This goes back a bit, but... recently I'm thinking about visualization and feeling your activity happen rather than just picturing it. I've heard it said (I'm not a brain scientist here) that some people believe than men are visually oriented. I have some doubts about this. I've also heard that you can strike a chord with someone if you listen to how they talk, and if they say "I see what you mean,"or "I hear what you're saying," you try to talk to them in their own language - visual words or sound words and so on. My problem with the visual belief is that I think touch is a more basic sense - also one spread over your entire body. You may argue that you are older and your hands are really kind of calloused and numb, but we may have very fine motor skills for an animal, hear me out. When you take an IQ test, they do a bit of spatial perception. I feel this is a combination of vision and touch (type thinking.) We see binary (I don't have the word) so we constantly deal with space not just flat vision. It would be my guess that some exercises can be designed to take advantage of this space thinking - somehow to mix the user more completely in the action while making it simple and straight forward. Forcing you to feel the exercise as you visualize it – altogether.

Rub your forearm or touch it lightly, then raise the hand you are touching with about an inch away. You can also use a hand upon your head or your chest. Feel and think about that warmth and the kind of static electricity feeling you are working with. This exercise may go with the ice cube idea, you will have a fuzzy feeling to work with. Draw you hand away slowly and try to feel an energy dissipating. When you do a globe, try to feel this happening.

cup your hands and feel the warmth between them. Draw them apart and feel that (at least warmth) dissipating. This may be similar to the contact you will get with the energy through practice. You can put both hands lightly on your head and do the same, that may be the way you choose to work this.

When I brought up chakras I wanted to explain my belief is they are centers of the body for very old style medicine and massage, not anything particularly "magical." But if you are someone who identifies with your "heart" and strongly feels that your heart is a good power center for your body (and emotions even,) that may be a perfectly good alternate focus to use. I say belly for the same reason, you may deny it thinking it's insulting that I'm calling you an "eater" or a "pig," but the belly button is there and that is a perfectly real focus (food goes there) for, I would actually say most people's lives. Negative? (inward?)

I figure some people think their head is the center of their life and ride around with the head sitting on top of the body. Other people have a head protruding from their body, they feel the center is lower - they may have more practice using their body - and feel it strongly. Both are fine, but this note says I want to write 2 more groups of exercises (Really total 4.) Something for the heads to feel their body and something for the bodies to isolate their heads. Some way for either to use head or body in an activity of feeling way - and to move that feeling outward smoothly. Something that will bring these acts into more of a "I move my arm smoothly to my head then away" kind of act. A more natural, powerful and confident (even through ignorance) kind of act.

when you are trying to lay a twitch on someone, it is really like causing them a reflex. You are going to cause it mentally though. So you kind of reach out, this may even be mostly visualized, then touch/reach their head - then like flicking them on the head you will cause the reflex (in them like you remember from experience.)

when you try to cause an action you will build up some fuzz, some force first - it is my belief that the tick will happen when you pulse it or allow that force to drop. So because you are "trying too hard" you cause resistance, when you lighten you may get the twitch you were actually looking for.

I feel headaches and possibly heart touches to be more of the direct attack - you can build them over several seconds. So the drop or the pulse, the laying back is the better mode - very clean, quite powerful once you've seen it.

do you doodle? loose meaningless sketching (though I am guessing hands use a lot of brain actually) - do you have a lucky coin or charm or key-ring, a toy that you can twiddle - that kind of thing is about the depth and seriousness I am talking about, meaningless or lighthearted scribbles, twiddling your thumbs.

I want to emphasize relax and put yourself firmly in the activities, don't just picture (don't give yourself that detachment.)

So my newest thing is the body idea (a body bridge,) I want something low level that you won't over think.

Looking at how you want to build your exercises, I want to demonstrate with the ball-toss (I am really heading toward this in-out concept, O.K. whatever.) Say you have the idea of the ball toss exercise - but you can head at least 2 directions here, you can lean toward simplicity (which I personally believe is a strong move - make it simple as possible, as few steps, little memory, little confusion) or you can head toward sort of confusion/distraction (on purpose) Here is my example giving what you already may have read: Occasionally, don't throw the ball, just imagine yourself throwing it and it hitting home then throw as usual. What I'm saying is you can go with say a 2 step exercise and maybe achieve results or you can keep it lean and go with only the most simple exercise - one step or one element.

Continuing, I like the idea of the cause you to stress then allow you to attempt while relaxed - say you want to poke someone in the eye mentally, it's rude but it is one way you've chosen to connect. Rather than build up the emotions and feelings around poking someone in the eye, you imagine a sharp object (it's made of "force") and you just reach over no big deal and jab them in the eye with it. I'm saying these actions (I believe) are best done relaxed like it is no big deal.

I don't want you to get worse and instead of only over thinking once you double it, relax. These are thought-actions - there is nothing more amazing about them than the actions you can do with your body. If you hit with a confidence tape, give yourself some credit and know that you can do it, so all you have to do now is relax and do it.

you really should not cause yourself any frostbite damage - try lightly stroking the back of you neck on the days you decide not to use any ice. Also, figure you may be sort of juicing endorphins here, so sometimes it may be weaker than others. Try to learn to ride that rush all the way out.

some clarification on what to do during the rush: rather than immediately building tension, even though you will only be talking to yourself in your head, allow your chosen action (I use talking to myself in my head) to come up gradually. Don't do it like you are knocking/banging on someone's door. Do it more like you are only talking to yourself in your head, only possibly directed toward a receiver. So don't force it so hard, at the beginning at least, expect, well at the beginning expect nothing but an honest try on your part. So, during the rush, don't force it. We can talk about headaches if you want, but for now, easy does it.

SMOOTH - try to move smoothly when transitioning from one action, exercise or part of exercise. One way to see this would be to go with the activity that you feel you want to when going through the practice or exercise. So if you are transitioning from one action to another but you bump or jump (get upset) when making the transition, go with the activity that seems easy (the action that you want to, then try the transition again a little later.

My idea was to use a sequence of words rather than one word to lay them out to the receiving team in a definite order (as they made tapes, base-wise though, the numbers one through ten would come through and instead of one word they would see them coming down in order. As I write I can't say it's really any better for them, but it kills some monotony on this side and I can kind of hit with a rhythm more easily.)

So I said "reed switch" and maybe that really meant nothing to you. I brought up reflex and I think that's closer to the mark. One reflex you may be comfortable with and do voluntarily is blinking your eyes. I think the feeling you may use on a receiver could be thought of as the strength of a "strong" eye blink. I also bring up eye blink because you can do it over and over.

You can do a globe and it's real to you. Allow that globe to diffuse, you are now in the medium (or space if you believe that but you are open.) Without trying to be polite, kind of acting like you actually control the mind of the receiver, see them in this space, reach over (you don't have to draw any "arm of force" or picture any beam or whatever, more like you are in their space, picture they may be in their own globe about their head - even though you aren't actually standing right next to them, you are close to them in space - psychically you have that kind of power... - then IN the head of your receiver you touch their physical head and lay in a pulse like you are experiencing a reflex yourself and lightly/easily making it happen in the head/body of the receiver.) It is kind of like you are pulsing between a strong forced contact or plucking the energy that you have established between the two of you. Pictured in globe terms, they have a natural barrier (globe) and you can ignore it - go right through - or realize it should have helped if they were relaxed, you are pulsing sort of an energy within their head or body.

On the "reed" someone sent a picture while acting, of them perhaps laying a line of force upon the temple of their receiver in a downward kind of stroke - something they could do repeatedly.

That last paragraph was closer to how I see things, but the reflex is strong - maybe based (timed) to your eye blink but more like a twitch or a tic even the strength of your memory of a doctor's reflex tap to your knee. The twitch is not within the physical brain in the receiver's head - it is right on/in their temple, sort of the muscles of.

One, say a mantra as quiet, in your head voice only, as you can. Don't go all the way to silence or empty head (on this exercise) but try to relax while doing this - then relax for a second and think a thought at conversational ("normal") level.

The second though these are in the same group is to look sideways out the car window when you are driving with someone, just enough to daze you - less than dazed maybe - then relax a moment and think a keyword at normal level. I am a bit worried about this one because it may make you dizzy and cloud your efforts, but it takes you out of current focused thinking so maybe another version of this will come up.

on the body bridge idea - I'm thinking these are notes: I'm looking at center of gravity (I didn't make it into any school soccer, but they talked about center of gravity.) What I'm pitching here, really for you to rewrite, is some slow (let's say smooth) dance ideas, say for a female with some dance experience.

MY current concept is like the globe you will move out a motion from your center of gravity.

So, if you want to do center of gravity... looks like "African" dance, squat a bit with your legs spread for balance and rock around to feel your center of gravity. As you are moving allow it to be thrown by your body or the motion in some direction. Try to relax, though you may have a body-relax. (I mean you exercise/workout and you may have more of a healthy, stretched, good feeling body than me - a "body-relax" from exercising.) I am more in my head, I feel you may be forcing or controlling these throws

both the between eyes and forehead may be good points, between the eyes may intimidate you by being so close to your eye. Raise your hand slowly, touch the center of your forehead, slowly arc it away, seems hokie but feel it moving away like there is a force from head to finger, relax, imagine a physical mental action (tic or twitch) to a receiver

Like the car dizzy, watch a fountain or the water spout - then look away - turn your back even, the sound may be O.K.

O.K., so I mention drugs in the index - I have used, pretty lightly for you monsters out there... But I gave you this DDAIDDAIS "Don't do as I do, do as I say." Thinking about it, I figure you should "party" moderately or less for this stuff. I'm leaving you the up to moderately because you want to drink and maybe smoke a bit. Look, I am out of this so my feeling is moderately because you may control it O.K. and still want to have fun, but none may be excellent. O.K., so I have used cheap pot, I have to admit to the shit I now think of as poison: mushrooms, told me it was X, LSD. So here is my chosen drug use for this activity - FOR THIS, none. FOR THIS, even worse... you can use caffeine as good speed if you want to hype for a burst. Stronger than that will probably frag your brain, your thinking will be buzzy, speedy and not as sharp ("CLEAR") as you think.

My moderate plan, if you want to try with caffeine - lower your use, like quit by dinner - then double coffee for the burst. If you completely drop it - switch to decaf - it will hit hard when you use it, you will probably be up all night when you use it like that.

LISTEN to me here: if you get a very light feeling to a partner in the same room, maybe someone you eat with... realize, you wont come through strongly (like for good tapes) YET.

The next thing to do is keep doing it and start examining how your mind feels when you do this.

With practice, JUST SEND THE WORD "PRACTICE." you will be able to work without triggers, sort of just slide into the mindset when you want.

Some of the other exercises may be used for strength some for endurance, here you can begin to make up your own, though a mess what I have so far may be of use. Rewrite when you feel what is going on. IT IS MY IMPRESSION THAT laying back, relaxing is the way to power - low to no drugs helps with clarity (MODERATION) - taking it smooth and easy will work, flow not tic tock (step, step, crunch...)

combined with an ice or tickle version of the ice, tighten up your own head like you are mentally crushing your own head. Release. Then immediately imagine that same crushing feeling happening to the near forward temple on toward in the head of a receiver. If you start getting too into it, stop. Just a casual thought, though they don't resist, let go when you see yourself thinking into it - just touch briefly then let go. Reward yourself with maybe a stroke of your chest or smooth down your arm - or at least a picture of the thing you chose to buy (nice but reasonable - I could build you an obsession here, but for a free reward (the thought,) you may want to shop around, even Internet for something you want upon success - nice but reasonable - it is a REAL reward - a watch, a jacket, etc.) Two ways to combine, do your crunch before the ice/stroke then do them after - transition right into it as the rush is fading. Another way is to as the rush is fading - you haven't bothered to tighten before the "ice" do EITHER them or yourself. Repeat the crunch (both) after you have done the try while the rush faded. Omit the repeat if you want. This paragraph was better than it looked. After you get going here we should talk about strengthening and making it easier for you (and more reliable.) It will only be a pressure at first.