Hello and welcome to one of my first posts on this forum in over 7 years! I used to be a frequent lurker here back in 09-10 but life got real and I ended up becoming encumbered by all of the various things these long years have brought to me. Recently I have reached probably the most stable and independent point in my life for years and it has had me wanting to get back into the pursuit of astral projection.
I have recently begun meditating again as my mind is always at ease these days and I don't have any daunting problems making it harder to focus on achieving control of my thoughts.
I posted an experience I had of what I believe was my first and only conscious OBE in another thread but the main reason why I created this topic was to attempt to save myself a little time by hopefully getting some info from anyone who reads this.
When I had this apparent OBE many years ago I had experienced vibrations but this time I just let them grow as intense as possible to the point where I felt as if I was either going to die or separate and thankfully I did experience a separation, which had way more extreme physical sensations than I ever would have expected. I believe my problem before I had this experience was I would hit the vibrations but once they reached a certain intensity my anxiety or fear would kick in and then they would slowly fade away. After successfully riding the vibrations all the way through I'm much more comfortable with experiencing them and I don't believe I'll have much trouble with separation this time.
So my question is, can you just let the vibrations take over and grow until you separate or should you also focus your awareness away from the body when the vibrations are at their height? I don't remember if I focused my awareness away from my body or not when I had my experience but I kind of feel like I didn't because I just ended up formless in a giant "3D" black expanse. This is the last little detail I feel would help me in my attempts tremendously!
I have recently begun meditating again as my mind is always at ease these days and I don't have any daunting problems making it harder to focus on achieving control of my thoughts.
I posted an experience I had of what I believe was my first and only conscious OBE in another thread but the main reason why I created this topic was to attempt to save myself a little time by hopefully getting some info from anyone who reads this.
When I had this apparent OBE many years ago I had experienced vibrations but this time I just let them grow as intense as possible to the point where I felt as if I was either going to die or separate and thankfully I did experience a separation, which had way more extreme physical sensations than I ever would have expected. I believe my problem before I had this experience was I would hit the vibrations but once they reached a certain intensity my anxiety or fear would kick in and then they would slowly fade away. After successfully riding the vibrations all the way through I'm much more comfortable with experiencing them and I don't believe I'll have much trouble with separation this time.
So my question is, can you just let the vibrations take over and grow until you separate or should you also focus your awareness away from the body when the vibrations are at their height? I don't remember if I focused my awareness away from my body or not when I had my experience but I kind of feel like I didn't because I just ended up formless in a giant "3D" black expanse. This is the last little detail I feel would help me in my attempts tremendously!