Every day I put myself into the drowsy state; it is a very easy thing to do.

I always sit down and I find the most comfortable arm chair imaginable, or I lie flat on my back and relax completely.

The minute you feel this lovely drowsy state, or the feeling of gathered togetherness, wherein you feel- I could move if I wanted to, but I do not want to

induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep, a state which, although bordering on sleep, leaves us in conscious control of the movements of our attention

Drowsiness facilitates change because it favours attention without effort, but it must not be pushed to the state of sleep

Thirdly, immobilize the physical body and induce a condition akin to sleep by imagining that you are sleepy.

Immobilize the physical body and induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep.

induce a state akin to sleep, a drowsy state, but one in which you are still able to control the direction of your thoughts, a state in which you are attentive without effort

With your eyes closed and your physical body immobilized induce a state akin to sleep and enter into the action as though you were an actor playing the part.

But the ancient teachers discovered that sleep, or a state akin to sleep, aided man in making his assumption.

Drowsiness facilitates change because it favors attention without effort, but it must not be pushed to the state of sleep in which you no longer are able to control the movements of your attention.

immobilize your physical body and induce a state bordering on sleep, a drowsy state, but one in which you are still able to control the direction of your thoughts

The third step is to immobilize the physical body and induce a state akin to sleep.

the suggestion to create a state akin to sleep in order to aid you in assuming that which reason and your senses deny, is one of the simple things you might slight

In a meditative mood bordering on sleep the cloud ascends.

Let the cloud ascend by simply inducing the state that borders on sleep.

while you are in a state akin to sleep, control your attention and not let it wander away from its purpose

The cloud always ascends when man approaches the drowsiness of sleep.

Then relax in a comfortable arm chair, induce a state of consciousness akin to sleep

It begins to ascend as you reach the drowsy, meditative state, bordering on sleep.

You change your future best when you are in control of your thoughts while in a state akin to sleep, for then effort is reduced to its minimum.

All creation, as we told you last night, takes place in the state of sleep, or that state which is akin to sleep

Relax in a comfortable arm chair, or lie flat on your back and induce a state akin to sleep.

the act is done when you completely accept it as being finished in that sleepy, drowsy state

If I now sat here and immobilized my body by relaxing it

Well, sitting in that chair I induced a drowsy state—that dreamy, drowsy state that borders upon sleep.

I wanted a state that borders upon sleep.

Close your eyes and imagine that you are sleepy, so sleepy, so very sleepy. Act precisely as though you were going to take a siesta.

The mind in meditation is in a state of relaxation akin to the feeling attained just before dropping off to sleep.

The highest tide compatible with the conscious direction of our thoughts occurs just before we fall asleep and just after we wake.

a relaxed state akin to sleep, but a state in which I am still consciously in control of my imagination and capable of fixing my attention on a mental object

I would in a state, a drowsy, sleepy state, the state that borders upon sleep

I had to induce it, but only to a certain point, and just before I fell asleep, I arrested that thing