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I have been practicing and trying astral projection as well as lucid dreaming a lot as of late.  I can easily achieve 3D Blackness, and I can usually get a mild bodily paralysis where I feel a heavy, floating sensation, but I cannot get anywhere else.  I have been stuck here for a month, and I can't "Cross the Bridge" to lucid dreaming by falling completely asleep, nor can I make any progress concerning astral projection.  I know I get close sometimes, but then I think about what I am doing or become overly-conscious and I lose it.  I also cannot hold the heaviness indefinitely, after awhile I get bored and I wake up, feeling rested.  Energy work seems to work as a catalyst to these sensations, so sometimes I do that.  What are some tips on where to go from here and how to prolong the effect?

So i've been doing energy work and have a pretty good feel for energy and the different chakras.  I've tried several methods including Monroe's "Reaching for the vibrations," the rope method, the spinning log, and simply just relaxing and waiting.  Most of the methods will turn on all of my chakras and get em going pretty strongly, but nothing really seems to happen after that.  When the energy starts flowing like that, my body tenses up and I can't really help it, is this ok or should I be 100% relaxed?  My breathing is also inconsistent when I try an exit technique because I can feel the sensations so much more when I breathe out, so I end up not breathing as regularly.  Any ideas or tips on how to avoid these things or make them work better?

Hello, I'm new here and I've read "Journeys out of the Body" and have been doing exercises for a few weeks now.  I've only been trying to feel out the vibrations and get used to the relaxed state.  The vibrations come, and they also go.  I can't seem to control them at all and they come and go as they please, it just feels like warmth, or something like the feeling when circulation gets cut off and your limbs fall asleep.  Until today the only part of my body that really went into paralysis was my hands/forearms.  Today I just waited without any active reaching for the vibrations and they came, after awhile they spread out into my entire body and it felt like I was tipped backwards so that my feet were above my head.  The feeling compounded until it felt as if I was completely vertical.  It was very strange and I was going to try to leave my body but then a woodpecker perched outside my window and started a racquet!!  Could not keep concentration and lost the vibrations and sinking feeling.

How can I hold onto, or control the vibrations?  Also, I was trying to just separate my arm as Robert Monroe talks about when I was doing this, but I reached and such and ended up moving my physical arm just slightly, but couldn't feel anything else.  Any tips on 'reaching' without doing it physically?