When I made a more serious commitment to my psychic development back in 2006, sitting in a circle of beginners week after week, I started from the same level as everyone else. It wasn't long before it became obvious to me that my development was to be somewhat off the beaten track. I soon began to experience physical changes in my body during the meditation that introduced each session. While my circle peers have come out of meditation with recounts of meeting guides, angels and loved ones who have passed and the like, my experiences were mostly of images of people and energies that didn't seem to fit into any of those categories. I often kept those to myself, fearing that I was being left behind in the development or that there was something wrong with me and guides didn't find me worthy of communicating with.
When I mentioned some of what I was going through during
those meditations to my teacher at the time, I was told that I needed to ignore what was happening as this was a beginners class and what I was doing sounded like trance mediumship and that
didn't fit the curriculum. I considered the advice reluctantly but decided to
listen to my teacher who had a decade of experience with mediumship by that
time. Unable to get instruction on how exactly that could be done, I had to
find my own way through the experiences I was having, not knowing at the time,
that very process will give me the knowhow to assist people going
through the same rites of passage in my own circles years later.
It is my view that people who embark on the road to psychic
development and mediumship will have as many different paths of getting there
as there are reason for them stepping on it. Therefore the way they learn will
be different and the utilisation of this skill and ability will be different as
well. That is completely OK! People shouldn't feel that they need to fit the
mould their teacher picked out for them, especially that this form of
development is very deeply personal for many who participate in it.
In this article I write about some of the knowledge that I
wished was passed down to me from some of my teachers about trancemediumship. I
hope that there are those out there who will read this and will recognise the
learning opportunity and will go forward with their individual psychic development
without fear of judgement and with the knowledge that what they are
experiencing is real. The below are all based on my personal experiences as a
student, teacher and practitioner of trancemediumship. We are all individuals
however so you might have a different experience and that is perfectly fine.
Physical Effects of Trancing
- Sudden change in heart rate. This has been happening to me since the very beginning. One moment my heart was beating fine, the next it was almost jumping out of my chest. Very scary to experience it if you don’t know what is going on. It used to last for minutes while I was fighting what was happening to my body and used to exhaust me. It took me about a year of practicing to get it under control. The secret for me was to stop fighting within my body and try to slow my heart down by shear will. I realised that it was just a temporary bodily reaction and the more I let it flow through my body, the easier and quicker it passed.
- Unable to move body. The entry into a trance state is via meditation and the brain goes into an altered state. This, as well as the heart rate change is a temporary condition and passes the same way. As scary as this also is in an in between state, while you're still aware of what you are doing and where you are, if you suddenly want to move your arm for example, you may have some difficulty as your brain is busy putting your body in a relaxed state so that you can get on with your meditation. This was also something I had to learn to overcome myself. What works best for me is that imagine that I am inside my body but am very small, in the centre and I am wearing my physical body as a suit. If I move my tiny body inside the suit then I am able to move the corresponding part of my physical body. This takes some practice too.
- The Fall. This is a sensation that I feel directly before trance state sets in and soon after the above two that I mentioned. I call it The Fall as not matter what position I am in, standing, sitting, reclining, I have the sensation of plummeting down in a never ending 3 dimensional space, rotating in all directions. This too was something I was trying to fight at the beginning of my trance mediumship development. Sometimes I would come out of it by jolting myself awake from this state. I would sit in my chair completely stunned and unable to move, with my heart racing, almost as if the jolt would take me back through the stages of trance within seconds and my body felt like it was going to tear apart. It took me awhile to not get freaked out by the physical sensation of falling. What helped me was the affirmation just before it was happening that I was in a safe place and it too just had to pass.
~End of Part 1/5~
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