This exercise is designed to help reestablish whole-brain thinking.

Background:

History indicates that this exercise was a state secret in ancient
Tibet and that highly trained Tibetan rulers in Nepal were required
to do this exercise as a matter of state security.

Doing four things at once is necessary to develop whole brain
functioning for enlightenment and mastery. In wholebrain
consciousness a person is in a state of pure being and will, Delta
brainwaves, at the same time they are in deep inward thought, Theta
brainwaves, feeling, flowing, psychically sensing and changing in
Alpha brainwaves while being aware of the five senses, logic, and
memory of Beta brainwaves.

The following physical and imaginative exercises lead up to the
final exercise in which all four parts of the brain fire at the same
time, and with even a little practice the brain gets used to working
in this manner automatically.

The purpose of step one is to perform a simple physical movement
with total focus and awareness of all bodily sensations.

It is important to become ACUTELY AWARE of the bodily sensations of
this movement.

If you are working in a restricted area, you may substitute the
featured activity of fencing thrusts with another activity that
requires less space. If you must use another activity, read over
these exercises and apply them accordingly to your chosen activity.
The use of fencing thrusts is the actual exercise used by Tibetan
Rulers.

We are going to do a double fencing thrust.

Get something that represents a sword or just imagine that you are
holding one. Now make a sudden forward thrust to the right, just as
if you are practicing the art of fencing.

Pay close attention to every sensation that your body experiences.
You will need a clear bodily memory of these sensations later. Now
spin around. Make a fencing thrust to the left.

Do not hurry through these movements. The idea is to pay close
attention to your body sensations in making these movements. The
five senses or beta brainwaves are activated.

Now repeat and turn. Thrust again to the right. Deliberately,
carefully, paying attention to every sensation.

Turn. Lunge to the left. Turn. Lunge to the right .

Repeat until you have the clear sensation of lunging in each
direction perfectly familiarized and remembered on a sensate bodily
level.

This time when you do a fencing thrust to the right, IMAGINE and
feel that your body is lunging to the left.

This imaginary state of lunging in the opposite direction of the one
your body is doing activates the alpha wave level as you FEEL the
imagined sensations and the Theta wave level of brainwave activity
as you PICTURE them.

The imagined action of thrusting to the left while the physical body
is lunging to the right is repeated often with so vivid an
imagination that it feels actually more real to you than what the
actual physical body is doing.

The two bodies [ solid and imagined] lunging in opposite directions
form a V if a camera could capture both the imagined action and the
action of the physical body .

Now turn. Let your physical body lunge to the left, While you
IMAGINE that you are lunging to the right.

Your attention is so completely focused on your imaginary body,
which is making a fencing thrust to the right, that it is much more
real to you than what your physical body is doing, which is making a
fencing thrust to the left.

Your mind is fully engaged in the sensation and concept of the
imaginary body experience while the physical body is doing the
opposite direction.

The physical body is operating on its own like it does in a
mechanical activity such as typing or driving a car.

Many variations of this theme can be done in confined spaces. Any
double action, like moving the pencil to the right while you imagine
moving it to the left, works for this part of wholebrain exercise.

Move your mental eyes one way while your physical eyes move the
other. Or try lowering your head while in your imagination you are
lifting it. Try facing and walking in one direction while imagining
you are facing and walking in the other.

The blood supply to the brain greatly increases with this type of
exercise.

Step two:

Summary

In the last exercise we learned how to vividly imagine and feel
ourselves performing an action that is the mirror image of one that
the physical body is performing at the same time. This allowed the
brain to do two things at once.

NEXT EXERCISE:

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Again, we will do two things at once. This time walk four steps
forward.

PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR BODY SENSATIONS WITH EACH STEP.

Do not turn around.

Still facing the same way, take four steps backward. Pay attention
to each physical sensation as you do this. Now again walk forward
four steps.

Now backward four steps. Do this until you have it clearly imprinted.

Remember, you are facing the same way the whole time, but half the
time you are walking forward and half the time you are walking
backward.

You are now ready for the next step :

Now IMAGINE and FEEL yourself walking four steps backwards , AT THE
SAME TIME that your physical body is walking four steps forward.
[Activated alpha and theta brainwave states.]

Then IMAGINE yourself walking four steps forward WHILE YOUR PHYSICAL
BODY IS WALKING FOUR STEPS BACKWARD.

Repeat this until the imagined action is more real to your awareness
than what your physical body is doing and you can do this easily.

In your imagination, you will pass yourself coming and going.

You may feel lightheaded at first because the brain is getting an
increased blood supply.

Remember that the imagined you must feel more real and vivid to you
than the physical you.

If you have this part mastered, the rest will be easy. At the end of
the next installment, your brain will be doing four things at once.

Just like learning how to ride a bicycle, you will never forget or
lose this skill. Practice regularly.

Once your brain gets used to doing four things at once, it will be
easy for you to apply this to the meditations of the divine virtues
in which you produce Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta brainwaves
consciously at the same time .

This means that you will be able to feel oneness with Universal
Consciousness in the Pure Being of the Delta brainwave state, create
deeply in your inner world in the Theta brainwave state, feel in the
alpha brainwave state, and be fully active in the five senses,
memory, and logic of the Beta brainwave state all at the same time
without effort.

Step three.

This is last phase of the ancient Tibetan Exercise of Paradox.

You are now adding two more movements to the one that you learned in
part two.

Hold both of your palms in front of you with elbows bent, as if you
were pushing .

Move both palms in slow clockwise circles while you take four steps
forward.

Continue going four steps forward while moving your palms in
clockwise circles until you can do it automatically and easily ,
remembering vividly all the sensations and feelings of it .

When you have done this a number of times, practice the other half
of the exercise which is the opposite; take four steps backwards
while moving the hands in slow counter clockwise circles.

Continue taking four steps backwards moving the hands in slow
counter clockwise circles until you can do this easily and remember
vividly all the sensations and feelings of it.

It is important to take your time with this. Repeat this until your
body remembers the sensations.

By taking time to repeat these motions until the mechanical part of
the brain has absorbed them completely, the next step is easy .

FINAL STEP:

Take four steps forward, moving the palms in slow clockwise circles
while you IMAGINE that you are moving four steps backwards moving
the hands in slow counterclockwise circles.

Then reverse, moving the physical body four steps backwards making
counter clockwise circles with your palms, while IMAGINING that you
are moving four steps forward with palms moving in clockwise circles.

YOU HAVE JUST DONE THE TIBETAN EXERCISE OF PARADOX!

Repeat.

Your physical body moves forward four steps, your hands moving in a
clockwise circle as YOU VIVIDLY IMAGINE YOURSELF stepping BACKWARD
FOUR STEPS WITH HANDS MOVING IN A COUNTER CLOCKWISE CIRCLE. Repeat
for about ten minutes.

You may experience dizziness at first, since so much more blood is
going to the brain than you have ever been used to . This dizziness
occurs less and finally disappears entirely after you have done this
exercise a few times. The brain will adjust to the blood supply of
doing four things at once .

In future exercises, you may decide to skip the warm up steps and go
directly to doing four things at once with the last exercise.

As we mentioned in the first part of the instructions, just as a
person never forgets how to ride a bicycle, or type, once the brain
has mastered this exercise it will not forget how to do four things
at once.

The more you practice this, the easier it becomes, and the faster
and better the brain gets at doing this.

When you first experience yourself thinking effortlessly on four
levels at once in your ordinary activities, it may come as a
delightful surprise.

THIS COMPLETES THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE TIBETAN EXERCISE OF PARADOX.