Introduction to Astral Projection

This technique can be mastered in one week, but it can also be mastered in one day with focus and intent. You will find that this method is easier than most because it does not require the ability to visualize in order to successfully astral project.

1. Find a quiet place where you can be alone and totally relaxed. This method works best with total silence. Remove all jewelry and be dressed comfortably where you wont get a chill or draft that will distract your focus. Lay down on the bed or floor. You choose what works best for you. Do not cover up with blankets or sheets, the weight on the body can be a source of sensory input. The goal is to relax the body and the mind. While progressively relaxing the muscles in your body use this breathing technique.

Inhale 1,2

Exhale 1,2

Inhale 1,2

Exhale 1,2

Begin by focusing on your feet and relax the muscles in your feet. Next move up to your calfs and relax them. Focus on each body part until the muscles are relaxed. Travel upwards to each area of the body until you are totally relaxed from toe to the top of your head. Feet Calves Thighs Hands Arms Hips Pelvis Stomach Chest Shoulders Neck Face Head

2. Once your body and mind is totally relaxed get your mind to enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnagogic state. One method of reaching this state without falling asleep is this: Bend one of your arms at the elbow 90 degrees and hold your forearm and hand up while keeping your upper arm relaxed and flat on the bed or floor. As you start to fall asleep your hand and forearm will fall and you will wake up again. With practice you can learn to control the hypnagogic state without using your arm. Concentrate on an object in your mind. When other images start to enter your thoughts you have reached the hypnagogic state. Passively watch these images in your mind to maintain this state of near sleep. Do not try to control your thoughts, relax and float in this hypnagogic state. Using the arm technique to prevent falling asleep helps to maintain this before sleep state of the mind.

3. After your arm has fallen a couple times begin to clear your mind. Focus your vision on your closed eyes. Do nothing more but look thru your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of you. You may notice some light patterns, ignore them, they are simply neural discharges and have no specific use in reaching the state to astral project. When these light patterns stop you have reached the second stage of relaxation.

4. At this point you are going to enter an even deeper state of relaxation. You will begin to lose all awarness of the body and sensory stimulation. The only stimulation will be your own thoughts. Your body may feel like it is floating, do not focus on that feeling. Remain focused on your thoughts only to get past the bodies sensory input. If you get lost in the floating feeling stop, totally relax and breath 1,2 until you can focus again on your eyelids and start over. To properly astral project you will learn to bypass the state that your body has a floating feeling. The ideal state is when you cannot feel your body at all. Your only focus is thought. The only source of sensory input or stimulation is your own thoughts.

5. Once you are past the point of feeling like you are floating and your mind is at the deepest hypnagogic state you will enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of projection but also the most unpredictible. Many projectors have these vibrations at the beginning of projection. The sensation is that of mild tingling or electrical sparks in the distance. When you sense this with your mind draw it to you mentally.

6. Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling this vibrational energy by mentally pulling them into your head, pushing them down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body causing waves from head to foot. When this feeling spreads through the body you will recognize it as the point in which the astral body is trying to leave the physical one. Before leaving the body we will learn to control this vibrational state.

7. Begin with a partial separation, the key is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let your mind wander. Wandering thoughts can cause you to lose control of the astral state. To learn control practice this exercise. Once you reach the vibrational state visualize being able to raise your astral arm. This is the arm of your second body. Imagine raising it and trying to touch a familiar object such as the wall near to where you are laying. Push your astral arm through the wall, see it go into the wall with your mind. Return your arm back to your body by mentally placing it back into your physical arm. Decrease the vibrational state and end the first astral projection experiment. Lie quietly until you have returned to normal.

8. Getting full control of this vibrational state will prepare you for full separation. Once you have control of the vibrational state you are ready to leave the body.

9. Once you have achieved control of the vibrational state you are ready to do a full body separation. One method is to lift out of the body after you have reached the vibrational state. This is done by mentally sitting up, standing and looking down at your body on the bed beside you. Another method is to roll out of the physical body. When you have achieved the vibrational state try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed, do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your second body right out of your physical self. At this point you will be out of the body but next to it. Once you see your physical body next to you it is time to astral travel.

10. Whether you lift out or roll out you should find yourself wanting to float above your physical body. Before you start flying thru the cosmos look at your physical body and notice that there is a cord attached to it and the body you are now in. This cord can be as long as you wish it to be. If you want to travel 6 foot or 6 million miles it will remain intact. This cord can never be severed or broken. It is your connection to your physical self and is indestructible. Ask your guides to accompany you on your travels and that you remember everythign that happens.

11. Not all techniques work the same for everyone. I suggest keeping a journal nearby to document what you remember once you return to your body. Setting your alarm clock to go off two hours from the first attempt at relaxation to keep you from falling asleep and forgetting the whole experience works great. Record what steps worked for you to achieve the vibrational state. Write down what you saw, heard, thought and felt during each session. A one word description or even a simple phrase can be enough, you dont have to write a short story on the experience if you dont want to.

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In astral projection the conscious mind leaves the physical body and moves into the astral body. The astral body is one of seven subtle bodies we all have.

Some people can astral project naturally. Others are afraid to leave the physical body and never are able to astral project. An alternative approach is remote viewing.

In astral projection you remain attached to your physical body by a silver "umbilical type" cord. Some people see the cord and others do not.

You are aware of things you encounter along the way while out of your body.

To astral project, as with all out-of-body experiences - one must feel totally relaxed, clothing fitting comfortable, reclining is best. Often a comforter is best over the body as the physical body sometimes gets cold when you travel out.

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 Relax your body. . .  Your face . . . your jaw . . . relaxing . . .  Your shoulders . . . your neck . . . relaxed  Your arms . . . your hands . . . feel at peace . . .  Your torso . . . your hips . . . letting go . . .  Your legs . . . your feet . . . totally relaxed . . . 

Focus on your breathing . . .  Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose . . .  Retain the breath as long as is comfortable . . .  Exhale through the mouth slowly and completely . . .  Repeat for two more breaths . . . or as is comfortable. 

Let go of the fear of leaving your physical body.  Remember you astral project when you sleep. 

See yourself floating away from your physical body.  You may feel as release or perhaps hear a sound as you leave. 

If you get fearful, please stop as you are not ready for astral projection. Anything done in metaphysics should feel comfortable and easy. If it is stressful, let it go for now, as you are not ready. 

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Quiet your mind. Clear your thoughts.

In your mind say:

"I'm going to count down from 3 to 1, visualizing each number on a white orb suspended in the air above my head. When I reach the third and final "1" my body will be deeply relaxed. I will have no awareness of physical sensations. I will not perceive any physical discomfort. My consciousness will be focused on my astral body.

Now visualize a white orb suspended in the air above your head. Mentally focus on the orb I visualize a number "3" on the face of the orb. The numbers can be any color. They may vary with each experience. Visualize the 3 --three times: three number "3's" on the orb. Your body is completely relaxed. You are losing awareness of your physical body.

Then repeat the visualization with three number "2's." You are into greater relaxation. Now visualize the "1's." You are losing awareness of physical sensations. Your consciousness will be in your astral body.

Repeat this using the number "1's" three times. Your consciousness is now in my astral body.

This could involve training of several sessions. You may also find audio tapes that take you down into these altered states as well. You getting better and faster as you go along each time.

There is no set agenda for how often you practice astral projection or any other out-of-body technique. It soon becomes fun. It is like a deep meditation.

Now the key is to remain conscious while my body is asleep. Different thoughts may pull you from your focus as the mind loves to chatter. Just push these thoughts away.

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 Step One:

Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself" to having an OBE. (out of body experience). This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although progressive muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3... until about 50 or 100) are known to work well.

Step Two:

Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnogogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With practice you can learn to control the hypnogogic state without using your arm. Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the hypnogogic state. Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.

Step Three:

Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. Observe your field of vision through your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of your. After a while you may start to notice light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroe calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts.

The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it in the morning just as you are getting up, or after a short nap.

Step Four:

Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most vague.

Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as if electricity is being shot through the body. Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical body.

For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the following directions:

1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.

2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids, but do not shut out all light.

3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head pointed toward magnetic north.

4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer than what might normally be comfortable.

5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.

6. Enter a state of relaxation.

7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial to your well being. Repeat this five times.

8. As your breathe, concentrate on the void in front of you.

9. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change your point of mental reference to six feet.

10. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line parallel to your body axis up above you head. Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them back into your body.

Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have achieved contact with them.

Step Five:

Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate on the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body. Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.

Step Six:

Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thoughts might cause you to lose control of the state.

Now having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed. Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back in to coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise will prepare you for full separation.

Step Seven:

Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering the vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally at this point.

Another method is the "Rotation Method" or "roll-out" technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed.

Do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your second body right out of your physical self.

At this point, you will be out of the body, but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the body.