Post by darryleberryjr on May 29, 2009 18:05:01 GMT -5
This is a journal entry I think you'll like. It's the first one of using one of my favorite OBE techniques.
Relax-Move Technique
Saturday – Sunday, March 29 – 30, 2003
(Session 41 / Days 22-23)
I separated into real-time – with the second body, this morning. I started practicing at about 11:30 PM last night, as a part of the group practice sessions I’ve started. I wasn’t focused during this first practice session, and just lay there and fell asleep. Before lying down I did my opening routine: my meditations, 4-2’s, etc.
Doing the interrupted sleep technique I set my alarm for 4:15 AM. I intended to wake up at that time, stay up for 45 minutes, and practice again at 5 AM – but I didn’t get up until 4:40 AM. I was supposed to meet with a friend online to chat before a practice session we were to do together, so I went online and instead found others there, and chatted with them.
I started practicing at about 5:30 AM, and set my alarm for 6:15 AM – I needed to get up to get ready for work. I determined that even though the practice may be ended by the alarm and needing to prepare for work, I’d just take my time and get as far as I could, as surely as I could, in the time I had to do it. Thus I was calm and unrushed, even though I didn’t have hours of time available. I decided to make this session a continuation of the previous one, in effect salvaging a practice session. The steps used are as follows:
- I said the Monroe affirmation aloud
- I did the 4-2 meditation: Inhale 4, hold 2, exhale 4, hold 2, repeat
- I sat in trance for a while – the 4-2 having brought me into trance
- I skipped energy work, though usually I’d have done it here
- I stretched out my muscles – squatting, bending, stretching, etc.
- Relaxation
This is where I fell asleep in the earlier practice session last night – during relaxation. But I wasn’t really relaxing then, I was just lying there. Next I would have used a fixative, like counting down from 50-1 repeatedly, or focusing on my heartbeat, to help me stay aware as the physical body fell asleep. (A fixative can also be used as a technique in and over itself to cause a projection, like in the Abrupt Vertical Exteriorization session experience of jutting out of the physical body three times in a row using the 50-1 countdown technique.)
I was determined to actually relax this time, and not just lazily lie there. At first it was just relaxation. And then I started to relax deeply, to really let go, like my good friend Devin suggested. I relaxed deeper and deeper. I didn’t try to stay in one spot as usual, for like I have read in one of Devin’s forum posts: I tend to get restless remaining in one position – which is usually lying flat on my back. I kept moving to different positions, not discriminating as to which position it was. I just moved to a position that was reasonably comfortable. Thus I kept moving from position to position, relaxing even as I stopped and went.
I assumed many different positions in my moving, and I wasn’t completely comfortable in most positions! I took it as a challenge, a way to learn to relax in any position, no matter what. Samael Aun Weor teaches that the student should learn to project from any position – anytime, anywhere. This is learned by practice, practice, and more practice, in even the most varied and unusual times, places, and physical positions. Devin was and is a great inspiration for me in this – he used to project at school from his school desk, during class!
This practice of moving during practice worked well. Moving around helped me to stay aware, and I never got restless in any position – the restlessness ending up like I just ‘have’ to move anyway. I was able to relax more and more with each physical position I moved into. Imagery started to come, but the imagery was very strained. It wasn’t like my usual imagery, where it seems like dream images popping up. This was more like something ‘strained’ was happening. My forehead felt ‘staticky,’ or like a ‘spikey’ kind of glue was stuck to my forehead. This reminds me of the connections Robert Bruce makes between the third eye, energy, and mind’s eye visions…
The imagery was ‘light’ – meaning that I couldn’t focus on them for they would go away. Yet they were potent, meaning I knew something was different from my previous norm. I kept on relaxing, intent on reach 100% relaxation. I would move and relax, and move and relax some more, and I would take deep inhales and then long exhales to relax my heart and slow my heartbeat and breathing. This process of slowing my heartbeat and respiration worked greatly also. Louis as well as Sylvan Muldoon taught slowing of the heartbeat and/or respiration as OBE techniques in and of themselves. The imagery got stronger, coming a bit more frequently. As I continued relaxing the imagery got stronger still, and came quicker in succession.
I thought about the alarm coming on. At this point I didn’t feel the ‘staticky’ or ‘spikey-glue-on-the-forehead’ feeling. I looked at the clock and it was 6 AM. I relaxed even more, taking advantage of the 15 minutes left. I’d relax a bit… and then move… remaining reasonably comfortable. 100% relaxation was very important in this experience and success – and from this I realize that deep, 100% physical relaxation is a technique in and of itself also. I thank Devin dearly for sharing his insights on relaxation with me. J Robert Bruce also stresses the importance of relaxation in his book Astral Dynamics, and so does Draja Mickaharic in his book The Practice of Magic. Mickaharic teaches relaxation alone as a complete OBE technique. I wish I’d have listened to him sooner!
Time was not an issue. Though only 15 minutes remained for practice I wasn’t’ rushing. I was relaxed and calm, and intent to go only as far as I could, as surely as I could, in the time allotted. This is an example of being in the moment. My ability to relax and the depth of my relaxation thus increased greatly, just by adopting this mindset. J
The alarm came on at 6:15 AM, but I wasn’t finished yet! I lay down and decided to continue, after hitting the snooze button (which has a 9-minute timer before the alarm comes on again). I knew that I was in a good relaxation and trance state and it was only getting better. I didn’t want to miss this! I lay back down and continued to relax, relaxing even deeper than deep. I had some vague imagery and then the separation started. I was in deep relaxation (like how Louis mentions the word deep) – the kind of deep relaxation that feels like you’d be about to let your physical body fall out of the chair as you do it were you sitting. I became paralyzed. I tried to move but was restrained by what seemed like a tightly wrapped cocoon of force around me. This ‘cocoon’ as it seems was in near perfect conformity to the shape of my body. I could only move as much as it gave, which was only very little.
I didn’t want to force it and haphazardly end the experience, so I continued in the direction that got me here in the first place – relaxation! I relaxed even more, and this started getting me free. I was then free from this restraining cocoon, but my arms were frozen in place, folded across my chest like I was in a straight jacket. The last position I was in physically was on my side, with my arms folded across my chest. It was amazing how my second body was just like that. Here are a few observations:
When docked with the physical, as we move the nonphysical body, our physical body comes along with us. When I undocked from my physical body, my nonphysical body was in the same position but separate from the physical body. When we are docked with the physical, the physical and nonphysical bodies are precisely interpenetrating each other, conforming to the same positioning as the other – just like how the clothes we wear move with us as we move our physical body.
I quickly realized that all I could move was my waist, so I started rocking loose from my physical body, back and forth and then up and down, at the waist. I had to have been going through the floor on the up and down rocking, which was really a side-to-side rocking from my perspective lying on my side. I started rocking in small increments, gradually rocking bigger and bigger. I figured that I would rock bigger and bigger until I could just swing myself away from my physical body.
I would test to see if I could move my nonphysical arms yet. They were still frozen in place. But I got my rocking motion to a nice sized arc. I knew the alarm was going to come on again, and I didn’t want to frighten myself and traumatize myself by waiting for it to alert me – especially since it was so easy for me this time. I could feel the excitement (hence tension?) building inside me, and I didn’t want to get too excited and ruin the experience, so I ended there. Should I have kept going?
After I decided to end I looked at the time and it was 6:22 AM. It was 6:15 AM when I got up to hit the snooze button, so after 45 minutes of intense relaxation it took only 7 minutes to separate. I lay back down just for the fun of it. As you can imagine, I was as happy as a puppy dog with a brand new bone.
The imagery came straight away, and it was as if my eyelids dissolved and another place was behind them. It was like I was moving along an old wooden floor in a big room. The imagery was very clear and detailed, like a large section in the center of my eyelids displayed the imagery like a movie screen. That ‘staticky,’ ‘spikey-like-glue-on-my-forehead’ feeling was on my forehead again. It was interesting.
Afterthoughts:
- 100% relaxation is best in order to project by this ‘relax-move’ method – 100% relaxation or close to it. I was so relaxed that I undocked from my physical body like a ship from its port. It was very easy.
- A set and certain position is not needed. Neither is remaining still like a log. One can move around and get comfortable – or uncomfortable – as needed and desired, and this doesn’t affect the acquisition of the projection state.
- When in pre-projection paralysis relaxation leads to release.
Copyright © 2008, 2009 by Darryl E Berry Jr
Relax-Move Technique
Saturday – Sunday, March 29 – 30, 2003
(Session 41 / Days 22-23)
I separated into real-time – with the second body, this morning. I started practicing at about 11:30 PM last night, as a part of the group practice sessions I’ve started. I wasn’t focused during this first practice session, and just lay there and fell asleep. Before lying down I did my opening routine: my meditations, 4-2’s, etc.
Doing the interrupted sleep technique I set my alarm for 4:15 AM. I intended to wake up at that time, stay up for 45 minutes, and practice again at 5 AM – but I didn’t get up until 4:40 AM. I was supposed to meet with a friend online to chat before a practice session we were to do together, so I went online and instead found others there, and chatted with them.
I started practicing at about 5:30 AM, and set my alarm for 6:15 AM – I needed to get up to get ready for work. I determined that even though the practice may be ended by the alarm and needing to prepare for work, I’d just take my time and get as far as I could, as surely as I could, in the time I had to do it. Thus I was calm and unrushed, even though I didn’t have hours of time available. I decided to make this session a continuation of the previous one, in effect salvaging a practice session. The steps used are as follows:
- I said the Monroe affirmation aloud
- I did the 4-2 meditation: Inhale 4, hold 2, exhale 4, hold 2, repeat
- I sat in trance for a while – the 4-2 having brought me into trance
- I skipped energy work, though usually I’d have done it here
- I stretched out my muscles – squatting, bending, stretching, etc.
- Relaxation
This is where I fell asleep in the earlier practice session last night – during relaxation. But I wasn’t really relaxing then, I was just lying there. Next I would have used a fixative, like counting down from 50-1 repeatedly, or focusing on my heartbeat, to help me stay aware as the physical body fell asleep. (A fixative can also be used as a technique in and over itself to cause a projection, like in the Abrupt Vertical Exteriorization session experience of jutting out of the physical body three times in a row using the 50-1 countdown technique.)
I was determined to actually relax this time, and not just lazily lie there. At first it was just relaxation. And then I started to relax deeply, to really let go, like my good friend Devin suggested. I relaxed deeper and deeper. I didn’t try to stay in one spot as usual, for like I have read in one of Devin’s forum posts: I tend to get restless remaining in one position – which is usually lying flat on my back. I kept moving to different positions, not discriminating as to which position it was. I just moved to a position that was reasonably comfortable. Thus I kept moving from position to position, relaxing even as I stopped and went.
I assumed many different positions in my moving, and I wasn’t completely comfortable in most positions! I took it as a challenge, a way to learn to relax in any position, no matter what. Samael Aun Weor teaches that the student should learn to project from any position – anytime, anywhere. This is learned by practice, practice, and more practice, in even the most varied and unusual times, places, and physical positions. Devin was and is a great inspiration for me in this – he used to project at school from his school desk, during class!
This practice of moving during practice worked well. Moving around helped me to stay aware, and I never got restless in any position – the restlessness ending up like I just ‘have’ to move anyway. I was able to relax more and more with each physical position I moved into. Imagery started to come, but the imagery was very strained. It wasn’t like my usual imagery, where it seems like dream images popping up. This was more like something ‘strained’ was happening. My forehead felt ‘staticky,’ or like a ‘spikey’ kind of glue was stuck to my forehead. This reminds me of the connections Robert Bruce makes between the third eye, energy, and mind’s eye visions…
The imagery was ‘light’ – meaning that I couldn’t focus on them for they would go away. Yet they were potent, meaning I knew something was different from my previous norm. I kept on relaxing, intent on reach 100% relaxation. I would move and relax, and move and relax some more, and I would take deep inhales and then long exhales to relax my heart and slow my heartbeat and breathing. This process of slowing my heartbeat and respiration worked greatly also. Louis as well as Sylvan Muldoon taught slowing of the heartbeat and/or respiration as OBE techniques in and of themselves. The imagery got stronger, coming a bit more frequently. As I continued relaxing the imagery got stronger still, and came quicker in succession.
I thought about the alarm coming on. At this point I didn’t feel the ‘staticky’ or ‘spikey-glue-on-the-forehead’ feeling. I looked at the clock and it was 6 AM. I relaxed even more, taking advantage of the 15 minutes left. I’d relax a bit… and then move… remaining reasonably comfortable. 100% relaxation was very important in this experience and success – and from this I realize that deep, 100% physical relaxation is a technique in and of itself also. I thank Devin dearly for sharing his insights on relaxation with me. J Robert Bruce also stresses the importance of relaxation in his book Astral Dynamics, and so does Draja Mickaharic in his book The Practice of Magic. Mickaharic teaches relaxation alone as a complete OBE technique. I wish I’d have listened to him sooner!
Time was not an issue. Though only 15 minutes remained for practice I wasn’t’ rushing. I was relaxed and calm, and intent to go only as far as I could, as surely as I could, in the time allotted. This is an example of being in the moment. My ability to relax and the depth of my relaxation thus increased greatly, just by adopting this mindset. J
The alarm came on at 6:15 AM, but I wasn’t finished yet! I lay down and decided to continue, after hitting the snooze button (which has a 9-minute timer before the alarm comes on again). I knew that I was in a good relaxation and trance state and it was only getting better. I didn’t want to miss this! I lay back down and continued to relax, relaxing even deeper than deep. I had some vague imagery and then the separation started. I was in deep relaxation (like how Louis mentions the word deep) – the kind of deep relaxation that feels like you’d be about to let your physical body fall out of the chair as you do it were you sitting. I became paralyzed. I tried to move but was restrained by what seemed like a tightly wrapped cocoon of force around me. This ‘cocoon’ as it seems was in near perfect conformity to the shape of my body. I could only move as much as it gave, which was only very little.
I didn’t want to force it and haphazardly end the experience, so I continued in the direction that got me here in the first place – relaxation! I relaxed even more, and this started getting me free. I was then free from this restraining cocoon, but my arms were frozen in place, folded across my chest like I was in a straight jacket. The last position I was in physically was on my side, with my arms folded across my chest. It was amazing how my second body was just like that. Here are a few observations:
When docked with the physical, as we move the nonphysical body, our physical body comes along with us. When I undocked from my physical body, my nonphysical body was in the same position but separate from the physical body. When we are docked with the physical, the physical and nonphysical bodies are precisely interpenetrating each other, conforming to the same positioning as the other – just like how the clothes we wear move with us as we move our physical body.
I quickly realized that all I could move was my waist, so I started rocking loose from my physical body, back and forth and then up and down, at the waist. I had to have been going through the floor on the up and down rocking, which was really a side-to-side rocking from my perspective lying on my side. I started rocking in small increments, gradually rocking bigger and bigger. I figured that I would rock bigger and bigger until I could just swing myself away from my physical body.
I would test to see if I could move my nonphysical arms yet. They were still frozen in place. But I got my rocking motion to a nice sized arc. I knew the alarm was going to come on again, and I didn’t want to frighten myself and traumatize myself by waiting for it to alert me – especially since it was so easy for me this time. I could feel the excitement (hence tension?) building inside me, and I didn’t want to get too excited and ruin the experience, so I ended there. Should I have kept going?
After I decided to end I looked at the time and it was 6:22 AM. It was 6:15 AM when I got up to hit the snooze button, so after 45 minutes of intense relaxation it took only 7 minutes to separate. I lay back down just for the fun of it. As you can imagine, I was as happy as a puppy dog with a brand new bone.
The imagery came straight away, and it was as if my eyelids dissolved and another place was behind them. It was like I was moving along an old wooden floor in a big room. The imagery was very clear and detailed, like a large section in the center of my eyelids displayed the imagery like a movie screen. That ‘staticky,’ ‘spikey-like-glue-on-my-forehead’ feeling was on my forehead again. It was interesting.
Afterthoughts:
- 100% relaxation is best in order to project by this ‘relax-move’ method – 100% relaxation or close to it. I was so relaxed that I undocked from my physical body like a ship from its port. It was very easy.
- A set and certain position is not needed. Neither is remaining still like a log. One can move around and get comfortable – or uncomfortable – as needed and desired, and this doesn’t affect the acquisition of the projection state.
- When in pre-projection paralysis relaxation leads to release.
Copyright © 2008, 2009 by Darryl E Berry Jr
