Astral Projection My First Experiment *plus Meditation technique*

I first learnt meditation when I was 8 years old when I started martial arts. I never really understood it, though. It was when I was around 10 that a stand-in teacher at Middle School taught me her technique for (I believe) Transcendental Meditation.

Transcendental Meditation is taking your consciousness out of your body freeing your mind in an almost ultimate sense.

20 minutes of this feels like youve slept for hours, and leaves you extremely relaxed and in a state of heightened awareness. Heres what she taught me:

Some people prefer to meditate in a totally silent, or at least quiet place. For this technique, a bit of noise is good. Try to avoid sudden loud noises close to you, but other than that anywhere is fine. Clear your mind and concentrate on performing only each step slowly.

Sit on a chair (or however else you feel comfortable, but a chair will work best for learning) with your feet flat and your back straight, with your hands resting on your thighs palms-upward.

Imagine that there is a pole running inside the length of your spine keeping it straight whilst you relax.

Close your eyes and concentrate on breathing deeply and evenly for a few minutes. Your aim is to recreate the way you breath when you are asleep breathing from your solar plexus rather than just from your lungs.

Feel the weight of your body upon the chair, then concentrate on the weight of your feet on the floor and your hands on your thighs.

Feel the coolness of the air on your skin, and its movement over your body.

Listen to the sound of your breathing for a while. Then to the sound and feel of your heartbeat.

Listen to all the sounds close to you in the room maybe a ticking clock, the sound of a fire or air conditioning unit etc. Let your hearing flick from one sound to the next, but always staying on the sounds within the room.

Next, expand your hearing to beyond that room. Listen to the sounds within the rest of the house/building. Concentrate on hearing all of them, but not focusing on any for too long. If you find your attention fixed by a sound, move on to another sound.

Then expand your field of hearing again to the area outside around the building.

Repeat this outwards until you are hearing the farthest sounds away the distant hum of a motorway etc.

Relax and let your mind wander over these sounds, never touching on any for long.

You may find that as you're doing this, you'll see the sounds/areas you're listening to. This is where there is the tie-in to Astral Projection/Covert Viewing, for obvious reasons.

Now, there's every chance that you'll lose track of time in this state, so be aware of this!

When you're ready, bring your hearing slowly back into the room one stage at a time, then slowly open your eyes.

Personally, I find that its like looking through blue-tinted glass for a while afterwards. Almost everyone else I've taught sees the same. Some say this is seeing your own aura and blue is the colour of healing/rejuvenation.

I used to do this almost daily, but haven't done it properly for years now. It's also possible to do this with your eyes open, as the teacher used to demonstrate with a spooky vacant stare during assembly.

Anyway feel free to give it a go! It's very relaxing and refreshing.

In the next part of this blog series, I'll tell you how I and a number of my friends decided to use this meditation technique for our first foray into Astral Projection...