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Tuesday 31 August 2010

The Art Of Mastering Astral Projection

By Bonita Symes

An astral plane refers to another plane of existence, a different realm of consciousness separated from that of the physical body. Propagated by ancient religions and other esoteric philosophers, the term astral projection involves your conscious to travel forth from your physical body to another astral plane.

Esoteric believers and numerous individuals today are much interested in mastering astral projection of self into the higher subtle conscious realms. Though a bit eerie, but this is an experience of a lifetime since it involves leaving you own body and observing it from a distance. Moreover you can travel as far away as you want and observe the world from your astral body.

The first and foremost aspect of mastering astral projection requires mental affirmations. Remember that in order to attain anything you need to believe that you can, in the first place. Remove fears and apprehensions from your mind and constantly affirm or tell your subconscious that you can, and you will successfully project yourself astraly.Write down your beliefs if it helps and remember that faith can achieve almost anything in life.

Secondly, the most important thing that you need to start and build up on is meditation. Projecting your astral existence from your physical body requires a high level of concentration, visualization power, control on your subconscious mind and an ability to channel one's attention and energy all of which can only be developed with the help of meditation.

The third factor of consideration in mastering astral projection refers to the time of the projection. In this aspect the concept of REM has to be explained. After four stages of sleep each deeper and slower than the others the cycle of sleep reverses. REM is the short for Rapid Eye Movement phase when the brain is highly active and dreams are generated. It is this period of time which is the most conducive for astral projection.

Fourthly, mastering astral projection involves creating the right atmosphere. Arrange for a place which is calm and quite. A dimly lit or candle lit atmosphere where there are no electronic devices to interfere should suffice. Begin with small meditational techniques to calm yourself and gain control of your mind. Let your body rest while increasing the focus of your mind. Have a vision of yourself floating out of your body or even climbing out of your body with the help of something in case you feel any resistance and thereafter focus all your attention and energy on this vision. Small facilitating factors would be to wear comfortable clothing, vegetarian food prior to such exercises and abstinence from items such as alcohol or caffeine.

The hindrance factor in case of astral projection is the fear or anxiousness in the minds of the person regarding returning back to his physical body. Always remember that having faith and belief is the most important thing and even the slightest doubt regarding such things will not let the projection to be successful. Secondly, even if you manage to travel to a higher plane and suddenly get scared in traveling to far away from the body then your astral body would suddenly be pulled in into your physical body.

Lastly, technological interventions like that of the binaural beats can be used in creating the mental state that is conducive to astral projection. Binaural Beats involve hearing two different sound vibrations through both ears which fuses into each other and synchronized in the brain so as to create the required mental state. Whatever technique is used, mastering astral projection is not particularly easy and needs high mind power. However, once achieved, it is an experience of a lifetime which forces open many a doors to your personality which you may not have known before.

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