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should begin Monroe 's techniques, step by step.
Step one: Relax the body.
According to Monroe , "the ability to relax is the first prerequisite,
perhaps even the first step itself" to having an OBE. (out of body
experience)
This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not
suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although Progressive
Muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1,
exhale 2, inhale 3.... until 50 or 100) are known to work well.
Step two: Enter the state bordering sleep.
This is known as the hypnagogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't
recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm
up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start
to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With
practice, you can learn to control the Hypnagogic state without using
your arm.
Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images
start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the Hypnagogic state.
Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain the state
of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.
Step three: Deepen this state.
Begin to clear your mind. Observe your field of vision through your
closed eyes. Do nothing more for a while. Simply look through your
closed eyelids at the blackness in front of you.
After awhile, you may notice light patterns. These are simply neural
discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them.
When they cease, one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B.
From here, one must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which
Monroe calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose all
awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a
void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own
thoughts.
The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition C. This is when it is
voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not
the effect of normal fatigue.
To achieve Condition C, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it
in the morning or after a short nap.
Step Four: Enter a state of Vibration.
This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most
vague. Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of
projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as is
electricity is being shot through the body.
Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to
leave the physical one. For entering into the vibrational state, he offers
the following directions:
1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.
2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids,
but do not shut out all light.
3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head
pointed toward magnetic north.
4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer
than might normally be comfortable.
5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be
absolutely no noise to disturb you.
6. Enter a state of relaxation.
7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that
occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial to your well-
being. Repeat this five times.
8. Proceed to breath through your half-open mouth.
9. As you breathe, concentrate on the void in front of you.
10. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, and then change
your point of mental reference to six feet.
11. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line
parallel to your body axis up and above your head.
Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring
them back into your body.
Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when
you have achieved contact with them.
Step five: Learn to control the vibrational state.
Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head,
down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body,
and producing vibrational waves from head to foot.
To produce this wave effect, concentrate of the vibrations and mentally
push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body.
Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you
have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.
Step six: Begin with a partial separation.
The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the
idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought might
cause you to lose control of the state.
Now, having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by
releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body".
Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in contact with a
familiar object, such as a wall near your bed.
Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back into
coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and
then terminate the experiment.
Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise will
prepare you for full separation.
Step seven: Dissociate yourself from the body.
Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method is to lift out of the
body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering
this vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward.
Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts
interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally at this point.
Another method is the "Rotation method" or "roll-out" technique.
When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you
were turning over in bed. Do not attempt to roll over physically.
Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your
second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out
of the body but next to it.
Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above
the body.
Monroe suggests you begin with the lift-out method, but argues that
both are equally efficacious.
If, after all this, you still can't project, I recommend purchasing
Leaving The Body, by R. Scott Rogo. It contains another eight or so
techniques.
Mind Control Method
Clear all your thoughts, In your mind say:
"I'm going to count down from 3 to 1, visualizing each number on a
white orb suspended in the air above my head. When I reach the third
and final "1" my body will be deeply relaxed. I will have no awareness
of physical sensations. I will not perceive any physical discomfort. My
consciousness will be focused on my astral body.
Now visualize a white orb suspended in the air above your head.
Mentally focus on the orb I visualize a number "3" on the face of the
orb. The numbers can be any color. They may vary with each
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