Comments on: Discovering Your Default

By: clare

clare — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:01:42 +0000

Hello Devon,

You say in the manual that we are all selfish and that whatever we do we do because it serves our needs. At the level of the personality I agree with you and yet my expereince of the default is an expereince of being a part of an aliveness that is greater than the “little me”….. what I do from balance in the personal me, energetically serves/impacts the whole. Does this fit in the next installment of the innner game?

Thanks for putting this together. The physical reference points really do provide a great way to check in and assess if I am in or out of default and quickly move myself back home when I have wandered.

Peace,
Clare

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 23:40:43 +0000

I first downloaded this last week, listen to it once and was just totally not getting it and my body was all over the place, BUT did realize I was aware very much of my body muscels so I told myself I will have to revisit it, which I did not, than the other day I was playing a online game (gin) and my ITUNE started playing, I was shocked at first and said oh well listen to it while you play this game,
There were certain parts of the muscic audio that went right threw me.
It was profound. any way finished listening to the whole thing and I had been very stressed and anxious as I am dealing with a elderly person that is in a re hab home as she broke her ankle, and she is very negative about everything bless her heart, I notice as I was getting ready to go see her i felt a strong shift and was feeling light in my body, feeling pretty good , went to visit and it was the best visit in 20 days, It was’nt till i got home that i realized i shifted energy and felt very good. I am going to continue to listen n really like the track idea, I am 62 and wanted to share my journey with this, thanks Linda

By: Anaka

Anaka — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 23:25:18 +0000

Hi Devon, I listened to IIG for the first time last night before going to sleep, on my birthday (what a graceful present, thanx!) and I would like to share some of my experiences.
I just sat back and relaxed and let the whole experience flow through me… at the blancs I felt the cold in my kidney area and the tense muscles in my neck and shoulders from years and years of what I had come to call my “put to sleep conscience of who I really am”. After drifting in and out a number of times I got conscious of the total relaxation of the whole neck and shoulder area and the glowing warmth of my kidney area. After that I was floating in total bodylessness or boundlessness the one moment, to shift in vast moments of feeling every cell of my body pulsing and radiating whatever it was radiating. Pure being, no thoughts any more… Amazing!
Now during the day that followed, the little voice over my shoulder started whispering: aren’t you afraid? do you really trust this guy and his IIG stuff? what if you’ve been hypnotised?
At first it scared me, after a while a started giggling, inviting the voice in a gentle yet decisive way to just frack off.
Your video above answered quite some ??? and I loved your humour at every so recognizable fact or experience.
Some consequences:
1* right before I woke up this morning I had my first lucid dream again after quite a while, getting lost in Paris and at the verge of panic I heard my self saying to me (in plain French!): just relaaax, Annie, don’t go running around like a crazy chook, but stay here on this very spot, show yourself openly, until the group realises they’ve lost you and comes looking for you. I woke up and felt thoroughly content and at peace (I will spare you the details of the previous wake ups from similar nightmares
2* my husband has been very stressed lately because of his new job, and today I almost effortlessly managed to stay inside my own energy (my be at my best soothing and helping him to relax
3* at a moment he got the better of me though, I got anxious, I wanted to shrink away, and he said something sooo new, soo nót old pattern (don’t remember what but that doesn’t matter), I shifted back into my wonderful me again, I cried and smiled, we hugged…
So this is all for now… thank you in depth Devon, for bringing this into the world. I’d like to send you a picture I made from a gratitude stone circle I laid in my garden on my birthday. Where do I send it?
Blessing in everything you say and do.
Anaka -{-@

By: Lear

Lear — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:01:02 +0000

Devon I am right if I say that the “default state” is a state of complete relaxation? It’s like always willing to be effortlessly relaxed and letting go of what is, feeling the entire body, and being in this state all the time?
Thanks for the answer

By: Yazira

Yazira — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:05:03 +0000

I want to Thank You, Pam for asking your question in the first place. I was not having a good experience with IIG and struggling to make it work. This response was exactly what I needed to get to a level where it was working. THANK YOU!

By: Yazira

Yazira — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 01:03:02 +0000

Annatjie,

I too had this experience on my first two listens…worse, anxiety attacks. But I have overcome it and have seen tremendous improvement in my life overall….what helped me was reading the manual thoroughly, and studying the blogs daily….I also spent time every day just thinking about what it meant to be in my default. Trying to find moments or remember moments where I felt everything was perfect….One day, it all just settled into place, took meaning, and with the “This is Perfect” mantra, everything is coming together and moving along.

By: Yazira

Yazira — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:54:30 +0000

I HAVE to tell you! I actually put something about kids as my response to the survey. I would love a version I could share with my kids, or even the guidance you’re offering in this replay (above) as to how to incorporate this concept into the way we parent, so that our children know this from the start and don’t have to re-learn their default in later years….I could go on for hours on my kids behavior and emotions and what we’re already doing and what we could do differently. Looking forward to whatever comes next.

By: Yazira

Yazira — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:11:06 +0000

OMG! This is it! This is the video I needed. Well, parts of it may have helped before I even listened to the audio or read the manual. But this exactly explains what just happened to me. It took a few weeks. I didn’t really get it, and I didn’t know I wasn’t getting it. Then one random day, not thinking about anything in particular but with the constant thought that I wanted to understand this, it just came to me. I had a glimmer. I still don’t completely understand what’s happening but I have an idea of what it means to be in my Default, and it’s a GREAT starting place.

By: Kirsti

Kirsti — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:11:02 +0000

Hi Devon
Firstly to say I love IIG – I’ve been listening on my new Grado headphones and am picking up all the subtle nuances in the soundtracks. Great stuff…..!
Secondly I am still a bit confused about the Nothing state – is nothing just when you’re relaxed (and sort of meditating like listening to IIG) or when watching TV or something. And how can nothing lead to something? And not doing anything?? How can you not do anything but still actually do something? Being in the world but not of it? Confusion……

By: admin

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:03:02 +0000

Pam!

What a delight to read. Thanks for taking the time to come back and tell me about it. And I’m thrilled to have this blog complementing IIG – that’s what it’s all about!

As for your question – it was killer and I’m just pleased you asked it.

Big Love right back at you.

~Devon

p.s. Who is the one more trustworthy than all the Buddhas?
You. Time to give yourself ultimate validation for everything you do in life. Seriously though.