Almost out!

[Huwie]

Sounds like you're as close as I'm getting.  Keep it up, don't lose faith!  Draw encouragement from the fact that you're so close.  You can do it! []

[m0d0]

Sounds like your close ES.

The important thing (Sounds so corny but) 'If at first you dont succeed, try and try again'.

Have you tried the ROPE method for exiting your physical body? Maybe you should give it a go, i tried rolling out too and exactly the same thing happened. My physical self rolled and broke the moment. ROPE seems to be working great, so far (I havent actually left yet, but it feels right).

So let me change that above quote to -

'If at first you don't succeed... Try ROPE' hehee [)]

Good luck ES

[Euphoric Sunrise]

Thanks for the encouragement guys []
I have thought about giving the rope method a go but for some reason i've never really focused on it. I've tried it briefly and it seems it could be worth exploring more. I think you may be right it does seem like a good way to try and get out i'll give it a next time i get far enough.
Thanks again []

[Zeke88]

Hey, I havent posted here in a while I kinda lost..hmm..the excitement I had about APing but two days ago I got 2 books and one is for my friend and I read the other that night and tried to AP 4 times since then:

1) I was starting to meditate and the phone rang and my mom talked for like an hour so I gave up.

2) That morning I tried to AP and saw colors but my parents were again making to much noise. This was the closest I got so far.

3) Around 5 that night I tried again but I rushed myself a little to much cause I knew I didnt have much time before dinner.

4) This was the closest I got. 10-10:30 PM last night it was nice and quiet and I was meditating for about a halfhour concentrating on mainly my third eye and using the Body of Light method and at one point I felt myself starting to shake/fall and my thoughts went wild and I couldnt think of what I should have done at that point and I felt myself breathing heavy but then got to excited and woke up. ^_^;

For four tries I would say thats a good start.

[Huwie]

Yep, sounds like a good start to me.  As I have discovered in the last 24 hours, making sure you won't be disturbed is vital!  Robert Bruce may well be able to meditate in a noisy room with children crawling over him, but it must take some serious skill to achieve that!

'Rushing it' really doesn't help, does it?  I tried to project and rushed it about an hour ago and didn't get very far.  I got the vibrations but I just couldn't put enough pressure on my astral body.

[Zeke88]

Yeah quite a waste of time if you dont have the time to begin with..

I guess I should just keep it to nights when everyone is asleep but I'd like to do it more. There is really one place I could go for quiet, my clubhouse I built in the back yard but its winter here and there is like 2+ feet of snow so I think Ill stay in my warm house for now..

[Euphoric Sunrise]

I wasn't going post a topic here until i had actually made it out, but i figure i should post anyway so others can possibly learn from my experience. Besides, i feel i'm almost anyway. Any advice is most welcome as well.
Oh and i was using The Triangle Method and have been since... well since i started seriously attempting to project in October.

Here's an attempt i just finished about 10 minutes ago, enjoy...

I lay down, breathed slowly, just relaxed in the heat. Closed my eyes, kept breathing, relaxing. Opened my chakras, kept breathing, relaxing... For the first few minutes i couldn't control my thoughts, i kept drifting off here and there. As soon as a stray thought entered my mind i would get swept away and have to snap myself back into focus. I eventually got there though. My astral senses (particularly my ears) came more into play and i began to take control of the situation. I got progressively more relaxed and asleep and eventually i got really far. No snapping noises, but i felt soooo light and i was on the very EDGE! I could feel my energy body expanding, i could feel myself begin to lift, but i couldn't do any more for some reason. I relaxed more, but i still couldn't manage to get out. I was pretty good with my thoughts too, i was pretty focused on my senses, keeping my mind clear and concentrating on the seperation. As usual, no vibrations, and i didn't get as much brow activity as usual, but i did get some. I reached a point, after i had almost got out once, and i was pretty much on the edge for the second time, i tried to imagine myself rolling out of my body, but i couldn't. In the end i just rolled my physical body, hoping my etheric body would actually be the one to roll out, but no such luck. I was still in my physical body and i had disrupted the moment. I closed my chakras and came up here to do my journal. My ears are still ringing! :p