QUOTE(LadyMorwen @ Jun 13 2011, 08:40 PM)
I have tried on & off for years with out much success, yet I have always wondered what are people that have been successful with it concentrate on or think about when the object begins to move or while it's moving.
I started out thinking in terms of 'pushing' with a kind of mental muscle, and that mostly just produced headaches.
I thought about it in terms of natural forces - heat, magnetism, gravity, etc. - but that never really worked either.
I thought about it backwards, and tried to 'persuade' the object to react differently to those forces.
I tried seeing the object as being alive, and persuading the spirit of the object to move it - but it was not in it's nature to move on it's own, so it won't.
Where I did get any progress was in a sort of very simple oneness. I allowed my mind to let go of the notion of having to 'reach out' and move anything. It requires a kind of mindset in which making the object move is exactly the same action as lifting one's hand. But, that description is not really what it sounds like, although it's what it is. You kind of convince your mind, after a time, that there's nothing to push at, nothing to 'become one with', that the object is a part of you and more importantly it always was.
My first attempts at this were what most people probably try. I tried to 'put my awareness in it' and 'merge'. That did not work. I thought it was necessary to move some part of myself out into the other thing, and then move around inside it. But that was the wrong approach. Instead, I had to think, if that is outside me and a part of me at the same time, then everything else has to be as well. But if you think about putting yourself in it, then you're admitting that it's not really part of you. So, it's a convincing of past, present, and future. It was always a part, it is a part, and it will always be a part.
After this there are other complications. Just as there are parts of you that don't have muscles attached to move, and what you do have attached is somewhat limited in its function - you can only do so much with the muscle you have. What is in the rest of you then, is all kinetic currents, vortexes and waveforms that interact with matter in different ways under different conditions. You can't change the conditions, and you can't change the way of it. What you can do is give a little push. Just like working with the fine smooth muscles in your body, they are basically autonomic. You can't just squeeze consciously to move food through your intestines, but you can persuade it by imagining the sensations of digestion. Similarly, you kind of imagine - not really in your head but with everything that you are now a part of - that the proper forces are in the proper place to do what they do naturally. It becomes a little current, but only if you maintain a sense of ongoingness and oneness.
You are not breaking the laws of physics in doing this. I very seriously doubt that it is within the realistic limits of this quality of the mind to actually lift something, for instance, off of the ground. I suspect it is possible to make something fall more slowly - but not significantly. The state of mind is not really difficult to get to quickly after you have done it a few times, but getting the right forces to play in the right way is like trying to fit a puzzle piece into a spot that you can't actually see or touch. You just sort of wiggle the piece around until it pops into place, or try another place if it doesn't. The more potential forces that are present, the easier it is to do this. The fewer the forces presence, the more difficult it is.
The Mindset itself is useful for other things. I began using it during energy work sessions and massages to be a better healer by feeling how and where to apply how much pressure and apply a kind of push to the electrical impulses to make muscles release more quickly, and sometimes interrupt spasms, and make other very minor adjustments. It's useful for any kind of weather magic, because the weather is a boiling morass of forces basically all of the time. On a less physical level, it's the right mindset for drawing in energy from the world around you, from the earth, from the sky, etc.
That's basically my process from beginning to end, more or less.
peace