Post by VananLawbreaker on Dec 30, 2008 6:34:23 GMT -5
The Monroe Technique
Step One:
Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself" to having an OBE. (out of body experience). This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although progressive muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3... until about 50 or 100) are known to work well.
Step Two:
Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnogogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With practice you can learn to control the hypnogogic state without using your arm. Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the hypnogogic state. Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.
Step Three:
Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. Observe your field of vision through your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of your. After a while you may start to notice light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroe calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts.
The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it in the morning just as you are getting up, or after a short nap.
Step Four:
Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most vague.
Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as if electricity is being shot through the body. Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical body.
For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the following directions:
1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.
2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids, but do not shut out all light.
3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head pointed toward magnetic north.
4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer than what might normally be comfortable.
5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.
6. Enter a state of relaxation.
7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial to your well being. Repeat this five times.
8. As your breathe, concentrate on the void in front of you.
9. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change your point of mental reference to six feet.
10. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line parallel to your body axis up above you head. Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them back into your body.
Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have achieved contact with them.
Step Five:
Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate on the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body. Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.
Step Six:
Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thoughts might cause you to lose control of the state.
Now having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed. Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back in to coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise will prepare you for full separation.
Step Seven:
Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering the vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally at this point.
Another method is the "Rotation Method" or "roll-out" technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed. Do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of the body, but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the body.
Other Conscious Methods:
Technique 1: Visualisation
Visualize yourself out of body. Lie down on a bed so that you are facing the ceiling and straighten your arms and legs so that they are aligned with your body and relaxed.
Next close your eyes and let yourself become completely relaxed until you have reached the stage between waking and sleeping. Even though you are now into this hazy in-between zone of consciousness you should still have full control over your mind.
After a few moments begin to visualize yourself outside of your body, imagine yourself standing several feet away and looking back at your body lying on the bed. If you can keep this visualization strongly in your mind, and for long enough, you may suddenly find yourself projected into that position and able to view your own body asleep on the bed. At this point, if you wish to remain projected you should move away from your physical body as soon as possible, as it has the tendency to pull you back in if you are too close.
Technique 2: Enter the Double
Lie down and relax as described in the technique above. Now visualize a phantom-like double of yourself hovering about five feet above your physical body. Be sure that the double is a stable visualization and that it is lying parallel to your body on the bed.
The next step is to transfer your consciousness into the double, by strongly imagining what it would really feel like to be in that position, five feet up in the air. Imagine the sensation of floating and how the room would look from this new viewpoint. Try and keep your mind inside this second body without letting it flip back and forth to the body lying below.
After a short while of doing this you may discover that your consciousness has actually transferred over to the phantom body and you are now able to perceive the room from its perspective. Without thinking of your physical body, will yourself to move away, in order to weaken the chances of an unwanted return.
Technique 3: In OuterSpace
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize moving extremely fast in outerspace. Truly imagine how it will feel like to move at the speed of sound in outer space. You must really mean it while you are flying in space. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP!
Technique 4: Rope
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize that you are inside your own body. See a long and strong rope infront of you. You have to really believe in it and start climbing it. You must really mean it and use all your senses to make your body believe that you are climbing a rope. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP!
Technique 5: Water
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize that you are in the bottom of a swimming pool. You have to really believe and mean it. You have to use all your senses to make your body believe that you are in a pool. Feel the water pressure. Now calmly start rising up the pool towards the surface of the water. You have to feel the pressure restricting you. You must really mean it and use all your senses to make your body believe that you are rising up the water. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP! Hint: Try this method after you have really gone for a swim in a pool. This is because normally after one goes for a swim he or she will naturally feel as if he is still in the water(waves). Use this feeling as an opportunity and try this method.
Step One:
Relax the body. According to Monroe, "the ability to relax is the first prerequisite, perhaps even the first step itself" to having an OBE. (out of body experience). This includes both physical and mental relaxation. Monroe does not suggest a method of attaining this relaxation, although progressive muscle relaxation, coupled with deep breathing exercises (inhale 1, exhale 2, inhale 3... until about 50 or 100) are known to work well.
Step Two:
Enter the state bordering sleep. This is known as the hypnogogic state. Once again, Monroe doesn't recommend any method of doing this. One way is to hold your forearm up, while keeping your upper arm on the bed, or ground. As you start to fall asleep, your arm will fall, and you will awaken again. With practice you can learn to control the hypnogogic state without using your arm. Another method is to concentrate on an object. When other images start to enter your thoughts, you have entered the hypnogogic state. Passively watch these images. This will also help you maintain this state of near-sleep. Monroe calls this Condition A.
Step Three:
Deepen this state. Begin to clear your mind. Observe your field of vision through your closed eyelids at the blackness in front of your. After a while you may start to notice light patterns. These are simply neural discharges. They have no specific effect. Ignore them. When they cease, one has entered what Monroe calls Condition B. From here, one must enter an even deeper state of relaxation which Monroe calls Condition C-- a state of such relaxation that you lose all awareness of the body and sensory stimulation. You are almost in a void in which your only source of stimulation will be your own thoughts.
The ideal state for leaving your body is Condition D. This is Condition C when it is voluntarily induced from a rested and refreshed condition and is not the effect of normal fatigue. To achieve Condition D, Monroe suggests that you practice entering it in the morning just as you are getting up, or after a short nap.
Step Four:
Enter a state of Vibration. This is the most important part of the technique, and also the most vague.
Many projectors have noted these vibrations at the onset of projection. They can be experienced as a mild tingling, or as if electricity is being shot through the body. Their cause is a mystery. It may actually be the astral body trying to leave the physical body.
For entering into the vibrational state, he offers the following directions:
1. Remove all jewelry or other items that might be touching your skin.
2. Darken the room so that no light can be seen through your eyelids, but do not shut out all light.
3. Lie down with your body along a north-south axis, with your head pointed toward magnetic north.
4. Loosen all clothing, but keep covered so that you are slightly warmer than what might normally be comfortable.
5. Be sure you are in a location where, and at a time when, there will be absolutely no noise to disturb you.
6. Enter a state of relaxation.
7. Give yourself the mental suggestion that you will remember all that occurs during the upcoming session that will be beneficial to your well being. Repeat this five times.
8. As your breathe, concentrate on the void in front of you.
9. Select a point a foot away from your forehead, then change your point of mental reference to six feet.
10. Turn the point 90 degrees upward by drawing an imaginary line parallel to your body axis up above you head. Focus there and reach out for the vibrations at that point and bring them back into your body.
Even if you don't know what these vibrations are, you will know when you have achieved contact with them.
Step Five:
Learn to control the vibrational state. Practice controlling them by mentally pushing them into your head, down to your toes, making them surge throughout your entire body, and producing vibrational waves from head to foot. To produce this wave effect, concentrate on the vibrations and mentally push a wave out of your head and guide it down your body. Practice this until you can induce these waves on command. Once you have control of the vibrational state, you are ready to leave the body.
Step Six:
Begin with a partial separation. The key here is thought control. Keep your mind firmly focused on the idea of leaving the body. Do not let it wander. Stray thoughts might cause you to lose control of the state.
Now having entered the vibrational state, begin exploring the OBE by releasing a hand or a foot of the "second body". Monroe suggests that you extend a limb until it comes in contact with a familiar object, such as a wall near your bed. Then push it through the object. Return the limb by placing it back in to coincidence with the physical one, decrease the vibrational rate, and then terminate the experiment. Lie quietly until you have fully returned to normal. This exercise will prepare you for full separation.
Step Seven:
Dissociate yourself from the body. Monroe suggests two methods for this. One method is to lift out of the body. To do this, think about getting lighter and lighter after entering the vibrational state. Think about how nice it would be to float upward. Keep this thought in mind at all costs and let no extraneous thoughts interrupt it. An OBE will occur naturally at this point.
Another method is the "Rotation Method" or "roll-out" technique. When you have achieved the vibrational state, try to roll over as if you were turning over in bed. Do not attempt to roll over physically. Try to twist your body from the top and virtually roll over into your second body right out of your physical self. At this point, you will be out of the body, but next to it. Think of floating upward, and you should find yourself floating above the body.
Other Conscious Methods:
Technique 1: Visualisation
Visualize yourself out of body. Lie down on a bed so that you are facing the ceiling and straighten your arms and legs so that they are aligned with your body and relaxed.
Next close your eyes and let yourself become completely relaxed until you have reached the stage between waking and sleeping. Even though you are now into this hazy in-between zone of consciousness you should still have full control over your mind.
After a few moments begin to visualize yourself outside of your body, imagine yourself standing several feet away and looking back at your body lying on the bed. If you can keep this visualization strongly in your mind, and for long enough, you may suddenly find yourself projected into that position and able to view your own body asleep on the bed. At this point, if you wish to remain projected you should move away from your physical body as soon as possible, as it has the tendency to pull you back in if you are too close.
Technique 2: Enter the Double
Lie down and relax as described in the technique above. Now visualize a phantom-like double of yourself hovering about five feet above your physical body. Be sure that the double is a stable visualization and that it is lying parallel to your body on the bed.
The next step is to transfer your consciousness into the double, by strongly imagining what it would really feel like to be in that position, five feet up in the air. Imagine the sensation of floating and how the room would look from this new viewpoint. Try and keep your mind inside this second body without letting it flip back and forth to the body lying below.
After a short while of doing this you may discover that your consciousness has actually transferred over to the phantom body and you are now able to perceive the room from its perspective. Without thinking of your physical body, will yourself to move away, in order to weaken the chances of an unwanted return.
Technique 3: In OuterSpace
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize moving extremely fast in outerspace. Truly imagine how it will feel like to move at the speed of sound in outer space. You must really mean it while you are flying in space. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP!
Technique 4: Rope
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize that you are inside your own body. See a long and strong rope infront of you. You have to really believe in it and start climbing it. You must really mean it and use all your senses to make your body believe that you are climbing a rope. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP!
Technique 5: Water
Simply lie down, relax, and begin to visualize that you are in the bottom of a swimming pool. You have to really believe and mean it. You have to use all your senses to make your body believe that you are in a pool. Feel the water pressure. Now calmly start rising up the pool towards the surface of the water. You have to feel the pressure restricting you. You must really mean it and use all your senses to make your body believe that you are rising up the water. Soon your body will also believe it and will tend to rise up. If you constantly keep up with this state you will feel vibrations. You heart will start to beat faster. Soon enough you will AP! Hint: Try this method after you have really gone for a swim in a pool. This is because normally after one goes for a swim he or she will naturally feel as if he is still in the water(waves). Use this feeling as an opportunity and try this method.