Working with Trance

[Tylluan]

Does anyone here work in a Trance state? What benefits do you find it gives you?

I recently worked in a trance when it was the full moon. It was one of those instinct moments. I was chanting, slowly over and over feeling energy in every cell of my body, it was building and building like a real power house of emotion and energy. I went into a heavy trance state continuing to chant. I had alot of other people's emotion that had built up inside and I wanted a purge of my emotion and energy so I used the trance and the chant as a way of burning that energy out of me.

I slept really well afterwards and was literally buzzing for days afterwards.

I wondered if anyone else goes into Trance and what you use it for?

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[MoonlitOrchid]

I've gone into trance once so far. I just laid under the moon and asked the Goddess to show me what I needed to see. Shortly I had a vision. The last time I was scrying I felt like I went into a trance state. I talked with someone about the vision and was told it was actually a visitation. I've never tried chanting. I'm pretty new to the path and I'm looking forward to more experiences.

[Victoria Mnemosyne]

I've used trance a couple different times, most recently I just sat still and stared at a blank wall (a LOT harder than it sounds, trust me) trying not to think of anything in particular.

I received a premonition about my life, and literally had a flash of me being the mother of a teenage daughter and taking her around NYC. Not particularly useful, but still cool

[RoseRidingHood]

Not specifically a trance, but hypnosis: a friend of mine used it on me to talk with some of my spirit guides as well as my spirit self, VERY illuminating! I still have the conversations written down.

[SpiritTalker]

Old topic, but why start another one?

I use trance for spirit communication, invocation for trance-speaking...in normal language I "bring through" other personalities to speak. Usually, I work with 2 different "teachers." through this method I served as the mouth piece for lessons on meditation, mental programming of desired events and what witchs call spells, but with only thought, will and belief.

I also use trance to commune-with-the-Moon at full moon, sort of like crystal gazing at the Moon. I just stare at the moon, deep breath, and soak in the light. This is one method of Drawing Down the Moon. At these times I mentally veg-out. Physical sensations vary and I don't pay attention to them. I only sense the Moon.

I use trance states to travel out-of-body, to meditate and seek guidance on specific issues and questions I might have, and to induce dreams by suggestion. It's all just mindfulness, putting the mind into what is desired.

Trance is always preceded by centering. That's the stepping-off point into the holding pattern of trance. Within center I can go any place or time. I'm an arm chair psychic.

[Anou]

I've gone into trance long time ago. I just laid under the moon and asked the Goddess to show me what I needed to see. Shortly I had a vision.

[Firebird]

Thats pretty cool Anou.
Personally I find trance to be somewhat exhausting, but rewarding.
By the way, please swing by the intro section and let us know a little bit about yourself.
Bb, Firebird

[nightshroud]

I use my drum to go into a trance or if I'm meditating with out it I ask mother earth to show me what I need to do

[Anou]

i the beginning , it was very strange cause i couldn't understand and then i met 1 woman from Africa she helped me to with that

[Corbin]

I use trance a lot, to me its kinda like totally trusting your intuition to the point you can confortably "let go of the reins" and "switch it on". It also, being a secondary state allows and respects life little boundaries - it is a boundery - walking around lost in a reverie is obviously not appropriate in most curcumstances - my whole life I have been trying to straddle two states.

As a kid my Granfather was dying from a long protracted illness, we would visit him every weekend - the late night car ride back was in silence, a long journey of white headlights illuminating tunnels of trees. I recognise that unconsciously, from an early age, my mind was being conditioned for trance and indeed "hedge-work" ...

I no longer use guided trances and meditations beyond an occasional initiator or petition. I then step back and let things take me where they take me. Hedge-work is slightly different - I use "the map".

[SpiritTalker]

@Corbin - when you refer to using "the map", do you mean what are often called ley lines? Or do you mean something else?

[Corbin]

(Apologies for the delay in replying, your post slipped me by) ...

- No not ley lines. The significant and ... "rich/vivid" ... places you have visited in spirit / trance, dream or hedgework are like nexus points, crossroads or signposts on a spiritual map - you got there once and you can come to realise that you can return to them again ... in my above example re: my tunnel experience, through revisiting that experience (not a memory but within its spirit; it had happened, it is happening, it will happen) I can return to it; that altered state. They are part of your blossoming psycho-spiritual landscape. Through hedgework you are drawing your spiritual "map"; finding the gaps in the hedge.

[nightshroud]

chanting does help with trances

[SpiritTalker]

Anything repetitive and rhythmic will assist. I once tranced while on a playground swing, in an easy back and forth, no strain rhythm. I suddenly came out of it up side down & suspended vertically above the swing set frame, at the ultimate crest of the up-swing. Oye! During the swings I had been mentally reviewing the speeches of St Francis of Asissi to the animals and birds. I had been oblivious to everything else. Oopsie. A rocking chair would have the same effect.


And thanks Corbin. Much appreciated clarification.

[nightshroud]

i go into trance by listening to like the sounds of nature