A Special 'Death Meditation'

Most Spiritual traditions have some kind of 'Death Awareness' training. Many have images of skeletons or skulls that act as reminders. Apparently some monks used to sleep in coffins! And many a Yogi has meditated in grave yards. Traditional Meditations have you imagining yourself looking at your gravestone or seeing your loved ones looking at you as you sit in your death bed. Indeed there are many ways to increase your 'death awareness.'

The Death Bed Drill is a very profound kind of 'Death Meditation' because it has the added impact of utilising your Personal Timeline. The fact that you are witnessing your entire 'Personal History' unconsciously and consciously all at once impacts your neurology more. I will be explaining Timelines shortly as you read on... Most people, most of the time are walking around as if they have the old Oasis Song playing in their heads, "Gonna live f-o-r-e-v-e-r!" Of course this is far from the truth of reality.

So doing meditations and exercises to increase your 'death awareness' actually puts you more in touch with reality. If you've never experienced these kinds of perspectives before, don't worry because as you will discover with, "The Death Bed Drill," it can actually be a very profound and liberating experience!

Carlos Castaneda wrote several books about a Yaqui Shaman, Don Juan Matus, who demonstrated how to live a more courageous, 'spiritual warrior' way of living. He actually suggested imagining having 'death as your advisor' on your left shoulder. Here is an extract with Castaneda's, Don Juan:

"How can anyone feel so important when we know that death is stalking us? The thing to do when you are impatient is turn to your left and ask advice from your death. An immense amount of pettiness is dropped if your death makes a gesture to you, or if you catch a glimpse of it, or if you just have the feeling that your companion is there watching you."

"Death is a wise adviser that we have... One has to ask death's advice and drop the cursed pettiness that belongs to men that live their lives as if death will never tap them! If you do not think of your death, all your life will be just personal chaos!"

"The warrior knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything. And thus with an awareness of his death and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategic manner and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty efficiency! Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy. Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery."

As you will soon find out, getting some 'Death Awareness' will literally put 'your whole life into perspective' in a very useful and empowering way!

If you think about it all your life experience, all your memories have to be stored in some kind of database in your mind some where. It has been discovered that your mind stores your memories on a 'Personal Timeline.' Your memories are arranged in space on a mental continuum or Timeline. That is how your mind can differentiate from experiences from the distant past, the present and the future.

Discover Your Personal Timeline

1. Think about a time you brushed your teeth 10 years ago. Point to where the memory of that is located in space.

2. Now imagine brushing your teeth 5 years ago. Point to where the memory is located.

3. Think about brushing your teeth in the present moment. Where is that experience located?

4. Now imagine brushing your teeth 5 years from now. Point to the memory.

5. And finally 10 years from now. Where is the memory located in space?

6. Well done. Now as you think about all those memories, notice how they all connect up in a continuum or Timeline.

7. So looking at it now where is your birth? And where is your future and likely end of this life? Many people have the past to their left, the present in front and the future going off to the right. Some have the past going off behind them, the present inside them and the future going off in front of themselves. You may notice unique characteristics of your own unique Personal Timeline.

There are some really cool things you can do with your Timeline. For instance if you stretch it out in front of you with the past on the left and the future going off to the right you can see your entire Personal History in front of you. Or at least get a sense of it. We'll call this being disassociated from the Timeline. Now if you bring the Timeline into you so the past is behind you, the present inside you and the future going off in front, we'll call that associating into the Timeline.

OK. Put your Timeline back to where is was originally. So of course you could associate into your Timeline at any point, from the earliest memories, up into the future near the end of this life. You can float way up above your Timeline, looking down on it as if you are a Giant Eagle soaring up high on the thermals.

1. Enter a Trance

2. What age do you think you are likely to be when you die? Imagine you are on your death bed with only an hour to live: What can you see, what can you hear and how does it feel?

3. Stretch out your Personal Timeline out in front of you, observe your entire life going back fromyour 90's, 80's, 70's etc. back to your birth.

4. Empowering Questions:

This initial 'Death Bed Drill' will help you get in touch with what is really meaningful for YOU in life. It helps get in touch with your 'deep values' or core states of being. Here are several questions you can ask yourself when you are viewing your life on the Timeline.

I suggest you ask one question per round. The exercise goes more smoothly if you have the question in mind before you trance out with viewing the Timeline!

"How could I have lived a more meaningful life?"

"How could I have lived a more joyful life?"

"What would I like to have done differently?"

"What do you wish you had achieved?"

"If a miracle had happened how would that life have been different?"

"What could I have done to live an extra-ordinary life?!"

"How could I have lived with more passion and enthusiasm?"

"What do you wish you had done more of?"

"How could I have been more content and peaceful?"

"Who could I have forgiven more easily?"

You could focus on certain aspects of life: Work, Relationships, Spiritual, Health, Leisure...

5. Great! Come back to the Present and allow these new understandings and insights to integrate within. What steps can you do right now to change your life with these new perspectives?

Re-Programming the Timeline is a really powerful way of changing your mind because it is of course your actual 'unconscious personal history database' and you don't just change one experience at a time. It actually gives you the power to re-structure an entire database or gestalt of memory. So by using the Timeline Techniques layed out in this Special Report they enable you to make changes that generalise very rapidly into your life, across contexts!

Let me put this another way: Applying these techniques will actually change your personality - Rapidly! Your personality and perception of the Universe can be changed for the better!

At this point in world history you could say, "The Shit Is Hitting The Fan!"

On the one hand things seem to be getting more and more fucked up; It's almost as if there is some kind of satanic cult performing black magic rituals on us! Giving rise to EGO based FEAR and IGNORANCE delusions: Victim mentality, apathy, depression and despair etc.
On the other hand we could perceive our current reality as an unprecedented opportunity for personal growth and even spiritual awakening!

"Do not fear the winds of adversity. Remember: A kite rises against the wind rather than with it."

"Healer - Heal Thyself"

So what this all means, when we are experiencing emotions stemming from FEAR and ignorance, is in actuality, an opportunity to heal ourselves and grow more LOVING...'Timeline Change Techniques' are one of the fastest methods discovered for making profound personal change. Let's make the most of this amazing opportunity we have RIGHT NOW to empower ourselves and make a difference!

This particular technique is to be used when the insights you've gained from 'The Death Bed Drill' make you wish you had had more choice in decision making.

1. Fully return to the present. Float way up above your Timeline. Staying way up above float backwards in time, looking down on your 'personal history,' and become aware of the first experience you can remember when having this new insight / choice would have been really useful?

2. Float backwards 30 minutes before this initial experience and then float down and associate into the Timeline at this '30 minutes before' position. So you can get a sense of your Timeline going offin front of you.

3. Looking up the Timeline, notice how the original choice / decisions you made at this point in your personal history effected the rest of your life in the future.

4. Now bring to mind the new insight and choices you gained from the 'empowering questions' in The Death Bed Drill and zoom forward through your Timeline changing that original decision point and everything connected to it. Zoom right up the Timeline really fast to the Present. It can be as if you are zooming through a Time Tunnel. There you go... Whooosh! Great!

The technique coming up next is the one to use when The Death Bed Drill made you feel you want to experience more of a particular resource state such as humour, courage, love etc.

You may have remembered examples from your personal history when you did the Death Bed Drill and asked questions such as, "What do I wish I had done more of?" or "I would liked to have been a more XYZ kind of person"

Or you can simply pick a resource state that makes you feel empowered. Think about it and allow yourself to re-access that state of mind.

Another way of accessing a resource state is to simply imagine it: eg) What would it feel like to be more courageous?

Or What art work inspires you? Look at some inspiring art work or imagine your favourite pictures in your minds eye and allow those good feelings to arise.

Or What metaphors inspire you with Positive minds? eg) "It's like I was in the heavens," "I felt like I was floating on air"

Or Experiment with Shamanic Shape-shifting: eg) What would it be like if you saw life through the eyes of a 10 foot tall Puma?

1. Fully return to the present. Float way up above your Timeline. Staying way up above float backwards in time, looking down on your 'personal history,' and become aware of the first experience you can remember when having this Resource State would have been really empowering.

2. Float backwards 30 minutes before this initial experience and then float down and associate into the Timeline at this '30 minutes before' position.

3. Looking up the Timeline, notice how the original choice / decisions you made at this point in your personal history effected the rest of your life in the future.

4. Now bring to mind the Empowering Resource State and zoom forward through your Timeline changing that original 'first experience and everything connected to it. Zoom right up the Timeline really fast to the Present. Great!

If you have done some of the 'changing the database' Timeline work already you will have probably noticed how it alters your perception of the future as well. Which is great of course and we can also use Timeline Change Work to directly program our unconscious and the future(s).

Think about your future. The rest of your life.

If it's not somewhere in front of you, allow it to spread off in front of you somewhere so you can see it all. Go ahead and extend it. Actually extend your perception of longevity!

1. As you observe your future Timeline begin to brighten it up. Now broaden it, wider and wider - Widening your possibilities!

2. Get it so it is glowing! And now begin adding in random surprises here and there with sparkling diamonds and shining gold. What other shiny symbols do you want to add in now?

3. What states do you want to experience more of? Love? Get a sense of the feeling. Symbolise it and then start spreading them into your future...

4. Indulge yourself looking on as you crank up the brightness even more and, if you wish, begin to repeat the 'WOW Mantra':

"WOW! WOW! WOW!"

Ideally it would be best for our sanity if we did some kind of 'Death Awareness' Yoga everyday because, let's be honest, these times are messed up! We need to get our acts together and fast to be able to deal with the shit that is thrown at us everyday.

I suggest you give it your best shot to do The Death Bed Drill everyday for one week. Do it as an experiment in life and you may be pleasantly surprised at what a difference it can make...

At least mark on your calendar to do it once a week.

By increasing our Death Awareness and then using the amazing 'technology' of Personal Timeline Change Work we can re-program our petty weak-assed BS and transform ourselves into Spiritual Warriors! Well it's worth a go, surely?!

Let us remember the wise words of Don Juan:

"The warrior knows his death is stalking him and won't give him time to cling to anything. And thus with an awareness of his death... And with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategic manner... and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty efficiency! Life for a warrior is an exercise in strategy. Without the awareness of death everything is ordinary, trivial. It is only because death is stalking us that the world is an unfathomable mystery."