I wrote about it a couple of times in previous articles you can read at this website, you highly evolved regular readers of my weekly ezine are well and truly familiar with the notion of ‘doing things differently’… that is, I recommend that you do different things in your life for your own personal development.

We happened to watch a couple of episodes that included aliens who could make themselves feel any emotion or sensation due to certain thoughts they had. This enabled them to seem more human (in the eyes of other humans) and harder to detect from the lobe-slurping, destructive life-forms that they were in reality, causing the usual amount of mayhem for Agents Mulder and Scully.

"Wouldn’t it be great if you could do that in real life…" Was one comment that worked its way into the conversation.

"Well, you actually can pretty much do that… I’ll show you how if you like." Was my reply and so here is my instruction on how to go about being able to use your brain to deliver and amplify any emotion within yourself.

One of the great things I learned from some of the early Buddhist meditation teachings I had as a younger man, was that if you experience more of a particular emotion, you get more used to experiencing it and it becomes easier to replicate naturally. It becomes more of who you are and occurs more in your daily existence. Buddhists often meditate of concepts of love and compassion for example, so that they can exercise more compassion and love in their lives.

Step One: Choose what feelings you would like to instruct your brain and body to experience and amplify in the coming moments - for example, it could be your confidence, your self-esteem, your motivation, your metabolism, your energy levels, your determination, your mental calmness or whatever else you choose. What would you like some more of right now?

Having found a comfortable place to relax and having decided upon the sensation that you want more of, make sure that you are going to be free from interruptions and spend a few quiet moments tuning into your breathing. Allow each breath that you breathe to relax you and imagine your muscles relaxing, melting, softening and get comfortable with the experience of stillness.

It amazes me how few people are capable of or comfortable with being still for a relatively short period of time. Get still and observe what stillness feels like. As I said, tune into your breathing, relax and let go. You can learn how to do this well by reading my self-hypnosis book or you can use a meditative state that you have learnt, use whatever works best for you.

So, in a moment you are going to take a journey inside of your body, a journey to tune in to your body so that you can send the right message from your brain to your body to experience more of your desired sensation. Almost as if you are experiencing your body on a cellular level. The idea is that you can communicate with the cells in your body, to create an optimum, amplified condition for communication within you and a more fertile environment for growing fabulous sensations without any particular reason other than you want more of them! Great!

Now make sure that you close your eyes and imagine reaching inside of yourself and tuning in to your mind in this moment.

Step Two: Having got yourself relaxed and engaged in the moment, place all of your attention and focus onto the central area of your forehead, right on the centre of your forehead, that place that is often referred to as your third eye, or your mind’s eye. You know the area I mean, zone in on that area.

At this stage be aware that there is a certain wisdom within ourselves, you know, that part of us that knows more about us than we consciously know (as I said last week - that part that knows how to heal, fight illness, get adrenalin rushes and so on, stuff that we often don’t know how to do consciously). We are going to be connecting with that part of ourselves here with this process, exciting isn’t it?

So focus on that spot right in the centre of your forehead. Now, imagine that your eyes actually roll up and look at the inside of your forehead and locate that spot that is your third eye, your inner eye, your minds eye or whatever you wish to refer to it as. Just imagine your eyes rolling up, they do not actually have to do so, it can sometimes be uncomfortable to do so.

Heighten your awareness of that spot in the middle of your forehead, become aware of it’s qualities; notice the colour, the light, even the temperature of that area.

Step Three: Now here comes the clever bit - allow that awareness to now move from that spot right behind your forehead, and let it float down inside of your head; inside of your brain.

Just move your awareness; focus and imagine that you can actually move it right around to the place in the back of your head, right around the back of your brain, where the top of your spine begins. This is that area where all of the communication, all of the information is sent from the thoughts that you think down into your body, for your body to experience what you communicated. Keep your awareness there for a moment on that place right at the brain stem, right at the place where all of the nerves are, all of the electrical activity is funnelled right there into the rest of your body.

Chemicals are sent from here from your hypothalamus, hormones travel, the flow of blood moves from here, electrical impulses are sent, this is where your thoughts get communicated from your brain and then throughout the body - this is a wonderful part of you to behold… so much life is here… your life!

Let yourself really tune in and imagine this more vividly, let yourself feel what it’s like to be inside of your body, notice the sounds, the sensations, the sights in this area of your body from all that activity.

Step Four: Before we begin to orchestrate what we want from here, enjoy some exploration! That’s right, journey through your entire body, experience your physiology and journey into lots of your organs. Move your awareness into your heart, stomach and lungs. Then go to anywhere else to make sure that you tune into and experience your physical self in this intimate way. Allow your mind to create this connection, this very clear and powerful connection with the organs in your body that perform such wonderful functions, and that keep you healthy.

Travel, journey and explore your body and of course, enjoy it!

Step Five: When you are sure that you have really tuned in to your physical self and become aware of your physical being, bring your awareness all the way back up to the top of your spine, back to the place where your brain stem is, where all the information flows from your brain down into your body.

Know that it is right here at this point that you can create whatever sensations that you desire. This is what we came here to do.

From this place you can go into your body to direct and command your cells to heal, to grow, to develop, to feel good and create sensations that are for your better good.

So from here, journey into your brain, into all the places in your brain that controls everything in your body. You have created a beautiful level of receptivity in you body right now. Your body is very open to sending messages and new information, communicating with all the cells in your body. Somewhere in your brain there is a place that controls your confidence, your self-esteem, your motivation, your metabolism, your determination or whatever else you chose in step one.

Go and discover that part of your brain that decides how you feel that sensation and experience that feeling in your body. Allow yourself to find that place in your brain. Where is the place that creates more of that desired sensation? Find out now. Use your imagination here; maybe there is a switch or a dial, whatever way is right for you, however it looks in your brain, find where that’s located. Let yourself be drawn to the part of your brain where that is.

And when you find that part of your brain, notice that if you were to turn up the dial on your desired sensation or move the lever or slide the switch, in whatever way it happens or perhaps you simply change the colour of that area and it increases the relevant sensation, when you do that, you are actually sending the messages from your brain to your body to increase the sensation to feel more of that wonderful feeling that you wanted more of.

You are being the conductor of your very own orchestra within you. You are guiding your brain to deliver that glorious sensation!

Find what it is that increases the sensation that you want more of in your life… that sends the message to the cells that during the next few days and the next few weeks you’re going to experience more of; turn it up to an optimum level.

Now don’t just turn it up to any level, let your mind indicate where the most balanced, most optimum level is for your personal well-being. As you turn it up, notice what happens. Be aware of sensations, thoughts, and feelings, observe what happens within you.

Now really enjoy this, bask in this good feeling. Isn’t it fabulous to be in control of your body, to decide the way that your body feels, the way that your cells react and communicate? You have this ability and now you know exactly what to do, whenever you want.

Step Six: Enjoy relaxing, enjoy the amplified, optimised feelings and then when you know your mind has soaked up enough of those good feelings, you can open your eyes and go about your life knowing that you have just given yourself a nice big shot of well-being in the form of that sensation.

Also know and realise just how in control of your own brain and awareness you are. Then let your mind and body begin to deliver more of that beneficial feeling, more of that useful sensation over the coming days and weeks.