Thread: Belle's Yoga to Alter Reality

Thank you Sivason for your comments on the last exercise.

Diffuse Vision:

Level 1: Simply do not look at any object ahead of you. This can be done while sitting or walking, but does not work well laying on a bed. Relax your eyes and have the eyes pointed ahead of you. You want to bring your awareness to the edge of your field of vision on either side. A very good way to practice this is when you are a passenger on a vehical. Here is what you are after. You should try to be aware of what is in the edge of both sides of your visual field. You will likely try to look at something directly in front of you, or your eyes will attempt to move towards one side and focus on something over there. Your goal is to hold two objects or moving scenes in your awareness without allowing your eyes to move towards the side. You also want the eyes to be in a relaxed state and not shift to an object in front of you.

Level 2: Place an object like a coin, pen, crystal, about half an arms length (you can hold it) directly in front of your eyes. You are now supposed to look directly at the object for a moment in normal vision. Then relax the eyes. You must learn how to over ride the fine muscles that cause the eyes to focus, as well as the gross muscles that control binocular vision. Diffuse vision does not use binocular focussing. Look at the object, but do not allow your eyes to come into focus on any object. You should look like the vacant faced stoner or an android. The entire portion of your face involved with eyes should relax. You want to be fully aware of the object, but fight the impulse to let your eyes focus on anything using binocular focus. You should attempt to stay unfocused for over 2 minutes. At that point you may start to experience visual distortions. These distortions are used in other mystical skills like aura vision and crystal ball/ reflexion gazing. For now, just notice them. It is not part of this lesson to see the distortions, so do not worry if you do not. Try using diffuse vision on a tile floor that has dark grout lines and you should see distortions and weird stuff within the two minutes.

Level 3: Simply combine the first two lessons. With out employing binocular focus, be aware of the object right in front of you, and an object on either side. Try to understand what mental impulse is trying to make this hard to do. Something in your mental state will fight you and try to force your eyes into focusing on an object or spot. I can not "teach" this part of it. You need to identify what in your mental state keeps forcing you to "look at something" rather than "just seeing something." You may spend years working this out. In the end learn to supress that part of your mind. Learn to not have to comply with the demand, that you do things the way you have always done them before. Mental discipline is the needed thing; develop it.

Level 4: The true goal! Use the type of vision you developed in lesson three and attempt to watch a colorful or action packed movie. I would suggest that your eyes rest off to one side of yhe TV by a few inches. Your goal is to sit and see the show, enjoy the show, and understand what you are seeing, for 10 minutes, without succumbing to the impulse to look at the screen (or anything) using binocular focus.

I will be suprised if most people do not find this to be very challenging. I am not pretending these skill I am teaching can be learned in a few weeks. Develop all these skill over the years. For now, post in your workbooks anything you feel is worth commenting on, any cool experiences, or if you think you understand why I want you to learn this.

Level 1 wasn't too difficult aside from having to direct my attention in a different manner than I typically do.

Level 2 was interesting. I've been seeing auras since middle school. Not very often and it was almost always on accident. Each time I would see them it felt as though my eyes would stick that way. Ha. Continuing, I think all that cross-eyed joking I did as kid and having adults tell me my eyes would stay like that stuck with me; doing this exercise was challenging because of this.

Level 3: After a few unintentional glances between both items I finally decided to give up using my eyes. I was required to expand my awareness and forgo visionary input. When I did this, I could easy hold both objects in my 'sight' without actually having to rely on the use of it. In fact, I could have done this with my eyes closed since I wasn't even looking or 'seeing' them with my eyes.

Level 4 was the most interesting in my opinion. Looking at the side of the television was a great suggestion. I'll admit, I made repeat glances with binocular focus but after that urge dissipated I began the ten minutes. Few things I noticed:

i: Familiar sounds and scenarios made avoiding binocular focus easier.
ii: Unfamiliar sounds and scenarios made avoiding binocular focus difficult.
iii: Since I could no longer rely on visionary input on the characters, I was forced to listen to their words and tone more carefully when they spoke. Also their interactions with others became more obvious.
iv: I became more aware of things around me besides the show! I had to open my awareness and get past the tunnel-vision which sight supports.

One major conclusion I came across is that sight is very limiting. It's completely useful when you want to inspect something, but it's horrible if you're trying to broaden your awareness. I don't think it would be better or worse without sight; having both options seems incredibly useful to cross-reference anything we experience.

One thing I wonder about though. For people who are afraid of the dark, is it because of the heightened state of awareness which they're experiencing that they panic? I understand some may have an overactive imagination which contributes to being frightened but it could also be the inability to properly intake the extra sensory information.

I'll post the other parts of lesson 2 once I finish those.

Originally Posted by Belle

Level 4 was the most interesting in my opinion. Looking at the side of the television was a great suggestion. I'll admit, I made repeat glances with binocular focus but after that urge dissipated I began the ten minutes. Few things I noticed:

i: Familiar sounds and scenarios made avoiding binocular focus easier.
ii: Unfamiliar sounds and scenarios made avoiding binocular focus difficult.
iii: Since I could no longer rely on visionary input on the characters, I was forced to listen to their words and tone more carefully when they spoke. Also their interactions with others became more obvious.
iv: I became more aware of things around me besides the show! I had to open my awareness and get past the tunnel-vision which sight supports.

One major conclusion I came across is that sight is very limiting. It's completely useful when you want to inspect something, but it's horrible if you're trying to broaden your awareness. I don't think it would be better or worse without sight; having both options seems incredibly useful to cross-reference anything we experience.


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One thing I wonder about though. For people who are afraid of the dark, is it because of the heightened state of awareness which they're experiencing that they panic? I understand some may have an overactive imagination which contributes to being frightened but it could also be the inability to properly intake the extra sensory information.

I'll post the other parts of lesson 2 once I finish those.

Hi Belle, I like this part of your post. It is all true. Though it is not the primary reason I am teeaching the skill, you have made a very good observation. When i open the lesson thread in less than 2 weeks, I will copy it to the lesson and award it a 'Gold Star' which is worth 30 hall points. Good thoughts on the subject!


It would be cool if I knew the answer, but the idea sounds reasonable.