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Sure, i know that the way guilty works is just a normal psicological process. The point is that the sensation i have is apparently tied with this (and maybe others) process. But i don't think they regards guilty directly: i suppose they are tied to any "strong construct" (just like guilty) of my mind. Another example that often happen is this: sometimes, when a reiceve a particulary hint that make me think to something i don't like (it happens almost  automatically: like a bad memory, or maybe just some "impluse" i refuse for some reason), i use to push my mind away from it, and even in this case, i receive this sensation, just like i was physically stifle my mind for what regards that particulary though.

The "mistakes" i talked about in my previous post are not common mistakes. They are just things that, probably, my subconscious consider wrong for some reason. They regards my behavior with the others, my "moral system" and other things. They are not the point, anyway. I this matter i find them interesting because it is like i got these sensation just when my mind wander in those "sectors".

The sensation i got in this days is focused on my forehead and upper forehead. I could not tell if it is related to the rest, it is just that in this period i got a lot of "mind work", so i mention it. It could be anything else. Maybe it just due to the stress.

I really don't think to have changed in this years of practice. The only difference is really this sensations i have in my mind. My practice was really not regular: only in the last two years (maybe) i got the habit to practice almost daily, with good exceptions  .

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.

Hello everyone...

I have started to use the NEW some months ago, starting with the preliminar stimulation in hands and feet. But, cause i tend to lose
motivation very fast in my things, i have leave it and re-take it many times before today. Now, i'am trying to make some exercises every day, without think immediatly about the results (one of the most common error of the newbie). I think i'am going good, but i got some problems and i wish some suggestion for you.
On the first place, i'am not able to feel better the whole (the inner part) of my libs when i "sponge" them to raise energy. I got a lot of sensation that suggest me that the stimulation is good, but i'am not able to feel better any part of my body and the energy stream in it, if already present. On the other side, i feel a lot of sensation in my legs and foot, and even in the Sub-navel system, that i begin to fill, even if i'am not so sure if they are the "right" sensations.
More, because of this i cannot rely on tactile sensation and i always need to visualize my hands raising energy into the legs even if my legs are not "perfectly" where i suppose they are. It is the same with all the tactile actions required, plus the fact that sometimes i found myself moving slightly my head (my mouth o my chin, for example) to simulate the movement of my awareness during, for example, the brushing action. I think that doing this way is wrong, even if it looks like i'am able to raise some energy anyway.
I hope that, with practice, i will be able to control better my awareness and my body. You got any suggestions for me regarding this problem?

Thank you for your help.

                                                Le_Mirage

Paranoid:  Low
Schizoid:  Moderate
Schizotypal:  High
Antisocial:  Low
Borderline:  Low
Histrionic:  Moderate
Narcissistic:  Moderate
Avoidant:  High
Dependent:  High
Obsessive-Compulsive:  Low

Umh...not bad for a test...

Hi There. I'am still a newbie in this site, and i will be glad if you will help me with some explanation about OBE training. The most important things for begin, even if there are people that try different and more easier ways (but i'am interest in energy development too, and i hear that they can help) are Relaxation and Concentrations, and i got some problems with both.

About Relaxation, i read on a lot of reference material that the training time that suit for beginner, in the early state, are 5-10-20 minutes, but i spend always a lot of time of that, cause i'am not able to understand when my body is totally relaxed, and if i'am working in the right way. The only parts i think i'am able to relax are the arms and the legs, cause, when i tense and relax them, they "release" a particular sensation (of tension, i think) that tend to vanish while i repeat the exercise over and over. I think that a certain part is relaxed when you can tense and relax without feel that sensation. Is that right? Anyway, i can feel this only when i work on my legs, arms, chest and face. And, in any case, that take really a lot of time. Is it normal? Can you tell me if i'am working right, and if i can try something to make my work easier? I just need a way to be sure that whatever i'am doing, i'am doing it good (i think that this is a problem for a lot of newbie).

For about concentration, i think i can do quite well, cause i'am able to switch off my thoughs with little effort (i'am able not to hear sounds in my mind, not to make phrase or something else), but i tend to visualize a lot and if i distract for an istant i begin to visualize a lot of things. It is difficult for me to avoid this, and, after all, i don't know even if it is a serious problem. What can you tell me? I find the "Focus on an object" to work quite well with me, but i always try to empty my mind instead of concentrating on something. I have to force myself in visualazing nothing?

Anyway, i'am not so a good worker, cause i need always to have confirm of what i'am doing to be motivated in going on. And those little problems really bother me. So,any suggestion you have is welcome.
Thank you for your help:-)

Hello to everyone...

I'am here again, with another newbie question:
I know from a lot of sources that there are different kind of projection, for example: real-time projection. What are the others, and what are the difference between those kind of OBE's? Thank for your help.

                                             Le_Mirage

Hello to everyone.

In the first place i apologize i you can't understand well what i'am trying to write. I'am Italian and my english is'nt so perfect. I'am interesting myself in the pratice of OBE from some months, and i got what i think is the worse problem at all: I'am pretty lazy, and i lack of will, so i'am not able to follow a road for so much time because become frustrated for the lack of results. It's an hateful thing, and involve, after all, a lot of things and not olny the practice of OBE. Trying to resolve this problem is one of my biggest problems, no doubt, and i don't think you can help me, because i don't think it is only a matter of patience. But, for what regards the practice of OBE,  what can you suggest me? You suggest me to give up of do something else for not let me lose motivation for the lack or results? Thank you for your help and see you later!

                                            Le_Mirage

...roger[^]!

I'am a beginner also and i have try the "one-shot" rope tecnique too, without success, apart from the the usual "out of body awareness" sensation near the stomach (that is sign, at least, that the climbing motion is right). I don't know if it really work, but i think that it requires a very strong concentration that it is almost impossible to reach without training. That's because a lot of things may happen while climbing: you can be distracted by random eye-mind images (my problem), your body can move, you can simply lose your focus enough to lose every result, maybe because you can't be able to avoid "keeping an eye" with your mind at what is happening to your body. I suggest you to train from the basics, if you really want to AP, even if it may be hard[xx(]!!!

Ok, got it. Thank you:-)!!!

                    Le_Mirage