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Okay, so I'm at a point in my life where I really need some peace. Awhile ago I was very into meditation and it really did wonders for me - but with the busier I've got the more and more I've dropped away from it. I've tried it a few times recently and... nothing. I used to be able to get that nice peaceful feeling in minutes, now I'm sitting aimlessly.

Are there any meditation techniques that I would benefit from? I'm laying down and just monitoring my breath, if you need to know.

Also, I have a Wiccan friend who constantly talks about meeting his spirit guide... Now I'm not a super huge believer in very much past alternate dimensions, but I can probably buy off on a spirit guide if it was really just my higher self. Is there anything I can do to meet my spirit guide somewhat sooner? It took my friend almost his whole initiation into the craft to finally meet his guide, so about a year. And he's still not great at it - he only gets results about 1/4 sessions.

At this point I'd just like someone to talk to, some peace, and to be completely honest... I'd like to know that there is something else there. Something beyond this hole of a world. I'm not searching for an afterlife or anything - just a place to go that I know is actually well off. Somewhere where things are right.

Thanks for reading, please, if you think any information you have would help me, post it. I really do appreciate it.

Okay so I've been trying to AP for a while now (maybe a month, I'm not really expecting full on mastery yet! haha) and I think I've gotten the meditation down.  I seriously feel like I can leave, and my individual body parts can leave (not my head thought) but I can't. 

So last night I was laying down and got up to the point where I usually am.  I've only got vibrations one time ever and it was very early on.  I thought that maybe if I thought my body was vibrating that I would actually go into them again, so I thought about the feeling.  IMMEDIATELY my heart chakra started beating furiously and I had vibrations.  I maintained the thought for awhile and then dropped the thought, thinking that I had forced myself into vibrations and was now ready to wait them out so I could exit.  Peachy, right?  Not really.  As soon as I stopped thinking about them, they stopped.  I could trigger them with my thought almost instantaneously. 

So what does this mean?  Am I any closer to AP or at this state am I ready to get up and walk out?  Or should I just keep focusing on the vibes until they go away naturally and then leave?

Thanks for reading, I hope someone can help.

People do what I'm thinking?  I've just noticed that sometimes halfway through another persons sentences (multiple people) I can "think" the sentence and they'll finish it the same way I did in my head?  Is there any way to tell if I'm actually changing their sentence with my thought or is it just that because I'm working on my spirituality more and more lately (especially things like AP, meditation, and a little bit of TK) that I'm almost reading them a little.  That or I'm just good at predicting the end of sentences. 

Also, if this is me "changing" their sentence, then could I possibly make myself better at this and even get to the point were people follow my minds suggestions - even things like actions? 

So through meditation I've heard of people focusing on things that they want to have, and then those things manifesting themselves in the real world (ie money, fame, etc).  My question is, would this work with looks?  What I mean is, could I imagine myself looking like Fabio or something during meditation and then eventually notice me looking like what I'm picturing?  I personally don't really care to "edit" myself, I'm just curious  (Hope this is the right board, I'm new here)

Thanks for reading

EDIT:  I should change this to say I have no interest to "edit" myself...  Unless I could somehow make myself grow an epic beard quickly, haha.

Okay, this is my first post so I'd like to say hello  I'm 17 years old and I began meditation for a while hoping I could achieve an OBE and because currently my life is pretty stressful I figured if anything quite time would be good for me.  While the meditation did help calm me, I began to be discouraged after a few weeks because I was not getting anywhere close to any sort of projection.

So school's started up again, so with it being my senior year I'm now balancing all my schoolwork, extra curricular things and all the things I have to do to apply to college.  So I'm pretty stressed.  I began meditation again but I'm just not finding near the same results I was a few months ago.  In an effort to begin to project, I bought the astral projection/creative free flow MP3 pack from UnexplainableStore.net (I think that was the website).  My problem now seems to be that I can be really relaxed and almost exit my body - but every time I get into this deep state I feel my legs and arms float up and out of my body, then my chest.  Everything's going well, right?  Wrong.  As soon as my entire bodies out but not my head, it seems like my head acts as an anchor and no matter how hard I "pull" I can't get it out, then I usually just fall back into my body.  What's going on?  Does anyone have any advice that they can give me?  It's not like I don't believe in AP, I've always had the thought that the mind and the body where two separate things and the mind could leave the body at will, even before I'd heard of AP.

Please help.  I'd really like to have an OBE, I've only ever had one and it was when I was very young but it was different than anything I've ever read of anyone having.  What was weird is that I was out of my body but time was actually stopped.  It only lasted a few seconds and I didn't really get to explore, but I remember it perfectly.  I'd like to have another experience like this for personal reasons and also because I'm really considering physics as a major and if somehow I could undoubtedly prove conscious thought has an effect on reality it would change how people think all over the world, more than likely for the better.