(Tia gives us some great tips on increasing the range of our astral travel trips and how to boost the focusing ability.) 

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Tia: astral travel. I have my notes here, nice big pile of them. Okay, now we have an astral traveler don't we?

John: uhh yes we do.

Tia: uh-huh, don't be afraid to talk, I don't bite very often. Only people that annoy me.

John: you're the astral traveler here, not me or Skip. She's referring to you.

Tia: Ryan, Ryan there.

John: and you are talking to a woman or a female.

Tia: Ryan knows who Tia is, don't you? Who I am. Okay, now astral travel, Mark tells me that you can travel about a 500 mile radius right?

Ryan: yes.

Tia: uh-huh, and that you've been experimenting with increasing your abilities correct?

Ryan: I believe so.

Tia: uh-huh okay now, do you have questions before I get down to the technical stuff?

Ryan: no.

Tia: no okay, all right now........okay let's skip that, let's go onto that. Okay now then, your breathing technique, do you do ten deep and ten shallow or do you just let yourself drift off?

Ryan: one of each.

Tia: okay so we'll work on increasing your ability and we'll give you a framework to work within that will enhance and expand your ability. Okay now the other night you were discussing with Mark if my memory is correct, because I was listening, instead of doing 500 miles, going to somewhere like the city where the Bears are? No the Cubs. The Bears, Cubs? It's a city where a football team is called the Bears?

John: talking about Chicago or Detroit.

Ryan: okay.

Tia: and......

John: go ahead speak up because we're recording this, we need this for future reference.

Ryan: okay.

John: so speak up.

Ryan: I'll try.

Tia: yeah don't be shy, don't be shy. I'm the shy one here, I used to run and hide didn't I?

Skip: uh-huh.

Tia: uh-huh, used to have a hell of a time getting me to channeling sessions with people I didn't know. I used to talk all squeaky and funny, still do from time to time. But yeah, okay Mark suggested Chicago I think. Which is about 3,000 KM correct?

Skip: 1,500 miles.

Tia: yeah that's about 3,000 I think.

John: no that be less than 3,000 KM.

Tia: well I don't know, they're your measurements.

Skip: about 1,500 miles.

John: yeah.

Tia: okay.

John: I'd say it would be more like 2,300 KM? Just off the top of my head.

Tia: uh-huh okay so that would be instead of twice as far, that would be three times as far as you would want to go and that would stretch you a little bit too much I think. Okay now what we suggest is going back to the breathing is that you do 10 deep and 10 shallow and pace them nice and gently so that you inhale a lot a lot of oxygen on the first 10 and then you exhale not as much oxygen on the 10 shallow. And then I assume that you feel your body getting lighter and lighter correct?

Ryan: yes.

Tia: okay and then you just break free and float up and head off correct?

Ryan: yes.

Tia: okay now to increase your stamina, what you might try is, do you drink coffee?

Ryan: no.

Tia: tea?

Ryan: occasionally.
 
Tia: occasionally, some kind of stimulant that will keep you more focused because you have sort of like a haze around the edges when you look?

Ryan: uh-huh.

Tia: uh-huh because that should sharpen it but also exercising will help to increase your stamina, not only to your physical body but to your astral body so being physically fit also helps with your astral travel. You ski right?

Ryan: yes.

Tia: right ski.

Ryan: snowboard.

Tia: oh snowboard. Oh you're one of those long hair types huh?

Ryan: not yet.

Tia: not yet but you're working on it. Okay, now with the breathing technique and the exercise, exercising......what you can do in the meantime, is put yourself into a semi-trance state. Do you know anything about yoga?

Ryan: no.

Tia: no. Okay now, there's a position that yogis recommend......and hold on whilst I sit Mark up to demonstrate.....he's wearing a knee brace, that might make things entertaining. Okay........okay so it's not going to go all the way around but normally you'd bring your leg underneath here. No it's not going to go all the way. Now what you would do is put your hands out so that they're resting on the knees right? And just feel the energy flowing into you right? And this will make you feel a little bit lightheaded like you're about to astral travel. Now what you're doing is you're charging your being with energy coming in from around you so that you go...(breaths in and out).....inhale and then exhale. And then you wait a bit and then inhale again and exhale. And what this is doing is charging your astral form with energy which will increase your radius and range. It will also increase your lung capacity which means that it would help with the exercises as well. Do you have any questions at this point?

Ryan: no.

Tia: okay.

(the phone rings and the conversation has been edited out)

Tia: yes okay so by doing the breathing routines, that will help increase the energy flow within your being and charge your astral body and increase your lung capacity to your physical body. So by increasing the energy, you can actually travel a further distance. Now have you got any particular problems with astral traveling like maintaining focus?

Ryan: yeah.

Tia: okay, now what we can do to help you is if you pick an object right? Let's say the bookcase there, you see the bookcase and keeping your eyes open, what you do is without touching it you imagine all the books disappearing off of there and then you imagine whilst keeping your eyes open and looking at the bookcase with the books on it you imagine it being without books and then you imagine what you want to put on there. Let's say you want to put on little, tiny, miniature trees or little, tiny, miniature buildings. You visualize those there instead of seeing the books there and that will help you to focus mentally and how it does this is it's sharpening your mind to the perception that you have when you astral travel. Or what you can do as another helpful technique is instead of traveling a great distance right? Is traveling into the next room and putting an object, let's say a book right? And a book with a picture on the front and you go and have look at the picture and you keep concentrating on that picture and then when you come back right? You write down what you saw on the book and then you go and check and this will help you with your focus.

Ryan: okay.

Tia: okay? Any questions? Come on you must have one question. No?

Ryan: no.

Tia: hmm, okay let's proceed with the next part. Okay now when you start to travel over the 750 KM, is that correct?

Skip: uh-huh.

Tia: 500 miles.

John: close enough.

Tia: yeah close enough, who wants to argue? Yes Johnny? Nevermind....

John: I'm all done, we'll talk later.

Tia: okay, now over the 500 miles in the circle that you do, what you can do is if you have a map of the continental USA, you get one of those things with points on it and a pencil and you do a circle let's say that is 800 miles right? And you pick a town and you travel to that town. Now the first time that you do that it will be a strain. Mark suggested doubling the distance, I suggest doing it in little increments because that way instead of stretching yourself hard, you stretch yourself a little bit. And you pick a town let's say it's somewhere in Montana? And you pick the town of Missoula, is that correct? Missoula, Missoula?

Skip: Missoula.

John: Missoula Montana.

Tia: yeah that's the place. Missoula right, you pick that town and you astral travel to it. Now if my memory's correct, that is the capital of that state right?

Skip: no.

Tia: it's not?

Skip: Helena.

Tia: okay Helena will do. They're pretty close together anyway, or they look so on a map, I never been to either of them. You pick the capital right? You astral travel to the capital. Now you don't need to go off and look at pictures and stuff like Mark suggested because I have confidence in your ability. I see it in your aura that you're an astral traveler right? And you travel to it, you see what you see and you come back. Now you will be tired so if you want to take a nap you're welcome to. Also I suggest is that you keep a journal of your trips when you do the stretching trips where you increase your ability. Now how it helps you in your everyday life is it gives you much more focus on what you want to do. It gives you an objective and it affects everything else that you do that you get more of an objective.......it gives you somewhere to aim for and it makes your life more focused that you can direct your energies better, it increases your concentration level, it increases your mental processing abilities so that you can think and decide much quicker. Do you have any questions now? No? Okay well I'm going to step out for a few and I'm going to put the next person in. And don't worry, I don't bite.

John: yes you do.