Mighty uncomfortable feeling.

[Rastus]

Energy blockage in your chest?  Do you do any energy work to augment your AP attempts?

[cube]

Could that be paralysis setting in?

[EnderZ]

Hmm, it might be uncomfortable but you cant get physicaly injured in that kind of setting, I would just say to grit your teeth and just go with it, before you know its about to set in just tell yourself your gonna just ignore it and go with the flow.  sounds like the last few momemts before you split from your physical body.

[sunbird]

I do not do any energy work, i just meditate daily. It's hard to just ignore that pressure since most of the time as a reflex i just jump out of bed, when not, i just loose concentration and have to start all over again, until it happens again when i reach this certain state.

[sunbird]

First off, i've been lurking on this forum for some time now, and just now registered, so i will start asking about my issue:

Whenever i try to AP (and i've tried quite many times by now) I start to get this VERY uncomfortable pressure in my chest, it's like someone suddenly drops a 10kg weight on my chest, and that pressure last for a few seconds and then goes away, and i loose concentration and am forced to sit up (Yes, it's that uncomfortable). I try it again, and the same thing happens. I can feel the energy flowing in my body as i get deeper and deeper, but when that feeling reaches my chest it gets mighty uncomfortable and can't go on from there. This happens every time, any ideas?

[andonitxo]

Hiya:
I'll give you two theories about that pressure, which may help you:

1.When separating both bodies, astral and physical, an astral emptyness is left around your physical body so it is filled up again with astral matter (to say someway it is neutral astral matter). Maybe this refilling provokes that sensation. It may be like lifting a big stone on the beach so water fills the emptyness left.

2.I read in a book that cardiac chakra is involved with astral projection and astral communication so maybe some tensions will happen.

I've never noted that kind of feelings, except vibrations and dizziness.

Prove the following one: project mentally in the same room you're in. Touch, feel your astral body, hear,... there's no complete projection yet, just a split-like consciousness which swings between the guy sat down and the "guy" wandering around. Walk and stop in front of your physical body and imagine a flow of energy springing from your physical heart chakra to your astral heart chakra and assume that's the consciousness energy been given up from one to the other.

This works really well for me, although I use to rebound when projecting, been rejected back to my physical with a shock. When energy starts springing I feel like if my energy would be sucked from my physical.

A last advice, consult this book: "Astral body and other astral phenomena" by Arthur E. Powell. Really detailed.

Hope it helps, and good luck.