Focusing on the Solar Plexus
By John B.
Mirrored from Ballabene's OBE and Astral Pages
Here is another method for achieving the level of awareness necessary to effect an OOBE. Lay on your back with your arms bent at 90 degree angles above your head (as you would with your hands behind your head except that the arms are one over the other above your head).
I have found this enables me to achieve the state of quieting the "internal dialogue". While in this mode of non-thinking and relaxed state, you await the humming vibration that generally passes through area of the upper nape of the neck to the mid level of the ears.
When this sensation begins to pass through (this is the critical junction), immediately and gently focus on the area of the solar plexus. You must do this as a gentle shift of focus. Do this without thinking (internal dialogue will generally reverse this state). This will result in a surge of the vibratory humming developing into a profuse dissipating wave of vibration that passes like a bolt of energy through the upper body to the focal point of the solar plexus at which point spontaneous separation occurs. The good thing about this method, is that once the wave begins there is no stopping it. This is why direction to the focal point is so critical. The time lapse between the slightest humming and the events described is instantaneous. If you can sense the vibratory humming at any level and can gently but immediately direct it to your focal point you have got it.
There is a particular spot in the area of the solar plexus that must be located to effect separating at this point. This is a technique passed on by Carlos Castenada and works quite well. Measure your height exactly and mark the point exactly midway. Next, measure yourself from side to side at this mid point. The point of intersection is the focal point for separation. A good way to remember this without bringing the internal dialogue into it, is pinch yourself at that spot a couple of times. This will allow you to shift the focus at the first sensation of the vibratory humming without consciously thinking about where that spot is. The key is don't think, just direct the attention to that focal point.
The first time I used this technique I separated instantaneously in a very odd way. I was upside down and had expanded to the point where I filled most of a large room I was in. I had no shape, only suprize and awareness of having a very large presence. I understood then, as I have read, that the astral body really has no shape of its own but takes the form of which you are most familiar with (or one which you may choose). This I attributed to the instanateous and suprise separation I was not expecting. I have read also that some people take a particular shape in order to allow others in their group to recognize each other.