Quote Originally Posted by mcwillis View Post
From his experience of teaching this to others Mr. Raduga says that using an alarm reduces your chance of success by 50-75%. As he says, if you have a strong intent before going to sleep and practice you will wake up without movement. The reason for this is that too much external stimuli such as the noise from an alarm alters our state of mind too drastically upon awakening. When I first started out I did use a custom made alarm with a duration of ten seconds and a voive recording saying, 'Dont move'. It worked perfectly for waking without moving but the shock was too much so I trained myself to wake without moving.
I can reciprocate this from my own experiences. Strong intent before sleeping was how I first trained myself to recognize nightly awakenings, and I've successfully used that for a variety of other things including waking without moving. Furthermore, I've personally never had success using any sort of alarm (for the reason mcwillis has pointed out), so I'm inclined to agree natural awakenings are the way to go.