Specific Instructions

The four General Instruction internal movings--pushing, pressure, planing, gentle internal massage--are extended here for persons who can resolve the faint matter into detail sharper than a fuzzy blob, revealing types of faint matter and additional internal movings that are dependent upon the conditions at the moment. The following will make sense only if you have done at least one of the four above.

Internal configurations of faint matter seem unique to each individual, however components comprising the configurations seem reasonably limited, at least so far, and internal movings revert to only a few regardless of the configurations.

If the type of faint matter or condition does not apply to you, skip it. Never make up or pretend (imagine) one of the types or conditions; you can work only with the reality of this moment. Conversely, don't maim yourself with self-inflicted authority intimidation (arrogant, ignorant-of-the-issue condemnation) -- "it won't work on my trouble". You don't know. Give it a go. 

Some of the General Instructions may be repeated or paraphrased for emphasis, starting with.....

The Criterion of Success Always Applies.

Any Change in faint matter; location, size, shape, texture, intensity, density, color, edge, hunch-about, feeling; or of your symptom or trouble, including temporary worsening, signifies successful internal moving.

The pain or reaction may increase while working the region. You are at, and changing, the critical spot. Keep it up. This is not the time to stop.

After an intense session there may be short-lived physical or emotional reaction during local re-balancing at the minutiae-of-life level. Take it in stride. This is not an adverse side effect.

Usual Sequence for Dissipating Faint Matter.

Start of session (Marshaling, Requisite 3).

With trouble up or coming up ( Requisite 2), don't move, be silent, eyes closed (Internal Marshaling minimizes distraction, awakens internal seeing), "be at the region" (which see, anchors on the faint matter).  

Nothing occurs without this initiating sequence.

Look closely at the object (region) for connectors. If any found, cut & disconnect from any and all other objects until standing alone. If none are found, object is standing alone. Object sizes range from dense pinpoint to cloudy regions in the body volume.

Networks are interconnected regions or objects.

Test standing-alone object for mobility -- moving.

If mobile, push out of body or until dissipated. If it goes another direction, push it that direction.

If immobile -- not moving, look at the edge. If edge is distinct, nibble perimeter until too vague to nibble, or to dissipation. If edge is vague, surround the object or region and squeeze into smaller, denser region or until dissipated.

If immobile, look for concentric prominent interior regions. If found cut & disconnect then nibble, surround, squeeze, etc., innermost region first then progress outward.

If object still persists, plane or exert pressure; these may interchange. Plane various directions; be definite! Push various directions; push hard! Persevere.

When through, internal gentle massage everywhere you have worked, soothingly..., tenderly..., lovingly..., forgivingly.... Open your eyes, check for the trouble. If still evident, repeat any above. If not, go about your business.

This session is completed. Usually tens-of-seconds to several minutes. If severe, up to 1½ hours.

Some troubles are finished in one session, never to return, e.g., stabbing pain, temple-pressure headache -- faint matter gone. Some troubles require more than one session, e.g., swollen knee, some addictions, arthritis. Some troubles are impenetrable, e.g., refractory inborn network.    

Faint Matter & Internal Moving Details.

Exponential Decay. Diminishing.
You have an excessive urge and do the instruction. The urge is gone. Later it is back. Again the instruction. Gone. Much later, back. With each session intensity of the urge lessens, its duration shortens and intervals between arising of the urge lengthens until finally you look back and realize you have lost the urge or it now is inconsequential. This is analogous to exponential decay and highlights naturalness of IMH in re-balancing local troubled regions without adverse side effects to within the bandwidth of well-being implied in "it now is inconsequential", wherein the residual of the trouble is readily handled in daily living. This holds for many troubles, i.e. pain, fear, rage, early arthritis, depression, etc. From a different view, the urge of healthy appetite is within the bandwidth of well-being; urge of excessive gorging is not. Quickly passing stiffness within; continual pain is not. Momentary anger within; long-standing rage venting on anything handy is not.       

You do the instruction on a pain and it is gone. Later it is there. Usual first reaction is "Oh! It didn't work! The pain has come back!" Wrong. It did work, the faint matter was dissipated, the pain did go and did not "come back"; new faint matter was created within you. Again do the instruction, as long as needed. How many sessions will it take? From one to more, as illustrated by the ..

Oozing Spring.
There is water on the surface. You wipe it away. That water is gone. Later there is water on the surface. The water you wiped away did not come back; new water has oozed up from the hidden spring. Wipe it away. And again if needed. Question-- How many times must I wipe the spring before the water is all or mostly gone. Answer-- How deep is the spring.

Multiple sessions require perseverance (Requisite #8). But take heart; a trouble of many years standing can be gone in one or two sessions, showing the grip even frail faint matter congestion can have on us and the usually commonplace ease of its dissipation.

Connectors.
While at the region look for lines, etc. going elsewhere. Connectors can be the size of a thread, yarn, string, drinking straw, rope or band, mesh, rod, tube of various densities, intensities, textures, colors. If none found, object is standing alone; proceed below. If found, there may one or more. Follow to the other end(s) which either just stop(s) or connect(s) with another object (region). Can go outside your body. Look at each new-found object for other connectors going to other objects. Interconnected objects are...

Networks . . .
and can cross any and all charted systems of your body. Simple ones are two or three connected objects. Complex ones can be very involved. Examples: Backache triggering headache triggering difficulty in speaking triggering butterflies-in-the-stomach triggering repulsion to sex. Anger triggering chest pain triggering bowel stoppage triggering paralyzed arm triggering hallucination triggering depression triggering...and so on in any changing sequence.

Some networks are lightly bound, easily dissipated, some intensely bound, not easily dissipated, some not dissipated, particularly some of those you have brought into this life--hereditary, genetic, DNA, rebirth linking--however you call it. Many are born with body-entwining networks of faint matter that can have major influence on their lives.

Think of networks as tinker toy constructions that you are going to dismantle in a logical way, or a stationed army where you destroy all communication lines then overcome isolated strongholds one by one.       

Back to Connectors:
Be at the juncture (internal touching right at the juncture) of the object and the connector (one at a time in a network or when there is more than one connector from an object), and CUT (internal moving) the connector at the juncture. For instruction simplicity, and by now you are familiar with internal touching and internal moving, the above is said--Be at the juncture. Now step in at the juncture and CUT the string (as example). Then without pause, PUSH the string away from the ball (as example) into itself to the cylinder (as example), or if free-standing to the other end. You will know when the connector is gone. If still there, repeat the pushing. Sometimes those that just stop, pile up at the free end. If so, SURROUND the pile-up, then SQUEEZE it into a smaller more dense region, or until gone. Do not pretend (imagine) there is a scissors, pusher, surrounder, squeezer; the internal moving is making the change, not those pretended (imagined) things. If free-ended: Be at the free end looking back along the connector toward the object and push it into the object. Continue with each connector until the object stands alone.      

Test stand-alone object for mobility.  Congestion.
If the standing-alone object is near the surface of your body, be on the inside of your body turned so you are facing the object and the nearest surface, then PUSH the object OUT your body (no imagined pusher) and keep pushing (can range up to several yards) until you cannot find the object. If non-responsive in that direction, be above it looking down on it and push it down and out the nearest exit -- hip, knee, heel, toes, elbow, fingers, etc. If it goes another direction, push it in that direction. If it starts to move then balks, re-position then push HARD!! If the object goes and a hole or light or coolness or pleasantness is left, push those out also. They too are objects you are internally touching, merely of different texture, illumination or interpretation in the circulatory pathways--feeling. Any detectable region different than the background of life is congestion; another way of looking at the substance of pain or distressing emotion. Some objects start partially or wholly outside the body. When object is undetectable, proceed to the next and handle similarly. If the object does not move, it is immobile; proceed below.     

Positioning.
You are acquiring another internal touching skill; positioning yourself within your body to see objects from different directions. Ease of doing this usually reflects in outer behavior as ease of seeing things from different points of view. Persons with rigid points of view, opinionated or incapable of seeing the other side of the issue frequently have difficulty with internal re-positioning. This is inherent in certain faint matter congestion within them, and as they dissipate it, shifting of viewpoint becomes easier, internally and externally. External behavior reflects internal congestion, which becomes more evident as we proceed.    

Interior Prominence.
Look closely at the immobile standing-alone object for a different region inside--intensity, density, shape, color, feeling, etc. If none -- homogeneous -- continue below. If there is such a region, again look closely at it for still another internal region. If found, repeat until you have detected all the included objects (most so far in OTOI with the author has been six). Start with the innermost object, check for and disconnect connectors then continue below. When dissipated, proceed outward to the next and dissipate it, then to the next until all are dissipated. Frequently outer ones diminish or disappear as inner ones dissipate.    

Edge.
If the standing-alone object is immobile, look at the edge of it. Either it will be distinct like the edge of this paper -- denoting a strong bond -- or ill-defined and fuzzy like a tuft of cotton or a cloud. Distinct can be smooth or jagged. If distinct, be any place on the perimeter then start a small, deliberate NIBBLING action right along the edge (do not make up or imagine a nibbler) and go around the perimeter until the edge is too vague to nibble, which you will know, or until you cannot find the object -- dissipated. If it becomes too vague to nibble, surround it, then squeeze it either to dissipation or into a smaller more dense object, then nibble and repeat until gone. You can nibble an object of full-body width or the size of a pinpoint. Size is never a limitation upon internal touching, internal seeing and internal moving. If object becomes too vague to nibble and unresponsive to squeezing, be above it and plane until definite change.   

Tightly bound objects or regions.
Damage, organ dysfunction, severe affliction, arthritis, some Hereditary, etc. May require several sessions of nibbling, planing and/or pressure. Persevere! Only you can accelerate your natural healing to dissipate faint matter of your pain or excessive emotional outbursts. This is not magic; it is work.   

Intensify.
While pushing or exerting pressure, push HARD! While planing, be more definite! with each pass, barely overshoot the edge each time. You will feel the internal moving intensification. (In Burma 1961, the author exerted such intense internal moving on his calf that the bruise was visible for two days.) Persevere!  

Planing & Pushing Directions.
See General Instruction for side-to-side planing. (NOTE: "barely overshooting the edge each time" and "You will know" always apply regardless of planing direction and will not be repeated with each instruction below.) The General Instruction is condensed here as....
    Be above, move s-t-s, progress down, out the bottom.       
        Now we extend the s-t-s General Instruction directions...
            Be underneath, s-t-s, progress up, out the top.
            Be behind, s-t-s, progress forward, out the front.
            Be in front, s-t-s, progress rearward, out the rear.

Replacing s-t-s mutatis mutandis with f-t-b (front-to-back) and u-&-d (up-&-down) along with the other progressions including left and right, yields 12 orthogonal planing directions. On a stubborn object one direction may be more effective -- strong reaction or resistance -- than another. If so, keep it up!, you are looking down the dragon's throat. Not the time to stop.

Around the three orthogonal axes in your body and their ten main diagonals are 26 systematic pushing directions. A resistive object may become mobile along any one of them. Try. At least a few. (For one determined lady, and by her count, the object moved and left in the seventeenth direction.) Do not waste your time trying to memorize, or "practice" as some have called it, these 38 directions. They are here to remind you of the dexterity of internal moving and how you can branch out on particularly stubborn regions. It is very common that changing direction of planing or pressure can expose the more intense nucleus of a congestion, much as rubbing a cat's fur the wrong way.     

Subliminal & Reflex Planing.
Subliminal planing is that which is continuing after you think it should have come out the bottom or other side. Do not interrupt it. It is following faint matter just below your threshold of internal touching. The planing can change direction, intensity, speed, size of coverage and will finally stop when it has "come out the bottom". When unimpeded by wrong views or not confused by circulatory pathway din (which see), particularly imagination, the sense-of-I (Input/Output Pathways) follows the instructions literally, being the essential reason for the simple, clear instruction language (In Decades of Hindsight). You may find yourself planing a congestion without knowingly initiating it, the reflex planing of increasing skill. As you gain experience you will plane, etc. with your eyes open. Handy in the boring conference, intercontinental flight, traffic congestion, subway, etc. Remember, you can effectively plane a region devoid of detail, such as sudden damage, cloudiness, some compulsion objects or regions.   

Highlighting an Elusive Region for Planing.  "Press & plane.."
On an elusive region -- sore hip joint, general chest ache, etc.-- press the general region with one or two finger tips just enough to definitely delineate the region under the tips, (this is not manual massage), then plane just beneath the finger tips until you cannot detect it. Move a finger-width and repeat until you have covered the general region.     

Emphasizing a Region for Planing.  "Planing-between.."
Press the sore finger joint (say) from opposite sides, between your thumb and one or two fingers. Plane through the region between thumb and fingers until diminished or not detected. Shift to adjacent region and repeat. In the mouth, pressing with the tongue can replace the thumb. When you are marshaled -- not scattered or wandering too much -- the planing reverses at the thumb and finger. (This also is not manual massage or imagined flow from the digits.)  

Scrubbing.
Sometimes evolves out of planing or pressure as the internal moving takes on a rotation over the region, thus the name. Usually it is abrasive, short-stroked, aggressive, brisk. Very effective. The energetic version of gentle internal massage.   

Cloudy Regions.  3 Figure of Speech Examples.
The congestion can be a widespread or local cloudy region in your body. Sometimes a completely body-filling region (including the muffling due to overdone deflected meditation) can be difficult to detect, especially if you are just starting out, because you cannot easily distinguish it from the background (as is done with all other regions, although you do not realize it at the time), but you do know you feel "generally heavy" or "slushed up" or "muffled". For that, be at the very top of your head and push down -- to your toes, and off the ends. Repeat, over and over. If it is in part of your body, look closely, you will see the...  

Line of Demarcation.
Your "foggy head" really is foggy. For it, be underneath the demarcation looking up, you will know, and push the region up and off the top of your head. If your legs feel slushed up, be above the demarcation looking down, push it down and out your toes. Similarly for arms and fingers. Be above the "pins and needles", push the region down and out. Repeat a couple of times. The stuff being transported may dissipate at the end of your toes, fingers, head, etc. Frequently it continues off the body into the air. Keep it going, either by pushing or pulling, until it quits. You will know. You are ridding a major congestion. For the cloudy region highly resistive to pushing: Be above the demarcation and push, then let up just enough to slide through, you will know, and go off the end. Repeat several times. Push and slide through. The demarcation lines recedes, suddenly full pressure completes dissipation.  

Breath-Connectedness....Overcoming it.
While pushing an object or cloudy region down the body, exhalation may be occurring. Upon inhalation the demarcation may seem to reverse, as if it were backing up. This interferes with the uniform downward pressure. Some procedures or disciplines interpret this reversal as proof that the breath is exerting the pressure (Marshaling of the Body Functions, last paragraph). It is not.

Do the following while pushing down and slowly exhaling: As you need to inhale, deliberately keep pushing down as you deliberately slowly inhale. It is as if you have to shift some internal mental gears and suddenly it works; you are pushing down and breathing in and the line of demarcation is not stopping or backing up. After a couple passes, breath-connectedness is broken. You can maintain steady downward pressure as you breathe in and out, and the limiting wrong view of the breath doing it evaporates. However, breathing is an important assist in marshaling.  

Initial Visualizing....Overcoming it.
Occasionally a person starting internal moving the first time may imagine or visualize a hand or light or something doing the pushing or planing. This is all right to get started. Once internal moving is going, stop imagining or visualizing the hand or light or something and realize the pushing or planing is still proceeding and the imagined hand etc. is not doing it. People trained in visualization recognize this instantly, when pointed out, then continue internal moving enthusiastically and the limiting wrong view that an imagined or visualized mover is doing it evaporates.   

Sheets or Cutting Planes (noun).
One side of your body may be more congested than the other. Look closely, there will be a sheet or plane (noun) separating the two regions. Be at one end of the sheet, position yourself looking along the sheet (sometimes requires being outside the body looking at the edge--but you can do it), then push it --slide it-- right out the body. As result, the two sections in your body usually become indistinguishable, sometimes at once, or when massive, over many hours. Reaction can follow but it will subside. Sheets can appear in local regions, e.g., neck, joints, shoulders, etc., usually in mild form. In severe body-dividing form each side can affect your behavior differently, you are "beside yourself" or "feeling like two people". Sheets are major constrictors, get rid of them.

Rings.
If you find a ring around your waist, arm, leg, neck, trunk, head, anywhere, first disconnect from other regions, then cut it any place on the perimeter and push in one direction circumferentially into itself to the other end or until dissipated. May take work if strong bonded. Here "ring" is just like a ring on your finger or a belt around your waist, from thread-size up. A ring may separate two cloudy regions of your body. Cut and dissipate as stated. Sometimes, then, in the plane (noun) of the ring, a sheet is disclosed; if so, slide it out as above. Rings are major constrictors, get rid of them. They seem prominent in one type mental affliction but by no means limited to it. Rings and sheets frequently appear together; cut and push the ring first, then slide out the sheet. Strong reaction can occur (Severe Situations below). 

Armor Plate.
One half to an inch thick, usually lies outside and on the body; chest, back, arms, legs, helmet on the head. Nibble, plane(verb), pressure, pushing off, intense. Persevere. Can take many sessions.   

Balloon with Water or Bowl of Jello.
Reacts to pushing just like that. Push out, plane, surround, squeeze; it may "burst"as it dissipates.  

Sticky, Gummy.
Reaction of some objects leaving the body; they stick on the skin. Slide under the edge, push off. Nibble. Usually easier said than done. Can be very tenacious.   

Jerk.
Erratic limb or skin movements due to connectors --threads, lines, bands, etc.-- within the body (twitch), outside the body connecting limbs and body --wrist to chest, elbow to waist, leg to leg-- (spasmodic arm or leg action) or from the body to outside terminating in the air -- ("Puppet-on-a-string").  

Blank.
You know you are in the region but what you internally touch is "blank", nothing, yet it is different than background. Push, plane, nibble if distinct edge. If no response after that effort, be at the top of the blank, move down through it in an inch-wide swath. Repeat until the swath is not blank, i.e., it is at least background (you "feel" it). Move over one swath-width and repeat. Continue this pattern until dissipated. May take a while. Wide-covering blanks are major congestions--"she has no feelings...".   

"I Can't Get There."   Openly stated.
You come up to the region from different directions, and know it, but you cannot get into the region. This is result of congestion within the region beneath the threshold of your internal touching at that time. How the apparently unassailable congestion may be affecting your behavior is unknown, unsuspected and you have no reservations about approaching the region. Three ways; come up to it from various directions and push, be above it and plane which may become subliminal, work other regions and check now and then. A region may change as you work another.  

"I Won't Go There."    Never stated.
You come up to the region, and know it, but you will not get into the region. The congestion is subtly affecting your behavior, many times without your realizing it. You fear the consequences of removing the congestion. Examples; won't go into the belly after a difficult child-birth, or into the twisted arm, or old injury, or Hereditary network, or lame back. Contravenes Requisites #3, #5, #7.   

Excessive Mind-Wandering.
This is one of the more surprising outer (behavioral) manifestations of faint matter congestion. You come up to a region and the next thing you realize is having "been gone" for awhile, drifted off, "out", unaware of anything. This is not the usual day-dreaming or distraction complaint of meditators. When more or less severe, it can manifest as "can't finish a sentence"or "can't stay on the subject", etc. Usually confined to a local region of the body which can be tricky to detect. When you do find the region be above it, exert pressure. When you recognize you have "been gone", come back and repeat. Keep it up. This takes deliberate effort. Gradually you become aware the demarcation, vague as it may be, is receding. Persevere. When the region is gone, so is your excessive mind wandering.   

Sudden Damage. Major Accident.
Sudden damage is best illustrated in Bashed Thumb, Road Two (Some Situations below). In a major accident follow that sequence and keep marshaled on it; let other people help any way they can, but you maintain intense internal moving on the regions. You will be written up for your recovery rate.  

Sinus Congestion, one type.
After disconnecting, if applicable, simultaneously be at the left and right ends of the region extending across your cheeks and eyes. Push from both ends toward the center until it is a vertical line or narrow band. Be at the top and bottom of that line (you can do this, really), push from top and bottom until it is a spot. Get behind that spot and push it off your nose. (Can you see selling that on TV?) For vaguer type, disconnect, be above, plane, etc. Do not be intimidated by the word Asthma. Do it.  

"Stabbing Pain".
Be at the object that extends from your body surface inward, disconnect if applicable. Be at the inside end of the object looking back along it toward your body surface. Push the object out your body. You probably were stabbed (Hereditary, by other names), or is it a manifestation of DNA trash.  Fairly common, usually easy single session.   

"Lump-in-Throat".
Disconnect, if applicable, the region in your throat then be underneath it looking up. Push the region up and out your mouth. Includes difficulty in swallowing. If the latter entails specific foods, present yourself to the situation (General Instruction, allergy). For Heart burn, disconnect, be above region, push down or plane f-t-b, progress down.

Urge of Addiction, Compulsion.
"Overcoming addiction" masks the underlying event of uprooting the urge. No matter how you pretend, substitute, fight against, try to work around or medicate, if the urge is there you are still addicted. Your urge disappears when you dissipate the region (Excessive Over-Eating below). The faint matter of urge reflects in deviant behavior, e.g., the wino's first swig because he feels down and "needs the lift" or feels good and "wants to celebrate." Or as in the NYC Rehabilitation Event (below).  

Excessive Hate, Jealousy, Envy, Lust, Self-Pity, Voices, etc. are types of Pain.
As in emotional disturbance (General Instruction) with Bashed Thumb, Road Two (below) marshaling. This is a toe-hold into Repenting of the Bible, Torah, Ethical, Abhidhamma and All Others; in support of your belief, you have something to do. In a KJV paraphrase: James 4:7; submit yourself to another of life's mysteries, internally move on faint matter arising with any of the above, and the above will flee from you. James 1:22; do it, don't just read--deceiving your own self. Diligence. Exponential.  "It hangs over me", "load off my shoulders", "get this off my chest", "voices in my head".  "Twinge of conscience" points toward another class of faint matter/body-as-a-whole interaction.  

Body-wide Memory.
The notion that some of memory may be body-wide arises while watching chronic fear or chronic anger (as examples of many) disappear in behavior as attendant regions of faint matter are dissipated.   

Head-Hand Effect.
This effect usually is not noticeable on the trunk, head or lower limbs. While intense on the hand (e.g. carpal tunnel), forearm or upper arm where there is a tendency to bring the hand (say) close to the body and/or face as assist to the local internal moving, and observable head-following can occur. This easily overlooked action suggests a non-trivial extension of pathways in IMHealing. In other situations however, the hand or arm can stretch or extend away from the head and body.   

Unexpected Inter-internal Movings.
You have one symptom but are working faint matter of another behavior. Can occur with complex networks and/or under medication. Keep working, one thing leads to another. Not too common.   

Finishing a Session. Overwhelmed.
If you have the time, leisurely gentle internal massage the entire region including now-gone connectors. After an extended session, rest. If the session has been urgent, standing, minute-or-so, on-the-spot, just stop, go about your business. If you take to this work, that brief session will occur more and more. Terminate the session if you become overwhelmed due to too intense, getting muddled, too fatigued, etc. Come back to it later.

Lack of Adverse Side Effects.
There may be a delayed unexpected reaction, a transient, not an adverse side effect. Take it in stride; you are beginning to stir the pot. It is not possible to damage yourself using internal moving to remove faint matter. Precision of internal moving to re-balance a specific local minutiae-of-life imbalance through dissipation of faint matter cannot be attained through chemicals dispersed body-wide which can generate imbalance elsewhere.  

Chicken-and-the-Egg.
Three sequences; faint matter leading (infection, foot cramp) affects behavior, behavior leading (sprained ankle, eating bad food) creates faint matter, faint matter and behavior ostensibly arising as one (addictive urge?, most?). With some experience behind you, these quickly become not clear at all, blurring the boundary between many outside-induced and/or self-induced physical, mental, emotional, psychical, hereditary and undiagnosable troubles. Highlights irrelevance of most conventional categories upon internal moving dissipation of faint matter.   

Severe Situations.    Experienced IMH Dialogue suggested.  Several above along with wry neck, some paralysis, some cancer, epilepsy, some addiction, amputee ghost, severe pain, shingles, mental institution inmates and others.  

Examples of the Variety of Faint Matter.
Outsized regions at sudden painful damage, streamers from site of infection rapidly moving into the body, trash throughout the body, loosely bound configurations, unassailable configurations, tinker-toy-type constructions, a covering-over of the organs, plates and objects on the outside of the body, entwining ropes, many geometric shapes, objects observed leaving the body up to several yards, amputee ghosts, infrequent ground-hugging mistiness & others. Experience suggests there are faint matter roles apart from trouble indicators.    

One thing at a time. KEEP IT SIMPLE.