This isn't quite a new method but I though I would share it in the event it will help someone. It's more of a new way of thinking of things to help 'get you there'. It sort of came to me last night while watching a lot of videos of varying spiritual topics, and it's pretty simple.
As you're lying in bed, close your eyes and ask yourself the question: what's it like to be right now? Keep asking yourself, and as you do, really focus on the answer. Focus on everything you're feeling and experiencing. I find that repeating the question to myself over and over keeps me focused on answering it. I found that this brings me to a level of awareness that leads me to feel more than just the bed I'm in, the wrinkle in the cover, the sounds that are coming into my ears. I start to tingle and kind of expand.
At this point I start to ask myself the following question: What is it like to be the real me right now? And again, focus on answering yourself by focusing on everything you experience. At this point for me I'm focusing on the pleasant buzzing feeling that seems to envelope and exist around my body rather than in it. I also focus on the sounds I'm hearing within. If I think about it at this point, I can be aware of my body, but overall unless I'm focusing on what my body is feeling I'm largely disassociated from it.
Then I've been playing with what I ask myself next but I've had success with questions like: "what's it like to be seperate from this vehicle" and by this point I always feel very much like my body is a thing I'm inside, rather than something I am. Or the question "what is it like to remember who/what I really am" When asking myself these questions I have almost immediately felt and heard a woosh come up through my head.
unfortunately for me this is pretty much where I get to most of the time if I'm not starting from within a dream and I am not able to project myself just yet, as I said this just came to me last night and I've had to opportunity to play with it twice. I think it has a lot of potential, at least for me. It helps me to disassociate way more easily than visualization does.
My consistent issue with the whole process is I get jerked out of things right when I'm about to project when the wooshing comes along. I like to think that means I'll get there soon. The more I experience the wooshing the more likely I am to not have it startle me out of things.
Anyway, hope this can help someone else too.
As you're lying in bed, close your eyes and ask yourself the question: what's it like to be right now? Keep asking yourself, and as you do, really focus on the answer. Focus on everything you're feeling and experiencing. I find that repeating the question to myself over and over keeps me focused on answering it. I found that this brings me to a level of awareness that leads me to feel more than just the bed I'm in, the wrinkle in the cover, the sounds that are coming into my ears. I start to tingle and kind of expand.
At this point I start to ask myself the following question: What is it like to be the real me right now? And again, focus on answering yourself by focusing on everything you experience. At this point for me I'm focusing on the pleasant buzzing feeling that seems to envelope and exist around my body rather than in it. I also focus on the sounds I'm hearing within. If I think about it at this point, I can be aware of my body, but overall unless I'm focusing on what my body is feeling I'm largely disassociated from it.
Then I've been playing with what I ask myself next but I've had success with questions like: "what's it like to be seperate from this vehicle" and by this point I always feel very much like my body is a thing I'm inside, rather than something I am. Or the question "what is it like to remember who/what I really am" When asking myself these questions I have almost immediately felt and heard a woosh come up through my head.
unfortunately for me this is pretty much where I get to most of the time if I'm not starting from within a dream and I am not able to project myself just yet, as I said this just came to me last night and I've had to opportunity to play with it twice. I think it has a lot of potential, at least for me. It helps me to disassociate way more easily than visualization does.
My consistent issue with the whole process is I get jerked out of things right when I'm about to project when the wooshing comes along. I like to think that means I'll get there soon. The more I experience the wooshing the more likely I am to not have it startle me out of things.
Anyway, hope this can help someone else too.