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• clearing negative attachments—One method of releasing negative, primitive
  defense mechanisms is to CLEAR the solar plexus of its unhealthy attachments.
  Imagine you are floating in space and you have an umbilical cord connected from
  your solar plexus to those you are emotionally bonded to. One by one cut off the
  umbilical cord to each person and see them float away from you. When all the
  cords are cut do all kinds of flips, cartwheels, swimming movements and twists
  and turns to express your glee at being free and boundless in space, with no gravity
  weighing you down. This is one way to give up the reptilian—clinging/aversion
  level of bonding to elevate the relationship to the heart and higher chakras. The
  lower unconscious bonds diminish US all.


• affirmations—Affirmations can be used like pointing out instruction to corral
  thought/emotion/state into more expansive directions. Often you might find
  yourself slipping down in mood or thought and need to catch yourself with some
  well remembered little catch phrases that pull ones state up by the bootstraps. In
  the book...What to Say When You Talk to Your Self by Shad Helmstetter, he suggests
  that such self-talk, used in reprogramming more idealized behavior and states, can
  be recorded on tapes. If one listens to such self-talk tapes the information tends to
  be absorbed by osmosis into the subconscious. Such a technique will also help to
  keep at the ready and fresh in the mind the catch phrases that will tune our being
  in the direction that we really want to go in.


• integrative-empowerment meditation—This is simply focusing, first on the
  body, then mind-temporals, the heart and the soul-prefrontals with the minds eye
  and saying to each one: I empower my body...I empower my mind...I empower
  my heart...I empower my soul. What happens is that the focused attention forces
  one to breathe life energy into all these aspect of ourselves one after the other. The
  meditation is to help empower prepare one to walk through the barrier/threshold
  that separates one life era from another. That is to make changes. You can lie down
  or sit during the meditation and envision a special door, or gates that one stands
  before while doing this. Pull your mind away from present affairs and don’t dwell
  to any “content” of the life journey. Consciousness can be focused and the body-
  mind-soul-heart infused with consciousness is a lot happier and whole than one in
  which dissociative amnesia and lack of “readiness” is occurring.


• Building a self-system—Although it is useful to use all the guided meditation
  materials out there, we really need to build the sense that we are our own “creator.”
  Both healing and enlightenment arise from going directly to the SOURCE with
  no inner or outer go-between. As Anthony De Mello say, “In the things that really
  matter, life, love, reality, God, no one can teach you a thing.” Building the power to
  explore, initiate and choose inner content is the first step in a deeper relationship
  with ourselves. Active imagination and visualization work for building a self-
  structure, boundaries, wound healing, and creating trust, faith and openness.
  Developing a deeper sense of internal-self involves skills which are essentially not
  taught but are found within. The issue of self-determinacy and self-realization needs
  to be explored in this age of pathological leadership and oligarchy. Self-integrity,