Yea thanks for the tips Butterfly. I'm definitely going to give that a go and see how it helps over time. It sounds like that could be something that would be influencing me in some way, wether now or later down the road! Either way, I'll try it out and let you know how it goes.

And WhiteMonkey, I'll try that tornado method too. I have a hard time thinking I'm in deep trance, because it came so quickly (I feel like I need to work for everything lol) but when I'm there, thinking about the energy is much easier than trying to manipulate it. So I think the tornado thing might change it up enough to get something going for me. Generally, when I practice I'm in more of a state to hit trance so I do. Haven't tried it at a time where I didn't think I could hit it!