Point as a nearby object, say “this X (mouse, keyboard, phone…) here”, point at a far object, say “that X there”. Repeat “this x here, that x there”, or even just “this, that”. Once you get the mental state shift, say “this body here, that body there”. This body here is like your mind’s view on it. That body there is like your higher self’s view.
This info by Harry Palmer.
Now try this one:
What am I seeing, perceiving? e.g. a feeling of loss. My father leaving.
Who /what part of me sees it that way? e.g. The abandoned child within.
How would love/calm see it?
And you wait for the shift, or go on.
This is the englightenment technique, by Frederick Dodson (basics of it, knowing the framework and context, and more about the technique would yield better results).
If you want to meet your best self, I’m afraid that’s gonna hardly happen. But you can become the silent witness (the higher self) with practice. That’s your best bet.
And to become your best self, you will have to love yourself the way your higher self does, so still a lot of work to do on that area.
I don’t want to bring you down or anything. There are methods to do this stuff. They are imagination based. You said that sitting down and dreaming nice stuff isn’t what you wanted (kinda). But it is how these techniques work.
They work a lot better if you can access deep, profound states of meditation. You probably wouldn’t need much guidance if you could access epsilon consciously.
There are methods that don’t rely in imagination and put you in touch with your higher self, but you still won’t have answers. You will access a state of no questions and no answers needed.
Your best self is your native self, who is neutral, and whose answers are probably gonna be something like “everything will be alright”. The subconscious and higher self have answers though. You could learn to access your native state, and then practice dowsing from there (otherwise, both the conscious mind and subconscious programming can give false answers).
I’ve had this interest for a long time, and did the imagination exercises and everything I could. Nothing worked. But you get what you focus on, so I dreamed a lot of parallel universes. I once met with a bunch of my selves in a dream. Most of them were doing even worse than me, and those of us that were better didn’t even want to get close to them. One of them seemingly had an infectious disease (maybe HIV) and was definitely on the brink of dying. It didn’t help me one bit, being in the state I was already in.
Then, I also had some dreams that gave closure on my mother’s death, years after it. The parallel universe dreams and massive deja vus started when she was dying at the hospital. It was my mind just trying to comfort me. I prayed to madness and felt waves of peace afterwards, which gave me some faith. Still my mother died. That didn’t help my relationship with anything spiritual.
All of this is to discourage you to force things. It takes time to get out of a really bad situation. There is no best self that has all answers, no parallel universe to which you can escape.
I’ve been helped and guided when I focused really hard on understanding things here. With my normal self and my normal mind. If you insist on something with your mind, you can get a breakthrough.
Luckily you have Dream’s fields too.
If you can’t calm down to meditate, have no time, or anything else preventing it, use the intercessions non-stop. Even for your goals, I’m sure aliens, angels and devas could have some answers. The mass consciousness field, and higher self field can give you answers too. And using the telepathy/empathy field regularly.
And seeing your state, I’d flood myself with all fields I could. The Essence of Faith and Prayer gives you extactly what it says…but sometimes some other energy is more beneficial than faith, even in really adverse circumstances. I’d take a look through all videos and see if anything calls out, and do like a round through the whole channels.
Also, keep focusing on what you want. Be opportunistic. Desperate situations call for desperate measures.
I got the impression you live in some place hit by a natural catastrophe or war. Some people get relocated to rich countries and get a head-start in those places, changing their lives for the better.
If that is happening there, make sure you are one of those people. If not, the same applies.
You need your wits on you more than any higher guidance. Until you can get specific answers (and even then), higher guidance tends to be too optmistic, gentle, etc. If you are in tough circumstances, you need to be tough too.
Some people have survived the worst situations with constant prayer, so that may be your last bet at some point.
My best advice is to keep using Dream’s fields.
I forgot this. The parallel universe guys that I know are Burt Goldman and Frederick Dodson. The only “best version” people I know of are hypnotherapists that basically ask you to imagine an ideal version and then step into it.
Using the scale of consciousness theory, I once saw a guy that said he shifted into a version of himself with no below-200 energies. He dropped all addictions, bad habits, and improved his health, etc too. It may be worth a try.
Some people do this in front of a mirror, imagining their reflection is another self that is in a better state, and trying to shift. But then there are those that say this meditation opens a portal to bad entities. Also I’ve read people that turned their life around with this technique, instantly. Only to be in the same place 3 months later. Plus you want the guidance, not to shift, so using imagination is better for that.
Answering from different perspectives may help too. Like you have a question, answer it as a funny person would, someone famous would, an expert would, etc…and then go for your higher self or parallel self.
When I said native state, I was referring mostly to stuff taught by Devon White, in a hypnosis track by him called “inner game installed”. Something I’m still working on.
To access your higher self, you can also do it through ultra-depth hypnosis. Or life between lives hypnosis.
Please stay safe and take care. Good luck.
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