OBE Methods Based on Movement
Mirrored from Ballabene's OBE and Astral Pages
Stepping out (rocking out) of the (physical) body
In my first OBE´s, when performing this kind, I had the impression to be fixed to my physical body by something, that felt like many threads of rubber. By means of rocking I could tear these threads and leave my physical body. I now had my awareness in an other body, a subtle one, as it felt like. By the time the process of separation became more easy and at last I could step out of the physical body without any hindrance.
Practising this method for many years I now have the impression, that "stepping-out-of-the-body" can be divided into two forms, respectively methods:
The trance method
Stepping out in the state of false awakening
If you perform your OBE´s in the way of "stepping out of your body in trance", you best start your exercise in the early morning.
Performing your OBE´s in the way of "stepping out in the state of false awakening", the best chance you shall have, is when interrupting sleep at any hour of the night. If you want to be successfull, you have to keep concentration on movement or awareness for at least 20 minutes before falling asleep again and to continue, when awakening (which mostly is a false awakening).
Imaginations for both types of the stepping out of the body method:
Imagine you are rocking, imagine you are sitting in a rocking chair to facilitate the feeling of this movement.
Direct your awareness into your body. Imagine and feel the warmth streaming through your body in the rhythm of breathing:
Breathing in direct your awareness on your breast and make it to a center of warmth and strength.
Breathing out widen your awareness as a form of space-feeling around you and especially in front of you.
Trance method
Position: leaned back in an armchair, the head leaned comfortably on a pillow. Besides the fact of better concentration, as compared to lying in bed, sitting in an armchair has a further advantage: if you fall asleep, instead of getting into trance, the unusual sleep position somehow alarms the subconsciousness. The result is very often false awakening, a semi-conscious state promoting the start of OBE-ing.
Method: pay attention to your body: feel warmth or vibrations. Try to keep your attention as long as possible. If you become aware of something unusual, like partial body separation, try to step out of your physical body as out of a coat.
Sensations: Starting with exercise, I felt alert all the time, though sometimes I lost concentration. After a while (perhaps 1/2 hour), when awareness was shifting into the etheric body, I sometimes could feel the limbs of my subtle body separating from the physical ones and feel them floating in the air, as if I was sitting in very salty seawater. This feeling signalled to me to start OBE deliberately. Later on, after having gathered more experience, I started my OBE's when perceiving the slightly different consciousness indicative for the etheric body.
When trying to separate from my physical body, I was hindered in separation by being tied by many rubberlike strings, as it felt like. These strings were elastic but not easy to be torn. Therefore I tried to separate by rocking my subtle body forth and back. When I got rid of the strings there was still one kind of fixation to the physical body left, the silver cord.
When I became free from physical body, in most experiences I could not see and was veiled in darkness. This handicap did not prevent me to search my path through the room and outside to the entrance of the house. I always had a kind of inner "mind-sensing", which helped me to find the right way. In a certain distance from my physical body I suddenly was able to see, from one moment to the other. Outside of the house, I lived in, I found myself in an altered surrounding, compared with the used one. Concerning myself I had my common state of mind and logic reasoning.
Stepping out in the state of false awakening
False awakening is a special category of dream. In the case of an OBE-practician false awakenings can be sthe starting point of a special form of OBE. In this case you feel yourself awake, sitting in your easy-chair or whatever you prefer, continuing the exercises automatically, which you have done before you fell asleep. You don´t recognize that you are in an altered state of consciousness. Perhaps you are somewhat disturbed, because you are not in trance, as you had intended before, but instead you have got awake, as you think. I have experienced this very often. Being awake, as I thought by error, I tried to make the best of it and continued exercising with forced concentration. But just in these tricky moments I usually heard (my eyes are closed for exercise) some people entering the room, speaking loudly in an obviously very reckless way, switching on radio and lamp (my visual field was brightened by the light passing the eyelids). I often got angry and protested.
There are two possible ways of further development, I found out: If I ignore all the noise and continue exercising I slowly get aware of the situation and there is a great chance for me to have a successful OBE. Otherwise, if I open the eyes and leave the easy-chair to complain about the noise, and follow the imaginary people, my level of consciousness will drop even more and I fall into a dreamlike state.
If I succeed to get false awakening under control I can choose one of two possibilities: stepping out of the body or projecting by a kind of zooming my sight.
When "stepping out of the body in the state of false awakening", this differs in experience from leaving the physical body by "stepping out in trance". As opposed to the latter technique I am not likely to feel a silver cord, my distance of travelling is not limited and I have no sensory inputs from the physical body simultaneously. Controlled false awakening turns into a sort of astral travelling in a near-physical astral plane. Uncontrolled false awakening turns to a dreamlike state. As I suppose, OBE in false awakening is no etheric OBE.
Some examples:
Bal.: "I was exercising "swinging" to get out of the body. After some time I felt disturbed in my intentions by An., who turned on radio, playing music very loudly (this was a dream state and not really). Leaving my eyes closed, to prevent to fall out of deep relaxation, I protested verbally. She argued:" why not, last time I was playing radio as well and you should go to sleep in your bed". I ignored her. Music stopped. I tried to leave my body but was drawn back (by these rubberlike threads). In my second attempt I grabbed the armchair to push myself out of physical body. At last I was free and when I was out of the physical body I looked around into the room, which seemed to be somewhat different from the physical one. Then I passed the bathroom, touching the towels and feeling with full intention the texture of the carpet on the soles of my feet, in order to get a good bodyfeeling, which really increased. Concomitantly my awareness increased as well. I went down the stairs and out the door. But there was no garden like in reality, but instead of it a just ploughed field, which I crossed to a distant street I almost could not see, because it was very dark. In the street I had a look around. It was dark night without stars or moon, but with intimidating flash-light on the horizon. Sensing in all directions I could feel no danger, but for security returned home into my physical body."
Bal.: "Sitting in my armchair I had the impression of a very crowded room (though I felt awake it was a dream state). For a short time I opened my eyes and saw several persons feeling at home, lying in the bed, coming and going and being very noisy. I continued exercising with high concentration to shield off the disturbance. At last I was successful, stepped out of my physical body, having a wonderful walk through an unknown, lovely countryside with meadows, rocks and waterfalls."
Bal.: "Being in the state of false awakening, but thinking to be awake, I tried to continue my exercises. My wife seemed to go to and fro the room, which I felt disturbing, but I did not stop my attempts. She turned on the light and the brightness was filtering through my eyelids (this all was not really but in dream). I continued my exercises. My wife came close to my armchair, bent down over my feet to turn on the heating. I became fully awake with no hope to fall again into deeper relaxation, as I thought, and dropped the hope to come to a good end in my intentions. I gave up and decided to have a rest, which turned to a common dream. The quoted sensations seemed to be realistic to such extent, that I actually was somewhat hesitating about what to think of them and later on questioned my wife about this event."