Shifting Consciousness

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Shifting Consciousness
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Voluntarily changing from one state of mind to another is not as difficult as it seems, but it takes practice and training.

Meditation (inhibitory):
The main inhibitory technique is meditation. Meditation is clearing your mind and entering a relation state. Eastern form of meditation focus on completely clearing the mind and being one with the moment.

Breath Control (usually inhibitory):
Regulated breathing is called pranayma in the East. It relaxes and lowers body system by focusing on the movement of the breath. The breath is related to the element of air, and air is linked with the mind. By calming the Breath you calm the mind. Some types of breath can excite the body and build energy. Breath work is usually used in conjunction with meditation.

Isolation (inhibitory):
Aboriginal traditions have a rite of passage where one spends time in isolation on a mountaintop, cave or forest to induce a mystical experience.

Sound:
Singing, chanting, instruments, drumming and other percussion can lead you into an altered state as you get swept up with the time and beat. Some will be more relaxing such as gentle music. Others will be more excited like tribal drums

Body Movement (exhibitory):
Movement induces an altered view of reality, and can include exercise, dance, asana (yogic body posture), shaking, shivering, spinning, hand movements and mudras. Yoga and martial arts also induce trance states through body forms. The movements do not have to be graceful to be affective.

Sex (exhibitory):
The most exciting path, quite literally, is using sexual energy. Masturbation and intercourse are great ways to raise a lot of energy and enter an altered consciousness.

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