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Once you?ve done this awareness shifting technique, move all your awareness to your entire body at once. If it helps to give yourself a mental picture of your position on the bed then do so, but the main drive is to move all the attention to your body as a whole. This is where the weird see-saw effect happens. Just go with the flow, and let things happen as they will. You might also get some very annoying itches, pokes, and voices. Again, let everything pass over you as if you don?t care. If you move at this point, it will set you back pretty far.
Now, you just work on clearing your mind, and getting closer to sleep. When sleep hits, you will be thrown out of your body, and have successfully induced an experience. Congratulations on that. Now what?
Getting Familiar with New Surroundings:
Depending where you landed (assuming it did throw you out, and you didn?t just float up or roll out etc) think yourself to be standing up and having your eyes open. Let that reverberation pass over you if that happened for the current experience, and see your new world.
I don?t know about all that astral travel stuff so I can?t go into details on it. What you should be seeing is physical surroundings that you probably look at every day. Take a few minutes to absorb all of it in and then begin to walk around. I say walk, but it?s more of a thought of ?I want to be over there now?, and then you float over there.
Getting accustomed to all of this movement will at first be a little difficult. In fact, I can almost guarantee that you will be thrown right back into your body after just a few moments. However, eventually it gets a bit easier, and moving around doesn?t spook you as much.
Once you?ve familiarized yourself with moving from one location to the next, try walking through something. I suggest a door because your mind can easily wrap around the idea of walking through a door. You might not even realize it was closed until you come back. If you do pay particular attention to what you?re passing through though, it will feel a little wispy and cool. This too might send you back.
I suggest one thing that you shouldn?t do just yet. Don?t look at yourself lying on the bed. It will definitely freak you out. You can do that later, but now isn?t the time. Just try to enjoy the experience because if you do something that sets you off from the idea of OBE, it will be hard to recover enough to want to induce more. While I?m on the topic of looking at your physical self, I have no concept whatsoever of the fabled silver cord that everyone speaks of. I either can?t see it, or it isn?t there. It might be self induced to provide a stable belief that you can go back to your body whenever you want. If that?s the case, I don?t need it.
When this all becomes familiar, a fun thing to do is think yourself to a different spot entirely. Personally, I seem to have mental hang ups with going too far (and this could be because of a cord that I just can?t see) so the best I?ve done is moving to my back yard. You can do two different things to move like this. One would be to whoosh from one spot to the next which might freak you out as well, or you can close your eyes and think yourself at that spot and open them. Either one works fine, and it is largely a mental preference. In fact, you might only be able to do one or the other. The mental walls are hard to break down on this subject.
After the Experience:
Well, you had your OBE and are back now. It?s time to reflect. Run the experience over in your mind and see if it was just a dream. Recall how cognizant you were out of body. Pay attention to how real everything was and felt. No weird dream things happened as you were out, and you probably will feel quite tired when you get back in your body.
A good idea would be to keep a running log of your attempts and journal your successes. Only through prolonged experimenting will you finally come to terms with the fact that you left the body. I personally don?t log my experiences because I know very clearly that I leave my body. So, it?s all your choice, but it?d be fun to look back at it months from now, and be amazed at what you?ve done, or just relive the experience.
Further Study:
When merely going out of body becomes an easy experience to achieve, try to work in your psychic skills while out. See if you can feel impressions of a room you enter, or receive thoughts of someone you?re viewing. Make a psiball if you want.
It?s now time for you to experiment with the newly available surroundings. We are writing the book as it happens, and as such, it?s almost a duty to push the bar, share the findings, and move our understanding forward. This article is hopefully a catalyst for inducing these experiences, and furthering our overall understanding of this phenomenon.
Thank you for reading this article. I hope it benefits you greatly, and you can share your experiences as well.
- Brandon
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