Relax the body. According to Monroe,"the ability to relax is the first prerequisite,
perhaps even the first step itself " to having an OBE (out of body experience).
This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest
a method of attaining this relaxation, although Progressive Muscle relaxation,
coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3.... until 50
or 100) are known to work well.
Step two:
Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnagogic state. Once
again, Monroe doesn't recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold
your forearm up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed,or ground. As you start
to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With practice, you can
learn to control the Hypnagogic state without using your arm. Another method is to
concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter your thoughts, you have
entered the Hypnagogic state. Passively watch these images. This will also help
you maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.
Step three:
Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. observe your field of vision through your
closed eyes. Do nothing more for a while. Simply look through your closed eyelids at
the blackness in front of you. After a while, you may notice light patterns. These are
simply neural discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease,
one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one must enter an even
deeper state of relaxation which Monroe calls Condition C -- a state of such relaxation
that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a
void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts. The ideal state
for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced
from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve
Condition D, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it in the morning or after a short
nap.
Step four:
Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the
most vague. Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They
can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as is electricity is being shot through the body.
Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical
one. For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the following directions:
1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.
2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your
eyelids, but do not shut out all light.
3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your
head pointed toward magnetic north.
4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly
warmer than might normally be comfortable.
5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there
will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.
6. Enter a state of relaxation
7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all
that occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial
to your well-being. Repeat this five times.
8. Proceed to breath through your half-open mouth.
9. As you breath, concentrate on the void in front of you.
10. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change
your point of mental reference to six feet.
11. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line
parallel to your body axis up and above your head. Focus there
and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them
back into your body.
Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have achieved
contact with them.
Step five:
Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them
into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and
producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate of
the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body.
Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you have control of the
vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.
Step six:
Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly
focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thought might cause
you to lose control of the state. Now, having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring
the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". Monroe suggests that you
extend a limb until it comes in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed.
Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back into coincidence with
the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie
quietly until you have fully returned to normal.
Step seven:
Disassociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method
is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering
this vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward. Keep this thought
in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally
at this point. Another method is the "Rotation method" or "roll-out" technique. When you
have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed - do
not attempt to roll over physically.Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over
into your second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of the
body but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the
body. Monroe suggets you begin with the lift-out method, but argues that both are equally
efficacious.
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