An Ancient Technique to Access Inner Knowledge

If you have ever read the famous success books of Napolean Hill, you may remember the technique he reveals that was used by many famous and successful business leaders of his day.

In this technique, Napolean Hill suggested you could access valuable advice by the use of your mind in imagining and visualizing.

Each night, he advised, imagine a group of your most respected people from history getting together and advising you on your problems and strategies to implement.

Actually human beings have been using different variations of this technique for many thousands of years, all over the world.

Here is a variation of this visualization technique that you can use to enhance your ability to learn new skills and come up with new creative ideas.

You can learn to access an inner guide by exploring the use of guided imagery while in a deeply relaxed state of mind.

This technique gives you access to parts of yourself that you are normally not aware of.

The first step is to decide what knowledge or skill you would like to develop in yourself. What are you interested in that you would like to do better? You might wish to improve your skill at archery, portrait painting, doing mathematics, or playing a musical instrument.

Once you have decided what skill or knowledge you would like to develop, take some time to think about those people you consider an expert in this chosen field. Whose skills do you admire? Who do you think of as a great role model and expert in the field?

The person need not be currently living. Before you move ahead with this exercise, you may wish to research the life of the person you have chosen.

You might even decide you want to see the world from the perspective of your favorite animal or bird, such as a wolf or an eagle.

When you are ready to do the exercise, prepare yourself by deeply relaxing your body and your mind. Take some time to get comfortable in a place where you will not be disturbed. Internally scan your body for tension, and allow your muscles to relax. Breathe calmly and smoothly in a relaxed way.

If you know any self hypnosis techniques or relaxation techniques, use them to slow down your mind and feel at peace.

Now think: is there a particular place where you would like to meet your imaginary guide? You might want to meet this guide in your own home, but feel free to imagine another site. For example, you could visualize meeting in a beautiful garden, in a forest, on top of a mountain, or some other location.

If you are not yet able to easily imagine a location in which to meet your chosen guide, don't worry. Simply move forward to the imagined encounter with this person, whenever you are ready.

Your imaginary encounter may go exactly as planned, or there may be surprises in store for you. Perhaps someone you weren't expecting shows up. Perhaps your chosen guide does not want to participate. If no one appears in your mind's imagination, ask for someone to come forward, and then wait.

When your imaginary guide appears, handle the encounter with as much politeness and respect as you would a real life encounter with a real person. Do you feel comfortable in the presence of this expert? Do you have the sense that the guide feels comfortable with you?

Even if these guides are figments of your inner mind, you still need to be sure you are accessing a part of yourself that wants to promote only the best for you.

If you get any sense of discomfort between you, thank the expert for coming, and politely dismiss him or her. Think of another expert you admire in your chosen field and create an imaginary encounter with that person. You may even have to create a totally fictitious character to be your imaginary guide.

Once you have established a meeting with your chosen guide, mentally picture yourself and your visiting guide standing facing each other in an attitude of great respect. Gently put your arms out and slowly remove the guide's head from his or her body. Since this is only an imaginary person or animal, the head should come off quite easily.

Place the guide's head above your own, facing the right way, and lower it over your own head. Now believe that you are looking out at the world through the eyes of your chosen expert, hearing through the guide's ears, smelling through the guide's nose.

Take the time to allow the guide's mind to slowly merge with your own mind. Now gently pull the guide's body towards you, and step into it. Feel as if it fits you perfectly. Feel that you have merged with the expert’s body and can feel and do the same things.

When you feel that you are actually in the guide's body, notice what seems different to you. Does the world look different in any way? Do any of your attitudes feel different? How does your body feel different? Can you feel the confident attitude of the expert? Memorize the sensation.

Focus on the differences you notice and start to talk about them out loud. Spend at least five minutes doing this step. When you have finished, gently step out of the borrowed imaginary body and carefully remove the guide's head from you own. Respectfully return the head and body to the expert. Thank that person for allowing you to have this experience.

You can use this technique to improve your skills at some desired activity, or to accelerate your ability to learn to do something you have never done before.

First spend a few weeks performing the exercise daily to familiarize yourself with it. Once you are accustomed to the process of donning the expert’s head, you are ready to use this technique to accelerate your skills development.

First spend a few minutes performing the desired skill entirely in your mind. Feel as if you are actually performing perfectly it and that you really know how to do it. Then move to the exercise, and spend about 10 –15 minutes, performing the activity in real life, but mentally be the character of the expert, wearing the expert’s head and body.

After about fifteen minutes, gently remove the guide's head and step out of the guide's body. Thank them for the use of his or her body, mind and talent. Ask the person to continue filling your mind with more of their expert knowledge and ability even when you are not practicing this exercise.

Before the experience starts to fade from your memory, spend a few minutes writing down or speaking out loud everything you can remember. Write down or speak everything you can remember that was really different when you were in the expert’s mind and body, rather than as yourself.

When you wish to improve a particular skill, first spend about 15 minutes mentally doing it as yourself. Then slip into the guide's head and body to continue the exercise in real life for another fifteen to thirty minutes. If you repeat this process about three times a day, you will experience a greatly accelerated ability to master the skills you desire.

Please realize that advice and knowledge received in this manner is not infallible. Do not feel obligated to act on any advice received from your inner dialogue with your imagined guides unless you are absolutely convinced it is appropriate for you at this time.

This technique can greatly increase access to your inner creativity and wisdom, but you will still need to make informed and reasoned decisions about what you do.

The human mind has boundless potential, and humans have been exploring many ways to use the mind for thousands of years. In this article you will learn a way to use visualization to help you acquire new knowledge, skills and guidance more quickly than with conventional techniques.

This article was written by Royane Real, author of the book, “How You Can Be Smarter – Use Your Brain to Learn Faster, Remember Better, and Be More Creative” To learn more brain boosting techniques, download it today at http://www.royanereal.com

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