Finally, success! Here's how I did it

[light487]

What you may want to do is take a break from the monroe tapes, just for one or two days a week. I find that when I listen to the same stuff over and over it's so much that it becomes boring but that it appears to become less effective and less profound. So what I do is I will listen to Xanth's 4Hz binaural beat thing a couple of days and then go back to the Monroe stuff.

Another good trick is to use one of Monroe's tapes as an entree` to your real attempt. Play one of the early tapes, like tape 2 or 3.. I forget which one is the Resonant Balancing one but that one where you remove your fears and all that.. do that tape, then after it is finished, get up.. have a glass of water or whatever.. take 15mins break.. go to the toilet and all that stuff..

After that small break, go back and put a binaural beat tape in and use it to practise "noticing" and do a good 30 to 60 mins of this as an "attempt" to OoBE/AP..

[bluremi]

If you decide to follow the advice in the SOBT ebook, you should not attempt to do any "noticing" or "meditating" or Monroe tapes or binaural beats sessions or anything like that. Just try the indirect techniques 3-4 times a week, not even every day.

The reason behind this is that it takes some considerable motivation (conscious and subconscious) to be able to perform these actions reliably upon waking, and if you are trying it every day, or even spending time with other approaches in the evening, you are spreading yourself rather thin and it becomes very difficult to place the correct motivational emphasis on waking up without movement and trying the techniques.

Kind of like going to work every day and telling yourself "today I'm going to work extra hard!" Just not possible...

[Xanth]

You COULD try not trying as much... I don't see much point in not trying.

OR you could try to figure out the root of the problem in why you're not being successful.