I am going to try that...and yes, caps clog my energy flow too..
" took off my hat (does anyone else find that wearing a ball cap inhibits the range on their mental perceptions?) "
Hah, don't you see? I have been saying it for months. Things on your head....LIKE HAIR....clog the process.
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=696
but your hair is a living (well, ok it's really dead, but it is organic) part of you, so that may preclude it from restricting energy flow. i have thick hair that reaches to my shoulders in the back and half way down my ears in the front and it doesn't inhibit my energy work. and i should know, for the past 5 years, i've shaved my head every summer just as a thing i felt like doing [:P].
~kakkarot
yes this is in the astral chat room because... I'm posting it: it's gonna get off topic [;)].
i was just up in the photocopy room at the school photocopying stuff for the registrar's office (i work at the school as well as attend it) and i figured i could spend a bit of time trying to oobp.
so i sat down in a chair, made my back straight, took off my hat (does anyone else find that wearing a ball cap inhibits the range on their mental perceptions?) and took off my glasses (for comfort) and tried to retreat into my mind for a bit. i retreated fairly well. so eventually (well, within a minute anyway) i started pushing my energy around my body and then i formed a ball of energy at my base chakra (the groin) and opened up my spirit to complete energy usage, then pushed energy from my base all the way to my head without stopping at any chakras or doing anything else. it took like 2 seconds for me to get the energy all the way up and i felt my self becoming far more in touch with my spirit.
but my energy kinda started going above my skull a bit so, remembering an old topic where people were talking about a chakra above the head, i decided to see what would happen if i pushed my energy upward, so i did. i started feeling "light headed" and i started percieving the room about me in a different way than normal (i couldn't actually see things, but i could still kinda feel them vaguely).
so i pushed my energy even further up, until it was stretching into the vast unknown. then i felt my spirit starting to rise a bit out of my head, but my continual perception of my hands being in contact with one another kept me "grounded" in my body. i eventually pulled myself back in completely and forced any side effects (such as disorientation) out of my mind, spirit, and body, and i made my spirit and my energy come completely back in synch with my body and mind.
then i thought, hm.... i should go post this and see if others could use this method, maybe, to oobp or to see what people's comments would be. so here i am [:D] posting my story.
"What do you think, sirs?" -Joel from Mystery Science Theater 3000
~kakkarot