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I attempted AP on Mon-Thurs by a Rope/Yoyo combination.
I missed Friday. I try to AP in early morning, before things come up during the day.

I can get the mild paralysis, (am I in Robert Bruce's "light trance"?), but I'm not feeling the vibrations. My relaxation exercise: Go from toes to head, tensing and relaxing. I perform the exercise twice, it takes ~7 minutes total.

Dream recall is up.

Motivation became an issue: Losing interest. "What's so exciting about floating near the cieling?" I've looked for help elsewhere, and found it: Napoleon Hill says to recognize the root desire, which is here "the desire for freedom of body and mind." So, I can focus on my Love for Freedom. Next, Paul Twitchell says to contemplate on the desire, Napoleon Hill also says that emotion follows action, recommends a one word symbol to arouse desire ("Project!" ?), and of course, good old fashion enthusiasm.

Reading people's stories here is helpful too; It is exciting to read about people who have made it out their first time.

I'll check in next week as well.

I am soliciting advice, and advice on feeling the vibrations in particular. Rope/Yoyo by itself isn't doing it, except in my 3rd eye.

Monday to Friday, 15 minutes on relaxing, and 15 minutes on trance, and 15 minutes on OOBE (if feeling good), using yoyo and rope.
Saturday: Study Robert Bruce's treatise for 2 hours.

Is this a good schedule for working on an OOBE?

In meditation this morning, the top of my face began convulsing. I was seeing blue fire and the whining sound went to a higher pitch. I liked the state, but not the convulsing. Is there something I can do about this?

Update:

I just tried an AP; Wow! I'm learning a lot.

I did relaxation, (toe->head, x2) and then went to a light trance, using repetitions of "Down", and imagining self on a cloud decending into a deep pit, feeling the fall as I say "Down" and exhale. Soon, in a light trance.

Sort of muddled about in light trance for short while. "What now?"

Started doing rope, but not really into it, shifted to yoyo. Started to feel the "up" intention over my body, but felt very loose. Then focused on rope.

Something happened, and I suddenly felt the sensation of urgency. Strange, no? But it was a feeling like: "Something is going to happen." I focused on the feeling, and suddenly, everything changed- I felt like a tractor beam was pulling at me, trying to lift me up by the 3rd eye. Kept doing rope, and felt like a powerful river was going up into a grate, but I was too big to go through the grate. I felt myself, and realized that my forehead was convulsing, and by body was tensing all over. I relaxed myself physically, but then sensations became more intense, and my body (fear response?) would tense up again..!

There is also a *feeling* of intention, and for a period of time, there was a direct corrospondense between "I am going to project now" and the intensity of sensations. I kept going forward, feeling fear, back, feeling brave, forward, feeling fear, back, feeling brave. And all through this, there is a sensation of being in a river flowing around my third eye.

"If I could just relax my body and face, and keep doing rope. If I could just ignore the sensations, and get out..!"

I felt many other things too, and I wasn't able to mentally name them, and thus can't record them. I remember feeling like the back of my head was like lead. I remember feeling like there was a warm fire in front of/on me. I felt distinctly forward, and I felt an expansion of myself. There was vibration, and it felt like I had overlapping (but slightly out of sync, or perhaps differently felt) hearts.

My heart beat SLOWED when I said, "Enough of this for now." and got up, excited. I shook myself vigorously to get up. I still feel a slight buzz.

I did not make it out this time, but I now have a lot more data than I used to, and I've got a looooong stretch of time before me wherein I will continue my OOBE efforts. Mon-Fri, trying Yoyo/Rope, and Saturday for study.

Good for you for recognizing the problem-
If you solve this problem, you solve a million problems!

Order a used copy of "SUCCESS THROUGH A POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE" by Napoleon Hill (long deceased) from abebooks.com, or any other web site. It shouldn't cost more than $5.00 including shipping.

If there is a book in the world that can help you muster the focus, patience, and attitude that you need for Astral Projection, this is the book.

Before you get distracted- this is the gate to an AP- do it NOW!

Why do energy work?

Will this help me project?

I just want to be able to get out regularly. I don't care about being out for a long time. Will this energy work really help in a way that equivellent time spent in additional trance or rope/yoyo work will not?

Okay, I'll follow your recommendation.

Mon-Fri: Energy and Trance in the morning. Rope/Yoyo again later.
Sat: Study treatise for 2-3 hours.

Will people mind if I periodicaly post about my effort- where I am at, where I am trying to go, and a general solicitation for help?

[Originally posted by rodentmouse:]

quote:Originally posted by rodentmouse:
Lion   how long have you been doing NEW/  stimulating your brow??

  it sounds  like  energy movement and  an  active brow chakra to me,   whenever i get that feeling i embrace it,   as i see it as exercising and developing my brow chakra.  

I've been doing 3rd eye meditation on and off for about 7 years. I decided to do something a little different, and my brow started convulsing. However, my meditation was more interesting than usual.

I am trying to see and hear more than the vague blue light and the high pitch sound. I am trying to develop to the point where I can repeatedly get the sound to change pitch, get the sense of panoramic expansion, feel the vibrations more vividly, and see the light brighten up a bit. The sensations, vision, and sound tend to come together as a package deal. I experienced that recently, but I cannot repeat it. And the last time I felt it, my brow started to convulse.

(If anyone has suggestions, I'd be excited to hear them.)

I am thinking about practicing NEW to see if there is a change. I want to try doing what I was doing a few nights ago a few more times, to see if it will work though. The only reason I am hesitant to practice NEW is because it focuses a lot on lower chakras, and I have always worked (and been encouraged to work) on my 3rd eye. But who knows? Perhaps that is wrong.

I figure that if I give every thing an earnest try, I cannot fail.

Can I "get past" the place where my face convulses, or am I forever doomed to be stuck at the point where my fave conculses?

That is: Is this like a section of dirt road in the metaphysical pathways, that I can't do anything about and just have to truck through, (with smoother roads ahead), or is this like a defective physiology that just renders me stuck in psychic endeavors?