Why Experience Astral Travel ?

OOBE can be useful for a number of reasons

1. Take quick trips to The Other Side - if practised and focused enough

2. Visiting departed loves ones. If you want to visit a departed loved one via Astral Travel, you might want to ask 'your Spirit Guide / Angel" for their help. With a little warning from your Spirit Guide, your departed loved one can assume the form you are familiar with, as they do when they make the trip from The Other Side to visit you

3. Dropping in on people and places you miss - right here on Earth. People here may not Physically see you, but it isn't unusual for them to become aware of your presence. Whether seeing you in a dream or just sensing your presence around them

Method For Astral Projection

Preparation

Caution

If the first Attempt - Better to have Guidance from an Experienced Person

Hints and Tips on the Ideal Conditions for Astral Projection

There are actually no rules with astral projection, but there are some guidelines and conditions under which successful projections have been found to happen

SUITABLE PLACE: You need a quiet room and one where you will not be disturbed. A place or room where you in which you will feel comfortable, safe and 'at home'

QUIET: It is important to either eliminate or reduce noise or disturbance to barely noticed minimum

COMFORT: If you are lying down you need firm support from your bed. You need to be neither too warm nor too cold. Your body temperatue will drop while you are projecting so you need to be able to cover yourslef in a blanket or something when you return - you will feel colder when you come back for your OOBE

CLOTHING: Wear loose, comfortable clothing. Remove all jewellery, spectacles, contact lenses - will be able to see fine, watches, wigs and false teeth or limbs

LIGHTING: You need dom lighting - a soft glow is good, just enough to be able to see, but not too bright or dark.Total darkness can be too intense, and full light can be a distraction

ATMOSPHERE: Although some people like to light incense or prepare in some way, it is not essential.Just avoid anything that is liable to distract you

TIME OF DAY: The best results happen when you are not too tired nor too wide awake.You need to be relaxed but not sleepy. A good time is upon first waking in the morning - you will be in the right place at the right time

BODY MOVEMENTS: Some people find that wiht this new experience - just like in meditation that they are unable to keep still for more than a minute or two. Needs practise and if you peservere, you will find that all these irritations will vanish if you ignore them

STATE OF MIND: No anger,irritation,stress or extremes of emotion & mental awareness.You need to be calm and relaxed

BELIEF SYSTEMS: Those who have a belief system - no matter what - seem to achieve better results

WRONG REASONS: Trying to use astral projection for the wrong reasons e.g to spy or gain power over others - just doesn't work. The beauty of astral projection is that once your 'out',you cease to be governed by physical trivialities an you can't get 'out' until you abandon them anywhy

PHYSICAL NEEDS: It is better to eat light. So no digestive or bowel activity can interfere

To encourage Astral Travel, you should practise

Techniques of total Relaxation

Lie flat on your back, arms at your side - palms upwards

Note: The 'departure' can arose fear in the Physical mind, when seeing the sleeping form on the bed is yourself lying there

Some might experience panic and return to their Physical bodies with a bump / jerk

Try to overcome fear or your body and mind will NOT relax sufficiently to release the Astral body

Technique For Astral Travel

1. Relax Totally

2. No shoes or watches - could cause blockages or interfere

3. Lie flat on your back - without a pillow

4. Palms face downwards - for free flow of energy

5. Close eyes

6. Avoid moving or urge to 'hold on"

7. Rest both feet on the hills

8. Hills spread away from each other - to ensure no energy is blocked

9. RELAX

*see CHAKRAS*

10. Lie completely flat and relax the Solar Plexus - allowing it to drop towards the bed.This is an alternate exit area. Some condense into this region, becoming heavy and moving out through the floor

11. Spreading arms and legs away from the body - which should be flat

12. Clear the mind of all thoughts

13. Chakra / Top Engergy Centre is a possible exit

14. Or you may exit via the feet - with a feeling of slipping away or falling

15. The Base Chakra is another possible exit. Some condense their body energies and move out through here. They can experience a sinking sensation as if moving down towards the feet. In fact they are moving out through this Chakra

What to Expect During A Typical OOBE

1. Most natural or spontaneous OOBE's happens once on a lifetime. But obviously, people trying to generate the event deliberately are much more likely to have repeat occurence

2. It is most likely to happen while lying down, either resting or just before or just after sleeping There has been cases where OOBE's happened while carrying out an activity of some kind

3. A floating, flying or soaring feeling usually accompanies the experience with a certain directional attitude of 'going upwards'

4. and being close to and seeing - or being aware - of the physical body - often from above

5. It can happen to anyone even children, but in most cases it happena during adult life and most often to women.If it occured during childhood, the person is much more likely in later life to attempt deliberate projections

6. Usually there is no sensation of 'leaving the body'. The person just finds themselves 'out'

7. Returning to the physical body is similar with little sensation or knowledge of 'going back'

8. Those who attempt deliberate projections are much more likely to report sensations of leaving or returning, but may well be in the nature of some of the techniques themselves

9. A usual case includes no connection physically with the physical body

10. A sense of 'realness' and viewing the 'normal world' - some has reported of leaving the room or area around the physical body

11. The sense of sight and hearing seem to work quite normally, but few cases are reported of experiencing taste, smell or touch.The sight and hearing may well be enchanced or exaggerated and many cases have reported objects 'glowing' or radiating increased light in some way

12. An initial OOBE is usually accompanied by feelings of detachment, calm and feeling 'ok' often quite pleasant Later deliberate projections may be more likely to be subjected to fear,apprehension or excitement

13. The person usually feel that the experience is real and at no time does he/she question what is being experienced. There is often a feeling of being able to 'go anywhere' and 'do anything' but the need to do so is rarely felt

14. An inability to affect, move or influence any physical objects in the vicinity of the physical body - and no desire to do so

15. Anyone who has had an OOBE is much more likely to want to repeat the experience, but not many actually do so, despite quite rigorous attempts

16. However anyone who had a spontaneous OOBE and then attempted a voluntary OOBE, with any degree of success, is likely to be able to repeat the experience

17. A certain mind-set is necessary for success - once that approach has been learned or discovered, it's much more likely to produce positive results in subsequent attempts

18. The experience of having had a spontaneous, unplanned OOBE does not give the recipient any particular knowledge that can subsequently be used. The whole process has to be learnt from scratch, but there is definitely an incentive to want to produce subsequent projections consciously

19. Whatever one's beliefs, before a spontaneous or voluntary OOBE, there seems to be a radical and permanent change in one's attitude to the soul,death and life after death. The fear of death seems to reduce remarkedly. It also seem that it is a pleasurable and rewarding experience

Getting back in

The majority of people who have consciously projected say that you can return as quickly as you want, by merely 'willing' yourself back in. Apparently any situation you encounter, such as strange noise or light wind, will immediately take you straight back in. There is absolutely no evidence that you can get 'stuck' out or be attacked or get lost or not be able to find your physical body again or go too far or to be taken over

Paralysis

This state of paralysis is known as a cataleptic or catatonic state and is frequently encountered.Just before or upon returning some could have a feeling that their physical body is paralysed in some way.No need to panic, this is quite normal and will disappear quickly. Just stay still until feeling has return to your body and you will be able to carry on as usual

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Astral Projection-Richard Craze