In astral projection the astral body leaves the physical. The astral body is one of seven sheath bodies we all have - as we are all multi-dimensional. These bodies include the physical, mental, causal, etheric, emotional, spiritual.
What I have found is that some people can astral project naturally - and have been doing it for years. Other people are afraid to leave the physical body and struggle with it never being able to astral project. These people should try remote viewing as an alternative.
In astral projection you remain attached by a silver "umbilical type" cord to your physical body - though you may not see it. You travel out and are aware of things you encounter along the way.
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. You can practice alone or with one person. Find a quiet place . . . free of distractions. . . Adjust the lighting and room temperature. . . Adjust clothing . . . footwear . . . eyeglasses. Sit down or lie down . . . Find a position that is comfortable for you . . . Quiet your mind . . . Still your thoughts . . . 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 do it when you sleep.
See yourself floating away from your physical body. You may feel as release or perhaps hear a sound as you leave.
Silva Mind Control Method
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.
THE MONROE TECHNIQUE
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 your 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 into 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.
Astral Projection
A How To Exercise
- Astral Projection:
- To will the conscious mind into the soul body and then to project ones conscious self out of the physical body into the etheric realm. The length and location of the projection is preplanned and preprogrammed. The project requires an altered state of awareness such as a deep meditation. The physical and soul bodies are attached through the solar plexus by a silver cord.
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Astral Projection, Astral Travel, Astral Projected Travel {APT}
So many different names and acronyms for the same thing can get confusing. That is one of the reasons people get out-of-body-experiences (or OBEs) confused with APTs. The difference is:
 | an OBE is directed by the sub-conscious mind, the soul if you will, for purposes of spiritual evolution. |
| an APT is directed by the conscious mind, for many different reasons, some spiritual, some for fun and some for escape. |
So when people talk about wanting to have an OBE, tell them they do it every night when they sleep. Then tell them how to accomplish an APT.
The first thing to note about an APT is the "intent" must be set before the attempt is made. You program the purpose of your journey, and where you want to go before you jump in the car and head out of the driveway. An APT is just like taking a Sunday drive. Even if the intent is just relax and get a way for a while, that in itself is an intent. Making this specification is necessary and will help the conscious mind direct the soul body. Deciding where you want to go is also important. It's almost like filing a flight pattern with the tower at an airport. You need to layout a general map for which direction to head out into the ethers, to help you accomplish the goal.
Astral Projection Guide ~ A Step-by-Step Process
Once you have decided where you want to head out and why, you can use the following suggested steps for learning how to get there. There are a great many books and other resources on the subject of Astral Projection, so if this method doesn't work for you, don't give up. Just broaden your research and look for alternatives.
There are few items and arrangements to be made before you begin your journey. You want to find a place where you are not going to be disturbed for about 1 hour. Typically doing this outside is not a good idea because of the distractions. But if you can find a special place where you know for sure you won't be disturbed by man, animal or machine, then certainly give it a try.
You want to find a piece of calm relaxing music. Repetitive NewAge meditation music is the best. You're going to use this to help drown out outside noises. The repetitive nature of the music will help you focus on the visualization process and not on the change in tempo and mood variations that most instrumental music contains. They're fabulous for listening enjoyment, but you don't want to be tapping your foot while you're trying to leave your body. It isn't recommended that you attempt this in bed, before sleep or just lying down. You might be too tempted to fall asleep. If you have a comfortable chair, like a Lazy-Boy or something similar, that might be ideal.
To get started:
- Prepare your space as you would for any spiritual development effort. Grab a blanket if you think you might get cold. Light a candle, say a prayer for protection, ask your guides for assistance and so on. This ritual is part of "setting the intent" for your travel. During your prayer, call in your guides and teachers, the location and why you want to go on this journey. Clearly define the "flight plan" to program both your conscious mind and your soul mind.
- Relax in a comfortable position. Try to keep everything at your finger tips so you can fully relax. Start your music and close your eyes.
- Take in 3 deep cleansing breaths. Fill your lungs to their fullest capacity and exhale completely. Imagine the white protective light from the Divine filling your body. Know that you are protected, safe and secure from all harm, seen and unseen.
- As you pull in the Divine light through your nose, imagine a large ball of purple energy collecting in and around your solar plexus. As the light grows within your physical body, imagine your silver cord emerging from the glow. Imagine the cord moving through your body and forming into a replica of you next to the ceiling. Try to form this image as your soul body, the essence of the spiritual you.
- Once you have that image, turn the visual body over so your soul is looking down at your physical body.
- Now the hard part. When the two bodies are facing each other, one on the floor, the other on the ceiling, try to transfer your conscious mind into the spiritual image. You can imagine what your conscious mind will experience as it travels up the silver cord into the spiritual you. You imagine what the ceiling would feel like against the back of your spiritual body. What ever it takes to actually put you there.
- Once you've made a connection, look down at your physical body. Record in your conscious mind what you see. As much of the detail as you can.
- When you're ready, move the spiritual body through the ceiling, the roof and out into the ethers. Look back and see your silver cord floating in the breeze, completely intact.
- Continue through space on the journey you outlined for yourself when setting the intent for this travel experience. When you're ready to return simply think to yourself, "It's time to go back." Then varoom, you'll be back.
The hardest part is transferring the conscious mind up into the spiritual body. It's going to take time and probably several attempts before you actually make the transfer. Each time you attempt the journey, make note of how your physical body feels and reacts. I don't want to give you any ideas on what you might experience while doing this. I don't want you to have any influence or mental suggestion that might hinder or cloud your attempts. It's better that you try and practice, making notes of your own unique feelings.
For your first couple of journey's you might want to define some easy goals to validate your experience. For instance, in my first travel I planned on visiting my sister who lived on the other side of the U.S. in California. While there I made note of as many details as possible. What she was doing, wearing, what was around her and so on. After the trip, I phoned her and asked her to validate some things for me. I told her what she was wearing, what she was doing and so on. She was cooking dinner and looking for something, I knew in the spiritual essence she was looking for a special knife. When I wondered where the knife was and how could I tell her, in an instant I saw the knife and it's hidden location. When I called her, I asked her to look in that place and see if the knife was there. It was and I had my validation.
This process of validating your travel is meant for one purpose. To build your confidence. To show you that you really did take a journey to where you planned to go. As your confidence builds, so does the ease of the projection. As you grow in experience, you can grow in your intent. So if you want to see the dark side of the moon, then go take a look at it. And have some pleasant and wonderful journeys.
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