About Guidelines®

Guidelines offers still another step in the development of a more complete understanding of self. In addition to exploration of your Total Self and creating an ongoing communication with your Inner Self Helper (ISH), the program provides orientation exercises to support the experience of the out-of-body state. Training in the use of a special “healing” energy – either individually or in a group – to benefit both self and others is also an aspect of Guidelines. This is also the only program where you get a free PREP session, an extremely unique experience.

Prerequisite: Gateway Voyage^®

The theme of Guidelines is to assist you in learning methods in which communication can be established with distinct and different intelligences. Whatever you call such intelligence (e.g., Total Self, Inner Self Helper, Guide, Non-Physical Friend, Universal Consciousness, etc.), it can be any constructive source that has an overview beyond your normal daily physical perception.

In addition, Guidelines encourages the practical application of such communications and states of consciousness. With practice, a person can learn to quickly and directly access whatever information is needed. Our goal is to make such lines of communication as open, direct, and natural as possible, so that during a business meeting, for example, you can calmly and serenely access the communication skills learned and concurrently apply them appropriately within the context of the situation.

A more complete understanding of self cannot be more appreciated than from the out-of-body experience. Realizing that you exist apart from the physical is but one step on what Bob Monroe called the Freedom Route, a journey of life without fear in which you can achieve your greatest potential. The out-of-body orientation exercises included in the Guidelines program are designed to help you comfortably and safely begin this process. Not all participants consciously realize this subjective state while here at the Institute, but these exercises could be your first opening to a realm far beyond the often narrow confines of your physical body.

Guidelines is held at The Monroe Institute in Virginia, and consists of a series of unique exercises which provide training in developing these lines of communication. After a review of Focus™ 10, 12, 15, and 21, the participant is taught:

• to easily achieve the state where nonphysical communication and out-of-body experiences can occur;
• to speak and report during such states, without disturbing the attained form of consciousness;
• means and methods of establishing contact with other energy forms;
• to retain full conscious awareness and memory of the communication and experiences achieved.

In addition to audio-guidance exercises, there are:

• group discussions
• application sessions
• an individual one-to-one PREP session in an isolation booth and
• free time to relax, assimilate experiences, exercise, and/or socialize

Here's what I say. I say, "Give yourself the opportunity to gratefully and joyfully strengthen your connectedness with larger aspects of your self-awareness. Give yourself the gift of 'coming home,' to Self and to TMI."

Here is what participants have to say: "Guidelines is my absolute favorite program of all. I really came away with very powerful guidance for my life and found it profound and VERY meaningful. In fact, I'm taking it again." - Maureen Caudill

"The people I met at Guidelines last November have profoundly touched and changed my life. I went to a very specific landscape in 27 while in the booth - a place unknown to me. I got the shock of my life when a few weeks ago I climbed a tabletop mountain in Colorado with 2 other TMI grads and there in front of me was the landscape from the booth in 27. Love being a TMI junkie!" - Suzanne Poirier

A recent independent longitudinal study reported that those who have attended multiple graduate programs have a higher degree of self-efficacy and life satisfaction than the norm and have achieved a state of ego development called self-transforming. Graduate program participants recognize the limitations in any perspective and are more willing to consciously and intentionally grow beyond their own boundaries rather than merely having it happen to them as a function of circumstances.

In the study, graduate program alumni reported an increase in the depth of self-awareness, a degree of experience with inner exploration, personal healing, and trust in a higher self. This is why so many Gateway Voyage^® graduates choose to return to TMI. They are more highly motivated by curiosity and self-discovery which was seeded by their Gateway Voyage^® experience and now fuels further exploration and transformation as a way of making meaning and finding joy in their lives.

Below is an audio recording of Bob Monroe describing the newly improved Guidelines program nearly 20 years ago.

Play the audio recording now:

Take a look at this YouTube video about the Guidelines Program at The Monroe Institute:

Here is a short YouTube presentation from Karen Malik:

For questions regarding the program, please e-mail programs [@] monroeinstitute.org or call the program registrar at 866-881-3440 or 434-361-1252.