Gerald O’Donnell, who coined the term “Remote Influencing,” is a former remote viewer for several European Intelligence agencies. Gerald now lives in Florida where he writes, meditates and shares his knowledge with the world. Gerald claims that we live in an “illusion” and that we all have the ability to influence this “illusion.” He teaches people how to deepen their awareness and manifest their dreams.
When Gerald does an interview, it’s always a hit. His last two interviews had over 11,000 listeners online. Very soon we’ll be sharing an interview with Gerald. But until then, we wanted to give you a taste of what he teaches.
In this article, Gerald shares three techniques to get you started on your path towards greater happiness. He believes that these techniques should be an integral part of our daily lives, for they dissolve many old, pre-programmed patterns of thought that fail to serve us.
Techniques to Help You Enter the Gateway to Happiness
By Gerald O’Donnell
The next three exercises are intended to be done on a regular basis. They will open up a new level of awareness and prepare you for advanced personal and spiritual development.
Exercise 1: A New Way of Being
This first exercise is a pleasurable and powerful life-changing tool. The effects of daily stress associated with materialistic obsession (and its by-products: anxiety, isolation, frustration, fear, anger and depression) can be dissolved by this technique. It is, at the same time, simple and profound. It increases greatly the vibratory rate of your non-physical Higher Self. Its premise is “smile at the world and the world will smile back at you.”
As you go about your daily activities, from the moment you get up in the morning up to the the time that you go back to sleep, constantly imagine that you are smiling inwardly at your outer reality as you go about your daily activities. Imagine that you are smiling from the deepest recesses of your mind and chambers of your heart, and that you are projecting this happiness and smile outward through your eyes and expression. No matter what the circumstances are, you will increasingly find that your eyes will be smiling and so will your mouth.
At the same time, imagine that your heart constantly expresses a great inward smile filled with pure joy of being alive.
After two weeks or so, you will notice significant changes. Not only in the way you interact with the ‘outside’ world, but also in how the world acts and projects its reality toward you. Your fears will begin to abate and an inner feeling of peace and love will emerge. Notice how people seek your presence and ‘Inner Love’.
Exercise 2: The Witness
Set aside 5 minutes and close your eyes. Turn your attention inward. Move from being a ‘thinking’ human being to viewing your thoughts as an independent observer in a detached remote manner. Treat your thoughts as if they are ‘things’ or a spectacle to watch. Notice the train of your thoughts and images, the succession of often unrelated thoughts that appear to you. Don’t analyze anything.
Learn to switch from the state of being ‘in’ your thoughts to withdrawing from them and becoming the detached, totally passive observer of them. Get the feeling for the mental shift that occurs when doing so. Go within the thoughts and then withdraw to a more detached level. After a while of repeating this exercise you will notice that your thoughts become more isolated and that your inner mind starts taking a break.
For this exercise, keep increasing by 2–3 minutes every other day until you reach 20 minutes.
Here is the next part of the exercise: As you observe your train of thoughts, pick up one particular thought that you find interesting and “plunge into it” with full concentration. Remain focused on that thought to the exclusion of the others for as long as possible. If other thoughts interfere, do not push them away, but watch them pass by as if they were foreign ‘things’ in your consciousness. At first, you might only be able to do this for maybe 1 minute or less. Slowly increase it up to 7 minutes.
The last part of the exercise consists of blanking your thoughts out. This is done by deciding to concentrate on perceptual dark nothingness. If a thought comes in, imagine throwing white light on it. Imagine that the light dissolves that thought and that the screen then goes back to nothingness. Try to maintain that state up to 5 minutes. Start with 1–2 minutes.
Exercise 3: The Movies
This exercise is the “going in and out of movies” exercise. The first step is to choose a film and go and watch it, preferably on a big screen. Allow yourself to get immersed in the captivating story (make sure you choose a film that you can ‘get into’).
As you forget about your identity and start going ‘into’ the plot, suddenly withdraw your awareness from the big screen and become the observer of reality again. Now slowly reconnect to the plot, but this time allow yourself to remain with the awareness of being yourself watching, as a spectator (observer). Keep this dual awareness for a moment and then let go and plunge within the movie, forgetting your real inner self again. And then repeat the exercise over and over.
Keep on doing this exercise of mental withdrawal and then plunging in again, until you get to know intimately the feeling of diving into the movie and withdrawing into reality. Easy isn’t it? This simple technique is very powerful.
As you get the knack of it try the same system as you go about your daily life. Use the same ‘mental trick’ when engaged in your daily activities, especially the ones that cause you fear and stress. Soon you will become aware at all times of being the ‘observer’ (inner self) observing the observed (reality and outer self). This exercise will deepen your awareness and allow you to become more calm and relaxed.
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Gerald,
thanks for these three tips. Yes, everything is the mind.
Thanks, I like these ideas a lot and plan to try them out. I read about them a few days ago and since then, without meaning to, I’ve found myself watching the actors in films as though they are just that — actors playing a part and soon to move on to play a different part in another film. And then switching to seeing them as personifications of their roles in that film and that film only. Is this exercise related to the other ‘movie’ exercise and do you think it’s a useful one to do?
Maybe these are strategies we all need. Mr. Patterson had said we should create a gentlier society.
sounds like NLP easy to get into.
love it.
It is refreshing to see that Gerald is offering exercises for us to take action with.
Anything worth doing requires focus, dedication and practice.
There is the element of “action” which is often left at the door of learning.
Thinking is not and never has been one unto itself. It requires action and the time consuming ritual of self discovery; which only becomes
fruitful with commitment to the “entire process”.
The process equals the adoption and practice of a new skill set.
In concept the secret is wonderful, beautiful and of course couldn’t hurt anything but in practice it lacks key elements (skills) which help
disasemble road blocks which have to be taken down to achieve success.
Lets face it most of us have them and they have taken a life time to assemble.
This is both a rewarding and painful experience. Much like learning to feed yourself as a young child; A LOT ends up on our face and lap before we reach our mouth successfully!
Effective manifesting comes as devotion and commitment to the process rises. It is for this reason that I cherish the practical know how of the Silva Method after all these years.
Ken Coscia http://www.silvamethodct.com
Thank you so much for the tips.I will try to do then.
Is the any one out there read the GAIA project 2012
If so please let me know what you think ???
Very nice. Expecting more tips
Gerald thanks, look forward to more tips. Also if you can suggest tips to reduce negative thinking, mind is way too active
Regards
Very interesting look forward to hear or reading his interview with you.
Lesson 2 is more or less how to still the mind while meditating.
takes time but can be done with practice.
and the smile, remember telling a temp who would be working the switchboard, that when she answered the phone to smile at the same time. She thought i was nuts.
garrett klassen says
Is the any one out there read the GAIA project 2012
If so please let me know what you think ???
Hi, Just look it up quickly, read some. Sounds very interesting especially as the Korean Dr had taken up “Chi or qi” as a way of healing himself. Shall have to take the time and read with care.
Thank you
Elly
I have to agree with all of you guys.
This exercise is very useful and brought a lot of energy into my life. Since few months I follow Gerald and his teaching and I benefited already a lot from it. I signed up for his free teleseminar that will take place on Wednesday, December 17th.
He is going to share more tips and secrets about Remote Influencing. If you haven’t sign up yet you can do it here.
http://www.learnremoteinfluencing.com/teleseminar
I’ve listen to 3 previous one and all of them were amazing. And the best part is, it doesn’t cost any penny
Enjoy it and see you all there.
Justyna
Gerald,
Thank you so much for sharing your insights. The techniques you have provided sound like they will truly help broaden ones sense of self realization.
I intend to give them a try starting today.
Thank you so much Gerald..it reminds to laugh at so called reality again and to be the non-judgmental observer once again..!!
I found your tips are so much FUN!!
Mental Universe/Illusory Universe is the main theme of the books done by Gary Renard..
” The Disappearance of the Universe” and “Your Immortal Reality“
http://www.garyrenard.com
You both are showing the same unalterable Forgotten Truth about Universe, Life and Reality!!
Infinite blessings
sune
Mr.O’Donnell
I thoroughly enjoy reading your posts and am practicing with wonderful results.
Thankyou for sharing your ever so inspiring gifts.
Wishing you and your lovely family all
the best for this most BEAUTIFUL and LOVING OF All THE SEASONS.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
LOVE ALWAYS
IMELDA MAGUIRE
Just the idea that it all begins with an inward smile is exceptionally wonderful.
Thankyou so much for your valuable information
I have read articles that tell you to let go
or detach. However if you don’t know the process
how can one expect a result. So thankyou Gerald for the exercise, I will put them to practice right
away.
I just listened to Gerald. His voice was so deep that I fell asleep for a few minutes. When he was saying something about contacting our Higher Self, for a moment, a thought occured to me: Is our Higher Self very much like Alladin’s genie?
I will definitely try these!!!!!
Thankyou Gerald for the tips. This is exactly what I have been needing. Looking forward to more tips.
I bought his program — both actually — and I experienced some pretty freakyt stuff. Yes, I did see demons during one particular experience. In fact I distinctly remember them as being from my family or something. They all knew me and were standing there like a family portrait just staring, uh actually, glaring at me. Their eyes are what stood out the most to me. Kind of brownish tan/yellowish with an unmistakable evil look about them. Then I saw someone well, in fact, me, another me. And he (me, my look-a-like) wasn’t afraid of them inthe slightest. In fact he was relaxed and happy and was showing me that these deomns were nothing to worry about at all. He made them float and fly around in the air and then made them flyinto a cup and then turned them into rose pettles and then pourred them out of the cupfalling onto the ground.
Does anyone know what this means?
Is it just more deception or would this qualify as ‘of God’ who is Love (1 John 4:16,18)?
It is the ‘freakish’ stuff that freaks me out and stops me from buying Gerald’s programmes. There is so much to like about his teaching, especially in the free ebook, but it does worry me that people who are easily influenced can get into very deep trouble with induced out of body experiments.
I have experienced the effects of a person with demon possession and would not wish that experience on anyone else. I have also encountered dark entities twice, once even when in beta thought and whilst driving a car. I am concerned that many people who are mentally vulnerable, could be in danger from some of the more advanced practices, especially astral travel/projection.
If anyone is interested in this subject, I would get hold of a copy of Michael Bentine’s book ’ A Door Marked Summer’. His Father was a renowned researcher into the paranormal, and the book contains some very remarkable true stories which Michael himself experienced. It also might serve as a warning to be very, very careful, when dabbling with the astral realm.
Thank you very much indeed for your tips. I am a cognitive trainer, and the pioneer of N.V.L.S.E Neuro Visual & Linguistic Syntax Encoding. I enjoyed the ‘movie tip’ powerful indeed.
Thank you, feel free to join my new subdomain master mind group for the self-help movements only. Hope to see you there!
May The Power Remain With You
Andre
Thank you, Gerald!!!
There is already so much joy in my heart just by first reading this… It feels like you gave me what I have been looking for in a long time.. I’ll keep you posted as I start practising these exercises.
Infinite blessings with all my heart,
Nona
Absolutely extraordinary!
Never imagined I could do it, and yet, I did these three exercises. I am very very impressed!
Thank you so very much, Gerald, for a taste of something I would think never to be able to do, and for giving me the courage, and showing me the real way.
Now I can’t wait to go to the book. If my confidence goes up enough, I’ll surely get to study your totally exceptional Course, from all I read about it so far.
Thank you Gerald, for really caring. You are a divine example to follow.
All the Blessing to you and your work,
Nona