towards you while keeping focus on it. When it gets to your face keep going! Move it into your head a couple of inches and keep your focus on it. I know you eyes physical focus wont actually be at that point but just go with it. What this does is shift your attention from your physical eyes to your minds eye.

The previous method was to hold your attention on your physical sight(or rather the lack of) while ignoring the non-physical, just waiting it out until the physical switched off. This method is the other way round - you ignore the physical. This is what you're doing when you use the visualisation method of phasing but in this instance we're just noticing while holding our attention on our minds eye.

Just like before, hold your attention here when you start to see stuff. I find I can recognise what I'm seeing much earlier with this method and it's a lot less distracting on my physical eyes.

[faxman]

Excellent post. It covers some questions I had about phasing.

Thanks

[djed]

Thanks Blis, just what I was looking for, some immediate practical help in beginning phasing without having to understand all the 'consciousness theory' that seems to come with it.
cheers djed 

[urshebear]

Extremely helpful. thankyou Blis

[Boom]

Ooh this is definatley a good one to try, going to try this one. thanks for the post