Moving Trances

Photo by Einar Ragnarsson

Those who have trained with Richard Bandler or done an SNLP licensed training course (and many who haven’t also) will be more than familiar with the concept of spinning feelings. That is, when a person has a feeling, there has to be some place that the feeling starts. Whether that’s in their stomach, solar plexus, chest or where ever, and the feeling also has to move in some direction because if it didn’t, like all feelings in the body including physical ones, it would habituate and disappear

This is a useful concept because once you realise that feelings move in certain ways and begin in certain places, it becomes much easier to begin to reverse the direction that they move and make it so that you experience something completely different. It’s also really useful because you can take feelings you like and amplify them by spinning them fast, bigger, denser, wider and so forth.

Whilst I was engaging in some deep relaxation and meditation the other day, I started to deepen the trances I was in by spinning the feelings deeper and wider and as I did this I had a sudden idea. What would it be like if I decided to literally move the trance around my body? What kinds of things might happen if instead of the trance being in my head and spinning through my body, it began in my foot and spun sideways.
What happens when you take two trance states and spin them in opposite directions and then bring them together down the midline? What happens when you go just deep enough that you can widen the states and jump between them instantly and then begin to circle the different states around different parts of your being?

Today’s fun experiment

1. Take a few moments for yourself and get into a relaxed state.
2. Decide what kind of trance you’d like to play with and begin to go into that state in the way you normally would.
3. Notice where that trance state begins in your body. This may take a few moments if you’ve never done it before and that’s ok.
4. Begin to notice where the state goes to once it’s started. Notice how it moves through your body and how it loops back to the start.
5. Begin at this point to move the trance state so that it begins somewhere else and move to a different place and experience how it feels. You can always move it back to where it was if you choose too.
6. Repeat step 5 as many times as you feel like in order to generate new experiences.
7. Think of a time where this new trance can be of real benefit too you. Whether it’s in meditation, at work, down the pub or sitting and reading to your children and notice how it feels to be in that experience with these new trances.
8. Discover something new!

Once you’ve had a play around with this I’d love to hear some feedback. For me, this experience was truly profound and is something I know I’ll be playing around with a lot more.

I won’t even begin to mention the idea that maybe you can move a trance into your thumb and pop someone in the 3rd eye sending them into a truly profound deep trance. That’d be silly hoo har.

I’d really like to hear any new ideas that come from this and I hope you all have a lot of fun playing.

Remember, this is about having fun and doing something different.

Love, Jamie