🌿 How to Achieve a Relaxed State For Channeling ✨
New Daily Inspirational Write Up For Sunday Aug 9
Objective
The objective of this first exercise is basic preparation for entering the trance state.
I want your experience of channeling to become relaxing, easy, joyful, and even playful. You are not trying to wrestle yourself into trance. You are learning how to create the internal conditions in which trance can naturally emerge.
Relaxation is one of the foundational skills of trance channeling because it begins teaching the body and mind that they do not need to control every moment of the experience. You are learning to soften without becoming sleepy, to become still without becoming dull, and to remain present without constantly analyzing what is happening.
Eventually, relaxation itself can become a doorway. Your body begins recognizing the state. Your breathing changes. Your thoughts settle. Your awareness shifts. With repetition, what initially requires fifteen or twenty minutes may eventually happen much more quickly because you have conditioned yourself to recognize the pathway.
Do not rush this first exercise because it looks simple.
Simple does not mean unimportant.
You are building the foundation upon which the deeper trance processes will rest.
Preparation
Choose a time when you can remain undisturbed for at least ten to fifteen minutes.
Turn off your phone or silence anything that may interrupt you. If other people are in your home, let them know that you would like some uninterrupted time. Close the door if necessary and create a temporary space in which nothing is expected from you.
Create an environment that feels enjoyable, peaceful, and soothing. You may want gentle music playing quietly in the background. Wear loose, comfortable clothing. Adjust the temperature, lighting, pillows, blankets, or anything else that helps your body settle.
Comfort matters.
You do not want to spend half the exercise negotiating with an angry knee.
Choose a time when you feel awake and reasonably energized. If you have just eaten a large meal, are exhausted, or feel as though you could immediately fall asleep, wait until later. The purpose is not to fall asleep. You are developing the ability to become deeply relaxed while remaining consciously present.
As you practice, you may discover particular environments that naturally deepen your state. You might prefer your bed, a meditation chair, the floor, a mat, beneath a tree, beside a river, or somewhere in nature.
I have a rock beside the river where I can lean back and become completely comfortable.
Find your version of that rock.
The environment does not have to be spiritually impressive. It simply needs to allow you to relax.
Step 1 — Find Your Comfortable Position
Find a position you can comfortably maintain for approximately ten to fifteen minutes. You may sit in a chair, on the floor, on a meditation mat, against a tree, beside a river, or anywhere else where your body feels supported. Before beginning, wiggle and scooch. Yes, seriously. Get all the adjusting out of the way now so you are not spending the next ten minutes fighting with your body.
A. Get comfortable. Adjust your hips, shoulders, back, legs, feet, or anything else that needs moving.
B. Check your body. Notice whether anything is already demanding your attention. My knee hurts. My back hurts. My foot is falling asleep. Fix those things before you begin.
C. Find the position that feels right. Move around until your body gives you that simple feeling of, There. That’s it.
D. Become still. Once you have found your position, allow your body to settle. The goal is not to force yourself into stillness. You simply want to become comfortable enough that your position begins to disappear from your awareness.
Step 2 — Establish Your Breath
Close your eyes and begin breathing calmly, slowly, and rhythmically. Take approximately twenty to thirty slow, connected breaths. There is no need to strain, deepen, or force the breath. Allow your breathing to gradually find its own smooth and comfortable rhythm.
A. Settle into your breathing. Begin with slow, easy breaths and allow yourself a few moments to become familiar with the natural movement of your breath.
B. Follow the breath through your body. Become aware of the breath moving through your upper chest, lower chest, and diaphragm. Feel the expansion as you breathe in and the release as you breathe out.
C. Establish a comfortable rhythm. Continue for approximately twenty to thirty connected breaths, allowing each breath to settle you a little further into relaxation.
D. Let the breath communicate stillness. As the rhythm becomes natural, allow it to carry a very simple message throughout your being: There is nowhere else I need to be right now.
E. Become available to stillness. You are not trying to channel yet. You are not trying to make anything happen. For now, you are simply breathing, settling, and becoming available to stillness.
Step 3 — Let Your Concerns Go
Now begin releasing the concerns you carried into the exercise. You do not need to fight your thoughts or demand that your mind become empty. Thoughts may continue to appear. Let them appear. The practice is learning not to chase them.
A. Notice the thought. When a thought enters your mind, simply become aware that it is there. You do not need to analyze it, solve it, suppress it, or become involved with it.
B. Let the thought move on. Imagine your thoughts as clouds moving across the sky. You notice one, and then allow it to continue floating past without following it.
C. Experiment with different imagery. You might imagine a blackboard and gently erase each thought as it appears. You might place the thought inside a bubble and watch it float away. Or imagine plucking the thought from your mind like a weed and simply discarding it. Find the imagery that works naturally for you.
D. Don’t chase the thought. The important part is that you do not chase every thought like a dog chasing a bone. A thought appears. You notice it. You release it. Another appears. You release that one too.
E. Practice non-participation. You are teaching yourself something very simple but important: a thought can exist without requiring your participation.
Step 4 — Relax Your Entire Body
Now bring your awareness into your physical body. Begin at your feet and slowly travel upward. Rather than simply telling yourself to relax, move through your body with your awareness and allow each area to actually soften.
A. Travel through your body. Begin with your toes and feet, then move through your ankles, lower legs, knees, thighs, hips, stomach, chest, back, fingers, hands, arms, shoulders, neck, head, and face. Take your time and notice what you feel as you move through each area.
B. Soften the smaller areas. Allow your jaw to remain slightly open and relaxed. Soften the muscles surrounding your eyes and let your forehead release. Sometimes tension is sitting in these smaller areas without you realizing you are holding it.
C. Use your breath and light. You may imagine light entering an area that feels tense. As you inhale, bring your awareness and light into that part of your body. As you exhale, imagine the tension releasing and the area becoming softer and more relaxed.
D. Check the body more closely. Sometimes I mentally check very small areas—my toes, ankles, knees, hips, fingers, jaw, or the muscles around my eyes. I am not merely telling myself, Relax. I am actually travelling through my body with my awareness and allowing each area to soften.
E. Give an area the time it needs. If you discover somewhere that needs more attention, stay there longer. Breathe into it. Bring your awareness into it. Allow it to release at its own pace. There is no hurry. Your body is not holding up the schedule.
Step 5 — Enter Your Bubble of Light
When your body feels relaxed, begin visualizing a beautiful field or bubble of light surrounding you. For many people, white light works beautifully, but this does not need to become a rigid formula. Experiment with the light and discover what naturally helps you lift your awareness and deepen the state you are creating.
A. Surround yourself with light. Imagine yourself completely surrounded by a beautiful bubble, field, or cocoon of light. It may be white, your favorite color, shimmering, soft, brilliant, or something entirely unique to you.
B. Surround yourself with defining moments of love. You do not necessarily have to work with color. You might fill this space with the beauty of what you wish to create through channeling—the people you may someday assist, the wisdom you wish to share, the love you wish to bring into the world, or defining moments of love that naturally lift you.
C. Play with the light. Make the bubble larger. Make it smaller. Change its brightness or color. Let it shimmer or expand. Keep adjusting it until something inside you says, That feels right. Sometimes I experience the bubble almost as though I could float away within it. There is a particular point where the light, relaxation, imagination, and awareness seem to fit together.
D. Find your own version of the feeling. There is no perfect bubble you are supposed to create. The purpose is to discover the imagery and feeling that naturally assist you in shifting your awareness and elevating the quality of the state.
E. Allow the process to evolve with you. As we discussed earlier, the bubble is not something you need to become permanently dependent upon. At this stage, it is a useful process. Eventually, you may discover that you no longer need to imagine yourself surrounded by light. Instead of entering the light, you may experience yourself as the light. The process grows and evolves as you do.
Step 6 — Return Slowly
Remain within this relaxed state for as long as feels comfortable. When you are ready to finish, return gradually rather than suddenly jumping up and breaking the state.
A. Bring your awareness back. Begin noticing your breath, your body, and the physical space around you. Let your attention slowly move from the inner experience back toward the room.
B. Begin moving your body. Move your fingers and toes, stretch gently, and allow your body to become active again. And yes—now you may wiggle and scooch again.
C. Return fully to the present. Become aware of where you are. Come back into the room, back into your body, back into this space, back into this time, and back into this dimension.
D. Savor the relaxed state. Do not immediately grab your phone or rush into the next task. Give yourself an expanded moment to enjoy the calmness you have created and notice what has changed.
E. Observe the difference. Pay attention to how your body feels, how your thoughts feel, and whether your inner state feels quieter, softer, calmer, or more spacious than when you began.
Did You Achieve the Objective?
Do not judge your relaxation by imagining what somebody else’s deep relaxation is supposed to feel like. Compare yourself only with yourself and with the state you were in before you began.
A. Check your state. Are you calmer than when you started? Is your body more relaxed? Has your mental activity softened? Do you feel more peaceful, tranquil, spacious, or still?
B. If the answer is yes, move forward. You have completed the purpose of this exercise and may proceed to Part 2 — How to Hold Focus and Concentration.
C. If the answer is no, stop for now. Do not immediately repeat the exercise because you think you failed. Come back to it at another time. Your mind may simply be unusually busy that day, your body may be sore, or you may be tired, emotionally preoccupied, physically uncomfortable, or dealing with something that needs your attention first.
D. Give yourself what you actually need. You may need movement, rest, a massage, more sleep, or simply another day before trying again. There is nothing wrong with recognizing that today is not the day to push deeper.
E. Spend more time where you need it. When you return to the exercise, slow the process down. You might spend fifteen minutes on the body scan alone. Stay with one area for a minute if necessary. Breathe into it, visualize light moving through it, and use each exhale to release tension.
Take your time. The objective is not to complete the exercise quickly. The objective is to learn how to reliably enter a state that is more relaxed, calm, and still than your ordinary waking state.
Develop Your Own Relaxation Process
This is important. What I have given you is a guideline, not a rigid formula. As you become familiar with these exercises, begin experimenting with your own methods for settling your thoughts and relaxing your body. The purpose is not to become dependent upon my process. The purpose is to understand what the process is teaching you and then discover what works naturally for you.
Perhaps imagining clouds works beautifully for you, but the blackboard does nothing. Then forget the blackboard. Perhaps bubbles work. Perhaps light works. Perhaps breathing works. Perhaps sitting beside a river immediately brings you somewhere that twenty minutes sitting in a chair does not. Experiment with these ideas and discover what works for your channeling mind.
This is part of becoming a channel. You first learn the process. Then you understand the principles behind the process. Then you begin creating your own process. Eventually, you may become so familiar with entering this state that you no longer consciously need a process at all. What once required several steps may eventually become something you can enter naturally and almost immediately.
If deep relaxation does not come naturally at first, practice this exercise for approximately twenty minutes a day for one to two weeks. Give your body and mind time to become familiar with deeper relaxation and inner stillness. That length of practice is not an absolute requirement. It is simply a useful training period that allows you to become familiar with a state of consciousness that will later support trance channeling.
There is no prize for reaching Part 2 the fastest. There is something far more useful: a foundation strong enough to build upon. Take the time you need to establish that foundation. Once you can reliably enter a state that is noticeably calmer, quieter, and more relaxed than your ordinary waking state, you are ready to move forward.
Next: Part 2 — How to Hold Focus and Concentration.
The Quiet Yes
Sometimes your greatest calling doesn’t arrive with thunder.
Sometimes it arrives as a quiet “yes” within your heart.
If something in today’s message feels familiar, perhaps it is time to explore that inner voice more deeply.
Channeling can be learned.
I’d be honored to help you discover what is already waiting within you.
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Chris Parr
