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# Re: Impregnating Breath

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- Subject: Re: Impregnating Breath
- From: "emcshadow" <emcshadow@...>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 19:35:20 -0000
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    Hi David,

    > It still confuses me. I can, for instance, generate a certain
    state;
    > say my wish is "openness." I can cause myself to imagine and
    > experience openness. But then I have to imagine that it is outside
    > myself, and then bring it in again. This confuses me. How do I do
    > this without making the assumption of deficiency that I just
    > described, but also without making the breathing-in irrelevant?
    > Someone else described it as like charging a battery, which makes a
    > little more sense, but I would appreciate any clarification.

    Perhaps another metaphor may be weight-lifting; you've done a nice
    job of selecting a *quality* as your goal that will make this easier.
    In fact, an individual human seems to be almost a hologram; we have
    in ourselves all possible qualities in vestigial or more or less
    developed states. When we lift weights we always start with *some*
    strength and working with externals we enhance and develop this
    quality towards a personal objective. The interaction of the person
    and the weight creates an emergent effect.

    By projecting conscious intent out onto a "tunable" medium that loops
    back in through an assimilation circuit, we can discover a process of
    leverage and feedback, of riding on a natural- magical pattern for
    change, that is difficult (and requires different technique) to
    create in-situ. We don't manufacture more force we attract/tap more
    energy resonant with our intent. At least that's how I think of it.

    One key I've found consistently useful is exactly the approach you
    are taking: finding a metaphor that clicks with your own personal
    history for making magic your own. The flip side is when metaphors
    we've been conditioned with in mundane reality do our thinking for us
    and create obstacles to exploring new ways to interact with
    perception. An eye-opening account of this almost invisible process
    can be found in a book called "Metaphors we Live by." An entertaining
    read.

    Another key is the charging seems to work like a generator, once a
    sufficient baseline is established, the state seems to pull energy,
    events and circumstances that maintain and enhance what we've
    started. It seems we begin sending out "vibes" that create new
    resonances in a positive feedback loop.

    > Thanks for sharing.

    You're very welcome, that's what this forum is all about :-)

    -emc

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  - Re: Impregnating Breath
    - From: "David Yeh" <ldreamr@...>

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