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Generate a one to two page journal of your experiences with the Dali technique. Follow the guidelines below and take one or two evenings just before bed to complete the exercise and journal about your experience:

1. Think about your challenge. Consider your progress, your obstacles, your alternatives, and so on. Then push it away and relax.

2. Totally relax your body. Try to achieve the deepest muscle relaxation you can. You may wish to use the technique described in chapter 22, under "The Jell-O Syndrome."

3. Quiet your mind. Do not think of what went on during the day or your challenges and problems. Clear your mind of chatter.

4. Quiet your eyes. You cannot look for these images. Be passive. You need to achieve a total absence of any kind of voluntary attention. Become helpless and involuntary and directionless. If you fall asleep easily, hold a spoon loosely in one of your hands. You can enter the hypnogogic state this way, and, should you begin to fall asleep, you will drop the spoon and awaken in time to capture the images.

5. Record your experiences immediately after they occur. The images will be mixed and unexpected and will recede rapidly. They could be patterns, clouds of colors, or objects.

6. Look for the associative link. Write down the first things that occur to you after your experience. Look for links and connections to your challenge. Ask questions such as:

What puzzles me?

Is there any relationship to the challenge?

Any new insights?

What's out of place?

What disturbs me?

What do the images remind me of?

What are the similarities?

What analogies can I make?

What associations can I make?

What do the images resemble?