Hello forum!
Again I'm documenting another astral projection attempt, and before I go on I would like to thank everyone for their help and guidance along my travels to becoming astral and to grow spiritually, it means alot to me!
Anyways, prior to starting the experience I took a bath to relax my physical body. Afterward I stretched, and then layed in bed. I put in theta binaural beats and started to focus on my breathing. I made it clear to myself that my goal was to astral project. So I take 10 deep breaths, visualizing me inhaling white good calming mist and exhaling black tension mist. I then did the relaxing technique where you tense up your muscles and release, from my toes to my face.
Then I started to visualize myself free falling, smoke rings coming up around me and feeling the falling motion (like an elevator) and going down an elevator. (While visualizing going down an elevator my mind would not stop making me think of scary faces in the elevator with Me, I eventually ignored it and went into deeper meditation and forgot about them) I got into the light trance stage of meditation, my mind felt disconnected from my body, my body felt heavier and warm/fuzzy. After awhile of breathing techniques my hands and legs became numb. Like, completely numb. So I figured I should try exiting techniques.
For some reason the rope technique doesn't really work for me, I'm not exactly 100% sure how to do it (do I just climb up the rope first person view until I reach the ceiling or what?). I tried the floating technique and the roll technique. When I visualized my consciousness moving from my actual body I had to focus my eyes forward and really try to focus. This made me a bit dizzy and made me feel like my head was spinning. After trying these for awhile I tried to the roll technique and my body started feeling lighter, my stomach felt a little upset and my head felt like it was being pulled to the direction of the roll. I did not go out of body though.
So after that I decided maybe I should try partial projection. I tried to project my numb Hand/arm out of my body and whoah this felt weird. My arm started to tingle a bit and it felt very light. I'm not sure if this was from the thought of my astral arm coming out making my actual hand move slightly or not. But eventually I just tried lifting my hand because I thought maybe the astral hand feels the same as physical, but It did not project out.
I might also add that during the trance I was in my body would have random split second vibrations, feeling like my heart would skip a beat when I breath in and then beat fast when I breath out. I'm not positive that these were the vibrations, Infact I'm sure they weren't, probably from excitement.
Anyways even though I did not project I feel like I'm making considerable progress, maybe I need to get into a deeper state of meditation to successfully project out of my body or something. Either way I'm not giving up and I am determined to make this happen.
The whole process lasted about an hour and afterwards I am feeling VERY happy and excited, loving and grateful. In a very great mood right now!
Please let me know what you think, and if you see any signs that I'm getting close to projection or tips to help me it would be greatly appreciated!
Much love,
Jonah