This is working out really well for me now. :)
I'll have to try that. Another method that I like is just plain feeling yourself falling off a cliff. It's quite rapid and works great...although I don't know if it causes any unwanted side effects such as tension. Give it a try and see.
DS
Thanks, DS! I'll give that a shot. Any tension, I'd imagine, could
be overcome with practice!
Here is a slight change to the trance-inducing falling exercises given in AD that has been working very well for me and I hope it can help someone else.
Before doing the falling technique (I use the elevator one as outlined in the book although I imagine it would work with any of them), I first do the "grove with the tree" movement. First, I center all of the awareness in myself before imagining entering the silent, peaceful garden and visualize it all with as much reality (sights, smells, sounds, etc.) that I can manage. This really helps me focus and maintain the MBA within myself as well as providing a
basis for the visualized tactile sensations that follow. I then
progress under the low-branched tree and relax in the seat carved
into its bough. This helps me to further enhance the deep state of
relaxation.
After sitting there and relaxing and focusing on my breathing, I get
up and proceed to the elevator just beyond the tree and travel down
the side of the mountain that holds the garden, observing the wall
of stone and dirt, sometimes internally chanting the suggested
"down, down, down... deep, deeper, deepest" mantra. The strongly
focused self-centered awareness and relaxation make the falling
sensations greatly more acute and seem to speed the approach of the
trance state to a very large degree.
This could, I imagine, be modified to be stairsteps that go down into
the mountain or a ladder or rope that could be descended.
Please give this a try and let me know if it aids you as much.
Thanks,
Roger
Edited by - Roger on 11 March 2002 05:21:15