With phasing is it necessary that your mind remains awake throughout the entire process? From what I understand so far your mind can't lose focus too much from noticing while your body falls asleep but this could be a problem for me. I have very little trouble achieving AP when I want to but the issue is that I'm almost never conscious through the entire process.
My normal method is to just interrupt my sleep, set my intention and repeat some affirmations, maybe meditate for 10 minutes, and then I fall asleep and after a period of unconsciousness I suddenly get exit sensations. It sounds like phasing could be difficult for me if it requires awareness the entire time for the noticing exercise.
When I try to project if I attempt to keep my mind awake for too long I just get restless. Perhaps my restless mind is what wakes me up later after setting my intention at the mind awake/body asleep stage after being asleep for a little. Is there a way to phase instead of project when at the SP/exit sensation stage? I'm tired a false awakenings and getting stuck on exit with AP which is why I would like to learn phasing.
Any ideas?
I find there is certain balancing act with awareness when you phase. When I do "noticing", I'll get to a point where it's like I'm almost asleep, like in a super-heavy daze, and that's where I either fall asleep, or come back "awake" and into "phasing". It's tough and takes a lot of practice.