Rainbow Path to Alpha

Find a quiet place to sit or lie down, close your eyes, and spend a minute breathing
deeply to ground and center.

Then relax your body thoroughly.

When you are relaxed and centered, use your mind’s eye to visualize an empty screen
in front of you. You may notice your eyes fluttering even though they are closed, this is natural as they are trying to ‘see’ for you. With time they will stop as you train yourself to see with your inner eye.

Project onto the screen either a red number seven, or make the screen red with a
seven superimposed on top of it.

If you have trouble with seeing the colors think of an object that is that color and see
it in your mind’s eye until you can do the colored number.

Once you can hold the red seven for a moment, release it and proceed downward
through the numbers and colors: an orange six, a yellow five, a green four, a blue three, an indigo two, and a violet one.

The indigo two is a deeper color than the violet one, so you will sense your awareness lifting as it moves from the deeper color and level into the lighter one. This run through the color spectrum helps to quiet the mind and shift it from normal reality into the archetypal reality that the rainbow represents. It is frequently a symbol for other realities, a promise of hope, and a reflection of oneness amid the multiplicity of nature and humanity.

Now you have reached the Alpha state of mind, you are still awake and aware of your surroundings but your mind is moving at a much slower cycle than normal. You will be able to come out of alpha whenever you choose without a problem.

To deepen your alpha state count down from ten to one without the colors, then
mentally say to yourself :

“I am now in the alpha, everything that I do here will be correct, accurate, and for the good of all. So mote it be.” Now let your mind drift and notice what your Deep Self is telling you, or it you have a specific goal in mind perform it.

To return to the beta levels count up slowly from one to ten, then from one to seven. You don’t have to visualize the colors as you count up since you are trying to return to your normal conscious state.

Try not to ‘snap out’ of alpha by simply opening your eyes as there is a good chance
you will forget what you were doing/ trying to accomplish, just as if you were startled out of a dream. Eventually when you ground and center you will move into alpha naturally as your body will recognize that as the goal you are working towards.

Phaedra's Notes:

This is one of the first ways I learned to slip into alpha and it remains one of the best. When I first started using it I couldn't always remember the colors in their correct order so I would use one of two methods to make it work for me. The first was to pause between each color and play the old ROY G. BIV game. For those of you who might not be familiar with it each letter of Roy's name is actually the first letter of each color in the order you would find them in a rainbow. So, R is red, O is orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet.

Where it says to relax your body, I generally use the method I learned from my mother. I tend to lie down and pretend that my body is made of ice and I am on a beach. A warm, golden wave will come up and cover my feet, melting them. Each wave will work it's way up my body, relaxing it until I am covered by warm water. Once that is done I begin the path to Alpha. You can find this method written down in the 'Trance Induction'.

The other method I used was a white piece of paper on which I had used crayons to make a scribbley rainbow, starting with red and having an area of about one inch square where I had red colored, right next to it was another inch of orange, then an inch of yellow, and on and on. Each color slightly overlapped each other so I could either just peek open an eye to see what color was next or I could follow the colors and go into alpha with my eyes open.

I'll be honest and tell you that I rarely use this anymore. I think it is a great way to learn to put yourself into an alpha state, but eventually you grow out of it. You learn faster and just as effective ways. I still highly recommend it, though.