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
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. Therefore 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 its 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 other can 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 aggressiveness which is characteristic for a heaven-hell point of view of fundamentalists. Fear may be considered as hidden aggressiveness. A lovely person meets lovely 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 direct 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) ... read more ...
