[Coma Patient 7]

This is a culmination of some of the things I’ve learned over the years studying things like Martial Arts, Tantra, Lucid Dreaming, Memory Training and a few others. They are mostly just tools for the mind, some might even say cheats for life. Tools we force upon the subconscious so it rationalizes more efficiently. What these things have allowed me to do are small things really that just make life a little easier. They are often things you can practice here and there when you get bored standing in line etc as they take very little time and effort in most cases. The most difficult part is remembering to do them.


Controlling Your Thoughts and Emotions
The key is very simple to remember they are just thoughts and you control them, not the other way around. Some of the methods used are recalling memories, looking at the emotion, change it to something positive, push it aside, push it away, walk away, tell yourself “No” or “this not my burden to carry” and put it down or step outside yourself. There are many ways to deal with emotions, the more you practice the easier they become. Changing these thoughts and emotions allow you take on other perceptions, these perceptions allow us to gain more understanding by teaching our subconscious how to reason more efficiently by practicing. If you are replacing thoughts, remember what we think is what we see and vice verse, if we think happy thoughts we are more likely to see things that make us happy.

Understanding emotions, these feelings that we often mistake as a part of ourselves, simply because we can immerse ourselves with-in them. We often forget they are interchangeable and our thoughts and emotions are not the entirety of ourselves and can be used as tools. The sky is the limit on what emotions you can make yourself feel, even of dream strength, yes even sex dreams. Memories make a nice reference points so to speak to simulate emotions, mix and match emotions, to enhance others etc.

Understanding perspectives (I think there for I am)
Perspectives help the subconscious mind reason and these techniques are tools to help achieve that goal. Say you wanted to look at a cup, to get a better concept of what you were viewing. You could walk to another place to view the cup or perhaps you could pick it up and feel the cup. In our mind we use thoughts to change our perspective and our emotions too help hold that perspective, similar to how we see and hold the cup. By doing this it leads to a greater understanding of what we are experiencing which leads to fewer mistakes. And we all know mistakes early on can be costly later on, especially after behaviors have been reinforced.


Controlling Your Basic Body Functions and Energy (heart rate, blood pressure, etc.)
The body’s energy and basic functions work almost in conjunction with each other. I was inspired watching one of Bruce Lee’s training film, he stated he randomly picked muscles on his body to flex gaining better control over his reflexes. This lead to me playing with my own heartbeat “like him”, which takes some practice but not as much as you, would think, 1/2-1 year of messing around. From here I started playing with the bodies energy. This one start by imagining a 9v battery touching your tongue, can you feel the simulated electricity “memory”? Then try to distinguish it from this next energy. This I imagine energy traveling from my gut up through my chest, up the neck and into the tongue, it might take a few tries.

Exercises, Imagine a ball of warmth in your stomach radiating out, and then imagine your hands around it keeping it warm. Similar to keeping the flame stoked against the wind and it will spread through your body, all the way up to your forehead. This can be used to increase or lower the body’s temperature and perhaps a few other things I’m unaware of at the moment. You can also visualize a smaller area and use it in conjunction with relaxing your muscles in that area to achieve almost a healing feeling. Or you can imagine cooling if the area is inflamed, once you get to the base body functions you can control them all fairly easily It kind of freaked me out that it really works and is surprisingly easy once you grasp the concept. As with all of this stuff you can’t expect miracles, but it is worth learning for so little effort required.

How to Control Your Dreams
Why control your dreams? It’s actually an excellent place to train for athletics or conceptualize other problems, this is where the mind puts the whole picture together, your life view. Not to mention it’s a lot fun flying, teleporting, walking through walls and what ever else you can think of trying. I used to do a lot of surf training in my dreams, a lot athletes take similar approaches. They often dream of these things from repetition in their lives, however we want greater control.

Lucid dreaming is the act of realizing you are dreaming while you are dreaming. The easiest way I’ve found is simply paying attention right before you go to sleep. Focus on something you are familiar with, even your hands will work. Try to interact with the details or scenery of the dream as much as possible. Change views often while paying attention to detail what you’re looking for is anything out of place. You may tend to wake up a few times while trying, but it comes eventually.

Priming dreams is building or constructing a dream prior to falling asleep. This is also the easiest place I’ve found to learn to practice controlling your dreams, just before you head into a dead sleep. Some of the more difficult things to grasp will likely be those that break the laws of your reality. Flying, walking through walls, teleporting, once you conquer one the others are easier to overcome. The more difficult part is realizing it's a dream, once you do you can even change the dream construct "environment". Sleep paralysis is your mind trying to move your body, which is has shut down the motor controls. Spend a little time while your are barely conscious to reaffirm in your mind, you move with thought. This can also help you gain control of your basic body functions (heartbeat, etc). So pay attention!

Control over your dreams with out lucid dreaming and achieving accuracy is a difficult venture. Accuracy is achieved using multiple sources and so it will here as well. Certain memory tricks like visual association might help construct a dream. These normally string together images similar to what you want to remember and then you associate what you want to remember with the image. The crazier the images the easier they are to remember. For instance, to remember peach, banana and an apple. I might picture the peach fighting the banana and it starts peeling the banana. Then the apple jumps from the top rope of a ring and takes out the apple. If you are memory training you can take this further and associate a word to the image that is similar, which is an excellent tool when learning a foreign language and trying to string together a sentence.

Communicating with your self becomes easier with practice, just like everything else does. For instance if I wanted to fly in my dreams I would just think or verbalize to my subconscious “I would like to fly tonight”. Trust me it’s listening, it might not do what you say, but it’s listening. Phrasing can be important here as the subconscious may misinterpret things, so try to keep them simple at first. There are also objects you can use, for instance if you wanted to remember to fly in your dream, perhaps a feather under your pillow, this works well when used with the previous method. You can also use other objects, it’s best to use something you are very familiar with.

These are a little more difficult to grasp.

How to Increase Memory Utilization and Obtain a Photographic Memory (Eidetic)
Your mind stores data similar to a hard drive, by associating similar facts making it easier to retrieve the data. For instance making hyper links or some might say storing data closer together to allow more efficient access. By forcing some of these tricks on the subconscious, it trains it to use more efficient methods of storing and retrieving that data. I imagine storing memories in a giant elaborate revolver filing cabinet inside my head, lots of colors. Each draw is labeled with a subject of interest. You only need to open the drawer when storing data and when closing the file simply spin it like the revolver on a gun to close the file cabinet. So if I wanted to remember something about a cat, I would think of that drawer and all of the thoughts associated with it that I’ve stored there, should be nearby and easier to remember. Speed-reading, is done in chunks, you start with a sentence and work up to a paragraph, ½ a page etc. There are many other memory tricks to use in conjunction with these techniques, visual association, mnemonics etc that can help push the mind to this point. Most of them do require a bit of dedication.

Can You Become Natural Gifted? (Savant)
Can you become natural gifted or a savant by changing your perception? Natural ability is understanding your surroundings and how to use that information, this is training your subconscious to put the pieces together more efficiently. Here are some things that you can do to help yourself along. Try writing with your opposite hand, focus on how you do it with your natural hand, and shift your consciousness so it feels natural. This will be easier for those of us who were forced to write with opposite hand. It doesn’t have to be your hand, anything you’re comfortable with. When you focus, really try to visualize how you do it the other way even down to the muscles used. And take the most natural approach you can, imagine you’ve done it your whole life. Remember they are just thoughts, one of the easiest things you can do. Memory tricks and training help a lot in being able to visualize and remember what you’re trying to learn/mimic and kill two birds with one stone. Centering yourself, or as some call it “The Zone” is a great stepping stone into this train of thought. Granted this is only one small step towards this goal, but it may help make learning new things just a little more natural or easy.

This next ones on the fringe, it’s similar to how martial artist’s try to focus their energy into their strikes or how others claim to spirit walk “which is a way of detaching from your perceptions”. While I may not be able to confirm results like the others, it has had some strange results I can’t discount so I’m posting with reserved skepticism and will let you decide.

How to Control Your Spirit/Energy? (Astral "thought" projection)
This falls in line with pushing your thoughts away, except here we push them towards something. This is for anyone that has felt an unseen presence that makes him or her uncomfortable. What I do is ask it to leave in my mind and push that thought away from myself towards it sometimes taking on a parental tone or feeling can help. If I feel a presence that continues to bothers me, I take on a forceful feeling, similar to tempered anger and push it away from myself in it’s direction. You can also push yourself away with the same forceful thought. If it escalates you can use more forceful feelings to push at them. Avoid using anger against anything, it's fine to use it to temper other emotions. Accuracy is achieved using three points of origin, the target, a reference point and yourself. For the reference point use something nearby in visual distance, distance may increase accuracy, as it does in the physical world. Thought projection can in theory also be used in conjunction with your body’s energy, you attack with this thought/energy the same as you would attack physically. This could be considered the act of focusing ones Chi “body’s energy” and using it to reinforce your strikes, either way the extra conscious effort of will-power should increase physical force. So even if it doesn’t work directly it should help indirectly.


A warning, over thinking can lead to becoming lost in ones thoughts or emotions (insane). As we tend to become too comfortable with a feeling and take it on as a part of ourselves. Often times if someone were to point this out, it may seem like an attack on us. Also focusing on the subconscious may contribute to an introverted personality, as focusing too much on the conscious mind may cause an emotional stunted personality. To shift your perspective to something more conscious friendly, focus on things that cause you to interact with life, talking to someone, hobbies, sports, details etc. Physical activities kill several birds with one stone. Not only will the physical activity send chemicals to help change your thought patterns, plus you'll get exercise. Like cooking in a kitchen, try to find other things that are similar to what you are already trying to achieve. With just a little extra effort, you can advance several things at once. And this way of thinking becomes habitual forming. Like dominoes they all fall into place if you know what you are looking for and take a moment to plan for it.

If anyone else has anything to add, thoughts, theories, criticisms, feel free to post away.

[tigerlily84]

This is really interesting! I have problems with anxiety and panic attacks. My T is doing CBT with me along with breathing exercises. I think it'll help to remind me that I am in control even when I feel that I am losing it. I think I'll print this out and bring it to my next appointment. Thanks!

[okala]

It's refreshing to see people who realize their emotions can be changed.

I don't know about changing your dreams or body or energy. I don't know if I buy that. Actually, I really don't.

But, you can indeed choose your reactions to life events and choose your emotions.

Say someone cuts you off in traffic. You can either get angry and let it spoil your day, or choose to acknowledge the jerk then move on and not let them spoil your mood. We do have a lot of choices with emotions and our reactions to them.

Choosing your emotions isn't ignoring a problem. It's acknowledging it, seeing the good and the bad in a situation, and moving past it. Too many people dwell on bad emotions, and that makes them turn into a cycle of depressed, unhappiness.

[okala]

Not sure what happened to my post.

But, we can choose your emotions and reactions to external life events.

That doesn't mean we ignore upsetting or happy events. We can choose how we react to them, see the good and the bad in a situation, realize the situation is usually temporary, realizing what we do have (food, shelter, internet, clothes, ability to read, etc.), and choosing to move on with life. Too many people get stuck on depressed or bad emotions, making them repeat the cycle over and over, staying miserable.

[Coma Patient 7]

You are very welcome Tigerlily I appreciate the like minded interest and I apologize for the delayed response I thought this post slipped through the cracks. I'm working on more for emotional control but for now this may help.

Here's one of my latest little methods of controlling my emotions is imagining a mouse trackball in my mind. It rests in the minds center where everything is calm and when ever I feel my emotions straying I just move the ball back to center.

And yes I would concur Okala, we only need feel an emotion long enough to understand it, then we can set it down and pick up as needed to use against other emotions. It's nice to see another explorer of the mind, I think we stand out sometimes. And I can assure you you can change your dreams but it does take practice, here's a paper on changing your temperature news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/04.18/09-tummo.html The body is an amazing tool when used to it's potential and it sounds like you are on that road.

thanks so much for sharing!

hugs

[-jimi-]

Would it be OK if my parent died and I thought it's too time consuming to mourn and use this method to don't give a dang that they died?

Just wondering, or if there are some moral undertones here.

[Coma Patient 7]

Originally Posted by jimrat

Would it be OK if my parent died and I thought it's too time consuming to mourn and use this method to don't give a dang that they died?

Just wondering, or if there are some moral undertones here.

We generally feel emotions so we can gain understanding, it can be difficult when we loose ourselves with-in these emotions. So we stay there in the hopes of understanding. And sometimes to gain that understanding we need to take a step back and gain a better view of what are perceiving.

For a more direct answer, yes you can set it down. But try not to discard it, pick up and feel it as much as you think you can handle to understand the lesson you should take from the experience and set it aside when it becomes to much.

[Coma Patient 7]

Controlling your emotions is largely about confidence and practice. If you get down to the core, no thought should really be any more difficult then another thought, we often just make them more difficult. We run to our emotions like moths to a flame in the hopes of understanding these feelings. We immerse ourselves so deeply with-in them it can be difficult to see clearly. This is when taking a step back by setting the emotion aside, can help you gain a new perspective and achieve understanding.

Communicating with your subconscious
How we talk to ourselves is a very important factor when considering your base emotion. Our subconscious takes what we say or think as literal fact, so phrasing can be very important. Our subconscious is very good at putting the whole picture together, but does poorly on smaller issues, similar to an idiot savant. There are obvious negative words we tell ourselves and then there are some not so obvious negative phrases. Some examples are:

I will try – implies you may be able too and you may fail
I can – implies it may not be difficult
I’m not sure if I can do that = diminishing your role and confidence
I don’t have the time to do that = a neutral to empowering approach
It was powerful = weakening your role
It was intense = taking a neutral stance and not weakening your role

Also saying do instead of try will keep the subconscious problem solving until it feels the problem is solved as it’s always problem solving. We simply toss it tools for clarification at times so it may problem solve more efficiently. There are many more examples of negative phrases and words, the good news is once you start looking you’ll notice more. It’s simple stuff like this that undermines so many people, phrase it in your mind a few times and see how it sounds and feels. So keep it simple and direct when trying to communicate with your self and use phrasing that is neutral-empowering.

Developing tools to combat negative emotions.
Use your peripheral vision to focus on the colors of you surrounding to shift your mood, yellow is uplifting, violet calming etc. If you think of something negative, immediately think of something neutral-positive to counter the negative thought. Use old memories if necessary to knock lose persistent negative memories, be persistent. Later on you can use negative emotions in this fight, for instance my old depression feeling is great for relaxing me if I become overly anxious. But you really should get a firm grip on the other tools “emotions” around you before you try this.

Pull up a couple strong emotional memories, the strongest you can think of, these are your emotions you will use to combat other emotions. You will start with 1-2 and reinforce them by recalling how they felt You will use these emotions to combat any negative emotions you may feel. No need to over do it, just practice here and there, the mind gets tired.

I use 4-5 really old strong childhood memories to get a handle on any stubborn emotions. By practicing on occasion, I reinforce the neural pathways making it easier to recall and hopefully stronger and I avoid using any one emotion too often. As you advance along you can expand on the emotions you will use and even create your own emotions by mixing emotions. Remember these emotions, also offer new perspective so explorer some of what you know while under their influence to gain new insight. Another great tool in the search for insight is empathy, pretending to be someone or something else, in order to understand things from their perspective.

This is currently my main emotional control.
Imagine a small ball in your mind, this ball rests in the center of your emotions where everything is calm. It rests in a small divot, so it doesn't move as easily. Whenever your emotions stray you simply roll the ball back to the center, it only takes a couple seconds.


This might be a little advanced depending on how far along you are, however when you get to a certain point you need to add more resistance. I like this one because it incorporates most of what I talked about in the previous post. And it’s really nice for backaches or sore muscles as well.

Exercise:
Imagine giving yourself a back massage, using your own hand in-side your mind to help pin-point the sore muscle’s on your back, by feeling which muscles constrict or retract on your back when pushing your hands against your back in your mind. Can you feel it digging in? Then make a (warm or cool) energy ball and imagine your hands flattening the ball on your back, cold works best when targeting inflamed muscles. You could imagine someone massaging your back, focus on how it felt with their hands digging into the sore muscle as the surrounding muscles react to the force of their hands. Pull up a memory and visualize it so you can feel them digging into you back. From here I will focus on the individual muscle’s being used in order to contract them more. As I’m also working on my muscle controls to improve reflexes at the same time, by practicing.

The mind is a powerful tool when used correctly, nearly everything we use now was once just a thought in someone’s imagination. So in your mind it’s ok to be that cocky SOB that thinks he can do anything, because you can, just be mindful of the bleed off into your conscious.

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Premature brain fart theory here.

Problem solving the future (Precognition)
Is precognition simply the subconscious mind problem solving the future? The subconscious mind is always problem solving trying to understand the puzzle “life”. Is seeing bits of the future simply the mind doing a very efficient job of problem solving and can it’s learning be reinforced?

It may explain things Deja-vu which would just be a dream the subconscious mind has previously explored and ended up being very similar to how reality played out. So it gets the minds attention because of those similarities. If that’s the case then precognition can in theory be a learned ability to some extent..

[Coma Patient 7]

I'll expand a little on the emotional control ball, if you have a deeper emotion, just imagine another ball deeper. You can keep going with this, if you follow Tantra these are similar to chakra's, align them to gain a higher state of awareness.


Also, If you have difficulty take a break and let the subconscious find where these new pieces of the puzzle fit. If you still have difficulty, try gaining new perspective by recalling old memories or empathizing and problem solving while feeling those emotions.

[Coma Patient 7]

Teaching the subconscious
Understanding the subconscious mind, he is like a child and your greatest ally in this journey of life. He works tirelessly to solve life’s problem trying to put the whole picture together so you can achieve understanding of your surroundings. And it’s the conscious mind responsibility to help find and guide those pieces of information at times when they don’t fit by finding examples in life that may work. While also providing protection from life’s problems and misinformation. It does this because the subconscious mind needs a better perspective to solve the problem “life”, but in order to achieve that perspective it can not have barriers that obstruct it’s view. These barriers are often little things we’ve told ourselves in order to protect our egos. And are often built because the conscious mind failed to filter certain tidbits of information, helping to construct a wall and start closing off parts of our own mind.

Tearing down these barriers
Separate confusing phrases and emotions, love, happiness and pleasure get confused often. Sex is not love or happiness it’s a short term pleasure that may simulate a happy feeling. Happiness is a longer-term goal or emotion. And by separating this in your mind, you help the subconscious from confusing these emotions. Then looking for examples of this in life this is how we teach the subconscious mind, by giving it examples, as it is always looking for the most efficient method. There are a lot little ways can confuse things in our mind, once you start looking you’ll start seeing how it could be easy to be confused by the presentation of this information

Look deep into your mind at this emptiness that seems to respond to your requests. This semi-stranger you call your subconscious and hug him, tell him that you are sorry and that you love him or her. He will forgive you because he knows it’s not your fault, there’s just so much information to filter. You may be surprised at what happens, you start listening to yourself more often, taking your own advice. He starts doing what you ask more often, just remember it’s your job to present this information in the least confusing manner as well as protecting him. The change isn’t over night, it happens gradually, but it’s like a weight slowing be lifted off your shoulders.

[Coma Patient 7]

Ok I made a lot of mistakes on this last one, the prior wasn't much better. Which means I'm rushing things, so I will stop expanding on this for now. I figure I would post the corrections and give one clear example of a miscommunication and see if you can find any others.

Example:
When defining happiness and sex I added "happy" into the description of sex, possibly later confusing the subconscious to mix those emotions again after trying to separate them.



Teaching the subconscious
Understanding the subconscious mind, he is like a child and your greatest ally in this journey of life. He works tirelessly to solve life’s problem trying to put the whole picture together so you can achieve understanding of your surroundings. And it’s the conscious mind responsibility to help find and guide those pieces of information at times when they don’t fit by finding examples in life that may work. While also providing protection from life’s problems and misinformation. It does this because the subconscious mind needs a better perspective to solve the problem “life”, but in order to achieve that perspective it can not have barriers that obstruct it’s view. These barriers are often small things we’ve told ourselves in order to protect our feelings. And are often built because the conscious mind failed to filter certain tidbits of information, causing the subconscious to construct walls and start closing off parts of our own mind. In order to protect your-self.

Tearing down these barriers
Separate confusing phrases and emotions, love, happiness and pleasure get confused often. Sex is not love or happiness it’s a short-term emotion that simulate a pleasure. Happiness is a longer-term goal or emotion. And by separating this in your mind, you help the subconscious from confusing these emotions. Then by looking for examples of this in life we teach the subconscious mind, as it is always looking for the most efficient method. There are a lot ways to confuse our mind, once you start looking you’ll start seeing how easy it is to be confused by the presentation of this information

An exercise: Look deep into your mind at this emptiness that seems to respond to your requests. This semi-stranger you call your subconscious and hug him, tell him that you are sorry and that you love him or her. He will forgive you because he knows it’s not your fault, there’s just too much to filter. You may be surprised at what happens, you start listening to yourself more often, taking your own advice. He starts doing what you ask more often, just remember it’s your job to present this information in the least confusing manner as well as protecting him. The change isn’t over night, it happens gradually, but it’s like a weight slowing be lifted off your shoulders.

more examples:
Can – can you walk down there and take a look?
Will – will you walk to the corner and take a look.


After so many mistakes being made I've decided to take a different approach. I will put this into one big journal that's easier to follow. It may take me a few weeks or more, but there should be plenty here to keep most going. I will still be around, I just won't be posting any more of this material for now.

[Coma Patient 7]

If you've made it this far and you have a decent grasp on some of your emotions. This is the path I'm following, even if you don't it might worth a read as there is some very good information here.


The Superconscious mind, I can't confirm all of these. The body's temperature control, numbing touch and most of the others involving lower brain function do work, some call this Ki or Chi. Which is the manipulation of body's basic functions controlled by the lower brain, including the bodies electromagnetic field or aura.

http://superconscious1.blogspot.com/