Out of body experiences are among the most baffling of the mystic occurrences. However, a couple of simple steps should help you get started on your journey. The wonderful truth is that regardless of what happens at first, each of these practices will supply numerous rewards for your health.

First, a quick statement about what we're doing. The astral body is a facet of yourself that is separate from your material body. You can think of it as your un-conscious. It is the part of you that makes you more than a bodysuit! Almost everything that we're doing here applies to separating that part of your consciousness from your physical body.

The leading issues are relaxation, along with freeing yourself from trying to guess what may happen. You initiate a session by laying down on your back. It's always best to do this at a time other than when you normally go to sleep. It also helps to practice in a place other than your own bed. Tensing and relieving parts of the body, one after the other, is undoubtedly a great skill for unwinding, and should be done here. However, since we are dealing with energy, it further helps to envision warm, pleasant light circulating through our bodies when we breathe. Remember that breath acts in miraculous ways to move and focus the refined energies throughout our whole body. Particularly, moving energy through the seven major chakras gives you a superb advantage. In case you are unfamiliar, there is a massive amount of information on chakras on the Internet. Very basically, they are wheels placed vertically up a person's body, from the base of the spine up to the crown of the head. Every one of them correlate with an endocrine gland and an aspect of consciousness.

Focusing on an image of where you want your consciousness to go provides a great aid as well.» You may wish to stare at a photograph before you begin your out of body session. No matter your degree of meditation skill, you might be interested in learning that certain brainwaves work to make out of body experiences more attainable, and there are meditations to bring your brain into such a state. This is a real technique to help you! The brain, like anything, vibrates at certain frequencies, generating diverse chemical reactions. You may have heard of alpha, theta, and delta wave cycles when we experience sleep. There exist concurrent wave forms for any state, including out of body experiences. How do we induce this? The most simple way is by applying an audio meditation to entrain the brain into such a frequency. There are a couple of main technologies for this. Binaural beats require headphones, and isochronic tones do not. The two of them have been shown to help meditative and mystical states. They can slow down your attachment to racing thoughts and provide some amazing relaxation advantages.

Another technique you can do on your own as you lay down is this: imagine you are about to move, but don't. Anticipate the movement, but just feel it, and remain still. This will help you get accustomed to feeling the subtle energies that course through our bodies. This is actually a wonderful precursor to your out to your out of body experience. After adjusting to this, picture yourself looking down at your own physical body lying down in bed. Imagination precedes reality.

All of these habits coach your thoughts and energies to loosen the ties with your corporeal body. They are powerful first steps that lead to you safely and effectively discovering how to have an out of body experience.