Astral Traveling – A Beginners Guide
Astral traveling is all about being able to separate your subtle within, or your astral self from your physical body and projecting it in order to travel to higher astral planes. Thus, it is an out of body experience where your soul leaves your body and travels to higher ethereal planes and realms of consciousness observing the world from a distance.
Astral traveling has been prevalent since time immemorial. Ancient spiritual gurus meditating and living in remote mountain caves belonging to ancient and spiritually advanced cultures like in India, Egypt, etc, were known to attain a trance like state and travel spiritually wherever desired.
Astral traveling may be experienced at a time of near death instances or at the time of lucid dreaming. For example, survivors of road accidents or drowning have given accounts of seeing their own accidents beforehand, as if seen in a movie.
Astral traveling is usually experienced at the time of lucid dreams or Meditational trances. Lucid dreaming is the act of passing into the world of dreams with a focused and awake mind state. This is why, when a person is fully conscious of his dreaming, he is said to be having lucid dreams, where he leaves his physical body to travel into other consciousness layers.
It is difficult to achieve astral traveling since a very high degree of control on one’s sub conscious mind is required which one can only be attained through intense Meditational practices. For astral traveling, it is necessary that you arrange for a calm and peaceful environment beforehand, free of any electronic device. Be aware of your food intake before such an attempt since non vegetarian food or things such as caffeine increases body heat and multiply thoughts in one’s mind and hence should be avoided. Moreover, your mind should be free from all negative thoughts.
Achieving a state of deep trance by way of meditation can help attain astral traveling. You can also copy the REM sleep mode which is actually our sleep cycle’s last phase, where there is rapid movement of eyeballs coupled with high brain activity. You should relax your whole body to put it to sleep but keeping your mind alert and awake at the same time. Think that you are floating out of the body or even visualize yourself using a rope to help yourself pull out of your own body if necessary. Put all your energy in this vision to strengthen it and experience it in reality.
The main problem in astral traveling is during leaving your body in the first place. That is, even the slightest of self doubt will not yet your physical body leave your astral self. Remember that only with complete faith and belief in yourself would you be able to achieve it. Constantly thinking about whether your actions are working or not will never let you leave your physical body.
The second issue in astral traveling happens when you have been able to leave your physical body behind and are traveling upward. Remember that even the slightest of apprehensions in your mind regarding whether you are traveling too far out or not, or whether you would be able to return back will result in a sudden ’sucking -in’ of your astral body by your physical body and you shall wake up suddenly. Remember to be calm, peaceful and fearless and having full faith on yourself in order to enjoy this one in a lifetime experience of astral traveling.
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