John Magnus Phasing Rundown

[personalreality]

You can also read this technique @ http://nonphysical.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/the-john-magnus-rundown/

Here is a Phasing Rundown put forth by AP author, John Magnus:

Pre-Rundown

1. Take a few deep breaths to realx your body and mind.  Think to yourself repeatedly: "With every breath I take, I get more relaxed."

2. Move your center of thought to just below the center of your chest.  This will help the flow of imagination while at the same time prevent thought energy from flowing to your head , the body part associated with reasoning and analytical thought.   Invoking the analytical mind might bring you back to your body, since it will get dreadfully confused.  The reasoning mind is quick to assume, and incorrectly so, that you are in danger of being physically harmed when you are released from your body.  This fear will cut short your projection.

3. From a point in your chest, feel love for the Earth and all its inhabitants.  Bring to mind something that you love immensely.  Take the feeling of love this generates in your chest and radiate that love in all directions.  A feeling of love will guarantee a positive experience in everything you do.

The Rundown

1. Visualize that you are standing in an open meadow in a forest.  Visualize as intensely as you can.  All sensory input from that meadow should be at least as intense as sensory input from the physical body.

2. Visualize the sun's rays hitting your feet.  The warmth relaxes them.

3.  Affirm to yourself repeatedly: "Tonight I will AP."  It is the person standing in the meadow that affirms this, not the person lying in the bed.  Continue the affirmation throughout the whole visualization.  [Note: It is commonly accepted that affirmations should be spoken in the present tense, using positive declaration; "I easily AP tonight" rather than "Tonight I will AP". - personalreality]

4.  The warmth from the sun spreads from your feet up through your whole body, relaxing the muscles as it spreads.

5.  The wind gains speed over the meadow.  A warm breeze of air caresses your face.  Feel the breeze.

6.  You see the green grass waving in the breeze.

7.  You smell the distinct scent of pine trees surrounding the meadow.

8.  Visualize walking around in that meadow.  Touch the grass, the bark of the trees, and everything else you come upon.

9.  Continue visualizing walking around in the meadow.

At this point you can take the experience one of two ways.   If you are doing this at night as you go to sleep, allow yourself to fall asleep.   If you wake in the night, continue visualization as you return to sleep.  At some point near dawn (when your REM cycles are the longest) you will awake with a buzzing, floating feeling.  At this point you intuitively intensify the buzzing and use an exit-technique (roll-out, stand up, somersault, etc.).

If you are using this rundown as a phasing method, continue visualization until you become immersed in the scene and have lost awareness of your body.  You have just phased.

[grzazek]

My visualisation skills are too weak for this kind of phasing. I wish it was just easy..

[Xanth]

PR, I'm definitely gonna have to give that a go.   Thanks

My visualisation skills are too weak for this kind of phasing. I wish it was just easy..

Everyone has impeccable visualization skills.  I believe you can't exist objectively in this physical reality without them.
What makes you think yours are below 'standard'?

[personalreality]

you'd be surprised how much easier visualization becomes when you shift your frame of perception [ie enter a trance state, slow your brainwaves to alpha/light meditative trance, then begin visualization which will slowly become more and more 'real' as you go deeper and deeper into the meditative trance.] 

some years back, 'state alpha' was a big deal in psychology.  all kinds of research was done on people's capabilities in state alpha vs. beta.  like they would play binural beats or use meditation to induce 'state alpha' in jet pilots in the simulator to see if they responded faster and what not.  a lot of other research was done into how that state affected all kinds of things people did, including artistic endeavors.  i had an old hippie psych of religion teacher last semester who talked with me for like 4 hours in the library one day about all the research that they did back in the 60's on 'state alpha' (as she consistently called it). 

the point is that you can more easily access and control your 'imagination' when your mind is a little more "out than in". 

[grzazek]

What makes you think yours are below 'standard'?

Just lack of practice really...

[mcdwg]

I remember a while back I was interested in the astral pulse island so when I went to sleep I visualized an island and soon I found mysrlf hovering above an islnad with lots of vegetation and people in it I even saw a pyramid, it was really cool but I thin it was a random occurrence because I have not been able to do it as clearly as that time.

personalreality, when you say "Move your center of thought to just below the center of your chest", what do you mean I don't understand how to do that.

Can you explain please.

[Xanth]

Just lack of practice really...

You "practice" more than you think you do.
Everyone does.  People who think they lack in visualization skills, I believe lack in confidence in themselves.

[Stookie]

Some people just don't spend much time imagining and think more in words than in pictures. But visualization is a skill that can be practiced and learned. I think in many cases people don't realize how bad they visualize until they start to get good at it. Of course it's all subjective because we can't share what we're visualizing with anyone else, just describe it. Much of the visualization needed for AP/meditation is linked to concentration, and you know not everyone is good at that.

[personalreality]

doing some creative visualization might help.

there's that author....gawain or something......that has books on it.  might be helpful.

[SuperManny]

doing some creative visualization might help.
there's that author....gawain or something......that has books on it.  might be helpful.

Yes, Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain.

My 2¢ on visualization;
I think it's one of the most misunderstood concepts out there, because people are trying to see a tv screen on the back of their eyelids, and it just doesn't work that way for most of us.

Now if your primary mode of sensory input is visual, then you've got it made! ...but that only applies to prolly 5 to 10% of us. What helped me more than anything is a teacher I had a long time ago, who explained that the most effective way to 'visualize' is to simply "experience" it... in other words, pull out a memory and and go through it; re-remember it, and pay attention to how you experience it. Then use that same mode to visualize... for me personally it's probably about 60% kinesthetic, 30% visual, and the final 10% would be a mixture of, say about 1/2 hearing, and 1/2 smell, intuition, etc.

Then when you've figured the most effective way, you can always intensify it by making it brighter, closer, louder, stronger, more intense in every way.
Hope this helps!

[personalreality]

I like that explanation, much better.