We are taught wrongly in school. We are taught unnatural methods to think and learn, utilizing only the left brain (logic mind), suppressing the right (creative mind). We are taught in school that the right brain is pretty much useless for education. How wrong they are, to tell us this.

We see this in people very often, even here in the ToZ forums. Too many people come to false conclusions by using only the left brain, and over-analyzing and over-thinking, which can bring a person to a state of separation from true knowledge. Spirituality, the occult, need the right brain. Both are needed… but those who are stronger in right brain often accomplish greater spiritual breakthroughs than those who are highly intelligent yet suppress their right brain.

Here’s a method to help your right brain, and prevent over-analyzing. It will also help you with void meditation, trance, spiritual communication, relaxation, and stress management.

This is also mentally rejuvenating.

Phase 1

Use a notepad or your laptop, whichever method you prefer. (A notepad to actually write in is required for the optional phase 3.)

1. Write the date, and a title something like “Scattered thoughts – to be dealt with later”.

2. List all your thoughts that come to mind. Recurring thoughts, ideas, things you need to do for work, tasks and household chores, whatever keeps entering your mind. Take as much time as you need.

The list does not have to be in order. In fact, it would be better to have them scattered, to train you out of being too left-brained. They do not have to be in straight lines. Make it sloppy and random, all over the paper. The point is to get them down as they enter your mind, and disengage your left brain.

3. Firmly tell yourself that you will deal with all of these thoughts after you have meditated. Look at the list, and be firm with yourself that you will not think of these until you have completed meditating. It is important to be firm. Those who master self-control will never fail in life.

It is important that you follow through with your self-command to deal with the thoughts after, otherwise the point of this fails and this practice won’t really work when you do this again. Keeping your word to yourself will strengthen your ability to control your mind. As a bonus effect from this practice, following through with your word to yourself will increase your self-trust.

4. Now, set the list aside. Know that you mind can now be empty. If any of those thoughts re-enter your mind, firmly remind yourself that you have written them down and will deal with them later.

5. Find a comfortable place to meditate.

“When the mind is silent, the soul can speak.”
-BKS Iyengar

Sit there, relaxed, allow trance to happen; or at the very least, experience mental peace and quiet.

The above can be concluded after a period of time, and then skip to the optional Phase 3. (Continue from Phase 1 to Phase 2 if desired.)

[You can do the above before any meditation practice, it does not have to be followed by the next parts.]

Phase 2

Now that you are relaxed (trance is preferable but not required), this phase will help to strengthen your right brain, visualization, astral hearing and sight, and creative/artistic ability.

There are no steps to this phase, for reasons that should be obvious – disengaging the left brain. Do the following in whatever order you want, change it up each time if you want, whatever. Have fun with it! Don’t be left-brained neurotic and get frustrated at the lack of clear and defined steps

In fact, if you do get frustrated, practicing this exercise will help you.

Bring a picture to your mind. It can be of your home, or perhaps a nice farmhouse in the countryside, or a nature scene. Remove the colors, make it like a drawing. Now, add colors. Don’t think. Just add colors. Mentally hear musical notes as you add colors. Perhaps remove that picture and have a flower instead, or a random design. Simple, or intricate. Add colors, with musical notes to each color. Don’t think about matching them up. Just observe whatever happens. The images can keep changing, keep shifting, keep flowing.

Perhaps a musical sonata you enjoy will enter your mind now. Or perhaps you’ll start making your own tune. Add colors, randomly (or perhaps they are not random). Don’t judge yourself, don’t try to make it “perfect”. There is no control over this, it is pure creation. No rules. The colors can change quickly, or you might keep one color for a length of time.

Just keep playing around with colors and musical notes. Perhaps the colors will dance around or swirl or vibrate, with no picture. Perhaps it’s just music, you don’t know what music, in fact you shouldn’t be thinking of what it is or what it isn’t. Maybe scents will arrive, perhaps tastes too.

Just see the colors. Just hear the music. Just be.

Now that you’ve read the above and tried it, you can actually listen to music while doing this exercise. Put on instrumental music, perhaps classical, or find ambient music on youtube (there are endless selections of these available for free). Make sure there will be no ads disturbing your trance. Have the music playing, then add colors in your mind.

Perhaps a masterpiece or brilliant idea will now form in your mind, or the solution to a problem you have been experiencing.

Phase 3, for those who used a notepad.

Come out of your trance or relaxation.

Look at your list. Remember the things you wrote down. However, we are now going to analyze this list.

Examine it. What is actually not important? Cross them off with a line through them (don’t blacken it out), and be aware of yourself doing so. Tell yourself that the task or thought isn’t actually important, perhaps briefly explain to yourself why. (For those who used a laptop, you can still do this section.)

Look at the words or sentences, are any larger than others? Are any written very small? Why? Are the larger ones things that make you happy, or are they things you feel are important? Are the small ones insignificant, or perhaps something you are ashamed of or feel guilty about?

Is there any pattern, such as the ones slanting upwards relevant to each other, or carry the same significance to you? What about the ones slanting down or to a different side? Did you write some in especially tidy handwriting, or some very sloppy and rushed?

Just look, and think it over. Don’t judge yourself, you are getting to know yourself better, your habits and subconscious. You don’t need to come to any conclusions, the point is to become more aware of yourself.

When you have finished, you might want to keep this paper for future reference, to compare with others you might make. If this isn’t feasible (perhaps you live with others and wrote personal things on it) then you can dispose of it, but you can first take a picture of it and keep the picture secure somewhere.

Crystal Tip: Jasper stone assists trance and relaxation, and is very affordable and easy to obtain from any crystal shop or online. Simply hold it in your hand or on your lap as you relax. It can be raw or tumbled, and any color you feel drawn to.