Fear...

[Links Shadow]

In all the time that I have projected I have never once encountered any negs.  In my opinion, for you to project in your current state would be dangerous as negs are attracted to thoughts about them.  The more you think about them and fear them the more likely you are to encounter them.  Fear, sadness, stress, and just about any other "negative" emotion or mental state feeds these power crazed beings.  You can usually take away their power and influence over you by not letting them bother you in any way.

I would recommend that you meditate regularly though.  When you meditate you remain in your body and connected to the physical realm more so than when you project.  When meditating you can get glimpses of the astral and other higher planes while still being relatively secure in your physical body.  Doing this will protect you and at the same time allow you to become familiar with the higher planes so that when and if you overcome your fear you could project fairly easy.

I understand it is difficult to overcome ones fear but it is something that we must all do at one time or another.  Meditating on your fears or any other problems that you may have is an effective way to overcome them.

One thing that I am not sure if you considered or not but it is possible that when you are scared it could be that you are actually sensing things from the astral and being frightened by it because you don't know what it is.  Some times when I meditate I will hear sounds that I don't know where they are coming from and be startled by them.  Fear of the unknown is something that many people deal with at some point in their lifes.

I wish you well,
Links Shadow

[jilola]

I'd add that negs are the projection of your own mind.
The astral is in and of itself neutral. Whether it becomes positive or negative depends on your own emotions and exppectations.

2cents & L&L
jouni

[liz mccal]

hello,
my name is liz and i have been practicing from the time i was 15, studying from the time is was 8, now i did have some teachers but none of them told me about neg's or anything evil, which later got me in troubble. i started with nature energy and that still to this day has saved my fanny. i would suggest studying and looking and reading everything you can, look for a teacher but be careful if they charge you money they are not a true teacher to you. if they want anything but to give id take a serious look at it. if they sssay anything about sex energy being the only was (i recintly had that happen)leave. you will be ok. your in touch with alot of people here so i'd say go for it. i got in big troubble but what happened to me is rare and even with what ive gone threw id do it all over again mabey a bit diffrent.
once the gods pick you you realy have no choice.
liz

[Lucid]

well an example is I was laying in bed last nigh just like trying not to concentrate about negs or any of that crap and my vision like flashed and seemed to me my field of view was getting bigger with each pulse (which were in a pretty loud audible rythm to me) but that freaked me out so i just rolled over and tryed not to think about anything.

[jilola]

You're trying not to think about pink elephants.
Just stop thinking [8D]

2cents & L&L
jouni

[Links Shadow]

Jilola is right.  When you are driving in your car or riding a bike do you worry about a pebble getting stuck in the tread.  No, it does not even cross your mind.  You goal should be to zone out, don't allow anything to influence you just exist nothing more.  When you day dream your not really thinking, things just happen.  Events don't affect you, you are totally oblivious to everything.  When lying in bed late at night try to recreate this situation and in retrospect you will see that the things that you experienced (or thought you experienced) did not affect you and hopefully you will realize that these things occur but they only affect you as much as you let them.

Respectfully,
Links Shadow

[Lucid]

Hey Im new here and am going to be pretty dedicated in a lot of the techniques on this site (and psipog), but one thing holdin me back is fear.  Im 15 and im sorta tall lanky but fit anyway ever since I was little I have had fear of really pointless things and am scared pretty easyily (when im alone that is). Well I was ready to jump into practicing this stuff but then I found all these topics about negs and watchers and that scares the pants off me to even think about, like it makes me even look over my shoulder now...  Im gunna try a bwgen preset that said should help, but I think I have a lot of potential in me because im debating right now weither or not im a natural, and I dont think I should let the fear stop me but it is really hard.  Ive even had counceling that helped a little (like I wouldnt go in my basement) but now when I try to sleep all i can think about is damn negs or crap sittin there starin at me.