What is your preferred method for acheiving a trance/altered state?

[ulfrdyr]

As someone who suffers from anxiety and intrusive thoughts, shifting away from my 'regular mind state' to hold ritual or do magic is really important. Otherwise I get stuck on all of the details, spiral into unpleasant thoughts, and/or allow my inner critic to run wild. That said, I've had mixed results over the years and have not found a consistently successful technique. I'm interested in hearing about how others achieve entering a more receptive state (or however you would personally define it!).

 

[IllusiveOwl]

To Trance, there are two big battles to be won: 1) Getting control of the mind 2) disconnecting from the mind and body.

In order to win victory over the mind, you'll have to act as a dutiful housekeeper. At first, anytime a thought pops up, you must put it in the bin outside your chamber thoughtlessly and return back to your meditation. This can be aided with ritual, I posted a cleansing tutorial in the appropriate section, to dissuade the mind from getting distracted. Over time you will witness your stream of thoughts and see it veer off, distracted, and be able to guide it back to your intention as the master of yourself. You will focus because you will to focus on the meditation, which is enough. It is critical to be able to control your psyche without the use of words.

In order to disconnect, you will need to first win victory over the mind. I enjoy employing sensory deprivation as well for this later stage because it enhances the disconnection in a visceral way, I use ear plugs, a gas mask, and a ritual mask overtop it, sometimes a blanket draped around me too for body-numbing warmth. With the mind disregarded, and the body's senses disregarded, you will be able to focus into a Trance state.

It's taken me many many hours of meditation and sensory deprivation to remain coherent & aware while in this state, because it closely resembles the pre-sleep stage, but the rewards are worth the efforts.

 

[Anziel_Merkaba]

I wrote an initiatory primer for mental skills that has the meditation I used to use to get the feel for clearing my mind and centering myself before a working. It's a pretty solid method, and everyone I've taught it to had immediate results. It is a bit of a dirty hack in the sense that it uses a focal meditation technique to achieve the same state as void/zen mediation, but it's a lot easier for people who have a hard time clearing their mind.

 

[Ziran]

What is your preferred method for acheiving a trance/altered state?

Favorite method for entering a trance state:

Watching it burn...

Spoiler: from the lair

 

[Amur]

Favorite type when not doing CM is the shamans' drum. Gets you deep very quickly and healing process can begin.

 

[RoccoR]

RE: What is your preferred method for achieving a trance/altered state?
SUBTOPIC: Practical Attempts
⁜→ ulfrdyr, et al,

(OPENING) (To insure we are on the same sheet of music.)

Altered State of Consciousness: Altered state of consciousness refers to any number of states that allow a person to “dissociate from the normal waking state,” and which are “sometimes induced deliberately by means of meditation, drugs or hypnosis” Some knowledgeable believe that an altered state of consciousness is a central component to such phenomena like extrasensory perception (ESP).

Trance: Trance refers to “an altered state of consciousness" induced I a set of controlled conditions .” It is associated with external figures isubjecct under te influence of trance medium (AKA: mediumship). Conditions sometimes induce a state similar to hypnosis and channels to a supernature plane of entities.

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𓅂 The six principal ways to achieve an Altered State besides unexplained accidents and trauma are:

Hallucinations: Such appearances that differ from events that are induced by separate psychological and physiological effects.​

Hypnosis: The most effective hypnotherapeutic is when the patient becomes the most significant person in the experiments, as opposed to the hypnotherapist and the particular technique being in play. It should be the case that the therapist adopts a planning consultation before the patient is put under the state of hypnotic suggestion in which the manner (creating a state of openness and receptivity) of the suggestions are approached and introduced. No suggestion should be poised as a command.​

Meditation: This should be the first choice.​

Psychedelics; Not Recommended • In my opinion is very dangerous.​

The Mind-Expanding Drugs : Not Recommended​

Relaxation: A very good approach if the SUBJECT can be in a place where the it is conduciv​

Most Respectfully,
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[Killersmurf]

As someone who suffers from anxiety and intrusive thoughts, shifting away from my 'regular mind state' to hold ritual or do magic is really important. Otherwise I get stuck on all of the details, spiral into unpleasant thoughts, and/or allow my inner critic to run wild. That said, I've had mixed results over the years and have not found a consistently successful technique. I'm interested in hearing about how others achieve entering a more receptive state (or however you would personally define it!).

 

[Taudefindi]

Anything that can hold my attention into a single point can help.

I mostly do it through listening to music and/or just moving the body around(swaying, circling around, walking, etc.).

 

[The God-King]

I like to vibrate Sacred Names like a mantra to get into an altered state. I've played around with ritual/shamanic drumming to help get into trance but I prefer vibrating Sacred Names.