Entering the Zone I
The ‘Zone’ is the state of being truly at one with yourself and the universe. It is the place where everything you do is successful, and where your life automatically becomes a richer, more satisfying experience. In this new Entering the Zone series we will describe the zone in detail and present a number of methods for helping you enter it.
Most people have experienced the Zone already at one point or another. Personal experiences of the Zone vary from individual to individual, but all seem to have a few elements in common:
- The feeling that you could not fail even if you tried
- The feeling of total control
- The pleasant feeling of detachment
- Supreme confidence that success is assured
- A deep inner sense of tranquillity, peace and ‘oneness’
Experience of the Zone is not confined to people who practice metaphysics. On the contrary, many people who have absolutely no metaphysical knowledge can experience the Zone regularly, particularly top-class athletes, entrepreneurs and others who are deeply self-reliant. This in itself is a good clue as to how one can enter the Zone deliberately, but more of that later in this series.
Defining the Zone
Before we can talk about how you can deliberately enter the Zone and experience it in a conscious manner, we first need to discuss exactly what the Zone is and why it is so important.
When all is said and done, the Zone is a state of mind. Imagine feeling as though you can do nothing wrong and that circumstances bend to your every whim and you will have a pretty good idea of what the Zone feels like from the inside out. In the Zone you cannot help but feel supremely calm, poised, confident and powerful. You cannot help but be in control.
In the Zone, thoughts seem to be many times more powerful than they usually do. In previous post we have said that your reality is created by the thoughts you think on a moment-by-moment basis. Imagine now that in the Zone a single fleeting thought might have the power of 100 or even 1,000 regular thoughts and you will quickly understand how your reality can be changed at a much faster rate when you are inside that zone.
People who have experienced the Zone consciously describe a number of sensations which stay with them for months, even years, afterwards. Some – particularly athletes – talk of being outside their physical bodies and ‘led’ to success by a force which is incredibly powerful. Others talk about suddenly feeling ‘in tune’ or ‘at one’ with the universe and of being ‘connected’ with everything around them in a very real way.
In other words, people who have experienced the Zone seem to have experienced themselves at the highest level. They have experienced their own infinite power, their own aspect of divinity. They have experienced themselves as the creator of their own lives.
Usually, experience of the Zone is quite accidental. Sportsmen, entrepreneurs and others who rely on themselves rather than on other people tend to find themselves in the Zone without even knowing what it is or how they got there. Because their experience of the Zone came about by accident, it doesn’t tend to happen again. Indeed, many sportsmen and women who have experienced the Zone in this accidental manner describe it as being a ‘once in a lifetime’ experience.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. Because the Zone is a state of mind, one can learn to induce this state at will. All it takes is practice and the desire to succeed.
That being the case, the next question which naturally arises is: Why bother? What are the benefits of being able to enter the Zone at will in a deliberate manner?
The main benefit of the Zone is that it helps you experience your own divinity. It allows you to feel infinitely powerful and yet infinitely humble and compassionate at the same time. It allows you to act as creator in your own life, creating new circumstances as easily as creating a new thought.
In other words, it increases your ability to change your life using metaphysical tools and techniques. The Zone acts as a universal amplifier which increases your ability to perceive and use your latent spiritual power.
The difference between working within the Zone and outside the Zone can be likened to the difference between riding a rusty bicycle and a top-of-the-range sports car. Both will get you where you want to go – eventually. But if you want to get to your destination fast then you need the more powerful machine.
The Zone is the ‘powerful machine’ which will give your metaphysical work the massive boost of power you have always dreamed of.
