Hi All,
I am still very much an OBE beginner and wanted to get some information on the early stages and how people concentrate.
I use TMI's Wave 1 (Focus 10 - Mind Awake Body Asleep) as a development tool on occasion, but mostly I experiment when I go to bed at night and if/when I wake up during the night. A technique that seems to help me in some way is one I've come across plenty of times, about concentrating upon a point in front of your closed eyes a couple of feet in front of you. Doing this almost always results in some random but incredibly vivid images which to me is a fascinating experience in itself. I almost concentrate as if I am viewing a magic eye book, I hope you can understand what I mean as I can't describe it any other way. This creates a very slight stress between my eyes as I concentrate, which I think might be what prevents me from going further as this part of my body is not asleep as it needs to be. It certainly seems to help me concentrate, but the vibrations I get at this stage are noticeably slow and I am yet to successfully speed them up.
All of my exit experiences have either been spontaneous and unexpected, or have happened without intention and without the concentration. Typically I'll lie down to go to sleep, noting to myself that I'd just like to fall asleep. I then usually can't help but notice the process and usually click out around that time I think, but on occasion I exit or get very intense vibrations. I often float upwards for a few seconds then I lose it, once around the room which was more like a dream, and once it just felt like I was shooting at 100mph to the stars which was very strange! The only visual OBE was in my room, when I turned back expecting to see my body, but instead the covers were moved off bed as if I was just sleep walking or something, incredibly strange, I guess it could simply be a dream about having an OBE. The last thing I recall is trying to head towards to window! Apart from that the memories I have are simply of the feeling of floating in the blackness, which I have often.
So basically I want to start gaining some control of these experiences. It's like my mind is playing games with me as I get the best results when I don't want it and I don't seem to be in control! Can anyone relate to the magic eye thing? Do I need to concentrate in this way or just relax my eyes completely?
Hello, Congratulations, it sounds like you are doing great! :-)
You just need more practice, like they say, practice makes perfect, well in this case better. I don't think we have the ability to be successful every time we try. There's just too many obstacles, like mood, tiredness level, etc.
If you are experiencing any physical stress in your eyes or between your eyes, otherwise known as your third eye area, try to tone down your focus a bit to just "passively" observing.
When I began this practice, I had the exact same problem. I tried to focus so deeply, that I would actually give myself a headache, which was of course counterproductive. It's important to ALLOW your eyes to relax, even if you have to do a brief muscle relaxation beforehand. Sometimes I do this, by just telling myself "my eyes are relaxed, relaxed, relaxed, my eyes are relaxed". If I need to go deeper, I next target on the eye muscles, then any muscles that might be near the eyes, until I feel that they are sufficiently relaxed and ready to "passively" observe.
The more I practiced, the more I learned that I could focus by just "noticing" what was happening, instead of trying so hard to WILL it to happen.
Now I just close my eyes and ALLOW it to happen.
Other than that, you are doing great! :wink:
Good Luck and Safe Travels! :-)
Hello and welcome Tmd86. Good to see you here. Congratulations, good going Tmd. You just need to do more practice. Keep it up and well done.
Thank you for the responses. This is such a welcoming and helpful website, I'm feel lucky to have found it! :-)
Have a read of this sticky.
You'll understand the principle immediately and I hope it supplies enough info for success in your endeavours.
http://www.astralpulse.com/forums/welcome_to_astral_consciousness/the_astral_blueprint-t38729.0.html