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Hi everybody. Excuse me in the first place if you don't get right something of what i'am writing: i'am italian and i'am not so skilled in english. I'am a an old lurker of Astral Pulse. It's a long time since i visited this place the last time but i got a question for you...i don't know even if this is the right section...

I have praticed the breath awareness metod of meditation for about 6 years. Since i'am a master in laziness, i was never regular in my work and did not achieve any big results. I have used NEW, even, for almost a year. But i put it down from about two years, maybe more.

Even if i have not achieve any results, in the last years i observed a little change in my mind, even if i cannot say that it's due to my meditation work. I will try to describe it to you as better as i can: it's nothing so much strange, but with time it is become a little concern of mine.

It's like i was become able to sense the "movement" of my mind, expecially in "response" to my thougts. Sometimes, when i happen to think, for example, to something that really matters to me (something that is connected to something important) i sense some tension in my head, like i was feeling that my brain is "activating" the zone in which this thought is located. This sensation is not painful, but i feel it: i could describe like water, or blood, opening it's way though some "difficult" zone of my head. This happen when i remember something very old, too: it is just like my brain was opening some very unused sector of itself, and therefore i'am feeling some resistance.

In the last time, i found this sensation being active in another contest. I am a very shy and sensitive person, and sometimes some events leave a trace, an obsession in my mind. For example, when i live a situation in which i feel to have commit a huge mistake, it is like the situation itself make some kind of "nest" in my mind, so, even when i'am not thinking about it, the slightest hint that regard it is able to make my mind jump to it, and when it happens, i feel the same sensation i describe above. Like my mind was messing with a "fragile" sector or itself.

I'am a little concern about this sensation, and i wish to know if someone of you has never experienced something similar, and if it is possibile to be a "result" of my meditation work. It is possibile that my training has make me more sensitive to the process of my mind? I know that the brain is not a sensitive organ, so the sensation i feel could not be generated into it. It has to be linked to something else. I fear that it could be even some kind of problem, maybe even a disease.

I have decide to ask you this even because in the last days the process i have describe you above is particulary active. I'am having a lot of "mind games" for personal problems of mine, and i keep on feeling, in addition to that sensation (that, i reapet, it is linked to my thoughts), some deep, disturbing tension in my forehead. Maybe it is something else, but sure it is not an headache. Anyway, my primary interest is to know if anythink of what i told you could be related to my years of breath awareness meditation work, even if not so much seriuos.

Have you got any idea?

Just a small question: i have begin training with relaxation following the instructions in Astral Dynamcis. After some days, i begin to feel a sense of "freshness" around my body at every out-breath i take, and i feel the same sensation in my muscles when i tense and relax them (i feel it less in the legs). I just want to know what it may pyshically mean and if this is a good sign. Thank you.

Hmm well a couple of weeks ago I was just like that. I had not much motivation in NEW or any energy work at all. But after I had a spark of inspiration from my girlfriend I decided to work harder. I also found that some awareness movements didn't seem to be working very well. For example, I had to stir my finger in mid air and visualise my awareness hands stirring the area at the same speed as my finger. Sometimes I did a similar thing with the brushing.

This is, as far as I'm aware, perfectly normal. You're getting used to body awareness movements and are still used to visualisation so you use on to help the other. Eventually your body awareness alone will be able to do anything you want it to. Also, your energy body needs to be able to adjust and become more awareness-sensitive. Robert Bruce, although a great and experienced author and mystic, has contradicted himself in the writing of NEW Energy Ways.

Bruce says that it recquires no visualisation, when in truth, using your awareness hands is always to some extent visualisation. The Etheric Wrap technique is also involving visualisation. But I guess that's a little off topic and doesn't really matter because you're using the sense of touch anyhow.

Anyways, just keep at it. Try to wean yourself off the rest of your body moving during awareness excercises and spend a little more time doing EVERY step of the leg and arm developments. Spend at least a week working on those both areas, more if you like, and you should be able to use body awareness nicely, and your arms and legs should be nicely sensitised. Well, at least it's like that for me!

Have fun with it and good luck.

Hope things get better!
-FT

dont have a clue what u r talkin about. good luck though

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The method of relaxing by tensing the muscles first and relaxing them second is very popular. It is good for people who need to know the difference between tension and relaxation. That is the whole point. By creating a large unnatural contrast, it is supposed to be easier to recognize both tension and relaxation. People who are normally tense no longer feel the tension. They start by tensing themselves as fully as they can and then they try to relax. Tension is familiar, but relaxation is not. They think they are doing the relaxation part successfully, but they can finish with more tension than when they begin. There are other methods for sustained relaxation. My favorite is awareness of the breathing. If it is obvious where the breath is moving the body in even one place, it can be used to check for relaxation elsewhere. Every part of the body is connected, and when breathing occurs every part is either pushed or pulled. The entire spine and all of the internal organs are massaged. As the muscles around the rib cage are allowed to relax, the breath naturally slows and deepens. It is enough to place the awareness in each place and watch for the breathing to move it. Relaxation is best accomplished by stopping attempts to relax and instead to allow it. As this occurs, the internal dialogue slows down. The pressure which feeds it depends on tension in the body.

the real time reference is to the place that you project into.  it refers to what is refered to as the real time zone.  if you do a search on it or read one of the treatise's, you can find out about it.  there isn't really a difference in the projections, but more where you project to.

Well, I won't be the first to say that practing OBE's is not for the impatient person.  There are many key ingredients to being a successful projector, two of which are INTENT and PATIENCE.

It sounds to me like you have a strong intent.....but that intent is easily cancelled out by the need to hurry your progress and rush things.  

My suggestion is to take it easy, read up about OBE's constantly, and don't be in such a hurry.  God willing, we all have plenty of time in this life to have an OBE.  The slower you take things, the greater your chances are to have more frequent OBE's, because you're laying down a good mental foundation on how to induce them.


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