Phasing method...patched.

[kimona]

Hello! I'm new to this forum as many of you can see. I appreciate any help or guidance in advance.

I'm a bit anxious in making this post in case there's actually an answer elsewhere and I happened to gloss over it, but I couldn't find anything online about it, so here I am.

I had unintentionally astral projected using Noticing (Frank Kepple)/ Phasing (Xanth's) method when meditating, a little over two months ago. I sat down, stared into that blackness and suddenly found myself out of my body.

Now I'm at a plateau or maybe my body "patched" the method? Haha. In any case...It feels painful and forced, in both my eyes and head to try and replicate what I had did that evening— to try and stare into the dark behind my lids. Even after practicing the Monroe tapes regularly. I just can't seem to do what I did that day. I'm lost on what to do, and I feel like I'm doing something wrong but even after a lot of practice and research I'm not sure what.

[Lumaza]

 Greetings Kimona and welcome to the Astral Pulse Forums! 

 I just finished my own "phase soak session", I call it, which is basically Phasing in my bathtub. Phasing is my chosen method of "non-physical exploration".

 It sounds like you got your "sneak peek" and now wish to learn more. Many people get that initial peek at what is, but then they dismiss it as just a "glitch in the Matrix". Others like yourself get that peek and now want to delve fully into learning more. Learning more comes with a bit of work. Not only a bit of work, but many times also a shift in your definition of reality. I wrote a thread years ago here called "Tests, Quests and Challenges". I always suggest to people new to this practice to read it because there are some things that people don't quite understand that may happen down the road. Not only do they not understand, but they may not be prepared or ready to. Changing your mindset, leads to a change in your reality.
https://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome-to-out-of-body-experiences!/tests-quests-and-challenges/

 Now to the darkness. Embrace that darkness. Play with it. When I first learned how to Phase, I used a "6 pt" directional focus. One time I may focus on the upper part of the darkness. Another it could be the left or the right side of the darkness. I found that each direction had it's own "distinctions". I found patterns. Not just geometrical but patterns in general. This is why it is very useful to have a Journal in the beginning. You will find "patterns" and those patterns will help you further your explorations. The 6pts being, up/down/left right and lastly forward and backwards. This focus technique soon led to experiencing "etheric" motion. Learn how to "passively observe" all that happens and most importantly to "allow" what's going to happen to happen. Relax, release and "let go".

 Do this, close your eyes and just focus on your left hand. Focus on it and only it. Now move that etheric hand side to side just by using your focused intent. Did you feel a "physical impulse" of that direction or movement? Keep doing it and you will.

 What the 6pt focus technique did for me is it taught me how to "hold" my focus on whatever I was currently experiencing. That soon led to being able to either move into or draw the darkness towards me. Both of those have different outcomes. I am not going to share what I see and experience because I want you to have your own experiences. Years ago, here on the Pulse, I used to share many of my experiences. But then I began getting all these PMs from people that were discouraged because they couldn't do or experience what I did. I wanted them to have their own experiences, not mine.

 After a while of experimenting with the above technique, if you wish, you can read a thread I wrote on a Phasing technique that utilizes geometric shapes, etheric motion and "doorways" of all kinds. It shows how my own technique "evolved" over time.
https://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome-to-astral-consciousness!/the-doorway/

 Lastly this isn't an activity or something that you are just doing. This is something you are "becoming" or should I say already are. You are just "remembering" who and what you really are and that is "consciousness" having a "Human experience". All these techniques you read about have the same thing in common and that is they teach you how to hold your focus on something other than your physical body. Once you can do that you will find how easy and quick attaining a "non-physical" focus really is.