Questions about new near astral projection sensations

[Jarrod]

Well I'll just start out with the basic situation.  I became fascinated with astral projection when I was 17 and tried to have one for a couple of years but didn't have much success.  I got to where I felt astral sensations all the time if I were tired , even when I wasn't doing anything special, like just driving down the road (not the best time to have your astral head decide to start shaking about) or just laying on the couch with my eyes closed and lazily listening to my family talk at a family gathering.  The sensations I got then were pretty common I think, varying kinds of vibrations and quick startling jerks.  But randomly one day when the vibrations were at their peak my heart started beating rapidly and that forced me to start breathing quickly and ended the attempt.  Every time I tried after that the same thing happened and eventually I just kind of stopped trying.  I'm 23 now and decided to start training again a few weeks ago.  At first I didn't get much of anything and then the same old heart rate thing started happening again.  I found that I could actually force my body to ignore that though and it would kind of settle down.  Now I've heard that it's not really the heart that's beating rapidly but the heart chakra.  Maybe it starts that way with me but it does actually affect my physical heart to start beating faster and causes a kind of panic reaction.

I started doing some things besides just trying to astral project like I always did.  I started doing meditation and energy raising to try to get myself more...in shape for it so to speak.  I do the breath awareness meditation (I used to practice no thought meditation when I was 17 and got fairly good at it I think) and count on every outbreath.  I've gotten to a point a couple times when my awareness kind of shifts and everything gets all big and empty and it stops being difficult to focus on just the counting.  I think that's a trance.  I've done energy raising like Robert Bruce describes several times, once while in that trance state and I could feel it slightly better.  The only only energy I've ever been able to actually perceive was my own spirit during pre-exit sensations and I can make rather weak psiballs and feel them with my hands.  Also, a few nights ago I read something on a post on here about asking for help from your higher self just using focused desire instead of words, so I did that.

The night before last I didn't get enough sleep and took a nap in the afternoon yesterday and had a freakin' awesome near astral projection.  But the sensations were very different than they used to be and even different than they were when I first tried again a few weeks ago.  I had drifted off into a...kind of dream but something happened in the dream to bring my awareness back to myself and very strong exit sensations started, only they were less tactile and I couldn't actually describe how they felt, just that my astral body felt it was trying very hard to separate.  I tried to stay passive but they settled down but my spirit was actually still trying to roll out of my body.  I tried to let it happen but it didn't.  Today almost the exact same thing happened again.  I was very sleepy and lay down for a nap.  It happened this time before I fell asleep though and the exit sensations felt just like a lot of energy and a shift of awareness and I could feel my spirit trying to roll out after they settled down again.  I didn't intentionally try for either of those experiences and in both it was like my subconscious/higher self automatically knew what to do (trying to roll out of my body)

So I know that's kind of a long and convoluted question, but if anybody on here with more experience than me has any comments or input they are extremely welcome.

[Xanth]

So what exactly is the question? 

You sound like you're doing fine.
Just keep doing what you're doing.

[Jarrod]

I think I started out wondering why the sudden change in how I experience the sensations...but then it just turned into more of a description.  I didn't think the energy work would have that much of an impact so soon.

[Xanth]

The energy work will have as much impact as you believe it will.
At last, that's how I see it in relation to our metaphysical journeys.

As for the sudden changes...
Your experiences will, most likely, change quite often as you progress through all this.