Universal Training

The following Universal trance experiences are how we have trained ourselves, our minds to process and store experience and inforamtion in our day to day lives.

Trance (Going Under)

What would be an everyday example of trance occurring naturally in our lives?
When we are driving: especially when we are on the motorway or what about when you pull up to a red light and you can't remember the last few miles you just have driven. In a supermarket is another, while waiting at the checkout till with nothing to do except wait (in a trance). What about a TV trance one of the favourite trances in Britian.

Dissociation

This is my favourite phenomena where you have a sense of being detached from a part or all of your body, where you don't feel a part or your body. This is commonly what happens in dreams where you find yourself seeing you in the dreams. What about when you see your reflection in the mirror or a window and watching yourself on video tape.
Some people are better at disassociating than others, usually they are visual people, they see pictures in their minds eye all the time.

Analgesia and Anesthesia

Analgesia is the absence of pain and the ability to still sense pressure if applied. Anesthesia is the total lack of sensation and the inability to sense pressure. So when we experience analgesia and anesthesia would be after taking an asprin and novocaine at the dentist. What about when we are out in the snow throwing snow balls with no gloves and our hands become numb or when we sit in a certain postion and a certain part of our body falls asleep.

Disorientation of Time

Literally when you don't know what time it is. Like when you have awoken from a nap or woken in the monring and not known if it was a work day. The expereince of d'ej'a vu is also an example.

Time Distortion

Have you ever experienced things when they went very fast and time went by quickly or when things went very slowly and time just seemed to crawl. These type of experiences could be while watching a film and as the film ended and you looked at your watch to find an hour and a half had gone by and you couldn't remember moving a muscle. Counter examples could have been anytime you've been bored or impatient, like on a long drive.

Positive Hallucination

This can be when you are seein, hearing, feeling, smelling, tasting which eveyone else would agree is not there. If you were to imagine sucking on a lemon now can you sense a reaction or a bitter taste in you're mouth?

Negative Hallucination

This occurs when you don't see, hear,feel, smell or taste everybody else would agree is there. So you can't and they can. A common day to day experience would be loosing you're car keys and they were where they were supposed to be all the time...your mind just blanked the keys out, because you probably panicked and said to yourself, "I can't find my car keys!"

Deep Trance Identification

Has anyone said to you, "I don't know what has got into her/him?" Deep Trance Identification (DTI) is baically copying someone doing a skill that you want to do, you pretend to be them. You begin DTI by learning everything you can about the person whom you are modeling. The phenomena is about floating over into that person whom you are modeling, taking with you all of the data about them as a piont of reference. Then you beginto experience the world as that person does. Then you float out of the person and bring back all of the learnings as you reintegrate them into your own body. The you begin new behaviours you ahve just modeled.
A good example of DTI is when kids look up to their Dad and think, "My Dad is a hero; I love my Dad; he's the best Dad."

Age Regression

Age regression is the reaccessing and reviving of past memories and experiences or complete accessing and returning to an earlier period of development. A classic example of regression is when ever you hear a song on the radio and it takes you back to a time when you first heard the record. It's one of those expereinces as you know excactly where you were, what was happening and how you felt.

Catalepsy

Catalepsy is a balanced tonicity of two muscles in a body part. For example, while someone is holding a cigarette or when someone is engaged in a conversation and as they lift their fork they stop in mid air to finish what they are saying while their arm just balances in mid air.

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