Out of body
experiences - here are some tips to help.
Balancing Between Sleep And
Awakeness
Depending from the body position
- lying flat or sitting more or less upright - I learned to
trigger the degree of awareness. Naturally the more flat the
position was, the stronger was the tendency to fall asleep.
A second parameter on the
awake-sleep scale, I recognized, is the body temperature.
Coolness is activating, but if I got cold feet or a hot head,
I stayed awake and got stuck in a long thread of thoughts.
If the body was kept too comfortably warm, I tended to fall
asleep.
A shift towards sleep at day
or a shift towards alertness at night, could be accomplished
by the degree of brightness of light. This can be balanced
by using a dim lamp at night (as it may be switched on in
REM-sleep to support LD's, as I have read in some reports
and by blindfolding, when trying OBE´s in daytime. The
latter procedure is less important for me since I got independent
from daylight by turning my eyeballs upwards.
The time of day plays a role
as well. If I am called to start exercises by means of an
alarmclock, in the initial hours of sleeptime, I tend to fall
asleep immediately, whereas conditions are better in the early
morning. My first OBE's I had by chance, when I extended sleeptime
on Saturday or Sunday into the late morning. This favoured
obviously the occurence of LD's and OBE's. "Professionals"
try to increase the frequency of OBE's and therefore want
to train throughout the week. In this case they are to start
OBE's in night time. Since one tends to fall asleep at that
time, it is useful to counteract by taking a seat in an armchair.
I have had good results with this kind of arrangement and
can better concentrate at night.
Exercises Which Might Help
My OBE-ing does not always
turn out as well as I would like. Success is going up and
down. There are some reasons for this frustrating unsteadiness.
These reasons are found in distraction and energetic constitution,
in times of slipshod inner discipline. I won't state that
inner discipline is absolutely necessary, but it helps. Anyhow,
if I have some kind of inner electricity, OBE's are facilitated.
To follow some advices listed below might be useful to others
as well.
Control and guide of thoughts
and emotions. Even a partial control is of good influence.
Practicing a selfmade European
version of Yoga, I have found, that quite a lot of Yoga-exercises
were supporting LD's and OBE's. Among the best ones are body-energizing,
body-awareness and visualization. For OBE's in the sense of
"stepping out", the best exercises, I have found,
are those in which you are concentrated on body processes.
This prevents you to drift away by any dreamlike pictures.
Pictures very easily tend to consume your attention and they
let you drop into ordinary dreams, whereas there is nothing
of interest, which would distract you from exercising, if
your attention is directed on slow motions or vibrations in
the range of deep sounds felt in abdomen or breast. At present
I prefer this kind of exercise. Several years ago, my central
exercise was concentration on warmth-feeling, starting from
the feet and going upwards or circling through the whole body
(except the head). Besides warmth a second possibility was
the imagination of energy circling in the body.
Another helpful exercise,
as I have heard from friends, is Eutonie, a train of feeling-imagination-exercises
concerning body inspection. These friends had their first
out of body experiences spontaneously, when performing these
exercises, without ever having heard about OBE's before.
As mentioned above, currently
I prefer exercising on vibrations. In days I can´t feel
vibrations, I try to produce body motions in the range of
0,5 to 4 Hz (cps). If I can´t produce them for any reason,
I imagine rocking in the frequency of about 1 Hz. When using
too slow body movements, I can´t keep up concentration
and drift away very soon. Visualization helped to some extent
to perform astral projection, but was of no use for etheric
out of body experiences.
| Authors Details: Alfred Ballabene Email:
Alfred.Ballabene[at]univie.ac.at |
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