Day 1 of 6: Bringing the Energy Down (After A Dental Procedure)

Today I had to wait until late afternoon to begin my “quest” to get into a mental state amenable to astral abilities…

Because first I had to go to the dentist for a filling!

However, I did very well. I managed to stay calm and only shook a little at the very beginning. Everything went more quickly since I didn’t need to keep asking the dentist to stop and let me breathe or calm down. They were amazed at how much I’ve been improving on my dental phobia. And I really was pretty calm. I had medication to help, but it only goes so far unless I’m totally gone on it.

I didn’t need Cat there to help me calm down, but she did help me remember a few things I needed to go over with the dentist, like my medication needed filling again and I wanted to thank them for their protocols that meant when one of them that was working on me got Covid last fall, I did NOT catch it! They have ultraviolet air cleaners and good mask and glove rules, so even when a Covid contagious person was IN MY MOUTH, I still didn’t catch it from her! So I said thank you. And they were super sweet about it– I really like my dentist’s office!

So I came home, a little loopy, and went right to bed for several hours.

Now I’m up, but I’m feeling pretty good. I only had soup and some fruit for food, and I don’t yet feel hungry. I know the first couple of days, my body goes “What the heck?” and I can get some odd panic cravings, like this temporary thing is forever or something. But I just keep reminding myself that at the end of it, I’m going out for the biggest steak! (Meat, other proteins, and heavy carbs lower your physical “vibration” — which is why practices all over the world call for fasting from those things before doing spiritual rites and rituals.)

I’m feeling calm. I’m going to bed at 9 tonight after closing up and I think tonight will be fine. The last of the meds for the dentist are wearing off, but it wasn’t a bad way to start a “calm” mental state.

Now for some stuff from comments earlier about this whole thing that might illustrate better what I’m doing, hat tip to Hazelwindows! hazelwindows

“I wonder about fear of the unknown in this situation… do you have any recollection of how you process or understand fear from this state?”

If you give in to fear, it pops you right out of the meditative state. You really have to trust the world and allow yourself to ‘surrender’ utterly. That’s the only way to “release” one’s astral body or to reach deep trance states. And… letting go of a constant comfort like being in your body is HARD.

“…what type of things do you tend to think about or focus on, to guide yourself away from everyday thinking?”

I do a lot of just feeling/seeing/hearing the NOW around me. I try to LISTEN very hard, which is a state of waiting for something without a specific expectation. Then I try to hold onto that “constant listening” sort of waiting. Thoughts come and I have to let them go, but a little daydreaming is okay if it isn’t stimulating. So I might imagine the birds I hear singing and try to picture them. Or I might imagine watching the trees I hear rushing in the wind. So… you watch and listen and do little else.

And that answers your third question about what set of things I start thinking about to head in the right direction. Right there what I wrote above, I wait and listen… for hours and hours.

“I’d love to know how you trust yourself to be vulnerable to that sort of altered state for so long. Also, whether it drains you or feeds you, or what impact it has on you to take on this endeavor.”

I guess I trust myself because I’ve done it before, and I know how easy it is to leave the trance state if anything gets overwhelming. The hard part is staying in a ‘surrender’ state for prolonged periods of time. The slightest stimulation will pop me right out of it, including fear.

Drains or feeds me–? I think feeds, but I’ll document for sure as I go. I should do this once a year I think, but I haven’t in 7 years and so I’m a little scared I can’t do it again. But… I should know better. At the very least, my astral sight will be sharpened, and I can use that to help my friend called “Sleep”.

Wish me good fortune, everyone!