Tufti the Priestess

by Vadim Zeland

  In moments of awareness, your condition synchronises with the design.

  Regardless of the initial design, you can take off and fly or slide down a slippery slope.

  Carrying out the triple action, you shift yourself into a new condition.

  Imitation becomes genuine when you observe results.

  Thought markers confirm that improvements are taking place.

  Thought forms trigger a new reality; thought markers adjust the design.

  Do you remember I mentioned previously that, when you practise the imitation technique, you create an illusion for reality? I’ll repeat this point now. If there is something you want, pretend that you already have it. If there is someone you want to become, behave as if you were already that person. Be in the role, take it seriously and live it like a professional actor. Live it in your thoughts, in virtual space, and where possible, in your actions, in your everyday reality, until you totally believe in the illusion you have created. As soon as you believe in it, reality will believe in it too.

  When will you believe it? When you see a tangible proof that the technique really works. This is why I so strongly recommend that you always pay special attention to any shifts you notice taking place. As soon as you spot a change, immediately activate the plait and savour your achievements, taking pleasure in all the details.

  And then, how does the miracle happen? Your design is adjusted! You become a little (or perhaps very) different. It is the same as if you were occupying a new body in a new outfit. If you regularly perform all three actions, you will gradually shift to ever higher levels.

  And now for the method, my little boring ones; Again and again! The synchronisation method.

  Carry out all three actions, either separately or simultaneously, whichever you prefer.

  Observe carefully and avidly grasp any confirmation of your success.

  As soon as you see a sign of success, activate the plait and consolidate the shift with a thought marker.

  Positive shifts will occur both in the context of the manifestation of your vision, as well as in relation to the means by which it is being realised. Reality will throw your potential means of realising your vision and encourage you to use them.

  There will also be moments of ‘defeat’. These are unavoidable. What matters is how you respond to them. When you suffer defeat, your condition changes and you feel a failure. And what happens to the design in this moment? I hate to think. On no account must you let this type of synchronisation occur! So, how do you avoid it?

  It is very simple. Surely you haven’t forgotten the wonderful principle you have at your disposal? Advantage! You probably haven’t yet eradicated your stupid habit of insisting on your own script. Well, hang on in there, otherwise I’ll eradicate you myself! Or better still, I’ll immortalise you in jars of formaldehyde and show you off to my other students, not for self-edification you understand, but for inspiration! They will become instantly more clever and obedient.

  And on the other hand, if you have been lucky enough to secure a victory, nurture and savour your condition carefully, not forgetting the plait. Have no doubt, your design will adjust itself and things will develop in a more positive manner. You must be very attentive and responsible when it comes to your condition; manage it.

  And also, I remember saying, that if you set the right goal, the script might even shock you. You might feel that your life is falling apart at the seams, whereas in actual fact, old ‘stuff’ is being cleared from your reality so that the empty space can be filled with beautiful new things.

  And anyway, how can you know by what means your goal should best be realised? It might seem to you as if nothing is going right, whereas in fact, everything is going perfectly, just not in the way you planned it. And anyway, who ever promised that your path would be strewn with roses?

  And you mustn’t let the fact that you aren’t seeing instant results worry you either. Take into account the fact that reality responds with a delay factor. Be patient, be persistent and consistent. If nothing is working out at all and you feel as if you are knocking at a door that will never open, then you should ask yourself whether this really is your true path and the path of your heart’s desire. The only path, that will never let you down is the path of self-development. Not any path, of course, (such as studying ancient Greek), but the path that will inspire you and bear real fruit.

  And one more thing: You can only compose your new self by using the reality mirror and the plait. Don’t try and compose your new mannequin while looking in a normal mirror. I forbid you to try it! It either won’t work, or it will have the opposite effect. When you stand in front of a flat mirror, you can only note positive developments while ignoring your shortcomings. You mustn’t focus your attention on the shortcomings you’d like to be shot of. Shortcomings should be either eradicated through self-improvement or accepted as an aspect of your individuality. If you can’t do anything about them, then, let them be.

  Sweet harmony

  Yes, yes, I know, I know, when it comes to laudatory, captivating speeches addressed to my highest self, you lot are churlish, indeed most churlish misers, and of my success, you are greedy, indeed most greedy scrooges. And so you are! But not to worry, I shan’t be in your debt; I will store a bitter grudge against you and, when I have saved up enough, I shall settle the score.

  Pay special attention to positive shifts.

  The design is adjusted in the moment you consolidate the shift with a thought marker.

  Greedily catch hold of any confirmation of your success, savour them, enjoy them.

  Confirmation of results will carry you into a pure condition.

  Regular, systematic practice of the three actions will perfect your design.

  You mustn’t look at failure and see failure, or look at defeat and see defeat.

  The path of self-development is the only path that will never let you down.

  Either you manage your condition, or your condition manages you.

  This final point is extremely important. I hope you understand the significance of the meaning. You must be very attentive and responsible when it comes to your condition; manage it because, firstly, it is the key to your design, and secondly, there is something else, of which we shall speak now.

  Just because you have woken up in a film doesn’t make you invulnerable. Because you are in a film, anything that happens in the film can also happen to you. You awakening does not change the film. Your task is to create a film in which everything works out favourably for you. If, however, something unfavourable does happen, you still have one failsafe fallback principle — Advantage.

  In addition to applying the advantage method to situations that have already taken place, you can also create advantage from events that have not yet occurred. I will not bore you now with yet another method; the principle here is simple: if it works out then great, and if it doesn’t, even better. This applies to events that are so important to you that the very importance you attribute to them hinders their smooth, successful implementation, such that even the plait cannot rescue you. And since this is the case, declare beforehand that whatever outcome the event may have, it will be advantageous to you and therefore successful. This reduces the intensity of the importance you attribute to the event and it will also lift your mood. Anyway, you don’t really know, do you, exactly what turn of events in the script will work in your favour. We have already discussed this before.

  Although constantly composing a film roll, in which everything turns out favourably for you, is a beneficial habit, sometimes it can feel tiring and a bit full-on. So, what does this mean? You can’t ever relax now? You can, you can!

  Along with all of the principles we have covered thus far, there is another aspect of reality worth considering: ‘the weather at home’, or, in other words, the atmosphere of the cu
rrent filmstrip. We are not talking about the weather as such, rather the general condition of reality, which may be aggressive, or harmonious, and which is personal to you because everyone else is living in relatively different conditions. Everyone has their own ‘weather’. For example, in one and the same geographical area, you may have a blue lagoon, while someone else has an icy desert.

  So, the weather in your current reality is determined by your condition. By condition here, we mean not only the type of condition we talked about very recently but your state of mind and mood as well as your attitude to everything around you.

  Both your condition in particular and the condition of your reality can be expressed in one general term: sweet harmony. The sweetness in this term is nothing to do with marmalade. Obviously this word in particular has many meanings. Above all the term refers to harmony, in the sense that all shall be well. It also refers to pleasure and delight — the sweet life. To get along sweetly means to live in peace and harmony. Sweet harmony is when the world is at peace, there is order and prosperity in your life, and all is well. ‘Sweet’ can also mean ‘my sweet’ or ‘my love’. If you love life, life will overflow with sweet harmony. If you love yourself, life will be filled with delight. And if you don’t love yourself, create harmony and you will begin to love yourself.

  Do you remember the law? If you allow yourself to be guided by the principle of Advantage, there will be fewer and fewer events in your life that are in some way harmful. There will be harmony, but life is even better if you can create sweet harmony intentionally, i.e. attune yourself to a corresponding state.

  There was a reason why I advised you to copy the general air and sense of self of the people you look to as role models. This is not only the key to your perfect design, but also the things that create attraction. What is it about your role models that attracts you? No doubt a very positive manner that life is good, success, style, beauty, charm, and pleasure. Pleasure is the first thing that people seek. People are drawn to those who radiate happiness and, by and large, they are all drawn to sweet harmony!

  And what else is drawn to sweet harmony? Reality! Reality loves sweet harmony too and becomes harmonious around people and for people who radiate the same. Dissatisfaction, irritation, hostility and similar attitudes do the exact opposite: they repel others and they make reality frown.

  What should we conclude from this? Try and maintain a condition of sweet harmony. Look for pleasure in small things and there, you will find it. Use any excuse to create a special occasion and life will be one continual celebration. Create a light, sunny atmosphere both within yourself and around you. Merely expressing a benevolent attitude towards others is enough to evoke their good will towards you. And a benevolent attitude towards your reality, whatever the circumstances, will evoke the good will of reality itself. Deliberately create a positive atmosphere. Make this a habit. This is probably the most beneficial habit of all those we have covered.

  Radiating happiness, love, comfort, and joy, more specifically, sweet harmony, you attract people and a successful reality also. For everyone wants the same thing. People are drawn to those with good fortune, those who know how to create the sweet life. You look at the screens and the magazine covers and you see people who are super successful, comfortable, beautiful and happy — it’s enough to make you sick — and you think when you compare yourself to them, that your life has not worked out as it should. But believe me, all that showy beauty and happiness is, for the large part, all down to props and bluffs. What’s more, now you know how to create real, genuine sweet harmony. And, most importantly, you are capable of doing so. All right? Am I right? Of course, I’m right. For I am Tufti, your priestess!

  Plait with threads

  So, my gracious ones, I hope you have understood that sweet harmony is when all is well, and as it should be. Sweet harmony occurs not only when everything is truly well and as it should be but when you deliberately adopt a state of sweet harmony whatever is going on, and then, all is well indeed. It is like having the ability to change the weather.

  Set the advantage in advance: if it works out, great, if it doesn’t, even better.

  The weather in your current reality depends directly on your condition.

  Sweet harmony means fun, comfort, love, friendliness, and celebration.

  People are drawn to fortunate others, who know how to radiate sweet harmony.

  Reality becomes supportive to those who radiate sweet harmony.

  Stay in control of your own state of mind; do not just let it free-run.

  Letting your state of mind free-run is paramount to hanging like a cloth puppet in someone else’s hands and dangling about to the will of chance or the will of another. Create your own personal Sweet harmony. Bring light into any company. Create your own oasis in the frame, the oasis of a happy, celebratory mood. My oasis comes with me: wherever I am, my oasis is there with me. Begin the day with the words ‘Sweet harmony’. Always make a point of getting into this state, whatever the circumstances. Just Sweet harmony, that’s all.

  If you are feeling annoyed or overcome with fear or anger, don’t fight the emotions, just begin observing. Anything amiss that is happening should nudge you to observe what is going on in your life and your reality. When you look at fear under a magnifying glass, paradoxically, it gets smaller. When you observe reality, it loses its power. Reality doesn’t like being watched. It becomes elusive and, at the same time, ceases to have so much control over you. Don’t stare at reality, just take a sideways glance, so that it does not get annoyed at you.

  Finally, I want to give you a bit more detail about the plait. Firstly, don’t be too perplexed if you can’t feel the plait or only get a very vague sense of it. All these sensations are very personal — that’s quite normal. For example, my friend Matilda does not sense a plait but rather a slight feeling of oppression from behind, a kind of presence of something non-corporeal and phantom-like.

  This sense of presence can manifest itself in different ways. It might be something you can actually feel, but if you have to imagine it, that’s fine too. Imagine that someone has attached a hard, straight plait to the back of your head. You shake your head, feel that the plait is there, and then remove it. Although the plait is no longer there, the sense that it was there a moment ago remains with you. This is what is described as a phantom sensation.

  If the phantom feeling doesn’t work for you, it’s not a problem; try the following technique instead. Imagine that an arrow or compass needle is hanging down from the nape of your neck to the middle of your back. Then, take an in-breath, and when you exhale, imagine that the arrow has turned so that it is now at an angle to your back. If you experience the phantom sensation, you can use this technique to activate the plait.

  It doesn’t matter what angle the arrow is exactly or how much distance there is between the arrow and your spine. Your energy body will tell you how far the arrow should be from your back for it to become active. Even if you activate the plait without the arrow, simply focus your attention on a certain spot at roughly an elbow’s distance or less from the middle of your shoulders, and that should be enough. With time, after a certain amount of practice, you will learn to feel the plait quite tangibly. The plait also needs training: it has atrophied from lack of use.

  And now for another technique for advanced snails, that makes the plait even more effective. Imagine that a flow of energy is rising up along the central axis of your body. Take an in-breath and observe a certain sensation rising from your feet up to your head. Next, imagine the reverse flow, from the top down. Exhale and track the downward sensation. Practice this several times. On the in-breath the flow rises upwards; on the out-breath the flow moves downwards. The sensations may be phantom-like, but the energy flow is absolutely real, it’s just that until you really practice you may not be aware of it.

  Now imagine, that two arrows protrude
from your chest in opposite directions: from the chest (or from the stomach) outwards and from between the shoulders (or lower) and backwards. Take an in-breath and then on the out-breath, imagine that the arrow in front is turning into an upward vertical position and the arrow behind you is turning in a vertical position pointing downwards. Try to sense both energy currents as they flow simultaneously. The rising current, triggered by the frontal arrow, moves along the whole body just a little forward of the central axis, while the descending current triggered by the arrow behind the back also flows along the length of the whole body slightly beyond the axis. Or simply imagine that they both move simultaneously, one upwards and the other downwards, without any specific ‘positioning’, depending on which is easiest for you to feel.

  Repeat this exercise several times, so that you really start to feel the energy flow in the body. Then, on an out-breath try and trigger both energy flows at the same time, without picturing the arrows. Then activate the plait, like you did using arrow from the nape of the neck, breathe a little, and then on the out-breath, move it sharply downwards into a vertical position, at the same time triggering both energy currents. You should get the hang of it after just a little practice.

  Again, just as you work with the plait without tension, do the same with the currents. You just trigger the energy flow, but it moves of its own accord. Simply get the energy going and then let the flow continue moving through the body of its own accord.

  And now, the plait and flow method.

  Take an in-breath, and on the out-breath imagine the arrow moving at an angle away from your back. Now the plait is activated.

  Without letting go of the sensation of the plait, compose a picture of your reality. At the same time, make sure that you are breathing freely.

  Without losing the sense of the plait (the arrow), take an in-breath and on the out-breath sharply send the arrow into a vertical downward position, triggering both energy flows.