Think back to a time in your childhood, a happy moment. It doesn't have to be anything specific, really. Just imagine the sights, the smells, the sounds, and the textures in this memory. Now imagine the feelings attached to it. The warmth of the sun, the swoosh of the wind on the leaves, the smells of the outdoors or food or whatever.
As you begin thinking about that, quiet your mind. Tell yourself that what's around you right now matters. Stop thinking of the future and the past. Focus on your breathing and how it makes you feel. Try and figure out what it feels like to be a cell in your stomach, somewhere deep inside of your abdomen. Clear out all other thoughts, and listen to your body. Now ask your body to send it all of the signals that it's getting. Don't filter any of them, just allow them all in as they are. Don't think about changing them, don't blame the pain on anything. Just feel everything as it is. Quiet all outside thoughts.
Now look around your world. See it as it is, not as you think it to be. You'll begin to notice details that weren't there before. See yourself as a part of your environment rather than a being separate from it.
Now do whatever you want. Say whatever you want. Sing if you want to.
The state you're in at the end of that is the state you're in as a child. The idea is to free yourself from the grip of negative emotion, and to be emotionless. To just exist.
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