MUSIC CHARGING​

 

Although you can charge your subconscious by telling a story in your mind and can do so without necessarily using any outside props or devices, I find it ideal to charge while also listening to music. In fact rarely do I ever charge emotion without also listening to some kind of music in the background while I’m doing so, although I have done it before. This is because music is an incredible tool for charging your subconscious as it can act as an aid in helping you to capture highly specific contexts in your story. This in turn enables you to have much better control over the frequency your subconscious charges up at. And it’s not just beneficial in this manner either. The audible stimulation that occurs to your sense of hearing can cause relatively strong reactions from your subconscious instinct as well. In other words the actual sensory experience of music also helps to charge your subconscious. It’s also quite easy to pretty much listen to music at any random time by listening to it on your phone or some mobile device. Logistically speaking, this is actually very convenient for the intermittent favoring nature of your subconscious energy. Thus whenever I’m charging emotion in short 30-second to 1-minute intervals, I will listen to music as I’m doing so and can do so wherever I am most of the time. Different songs will help me to hone in on different shades of the emotion I’m trying to charge and can be incorporated very directly into the story I’m telling in my mind to provide a richer expression of emotion and transcendental imagination from my subconscious instinct.

          Overall I think music is a great tool for helping you to charge emotions and I recommend using it whenever you're looking to charge them. One piece of caution I will give though is that music can sometimes be a little distracting in your efforts to tell a story in your mind as well. You may feel the need for example to focus on the music directly instead of on the act of holding an intention and telling a story. It could also be that you're simply not giving enough of your attention to the main charging technique and too much of it toward the song you're listening to. If the song isn’t new and you stop holding an intention to enter a transcendental state while listening to it, you will likely just stay in a normal state of awareness during this time and probably won’t feel much emotion at all. However, this problem of distraction isn’t that difficult a problem to overcome though, I can usually get around this by simply making a little bit of extra effort to maintain focus on the main charging technique while some song is playing in the background. Also, as mentioned previously, I try to incorporate the instrumental and lyrics of the song into the scenes I play out in my mind. This makes it easier overall to charge while the music is playing. I can even charge more powerfully when I enter a state of full attention and charge at level two while listening to the music.

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SUBCONSCIOUS BURST ACTION

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In this section, I’d like to go a bit deeper into the weeds and talk about subconscious charging from an even more detailed perspective. After practicing to charge my subconscious for years, I’ve learned that there is actually another component of subconscious charging that, once I became more aware of it, allowed me to control my subconscious even better. To understand this new component, let’s first revisit a word that we’ve been using throughout the book. For the majority of the book so far, I’ve stated that, when your subconscious charges, your subconscious expresses itself with greater and greater intensity. This generally meant that you will experience an emotion more strongly and your subconscious will compel you more strongly as well. The stronger this compulsion, the more of an urge you’ll feel to perform some transcendental mental ability in a particular way – we talked about what “more charge” means for your non-emotion based transcendental mental abilities in chapter 3. I’d like to now mention that, while the term “intensity” has been helpful in getting you to understand how the subconscious behaves as it charges more, it has also been something of a misnomer too. This is because there are actually multiple parameters that are necessary to fully describe what happens when the subconscious charges.

          Until now we’ve simply been using the term intensity to say that your subconscious is generally compelling you more and more powerfully in some way as your subconscious charges. For example, more subconscious charge means you experience some emotion more strongly as a result. Well now I’d like to expand upon this phenomenon and provide a slightly larger scope of the subconscious charging process. Now technically, there are actually two main components that are necessary to describe every subconscious charge.  The first is what you might call the purity component. This simply refers to how much your subconscious is charged up at a specific subconscious frequency. Recall that your subconscious can charge up at multiple frequencies at once and, in fact, is always charged up at multiple different frequencies to varying degrees. The more purely your subconscious is charged up at one frequency, the more you’ll feel the specific emotion associated with that frequency as your subconscious charges and the less you’ll feel others. Similarly, your subconscious will also compel in a manner that more specifically matches that frequency and less in a manner that reflects other frequencies.

          The second component of subconscious charging is the intensity component. This simply tells us how powerfully your subconscious will cause you to feel a specific emotion and how strong the corresponding compulsions for that charge will feel to you as well. Now this definition alone isn’t really giving us any new information with respect to how we’ve already been using this term. However, what I’ve learned over the years about the intensity component is that there are actually two ways in which it can express itself. In other words, you can feel an emotion more strongly in way A or more strongly in way B depending on which version of the intensity component you’re using for your charge. But then just what are these two versions of intensity and how is it possible to experience the same emotion very strongly in two different ways? Well to describe these two different kinds of intensity, I like to use the terms burst action and subconscious burst. A burst action refers to the specific type of intensity being expressed for a subconscious charge and a subconscious burst describes the behavior of the subconscious action itself. To understand these concepts further, I often like to think about what happens when you throw a powerful punch. When you do this, you will generally accelerate your arm in a relatively sudden burst to gain as much momentum as you can before making contact with some target.

          In a sense, there is a burst of motion at the beginning of the punch. Well your subconscious instinct can actually express itself in a similar manner. It can essentially express itself in a relatively sudden burst for pretty much any transcendental mental ability. You often notice this in the case of transcendental control when it comes to laughter or when suddenly raising your voice in anger. When the subconscious expresses itself in a large burst like manner, I like to call it a subconscious burst. Now whenever the subconscious does this, the energy of that burst actually lingers around in your subconscious short term memory. This energy compels the conscious mind to produce an intention that generally tries to get the subconscious mind to perform another burst again. When the subconscious does perform another burst, it actually piggybacks off the energy still lingering around from the previous burst and, in doing so, performs an even larger burst as a result.  In other words, as the subconscious keeps performing a burst over and over again, it charges up and is able to perform even more powerful bursts as it continues to charge. For example if a person were to transcendentally raise their voice in anger in a sudden burst of emotion and transcendental control, then they would be able to feel an even larger burst of anger each time they charged anger in this burst like fashion.

          Now where things become a bit counter-intuitive is when looking at the opposite kind of burst action. In the above example, we looked at a burst action that involved quickly accelerating or “speeding up” in a sudden burst of effort. But what’s interesting about this is that this is not the only way to perform a burst. Ironically the subconscious can actually perform an action that involves decelerating or “slowing down” in a sudden way as well. When you throw a powerful punch, your arm actually slows down suddenly toward the end of the punch just as it sped up suddenly at the beginning of the punch. In a certain sense, we can think of this slowing down part of the punch as bursting in a slowing down kind of way. Similarly, your subconscious has the ability to burst in the reverse direction by expressing itself in way that feels like it is slowing down. Emotionally this feels more like the feeling of calming down or relaxing. For this reason, I like to refer to this slowing down burst as a calm burst and the speeding up burst as an excitement burst. When your subconscious mind calm bursts, it will feel like you’re relaxing or calming down and when your subconscious performs an excitement burst it will feel like you’re becoming more excited and jittery.

          Now what’s important about recognizing these burst actions in practice is that they tend to have a cumulative effect when you’re charging. This means that, as you perform a specific bursting type more and more, the intensity component of your subconscious charge will also increase more and more. However if you keep haphazardly switching back and forth between both burst types without building any one up first, then the intensity component of your charge won’t grow very much. This was something I eventually noticed I was doing a lot and it was disrupting my charging capabilities. Once I became aware that there were actually two different types of burst actions related to the intensity of my subconscious charge, I started charging by leaning more into a specific one as I charged. When I’d done this, I found that I was able to charge energy even easier than I could before. I actually felt much more in control of my charge as a well. But then exactly how do you charge subconscious energy using a calm burst and an excitement burst?

           Well a calm burst is actually quite easy and natural to do. I’d argue that most of the time you’re probably going to use a calm burst to charge emotion and an excitement burst to charge your transcendental performance – we’ll talk more about performance charging in the next chapter. For a calm burst, you would simply hold an intention, while telling a story in your mind, until you enter a transcendental state. From there, you will naturally charge an emotion using your subconscious instinct and do so in a way that is based on the intention you held and the story you told –  basically the same thing you normally do. The main key I’d like to focus on here is that you would do this by trying to give as much of your attention toward your story as possible, to make your charge more powerful, but also do so in a way that leans more toward relaxing or calming down. Try not to focus too much on trying to force your subconscious instinct to express a large amount of emotion at once. If you do this, then you will be counteracting its tendency to become more calm and this will disrupt your charge. Instead simply keep drawing all of your attention toward the story you’re telling, ignoring thoughts that focus on whether or not your technique is working or how much you want to feel a specific emotion. As you do all of this, while also expressing a desire to relax or calm down more, you will naturally find yourself entering a transcendental state eventually – remember you will not be able to watch or notice it happening while in a state of full attention –  and your subconscious instinct expressing a particular emotion in a relatively calming way.

          As you keep doing this over and over again, you will notice your subconscious charging as usual. But specifically this time, you will notice that you’re feeling very relaxed and calmed each time you successfully enter a transcendental state and that you’re feeling very calm as the intensity of the emotion you’re charging increases. As you keep charging in a way that leans into this calm feeling, you will notice that your charge is beginning to feel more controlled. This is because you’re focusing more consistently on one type of burst action during this period of time. I’ve found that charging emotions using a calm burst is relatively easy and feels quite natural to do most of the time. When people relax and spend time in meditation, they’re actually performing a calm burst charge of some kind. On the opposite end is an excitement burst charge. This kind of charge is actually not quite as easy to do as a calm burst charge. I find that the emotional state of calm and being more relaxed is more stable and that the mind tends to prefer this state more. However an emotional state that is more excited tends to be less stable and the mind prefers this less. This means that it’s harder to charge in this manner compared to a calm burst charge. In fact this difference often confused me for years.

          I’d kept assuming that there was only one kind of way to feel emotions more intensely as they'd charge but, at the same time, I also knew that I’d occasionally experience some emotion in a way that felt different from the way I normally charged them. I couldn’t quite put my finger on what that difference was until I realized that one felt more calm and the other felt more exciting. Now to perform an excitement burst, you would begin the same way as usual. You’d hold an intention, while telling a story in your mind, until you enter a transcendental state. Now, once you enter a transcendental state, your goal will now be to try to use your subconscious instinct to express a specific emotion and belief in a sudden and powerful burst of intensity at once. Unlike with a calm burst, you will feel like you’re leaning into an action that takes more work and effort to do. But if you keep doing this over and over again, you will find that you’re not only feeling some emotion more intensely, but your subconscious instinct is also becoming more excited by the story you’re playing out in your mind. Your instinct will begin to feel like there is a lot going on in your story in a way that will not be unlike how it reacts to a scene in an action movie. And this isn’t necessarily referring to the danger primal emotion response but rather to the overall feeling of excitement you have as an action scene plays out.

          It is important however to time your bursting effort properly though. If you try to burst when not in a transcendental state or not close to entering one, then not only will your subconscious not charge properly but you could give yourself a headache from giving too much negative minded effort, at least that's what used to happen to me. But once I got the hang of it and used this technique for charging emotions, I’ve developed the ability to simply tell stories in my mind in a way that causes me to become very excited and feel like I’m in an action movie scene. It's definitely a different feel from emotions charged using a calm burst. However I’ve rarely felt the need to charge emotions in this particular manner. I’ve found that, when I have done this, I tend to charge a little too much excitement and it actually starts to feel a bit straining on my body. It begins to feel as though all of the excitement is a little too much stimulation for my brain and like I need to calm down in order to feel more comfortable again. However, while an excitement charge is not necessarily all that preferable for an emotion charge, I do believe it is preferable for a performance charge. When I tried to charge my subconscious for the purpose of enhancing my ability to perform some task, I used to do so in a way that mimicked the way I charged emotion, which was using a calm burst. However, this made me too relaxed and made it harder for my subconscious instinct to actually want to perform a task in a way that was more conducive to the active nature of the real world.

          There were more issues than this that caused me to have trouble charging my subconscious for performance that we’ll talk about in the next chapter. However, I find that, when charging for the purpose of performance properly, you naturally tend to charge using an excitement burst without thinking too much about it. And, in this case, it takes quite a while to reach a point where you feel like you’re way too excited for reasons that, again, we’ll discuss in the next chapter. I recommend to practice charging emotion using both types of bursting techniques in order to get the hang of both and recognize the difference between the two more clearly. I believe this will give you even better control over your subconscious energy. Going forward, in this book and part II, whenever we talk about charging your subconscious outside of the case of transcendental performance, we will be referring to calm burst charging unless otherwise specified.

 

 

SUBJECT MORPHISM

 

In chapter 10, we focused on the concept of subject closeness and learned that the memory of one subject can invoke the association of another one if those two subjects are “close” to each other in subconscious memory. Well there’s actually another subconscious phenomenon that’s somewhat opposite to this. It is possible for your perception to become altered in such a way that it becomes difficult for your subconscious properly access a particular subconscious memory. This is because the subject associated with that memory temporarily looks very different to your subconscious. For example let’s say that I drive a Toyota Camry and have certain thoughts and feelings evoked whenever I focus on my car as a result of subconscious association. This car is super old to me too so I don’t actually feel much stimulation at all when I focus on it. I then charge my subconscious to become very excited anytime I see a Toyota Camry in general. In this particular case, a category is the carrier of the charge. Well when I look at my car now, does the negative memory associated with my old car get called and I practically feeling nothing as a result or does the positive memory associated with the category get called and I feel excited as a result?

          I believe the truth is actually that both will be called but the more charged up the category is, the more difficult it will be to see my car as “my car” and the more excited I’ll be as a result. This change in the way the subject looks to our subconscious is a phenomenon I call subject morphing. This phenomenon is quite similar to the concept of form morphing mentioned in chapter 7, where our subconscious charge can impact the degree to which something appears as a subconscious form to us when we observe it. In the case of subject morphing, our pre-existing charge, or subconscious memory configuration, can impact the degree to which some subject actually appears to us as the one associated with some particular subconscious memory. There are actually two special kind of charges that make use of this phenomenon which we’ll discuss. The first is more or less just a random charging technique I’ve come across in my efforts to understand the subconscious more by trying different things. However the second charge is an important one that we perform all the time without realizing it and is important to understand in the overall practice of subconscious control.

 

 

ROTATION METHOD

 

An interesting technique I’ve learned to charge my subconscious with is one that involves changing the way the main subject appears to my subconscious. Technically this technique can also be applied in the same manner toward a main category as well but we'll simply focus on the case of a main subject for our discussion. Now back when I wasn’t sure exactly what parameters were involved in charging my subconscious and tried different things to get the hang of it, I noticed something interesting in the way I was playing out the story I was imagining in my mind. I noticed that, occasionally, I could focus on the main subject and tell the story in such a way that the subject, even if only for a moment, looked somewhat new to my subconscious again. Recall that negative memory tends to stick around and doesn’t seem to ever really go away –  or at least, it takes a very long time to go away if your brain is healthy. Furthermore you tend to build up a little bit of new negative memory even when you're performing the main charging technique. However, the reason you're still able to charge is because you're building up enough positive memory to overpower your negative memory. This is what is really happening in your subconscious memory whenever your subconscious charges.

This means that if you take something that’s old to you and then charge your subconscious by making its subconscious memory more and more positive, you will become very emotionally stimulated when you focus on that subject as a result. But still though, it’ll never quite feel the same as when that particular subject was new. This is because a little bit of that negative memory will always be there trying to stimulate your subconscious to go back into its ground state and you’ll always be able to feel it at least a little bit. This of course is not the case when something is completely new to you though. Thus a charge that is carried by a completely new subject will always feel a little different from a charge that is carried by a subject that was once old. However what I noticed is that when I tell the story in just the right way, the main subject suddenly looks rather new to me again. This causes that lingering feeling of negative memory to finally just about go away or at least feel much weaker than usual. But again it’s only for a moment though and the subject reverts back to looking old to me again shortly afterwards.

          Well I realized that if I just keep thinking of fairly random scenes in my mind whose context are closely related to some frequency, try to focus on them in a way that causes the main subject to look new to me again and then try to keep my focus on the particular scene in which the main subject does suddenly start to feel new to me, then my subconscious actually starts to charge rather easily. Furthermore it charges in a way that feels similar to how a charge feels when the subject is completely new to me. I like to call this technique for charging the rotation method. I call it this because it feels like my imagination is rotating through a whole bunch of random scenes and stories until I finally get to one that makes the main subject look new to my subconscious. I should mention that, in doing this, I can't fully control what scenes in this rotating process actually appear "new" to my subconscious. The odds of such an event occurring does increase whenever my subconscious charges at all, including when using the main charging technique. However it will always be a chance or probability based occurrence. When it finally does occur though, my subconscious instinct will become highly interested in this new looking scene and I will feel compelled to keep my attention on it until I enter a transcendental state. From here I can simply keep repeating this process and end up charging my subconscious as a result. Now the downside to this method is that its rotational, or mentally fast changing, nature makes it much harder to have a more consistent and controlled story. This is turn means that it's harder to control the context, and therefore the frequency, of your charge. But because the main subject still appears momentarily new to my subconscious, I'm still able to charge using this technique.

          Now technically, as I’m performing this technique, I will find that I'm often still holding the intention to perceive some scene in my mind as new since that is ultimately my goal on a conscious level. Part of me can't help but do this as I'm rotating through different scenes in my mind. So in this sense, my subconscious is still charging according to that intention, no different than the way it charges any time I hold an intention until I enter at transcendental state. However, while I often cannot help but to hold this intention while performing this technique, it isn't really the reason this charge works, at least I don't think it is. This particular method is able to charge the subconscious as a result of the way a continuous change in intention can cumulatively morph the way a subject appears until it temporarily just looks new to you again. For example if you see a palm sized rock by itself, you might not think of it as being small. But if you see this palm sized rock next to a bolder, you might now have a hard time not seeing the rock as small. In other words, the context changed in such a way that favored a particular perception of the palm sized rock. This effect can occur in a continuous and cumulative way in your mind as you rotate through different scenes. One result of this effect is the continuous morphing of the way some subject appears to your subconscious.

          By continuously changing the scenes you imagine in your mind, it is actually possible to continuously morph some subject that is old to you until it no longer reminds your subconscious of that original subject and therefore temporarily appears new to you again. That being said, the subject doesn't stay morphed by this effect for very long. If I don’t find another imagined scene that makes the subject look new to me again fairly quickly through this rotation process, then the subject will start to look old again and my subconscious will charge at a slower pace and become more dampened by negative memory. This gives a general sense of urgency to find a scene that feels new to me quickly. My mind will still enter a transcendental state from holding the intention to perceive a scene as new anyway but the technique overall works better when I can successfully find and focus on scenes that actually feel new to my subconscious mind and do so in relatively quick succession.

 

 

SHOCK CHARGE

 

The next charging technique I’d like to discuss is very important because we tend to naturally use it all the time without realizing it and often do not take advantage of the opportunity to use it when we’re able to. However, unlike other charging techniques, this one cannot be performed in a direct or proactive way. Instead it works in a way that is much more akin to storing potential energy first and then releasing it in the form of a subconscious charge. I know that might sound a bit strange but that is ultimately how I’ve come to perceive it. And what’s even more kooky about this charge is that it requires you to build up lots of negative memory first before it can work. In other words you’ve got to make it harder for you enter a transcendental state before you can make it easier to – which naturally occurs any time you charge your subconscious, including with this charge. This would seem to be something of a contradiction at first glance but that is ultimately how this charge works. In order to understand this charging technique, let’s look at a hypothetical circumstance involving two songs. Now although this example will just be a hypothetical and not exactly a real world experience, I think you’ll agree that it accurately represents what would happen in reality if you did engage in the behaviors suggested.

          Let’s say that you only have two songs in your music library, song A which is a fast paced feel good party song and song B which is a more peaceful, calm and relaxing song. You decide that you’re in the mood to listen to song A for a while. Eventually this song gets old to you and is not as emotionally stimulating as it was previously but you decide that you want to keep listening to it anyway. You find that you’ve now listened to this song 100x in a row and have gotten so tired of the song that listening to it any more makes you feel a little sick to your stomach. On top of that, you find that you’re no longer in the mood to keep listening to something so fast paced and that has so much energy in it. You now prefer to listen to something slower and more relaxing instead. As a result, you finally decide to stop listening to song A and have now started to listen to song B instead. This more relaxing song is a welcomed change from the fast paced nature of song A that you forced yourself to listen to a 100x in a row.

          The first few times you listen to song B, you find that you’re highly emotionally stimulated by the feelings of peace and relaxation that it conveys. Listening to song A for so long caused you to miss the feelings of peace and relaxation that song B evokes and put you more in the mood to listen to it. You then decide that you like these feelings so much that you’re going to continue to keep listening to song B. As you continue to keep listening to it, you find that the emotional stimulation you felt earlier is starting to weaken again. And by the time you’ve listened to song B 100x in a row, you find that you’re now sick of song B. Not only are you tired of song B, but it has also made you tired of calm and relaxing songs too. You’re now more in the mood for something energetic and fast paced. Because of this, you decide to listen to song A again as it is the only other song in your music library. But song A already has a whole bunch of negative memory as evident by the fact that you were so tired of hearing it before and practically felt sick as you continued to listen to it. But then again you did just listen to song B 100x in a row and are really in the mood for something more fast paced. If you listen to song A again in this circumstance, will it somehow feel emotionally stimulating to you again or will it still be emotionally flat and even just as annoying as it was when you last finished listening to it 100x in a row?

          The answer, in my experience, is the former. Namely, you will actually find song A to be emotionally stimulating again in a positive way, as opposed to the negative feeling of annoyance you got from it earlier, in this scenario. This is in spite of the fact that it was super old to you before and practically made you sick whenever you would listen to it. But then why does this occur? Why isn’t the negative memory that’s been built up, and the frustration that’s been charged prior, being called from subconscious memory as normal when you focus on Song A again? Well the reason has to do with the phenomenon of subject morphing. I believe that when you focus on a specific subject for a prolonged period of time, as you would when listening to the same song 100x in a row, you actually end up weakly charging your subconscious to alter your perception so that it’s easier for you to perceive that same subject and others like it.   An interesting consequence of this effect is that subjects that, from the subconscious mind's perspective, don’t look anything like the one you’ve been focused on for a prolonged period of time actually become a little harder to notice. This means that the subconscious has a hard time recognizing these subjects as those that belong to some stored subconscious memory. The conscious mind however recognizes these subjects very easily and, to it, nothing about the subject has changed.

          Now because your subconscious no longer recognizes the opposite looking subject in these circumstances, it also has trouble recalling the subconscious memory normally associated with this subject. This is particularly useful when there is a lot of negative memory stored in that subject's subconscious memory. Now because of this difficulty in your subconscious mind's ability to recognize the opposite looking subject and  the difficulty this causes in recalling the subject's negative memory, the opposite looking subject itself just starts to look new again to your subconscious mind. This appearance of newness actually makes it fairly easy for your subconscious to charge up while focused on this subject – same as with any new subject. As you can see, charging the subconscious in this particular circumstance is quite different from the techniques discussed in the last chapter. When the subconscious charges up in this special circumstance, I like to refer to it as a shock charge. I call it this because performing this charge essentially requires you to focus on one type of thing for a prolong period of time and then sort of shock yourself by suddenly focusing the opposite type of thing – at least opposite in terms of the way it appears to your subconscious mind.

          As you can see, a shock charge is a fairly unique charging technique because you actually have to build up a lot of negative memory to something first before you can use it. In a sense, the older one thing is becoming to you, the newer some opposite thing is appearing to you as well. This phenomenon often results in you becoming more and more attracted to something that’s the opposite of the experience you’re becoming more and more used to. This is because it gets harder and harder to become emotionally stimulated by the subject that you’re used to – due to subconscious entropy of course – and easier and easier to become emotionally stimulated by the opposite subject that you’re not used to – due to shock charging. I believe this phenomenon is ultimately what the aphorism “opposites attract” is based on. Now, while it is true that the subconscious has trouble recognizing the old subject in these special circumstances, it isn't actually the case that it doesn't recognize the old subject at all.

          The subconscious can of course still recognize the old subject to some degree, even in these circumstances. However, because it doesn't fully recognize the old subject, it isn't able to fully recall its subconscious memory when you focus on it. Instead it is recalled in a more scalable way, similarly to the way subconscious memories are recalled in a scalable way when they are very close to each other – this was discussed in chapter 9 in the section on subject closeness. Thus when a subject is only a little bit familiar to your subconscious, its subconscious memory is only a little bit called when you focus on it. This means that you will only feel the effect of negative memory stored in the opposite looking subject a little bit when you focus on it. Generally the more time you spend focusing on one subject, the more new the opposite subject is starting to look to your subconscious mind and the less the degree to which its corresponding subconscious memory will be called when you focus on it. Now going back to the hypothetical, the reason song A was suddenly emotionally stimulating again, even though it was old, is because its fast paced nature makes it have an opposite appearance to song B to your subconscious mind. Since your subconscious was charged up to see song B, it had a hard time fully recalling the subconscious memory of song A. As a result song A looked a little bit new again to your subconscious and enabled to you shock charge while listening to it.

          Of course as I listen to song A for a while, it will start to look more familiar again to my subconscious. This means that I’ll start to be able to perceive the oldness of song A more clearly and its negative memory will start to come in more strongly. But for a short time, I got to charge pretty nicely while focused on song A even though the song had a lot of negative memory. Still though, it should be noted that a clear downside to this kind of charge, as with all new things, is that it is very temporary in nature. Just as it’s very easy to charge when something is new to you and gets harder to do as it gets older, it’s also very easy to shock charge when you first focus on an opposite looking subject but gets harder to do the longer your focus on that subject. For example it will eventually be the case that the shock effect of song A in the example has worn off and its negative memory gets fully called again and I’m unable to feel much stimulation from song A as I listen to it. Of course at that point I may choose to listen song B again and repeat the cycle.

          You may have noticed that shock charging tends to influence your behavior in a way that causes you to engage in what you might describe as back and forth activity. This was something I started to consciously notice I was doing when I first became aware of the phenomenon of shock charging – although I didn’t immediately understand it from a subconscious perspective at the time. Back then I noticed that if I listened to dancey pop music for a while, I’d find that I’m suddenly more in the mood for calmer and more relaxing music. If I’d socialized a lot and hung out too much, I’d suddenly find that I’m more in the mood to be by myself and spend more time alone. And then when I’m alone for too long a time, I’d then eventually want to hang out and socialize more again. Similarly when I listen to relaxing music for a while, I’d find that I suddenly want to listen to more fast paced music again. If I listen to old school music for a long time, I find that I suddenly want to listen to something new again and so on.

          You can probably pin point these kinds of back and forth feelings and behaviors in your life and may feel that you can observe them to a degree in others. Lastly, it’s good to always be aware of what subjects or categories you’re developing a potential ability to shock charge while focused on. This way you’ll understand why you’re naturally becoming more attracted to something that’s the opposite of something else that’s more cemented or involved in your life. You will also know when you’re able to take advantage of the nice charging boost you get from of this form of potential subconscious energy. For example when you main charge a subject that you’re also shock charging as well, you can temporarily get a real surge in your overall charge that can be rather intense. In fact this charging surge used to confuse me because I always thought it meant that I must’ve been doing something very special with my intention to be causing it. But then I’d lose the ability to charge in this rapid manner not long after I started and I couldn’t figure out why all of the fancy things that I was doing with my intention at the beginning of the surge was no longer working.

 

 

MORNING CHARGE

 

The last charging technique I’d like to discuss in this chapter is probably the most limited in terms of timing but can also be very powerful and is worth discussing. In particular this technique is very limited in that it can only be done at a certain time of day, during a very short window of time. Recall from chapter 6 it was mentioned that the best times to charge your subconscious are more in the middle of the day – a little bit after you’ve woken up and a little bit before you’re ready to go to sleep for the night. This is because the strength of your ground state charge actually changes a little throughout the day. When you wake up in the morning from a full nights rest, your body has fully recharged its ground state and it is now functioning at full power. This makes it a bit harder to enter a transcendental state and charge your subconscious during this time. On the opposite end, when you’ve had a long day and are ready to sleep for the night, your ground state charge is a little too weak. Although you’re able to enter a transcendental state more easily, it’s now harder to actually control your subconscious during this time because the properties of your negative mind are now also weaker. Thus it is actually best to charge up more in the middle of your day.

          However, there is a very special window of time where these timing ideals sort of go out the window. Specifically, this window of time occurs in the immediate moments that you experience right after waking up from a nights sleep. During this time, you haven’t even had the chance to get out of bed yet. Again this special window of time occurs immediately after your deep sleep dreaming has ended and you’re consciously awake again. During this window of time, your subconscious seems to be in a very special state where it is able to respond much more strongly to your intention and is able to enter an excited state much more easily than usual. Consequentially this also means that you’re able to enter a transcendental state much more easily than usual. In fact it’s so easy that you don’t really have to even concentrate that much on trying to hold an intention to enter a transcendental state as normal. Your subconscious is so volatile during this window that it won’t really feel necessary to. A similar effect happens when you experience something that’s new but it is much more intense during this window of time.

          When you enter a transcendental state during this time, you will also find that it’s much easier to control your subconscious, or think at the level of instinct, as well. This means that you will also have a very easy time charging during this time as well. I like to call the technique of charging during this special window a morning charge. This is obviously due to the fact that the window of time where you’re able to use this charge will most often occur early in the morning, right after you’ve woken up. That being said, this charge is most effective when used in addition to normal charging that you’d perform throughout the day. This is because the window of time in which you’re able to use this charge is far too short to really get all that much charging done if using this charge alone. Although charging from this technique tends to be more intense overall, this technique still works best when being used as a supplement to a deep charge. For example when you're feeling some emotion very intensely from your mood as a result of deep charging, you'll be able to feel that emotion even more intensely when you boost it with a morning charge as well. Not only that, you will also find that your mood has become even more intense from this morning charge since it has, in a sense, stored more energy in your short-term memory. I often like to use the morning charge when I’m focused on a goal and want to charge the feeling of confidence and determination that I will achieve it. Sometimes I can feel the emotions of determination and certainty so powerfully during this time, that it almost feels like there’s some kind transcendental or magical aspect of the experience that goes beyond the normal act of entering a transcendental state and producing more intense emotion and belief. I later came to the conclusion that there actually was more going on in this experience and will talk more about it in book II when discussing the nature of manifestation.

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Footnotes

 

1. Actually there are really three components to every subconscious charge if we're including subconscious organization. However, this parameter is really only important to talk about in the context of transcendental creativity so I've omitted it from this section. We'll discuss transcendental creativity in detail in the next chapter.

 

2. Actually this is another principle by with which stories are able to entertain us. The way some particular scene quantizes our subconscious, due to the reflection principle, determines how morphed the next scene will appear to us and how easily we'll be able to perceive subconscious forms in that scene. This therefore also means that the prior scene will impact how easily we'll be able to be emotionally stimulated by the next scene. And this principle is not necessarily referring to the story itself but rather the underlying context of the story and the way the subconscious responds to them. Thus, when telling a story, whether that be in the form of music, movies, books and so on, it is important to be cognizant of how the context of a new scene is impacted by the context of the previous scene. Good movies are successfully able to continuously maximize the way the context of some prior scene impacts the context of the next scene so that you're able to stay fairly emotionally stimulated as you watch the movie. Bad movies don't do this and organize their scenes in a way that's essentially just "getting through the story". This reflects an overly conscious minded way of thinking that does not acknowledge subconscious forms or context in the way your subconscious instinct does. One of the worst offenders of this, in my opinion, was the movie Batman vs Superman.

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3. I say weakly here because the build up of negative memory is preventing you charging strongly. However, some positive memory can still build even when there’s lots of negative memory around trying to block you from doing so.