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In this article I am going to teach you an easy to follow, technique that you can practise once a week or once a day. Which can actually change your mental life.

This technique involves simple visualisation, sitting in your couch, your armchair or lying down on your bed and is often called:

Heart-Centered Energy Alignment or Vertical Pillar Alignment.

You don’t have to be a believer in anything. You can apply this to your faith or practice, whatever it is. You can also be an atheist and believe in nothing. You can apply this to the external world, the universe or the quantum field as the source you are connecting to. I will explain in detail further down in this article.

This technique is for everyone and it doesn’t step on anyone’s toes because you’re working with your own inner feelings and emotion and your own mind to release negativity and feel better in yourself. So, bear with me as I just need to give you an overview first.

Before I give you the technique. I’m going to explain a few things as it’s important that you understand the very simple basic constructs at work deeper within your mind. You may be oblivious to the following but it’s important to know that your mind runs deep through various layers and if you don’t understand or know the workings of the mind, you may appreciate the following description.

You move through life aware of only the surface, conscious layer, or level. But there are layers and levels working beneath the surface that you know, some people and yourself may sometimes shift from the surface conscious layer or level you’re currently on to a secondary inner layer, which you might call using your intuition. And as you’re observing things that maybe other people don’t see, especially when people have conflicts or argue. You can see or spot the very trigger or the thing that set the other person off whilst others do not see it. They both connect with the same hidden issue they are both arguing and falling out about, accusing each other of the same thing. Some people can go further and go deeper into these layers and see things that others never see. Information gets passed forwards and backwards through different layers between two people while they argue or get on!

Some people such as therapists and sales people, advertisers, politicians and marketers to some extent understand these different layers at work. In advertising and marketing, certain language usage might be presented to speak to different levels at work in you, but you’re oblivious to that at work.

That’s why advertising works and other people who are not, so benevolent may well manipulate this for their ends. Political persuasion, indoctrinations or other people might negatively or positively connect with these different layers, such as in reading about you or giving you a prediction of one kind or another.

If you put all your beliefs aside just for a moment and let me, just explain a few things further. Because by knowing this, you can then have more understanding about what you’re getting in touch with in yourself which is your operating system, the mechanisms at work and this can become your own form of therapy to make changes in you all by yourself.

Heart centred coherence is a term often used, in scientific or even spiritual practise circles. And it refers to a process of getting in touch with or aligning the heart’s electromagnetic field through a practise of focused feelings of love, compassion and appreciation which can be extended to other people for betterment and good. This can also include forgiveness and mercy for others even if they don’t deserve it. Because this practise is all about you and healing you by using this mindset applied to your life.

Vertical light column alignment is another description that specifically visualises energy coming in through the crown of your head or up through the soles of your feet to meet a central imaginary pillar at the heart area.

Where you decide this energy or light is coming from, is down to you. If you’re an atheist, you can apply that to the quantum field. Because this energy is real. It does exist. It’s got various names, and if you have a faith, you can apply that faith as being the location for receiving this energy or light or love or compassion or kindness, and so on.

But, irrespective of any belief or faith or practise or religion or atheist and theist views, it all comes down to a mechanism that is at work beneath the surface of your daily functioning mind, whether you believe it or not and whatever way you apply it, it still works. Humans add belief systems and theories to it, but the mechanism works irrespective of any belief or not.

Another term is quantum heart connection which would be ideal for the atheist or person who refuses to believe in anything or scientifically minded person. This is the idea of tapping into a universal energy or quantum field of potentiality rather than a factual or religious source. Just allowing your mind to be open and removing all refusal or brick walls to be in place just for the purposes of allowing and letting this work.

Another term is non volitional emotional release, which is a technique about not trying to make any changes, which is what I am actually teaching you. It specifically emphasises allowing the mind, the inner mind or the subconscious to process negativity naturally without any interference or causing the subconscious defensive brick wall to appear because you’re trying to get into it.

What we will be doing in the technique is quite simple, but the reason I am explaining all this to you like this is so that you don’t interfere with it. If I just tell you not to interfere, you will naturally interfere with it. Because the one thing you won’t have control over is your expectations.

For something to happen and want to happen and need to happen will appear in your thoughts and then you’ll feel a disappointment which will again support the brick wall that appears. So, non-interference is essential. You just let the following happen when I explain it, without getting involved and also be aware of any unmet expectation or disappointments. So, by explaining all this you can drop any expectation for something to occur, drop the unmet expectation that may follow, drop the excitement and drop the disappointment, whichever way you go.

You would have gone to one of them if I hadn’t explained it. Now you know this. Using the following descriptions, you can let all expectation go and that’s the mindset you need to be in, non-holding or pushing. All you’re doing with me now is a visualisation (far below). The rest will occur in an automatic and natural way.

A term called effortless integration is a principle that the subconscious mind often resists direct attempts to change or fix things or in other words, direct fixing. And by focusing on part of the technique, which is a positive sensation, love and light and feelings of well-being rather than any problems or negativity to change, you’re actually bypassing conscious resistance or the brick wall as I call it, therefore allowing a flow of abreaction which is a later on event and not now. Later on, a release of suppressed emotion will appear, which can only be a healthy practice.

Another description is meeting of energies, which is visualising energy from the quantum field above and below, as it’s often called, both energies entering above and below meeting the heart area and symbolises a balance between mental insight, spiritual and physical. Grounding along with compassionate witnessing, which is the practise of dropping any involvement or engagement with any type of negativity, your worries, your concern, your fears, yourself doubts. You can’t pay this bill. You’re concerned about that neighbour, you’re worried about your job, you’re worried about your family member and so on.

You do not get involved in this, you just allow this light, this imaginary light, to grow around the body coming into the crown of the head and coming up through the soles of the feet and the body as this helps shift the nervous system from the stuck survival mode to a state of inner healing and regrowth or replenishment. I know this sounds a bit woo, woo but we’re actually working directly with the inner mechanisms of your own mind and nothing else. These are just words to describe what happens anyway.

Sometimes this practise can be more beneficial and successful than actually going to long drawn-out therapy sessions which can be ineffective for some people.

By not getting involved or interfering with anything. This is sometimes called the law of reversed effect or even sometimes called the backwards law that you can make progress by doing the reverse of what you instinctively feel you want to do. Resistance occurs because the subconscious mind cannot be bullied, intimidated if you like or forced to make a change, like recalling a memory. The more you try to recall something, like a person’s name you forgot. The conscious mind keeps pushing and sends the signal into the subconscious. The signal of stress through the lack of success, the lack of recall, the more you’re doing it, you’re sending information saying I can’t remember it, I can’t remember what is it? What is it? But beneath that you are reinforcing that brick wall, that resistance by doing that which evokes or awakens a defensive protective, no entry mental brick wall just as struggling to remember a name only locks it away further and the more you try the more you push it away.

Straining to release negative feelings and emotions also creates the same counter pressure as it’s often called and that reinforces the brick wall you were trying to get through. Another way of explaining this is we have evolved with a subconscious mind over millions of years. And it’s evolved to not allow us to gain access to that part of the mind which is doing its job all the time, fight or flight responses and so on to protect us.

Our subconscious mind is doing millions of things at the same time, looking out for us all the time, looking after us, monitoring our body and mind, so by adopting a state of non-interference mindset and you focus on light and energy entering you, dropping all interference and expectations for any outcome you will get results. You are actually removing all the friction, all the tension of your own conscious ego and its attempt to make change. This will naturally allow your subconscious mind to process and release information that needs to be released, naturally, once the internal resistance subside, even just thinking about it puts up that brick wall without you even knowing it.

When you finish reading this article, you can explore this further elsewhere. And that the Law of reverse effort which was a term coined by Aldous Huxley and he describes how the more we try with the conscious effort to do something, to make something happen, the less we shall succeed and that includes doing internal self-therapy work and inner healing work. And believe me, so many therapists out there don’t fully understand this.

In modern clinical psychology, his subconscious brick wall is called psychological resistance, which is very simple, so any attempts at powering through negative emotions or memory blocks, you activate an actual stress trigger or response in the mind or the brain that prevents access to more information and by not doing this whilst in the process of the healing or visualisation you are allowing automatic processes naturally for the subconscious mind to do all on their own.

And because you are setting forward to improve yourself with a positive and an authentic, decent, sincere effort to feel better or to become well, then that information will be carried through and even acknowledged by the outcome you want and just by knowing what you want as an outcome is all that is required.

If all you wish to experience is betterment, better health, better mindset then your mind will do that. The subconscious will give you exactly what you want if you know how to go about it. So now we can move on to the visualisation technique.

You now have a good reason to not hold onto any expectation or even disappointment for nothing happening because nothing will happen but relaxation. Both for and against must be dropped, do the visualisation and then leave it alone and watch how quickly you start to feel better and more positive. And when you actually feel more positive and then you start to believe it’s to do with this technique, this practise that you did for 20 or 30 minutes on your bed, then that reinforces the belief that this is now actually working.

Please note that this disclaimer and far below, that if you’re in any doubt, you’re being advised to consult your GP or Dr first about making any changes to anything in your life, including your feelings, your emotions and your mind and that you take full responsibility for any techniques or advice you are reading. This is for information purposes only, and that you can apply them to yourself if you feel they are safe for you to do so.

Please consult your GP before practising any of these techniques.

Do not try to make anything happen. The inner work improvement comes from allowing and not doing anything but visualise.

Simple Night Practice for Emotional Release – Later!

Lie down comfortably on your bed. No effort involved in any way, no forcing pushing or pulling. Just settle your body and allow yourself to feel limp and heavy and notice any tension or resistance and just drop it, let it go. And just feel the weight of your body. Feel how heavy your limbs and torso and legs are becoming and just notice your breath whilst relaxing.

Close your eyes and breathe naturally. Let the body soften on its own and if you have to, just allow whatever comes to mind to just be alone. Notice it as all you’re doing is just settling down the breathing into the body.

Visualise a white, very safe and kind. Loving and compassionate but very intense and powerful, plasma-like light entering through the crown of your head. At the same time, see the same powerful kind loving light rising up through the soles of your feet.

Let both streams of intense loving light gather in the centre of your chest in your heart area and imagine that light, spreading and growing in intensity with the love.

Don’t control it, just watch it collect and if you’re not feeling it, that’s OK. You’re not expected to feel anything at this stage. You now mentally acknowledge it is occurring and if you feel nothing, that’s OK and totally normal and just expect nothing!

As it builds, allow the light in your heart to grow brighter and stronger and notice how powerful it is and how decent, authentic, and sincere and beautiful this light is. Doesn’t matter what your past is, what you’ve done, doesn’t matter what the world has done to you. This light has no judgements. It’s pure and its intelligent all on its own, outside of your understanding and it’s driven by pure compassion and kindness.

See it expanding outward from your chest, surrounding your whole body in a sphere of light so you are completely consumed in this bubble of light healing and cleaning your entire body.

Let the feeling follow the image, warmth, compassion, kindness, forgiveness. No judgement. Nothing excluded and notice the tingling in your toes and the tingling in your fingers as you still attempt to remain still like a statue. Becoming heavier and deeper on the bed or in your chair.

Allow this field to expand beyond your body, filling the room and imagine every single square inch of space in your room is now completely consumed with this light, all spreading out from your heart, moving through walls, reaching everything, past pain, people who hurt you, people you’ve hurt, conflicts, suffering. All of it is included without any negativity or criticism. Because this is a moment of just, pure love, compassion, kindness, forgiveness and mercy for all living things and all the suffering of everything, no matter how ugly and unpleasant it is, no matter what harm has been done by you and others. This is a moment of just, pure, compassionate, loving, light.

Stay with it without analysing it, without even engaging in a running commentary. Just let it happen. Now notice your breathing has changed. Your breathing has become deeper. Just hold this field and let it deepen and deepen and deepen further with each breath.

As you rest in this awareness, allow your subconscious to do the healing work. It will begin to reorganise and release stored tension and negative emotion in its own way, at its own pace and it will do it quicker and more efficiently than conscious physical efforts.

Trust that any release will unfold safely and naturally later through thoughts, feelings or shifts in your behaviour without you needing to interfere or get involved.

Remain here for 20–30 minutes or drift into sleep and I advise that you do this visualisation three times a week or ideally once a day.

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