This is an article outlining all my experiences in Astral Projection.
Tags: Experience, Observations, Short, Progressive, Spiritual, Guide, New Concepts
For now, my goal in astral projection is to practice floating out of my body, looking at myself then at my room, then returning to my body again.
The difficult part is floating.
The thoughts:
"I must astral project!"
"I must notice floating sensations!"
They are so pernicious that they prevent me from becoming relaxed and empty enough to astral project. Therefore, I must think of Astral Projection as a spell, one that I cast only once with emotion, intention, and imagination.
Casting a spell more than once slows down and might even break the spell. So we just have to cast the spell, then release! Forget the these thoughts until the spell is successful.
Before we float, we have to relax first. I remember on my dream while I'm trying my best to relax and astral project, I heard my dream self saying "Be completely completely relaxed until you feel your face falling of your head and your skin melting away from your body."
Once that happens, the only thing we'll feel is nothingness. I happen to agree with my dream self. Though the dream visualization of my face falling off and my skin melting looks really bizarre.
I'll borrow the techniques from my past self that I used to fall asleep easily. We can also use this to reach the semi-awake state that's helpful for astral projection.
When I was a child, I used to fall asleep by gently staring at the darkness and not moving for long enough until I lost my sense of time. The darkness eventually fades and turns into a scenario of a dream.
This was very effective before since my parents keep saying "don't speak or move an inch, if I see that you're awake, you're good as dead". So of course, scared little me had to follow the instruction to the letter.
When I grew up, the threats and instructions disappeared, so I find it difficult to sleep. I keep rotating on the bed until my brain became confused on my bed position and started to guess it, which only made my brain even more confused.
The disorientation kicked in and after a while I found myself falling from a cliff, where I woke up at the end of the fall. From there onwards, I enjoyed tricking my brain into guessing my sleeping position until it got so dizzy it made me fall asleep.
We can also try to stare into the darkness or make our brain dizzy after the relaxation phase so that our mind would be in the proper mood for astral projection.
Unfortunately, our bed is very tiny so it would be difficult to disorient our brain.
It's still posible though, we'll find a way.
The most common way to fall asleep "drown oneself" in random thoughts isn't a great idea for astral projection, at worst, it could just signal the beginning of a sleep paralysis.
What's important is that our mind remain empty and our body remain relaxed enough so we can clearly feel and sense everything once we have projected our non-physical form.
Otherwise, our mind would create all sorts of illusions and fantasies that may stop us from our tracks.
There's the misconception that I must be in a REM state before I can astral project. This is wrong since falling asleep is quite different from astral projection.
If I fall asleep, I won't be able to control my astral projection. Although I'm asleep when the astral projection is successful, it is a blunder to fall asleep first.
I believe after the relaxation phase, comes the disorientation phase, then after that we have to consciously and subconsciously try to astral project, starting from the third person imagination composed of thoughts, then the second person view with lots of emotions, then the first person experience where we feel the uneasy disorientation and the floating sensations.
Don't confuse the floating sensations for anything except the sensation of complete nothingness. It means not feeling the bed we're lying on and instead feeling the subtle ticklish sensation of floating upwards.
"This marks the beginning of my journey to the non-physical world."