I’m currently reading Boundless: Your How To Guide for Practical Remote Viewing by Lori Lambert Williams after hearing an interview with her on the Astonishing Legends podcast. I am not interested in learning her Remote Viewing (RV) technique but found some of her advice to students matched perfectly with my Past and Future Lives Journeying.
One area that is worth sharing is her take on the inevitable slump that someone goes through when pursuing any new activity. I worked through a rough slump in my person sessions, and know from experience how being in a slump can be part of the learning curve:
There are certain milestones that every remote viewer experiences, and some of those are pleasant, some of those are not so pleasant. Like slumps, for example.
Slumps are true in anything you try to learn, whether you're trying to learn the violin, or the piano, or martial art, or yoga, or whatever. You go through periods where you kind of have a step backwards, you go two steps forward, one step backwards. It's the same thing in remote viewing. Students will go through a period called a slump. And we've discovered that what's happens when the slump occurs is that something's getting worked out on a subconscious level, and you might not even be aware. It's subconscious, so you're not aware of it.
It could be something way deep in your psyche that's gotten worked out, that you now have a resolution for. And so, slumps are really important.
Also, our brains are processing what we’ve learned in our down time and when we’re sleeping. Allowing for that interval, even that it can be frustrating, can be seen as part of the acquisition of a new skill, like Past Life Journeying.
Another piece of advice that translates to PLJ from Williams’ advice for RVstudents:
…our mantra that we repeat all the time is describe, don't identify. The nouns you're going to come up with are suspect because nouns name things, and they come from the left brain.
Remote Viewing uses drawing and sketching the “target” to gather information, so identifying can mislead the process into analytical thinking. In PLJ, this can manifest as applying our modern 21st century perspective on ancient scenes, so I’ll be adding “describe, don’t identify” to my guidance.