(10-03-2012, 02:42 PM)Andrew Wrote: Hi everyone!

Recently I discovered something very interesting. I am sure it is not new but I believe my ability to teach/explain it would allow "regular" people to use this discovery as opposed to just life-long monks.

I've had a bout of phantom decentralized pain and insomnia but during this dark time, I made a discovery using self-guided meditation/relaxation technique I had learned while going through my hypnosis accreditation courses (I never finished these as I had to go travel after my best friend ended his life a couple years ago).

So during this time of pain recently, I was on very powerful prescription painkillers that could not rid me of the terrible pain and migraines. The prescription made it semi-bearable, but you can only take these for a limited time before you need to up the dose and I was not willing to do this. So I stopped the painkillers, and started meditating. Something I don't do or need to do often, as lifting weights, making art, playing music rids me off all life stress under normal circumstance so I just never find the need to meditate.

During my hypnosis courses, I had discovered, as most people do how to induce several levels of hypnotic states on myself without a guide, or having to listen to anything. Just self-guided progressive relaxation. But what happened this time was nothing short of astounding. At first, I found I could lessen the pain. Then what happened next I still can't quite explain but I was able to reverse it and turn it into pleasure. For the entire duration of the rest of the meditation I had no pain, and a full body pleasure sensation better than any prescription pain killer I'd ever used. I even had no pain for an hour afterwards, and over the next few days the pain did come back but it was only a fraction of the intensity from before and made it manageable. On top of that, as different aspects of my brain turned off, silenced, others turned on and I found my awareness increasing ten fold. I found I could now communicate with my superconscious freely in open dialogue (and possibly others' as well, but I obviously can't prove that part). I found I could recreate ANY sensation, ANY feeling, ANY emotion. I could recreate inspiration, not only on a local level but on a much broader level to where for the next few days everything I came across was viewed from an entire different perspective of either helping me with my greater life aspirations or not. I became super-inspired and super-focused. Petty things were eliminated completely as my superconscious was now temporarily aligned with my waking conscious. (For the record I don't think we should live from our ideal superconscious all the time, that balance is important-but most people live from their regular conscious just about 100% of the time letting small things run their life...).

Many of you know I'm a very scientific person, and won't make any for-sure claims without a scientific study in my back pocket to back it up. So, I don't. I don't expect anyone to believe a single word of this. I'm not going to reach in my back pocket to throw a dozen studies around prove credibility because there aren't any and it was strictly a personal experience. But, if you are interested out of faith in what I'm saying as true, I am considering trying to teach a few people over text/skype/whatever. If it is something teachable, then I would publish through our store with Shannon or on my own. If it's possible to teach then it would compliment our products well. Let me know your thoughts forum kings. This is an ability I believe many devotees spend a lifetime to achieve, and it just fell into my lap. On top of that, I don't think it's exceptionally hard and can be taught with the right words. For a starting run, I'm looking for people familiar from patient or practitioner side of hypnosis (anyone who has gone through and reached hypnotic states).