Note: I know you guys are probably getting tired of seeing this posted on all sites. I am posting this here for information and *might* update it one day soonish.
Having been asked several times now because of people's curiosity and finally asked recently because someone wants to actually follow this, I am posting the regime I followed for myself (with quite a bit of help from a spirit guide and the findings of several sites a friend of mine found,) when I was first starting out in my non-introspective and purely psychic endeavors. The regime might seem quite extreme at first, but the truth of the matter was I found ways to implement my training into my day to day practice and thus training was as natural to me as going through my day. Having a fair bit of will to go at this helps tremendously, and simply enjoying the training helps even more
One of the first things me and my best friend started exploring was
Qigong. Qigong can briefly be described as the art of utilizing breathing and sometimes physical movements to improve one's health, energy, strength and stamina. It is a key part of martial arts and a key part of Chinese medicine. There were four primary Qigong practices I started out practicing, and these were the hardest practices for me to do as I couldn't easily implement them into my daily regime.
The first exercise, (which is actually poorly described in that link,) was learning basic Qigong breathing. Since correct breath is essential in Qigong, I tried to practice this daily and eventually I got this down so well that I was able to breath in this manner in any daily activity with very little concentration involved. Sadly, I learned of this base exercise after I had already started Horse Stance and other internal exercises, but I feel it is essential that a practitioner learn this exercise first before moving on. A more correct form of the exercise is as follows(The website where this was originally found is sadly lost,): sit down in a comfortable position. Start focusing on your breathing. You should be attempting to make your breathing as slow and deep as possible. Take some time to do this until you can get to either one breath a minute or, if that becomes impossible two breaths a minute. This will easily get you into a relaxed and tranced state of being, albeit you will definitely still have the ability to be aware of your surroundings. When you have gotten to either one or two breaths a minute, feel the breath as it travels through the body. Feel what the chest and abdomen are doing and feel the spots that are affected most by the breath. Try to target how the following is affected: your abdomen, chest (lungs), Solar plexus area (or somewhere around that area,) and the area about 3 inches in and 3 inches down from your belly button. When you believe you have felt these areas sufficiently, imagine cleaning and energizing energy and feelings coming in along with your breath and to those target areas. The areas around the Solar Plexus and the area described 3 inches in and down from the belly button should be trying to absorb a good amount of this vitalizing energy. When you felt you have sufficiently done enough breaths, be they ten breaths or ten minutes worth of breaths, stop the exercise.
The above exercise is a very base exercise which will introduce you into Qigong. To a good amount of Qigong practitioners that exercise alone is good enough to improve their health to a level they feel comfortable with. Being the explorer and young kid I was I felt I had to shoot Fire out of my Ass however and immediately started on some exercises that I really should have been taught by an instructor first. What I didn't realize at the time was that my introspection and will for self improvement was vital to what I was doing. I am going to describe these next.
My reasons for doing the following isn't entirely important but it comes down to life had thrown me in this direction at a perfect time. One of the first things I did was to face down all of my largest fears and blatant mental blocks. I was largely afraid of people, for example and so I got a job at a supermarket to help me in this regard and to help me earn some extra cash, as my future was also a big fear for me. My self confidence was also a big fear and mental block to myself. I rationalized all of this out and tried to find a positive for every negative that came up in my mind. The positive couldn't just be any positive I thought of, it had to directly correlate and directly counterbalance the negative thought which had come up. I had no idea at the time how important this actually was to my psychic development. I did certainly know how important it was to my sanity at the time. I even dedicated hours upon hours of time to this every day for a good long while so that I could overcome my own personal demons. If anything comes up, I still do this.
At some point I found I was completely happy with myself save the fact that I could go even further in this mental capacity: I dropped all that I believed and rationalized based only on facts. Every rational conclusion I came to had to have a distinct reasoning which made sense and had a good amount of factual backing to it. I dedicated myself to this practice and still try to practice this today.
I furthered the above in trying to make a dedicated way of scientific thought. This was based largely on the
scientific method I had been taught in school, but I largely changed this method to something that made more sense to me scientifically. The scientific method in my mind left a large amount of room for personal interpretation and large misinterpretations and errors in judgment, not the least of which was narrowing the viewpoint at key points of observation based on assumption. An outline of a scientific approach is as follows: (from Wikipedia)
- Define the question
- Gather information and resources
- Form hypothesis
- Perform experiment and collect data
- Analyze data
- Interpret data and draw conclusions that serve as a starting point for new hypotheses
- Publish results
When defining a question, I try to never form a question around something that has never been hypothetical, never factually proven, or can't be observed in some fashion (granted astral stuff is grainy in regards to observation, I will get to that when I get to astral travel.) Some scientists, including big names like
Albert Einstein and
Charles Darwin made quite a bit of hypothetical
hypothesis (and both openly admit to both the fact that the hypothesis was in fact a hypothesis and the fact that it was hypothetical, despite what the common view wishes to think,) about the world around them. While I do often go into hypothetical thinking I clearly define it as that in my mind: hypothetical.
Going on to the second part of the method,
observations are made, but often I hear of things being observed either through philosophical or egotistical filters or more accurately they are assuming things before they even start observing. I figured if I was to get an accurate view of the world around me, I would try my best not to let my ego or my bias get in the way of true fact. It is true, for example that I feel heat in my hand. It might not be true that heat is actually present. It is true that the thermometer isn't registering any heat. It is not true that that means nothing is happening when I am trying to heat the air between my hands
Psionically (GOM WIKI).