Power of Totems III: Advanced Anchoring

Learn advanced technical totem use to enhance the effects.

What You Will Learn From Reading

• Using Charts and Tracking: How to incorporate charts into your Totem practice, helping to keep track of a variety of ideas and prompt triggers.

• Advanced Anchoring: With the help of charts, learn how to;

  • Anchor multiple prompts to a single totem and how to keep track of them.

  • Use conceptual anchors, like when you feel a particular emotion or have a specific thought.

  • Use situational totems. Cause a reminder at certain times during the day or when you notice an environmental stimulus (a bird flying by, a person starting a conversation, etc.)

  • Totem Chain Anchors: Using one totem to remind you to activate another.

  • Create mental totems that exist as objects in your mind that you can recall at any time.

• Mental Transmutation: The end-all goal of totem technique. Learn how to transform one state of being into another, purely through intention. Dissolve a bad mood, enter into creative states for work and hobbies, and so much more.

Note to Reader: Going Pro

Parts one and two of the series taught you everything you need to know about incorporating totems into your life and meditation practices. They provided you with tools that will enhance your life tremendously. Understand that this second-to-last part in the series is the expert level of totem use. It’s the most complicated lesson in the series. If it feels like too much, then it is. It’s not necessary to practice the following techniques. I created this advanced module for those who want to push to the edges of what is possible with totem use.

Terms and Definitions

At this point, I think its important to make the totem definitions concrete. I use a consistent language of totem jargon throughout. These terms and definitions will help you to keep track of what they all mean.

Totem: The physical or conceptual object that prompts the action or thought you assign to it through anchoring.

Anchors: The ideas or actions that you assign to your totem that will prompt you anytime you are made aware of the totem.

Anchoring: Attaching that idea or action to the totem.

Prompt: The activation of an anchored idea or action you have assigned to your totem. When you see the totem, you are prompted to think the thought or complete the action you have anchored to the totem.

Trigger: The act of being prompted by your totem.

Taking it to the Next Level