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Bodily Basis For Out of body
experiences
Relaxation (Savasana) for trance:
Lay with your back on the
floor, with a flat pillow underneath your head. Turn your
head aside, to prevent your relaxed tongue occluding the respiratory
tract, which could hinder you in breathing and make you snore
(which may cause awakening). Furthermore the above quoted
head position prevents saliva to flow into the trachea. Place
your hands close to the body. Then relax, and use additional
imaginative techniques. For Savasana you find a good description
in the home page of Steve Ritter 3).
Better muscle relaxation:
Contract all muscles especially
of spine, getting your back lifted from floor in a bow, with
only heels and shoulder touching the bottom. Then relax and
come down to the floor again. By this muscle tension you get
a better muscle feeling and relaxation is better afterwards.
Stretching the spine:
Stretch your heels as far
away as possible, then set them on the floor and pull to elongate
your spine. With your shoulder fixed on the floor, the pulling
heels stretch the body, mainly the spine. Then relax.
To "switch off"
the body:
Check relaxation of limbs
and body, starting with your feet. Move your feet some what,
to get a better feeling of them. Then relax. Have a final
control of the feet upwards to the ankles.... you feel them
relaxed .... imagine a switch at the ankles and turn the switch
off. This part of your body now will be cut off your awareness.
Now control relaxation of the following section of the legs
upwards to the knees ... imagine a switch at the knees and
turn the switch off. This part has dropped out of consciousness
as well and you go further upwards to the hips. Then you repeat
the same procedure with your arms and then with your trunk
and afterwards with your face. Now your awareness has no further
bond to the body and is directed towards the inner realms.
Out of body experiences started
by Automatisms (Triggered By Intentions)
General:
The first step in OBE-ing
is set by the subconsciousness, in all states, independent
of the fact if you are in trance or in sleep. All the flying
dreams, the lightful and colourful dreams and as well false
awakening are produced by subconsciousness. What you have
to do is to get the impulse strong enough to make you lucid
and to start OBE's. Trance is not handled as easily as many
persons think , because your will has to relinquish leadership
to subconsciousness, which will be the primary authority to
decide, if you stay awake, if trance is started, or if you
fall asleep. Therfore subconsciousness on the one hand is
a valuable tool for you, if you are able to trigger it by
right intention and imagination and on the other hand can
be difficult like an untamed horse.
The intention which triggers
subconsciousness is very subtle and has ist own symbolic language.
A pure intellectual decision to have an adventure or to learn
about the secrets veiled in yourself is not sufficient. The
signal directed to your subconsciousness to trigger OBE has
to be precise in the aim and powerful by emotion and desire.
Desire:
Desire is like a call of the
"other world"to meet your beloved relatives or to
lead you "home" and it pulls you out of the body.
It is a strong trigger for astral travelling especially. Desire
without anything othercan be sufficient to actualize an OBE,
if feeling and remembrance of last OBE is fully present. Religiosity
is of no influence for etheric OBE-ing, but of very great
influence on quality of astral travelling. A dogmatic and
polarized view very often leads to confrontations with demon-
or devil-like creatures. It is very often caused by intolerance
and aggressivity which is characteristic for a heaven-hell
point of view of fundamentalists. Fear may be considered as
hidden aggressivity. A lovely person meets loveley worlds.
Awareness:
Expand your inner awareness
towards the room or to the surrounding and focus your attention
to what is going to happen in next moments. Don´t drect
your attention inwards to phantasies and thought-dreaming,
threads of thoughts nor let your attention fall off; Instead
keep your awareness outside, just waiting attentively and
being alert. This kind of awareness has to become so dominant,
that it persists subconsciously while you fall asleep after
some time. Following the sleep period you get half-awake and
the outward directed awareness will be actualized automatically
(if input was strong enough and had worked as a kind of posthypnotic
order).
Affirmations:
It is said that by continuous
repeating affirmations it is possible to implant orders into
your subconsciousness. Subconsciousness then will obey your
orders. Such an order for instance could be to get lucid.
Examples for affirmations:
I shall have a very vivid
dream ..... I shall remember at least one dream ..... I shall
have colourful dreams .... I shall get awake in dream and
be lucid .... I shall have an OBE ..... I shall have an astral
journey
Working with tape and clock:
You can record your affirmations
on a tape and switch on the recorder by means of an alarm-clock
at a time when you are asleep. Trigger the volume in the right
way. You can use affirmations on tape to create half- sleep
or light-sleep states, in which
Tape for brief sleep sequences:
You can use a tape to awaken
you in REM-sleep in the morning. Record on your tape and after
every spoken sequence leave a longer silent interval, so that
you can fall asleep again in every sequence of silence. You
will have dreamlets in which you may have more control and
in which you can study dream mechanisms. Starting with dreamlets
you learn to manage dreams in your way.
Using a ritual:
A ritual is a magic symbol-language,
which is of greater "authority" to subconsciousness
than an intellectually made decision. Support your magic order
by optical and movement impressions. In consequence more archaic
sectors of brain are involved, than by thought or spoken words,
which are processed in a semantically organized sector, a
part which evolved in a late evolutionary period. Though it
sounds old fashioned, nevertheless a well performed ritual
will be of great use.
(Continued
In Part 2 Out Of Body Experiences Intentions & Imagination...)
Authors Details: 'Out Of Body Experiences
- Intentions & Imagination'
Alfred Ballabene Email: Alfred.Ballabene[at]univie.ac.at |
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