Astral Projection Practice

Astral projection (also known as astral travel) is a term used to describe an intentional out-of-body experience that assumes the existence of a subtle body, known as the astral body or body of light, through which consciousness can function separately from the physical body and travel throughout the astral plane. This meditation takes you through a practice that can help you consciously have outer body experiences.

Transcript

This is a meditation to prepare you to have a conscious out-of-body experience that some call astral projection.

It will guide you through a technique that,

When practiced,

Can allow you to have this kind of outer body experience over time.

Simply visualize the suggestions and allow whatever will happen to happen.

Start by lying down on your back on a comfortable surface that you can really sink into.

Close your eyes and breathe only through your nose.

Relax.

Notice the pace of your breathing.

Notice the moments between your inhales and exhales.

See if you can reduce the space between inhalation and exhalation.

See if you can allow your inhales to blend into exhales and back into inhales.

Notice the feeling in your lungs as you breathe.

Can you make your breathing easier?

Can you make your breathing more effortless?

Notice how good it can feel for air to pass through your nostrils.

Notice how good it can feel for air to pass in and out of your lungs.

Take a moment to smile inwardly,

To let your body know that it can sink deeper and deeper into relaxation.

Allow the surface to take your body.

Allow yourself to give in to gravity.

Allow yourself to surrender.

Now notice the feeling in your spine.

There are 33 bones in your spine.

See if you can notice the weight of these individual bones.

See if you can allow each bone in your spine to sink deeper and deeper into relaxation.

Your body is being supported now,

So any and all tension can release.

Your back muscles can relax.

Your back muscles can melt away and sink towards the ground.

Simply feel your spine and as you're breathing gently and easily,

See if you can breathe into your spine.

Can you breathe into the spaces between the bones of your spine?

Can you breathe relaxation into your spine?

And as you continue to pay attention and feel and breathe,

You can notice that your body is getting more and more relaxed.

And as you become more and more relaxed,

Your breathing can become even more gentle and even more easy.

It can feel even better to inhale and to exhale.

So that moment by moment,

You feel yourself going deeper and deeper into a relaxed state where your body can let go.

And perhaps you can eventually let go of your body.

Bring your attention to your pelvis.

Notice the weight of your pelvis.

See if you can breathe gently and easily into your pelvis,

Allowing your hips,

Your butt,

Your pelvic floor to relax and sink deeper and deeper,

Allowing yourself to breathe relaxation into the spaces between these parts.

Bring your attention down to your thighs.

Notice the feeling in your thighs,

Your upper leg.

Notice the weight of your thigh bones,

Your femurs.

See if you can allow your upper leg muscles,

Quads,

Hamstrings to release and relax.

See if you can breathe relaxation into this part of your body.

And see if you can let your muscles melt away down towards the earth,

Melting off your bones,

Giving in to gravity and noticing how good it feels to simply let go.

Noticing the feeling in your lower legs,

Seeing if you can feel the weight of your shins and lower leg bones,

Seeing if you can allow your lower leg muscles,

Your calves,

To relax so deeply that they almost melt away.

Breathing relaxation into this area so that your lower legs can surrender to gravity,

Can sink deeper into the surface supporting you.

Continue breathing and becoming more and more relaxed.

As you notice your feet,

See if you can feel the weight of the little bones in your feet and your toes,

Allowing your feet to sink deeper and deeper into relaxation.

Breathing relaxation into your feet,

Allowing everything to melt away,

Allowing your feet to give in to gravity,

Allowing the surface to support you as you let go more and more,

As you relax more and more.

And as you breathe gently and easily,

Take a moment to scan your lower body,

Allowing your bones to feel heavier and heavier as you allow the surface to support you more,

Allowing tension to leave your muscles as your muscles melt away,

Almost melting off of your bones,

Allowing yourself to sink deeper and deeper into relaxation.

Now bring your attention to your arms,

The weight of your upper arm bones and your forearm bones,

Noticing the weight of the bones in your hands.

As you breathe into your arms from fingertips to shoulders,

You allow them to become more and more relaxed.

You allow the muscles in your arms and hands to almost melt off the bones,

Letting your arms feel so relaxed that they actually feel heavier and heavier.

As you surrender more and more to the surface that is supporting you,

As your arms become more and more relaxed,

They feel heavier and heavier.

And as they feel heavier and heavier,

They become more and more relaxed,

So that in each and every moment,

Your body can let go even more.

And in each and every moment,

You perhaps can let go more of your body.

Now notice the feeling in your neck,

In your head.

Breathe into your neck.

Breathe into your head.

Breathing relaxation into all the muscles that keep your head supported during the day.

And notice now how well your head is supported by the surface.

Notice how your neck doesn't need to do anything.

Your neck muscles can completely relax and let go.

Your face muscles can completely relax and let go.

Your eye muscles can completely relax and let go.

And you can notice how good it feels to allow these muscles to let go.

How good it feels to breathe relaxation into your entire body,

Allowing your body to feel heavier and heavier as you relax more and more.

Allowing your body to be supported by the surface,

So that you do not have to do anything.

Each gentle breath you take allows you to feel even better,

Allowing you to relax more and more,

So that in each and every moment,

You sink deeper and deeper into a blissful state,

Where your body can rest and rejuvenate on your own.

You can take a moment to scan your entire body,

Noticing how good it feels to lie here,

Supported by the surface,

Completely relaxed,

Sinking deeper and deeper.

And continue to breathe gently and easily,

Letting your body melt into the surface.

With each and every breath,

You can feel heavier and heavier.

With each and every breath,

You melt deeper and deeper into relaxation.

Now imagine there's a rope hanging down towards you,

Right above your chest.

And just imagine what it would feel like to grab this rope and pull on it.

You can visualize one or both of your hands grabbing the rope above you.

You can visualize what it would feel like to pull yourself up to sitting,

To pull on this rope so that you sat up.

You can stop here and breathe.

Breathe,

Allowing yourself to continuously become more and more relaxed,

Allowing your body to sink deeper and deeper into the surface supporting you,

While also imagining what it could feel like to sit up out of your body.

What would it feel like if you could climb this rope out of your body?

What could it feel like for your body to relax and remain heavy and horizontal while your energy body sat up?

Just imagine.

Just breathe,

Continuing to relax,

Continuing to feel good,

Imagining what it could feel like to sit up out of your body.

Now imagine lying back down into your body.

You can visualize using the rope to help you lie down.

And right now,

Notice the feeling of your physical body against the surface supporting you.

Notice the feeling of being relaxed and heavy.

Continue to breathe.

Once again,

Imagine pulling the rope so that you can sit up.

Visualize using this rope to climb out of your upper body,

Imagining your energy body sitting up while your physical body remains horizontal.

In the same way that your muscles can be so relaxed they almost fall off your bones,

Your physical body can become so relaxed it almost falls off your energy body.

What could it feel like to let go of your physical body?

How relaxed would you have to be to let your body go just for a moment?

Now imagine climbing the rope a little more.

Imagine what it could feel like to climb up so that your lower body also separated from your body.

You can allow yourself to feel lighter and lighter.

Allow yourself to feel so light that you float up towards the ceiling.

If this was possible,

What could it feel like?

If you could float out of your body,

What might you see?

Could you look back down on yourself?

What would you look like?

What might the room look like from that point of view?

Continue to breathe gently and easily and take a moment to visualize what you might see if you were to float up to the ceiling.

Take a moment to look around the room from this perspective.

Just imagine you are looking down from the ceiling while your physical body relaxes and rejuvenates on the surface where you left it.

Now imagine coming back down towards your physical body just as you imagined before.

First sit into your legs,

Then lie back down into your upper body.

Notice the feeling of your back against the surface.

Notice the feeling of the weight of your body.

Notice the air entering and leaving your lungs.

If you think you felt something that might be like leaving your body,

That's great.

If all you did was visualize,

That's also great.

You can listen to this meditation again to follow this practice or simply practice it on your own.

Over time,

It will feel more and more possible to project out of your body.

But before we end today's session,

It's important to give yourself a moment of grounding.

Please squeeze your arms and legs with your hands.

Make sure you're actually squeezing with your physical hands,

Not just imagining it.

You can also tap your physical body if you like.

Please tap against your arms and tap against your torso.

If it's comfortable,

You can tap against your head and reach down and tap against your legs.

When you feel fully back in your body,

Please open your eyes,

Sit up with your whole self,

And close today's practice.