Hello dear members! Is this a somewhat common phenomenon and has anyone else experienced something similar or has some advice please? I read about spiritual overburn but that sounds unlikely as I have nothing to be overburnt from. I tried to make it easy for myself with only 5 minutes of meditation+14 minutes of chakra balancing per day for starters until I pick up a tempo. However it feels like Im fighting against a storm to bring myself to meditate for only 5 minutes (like its some legendary chore). I have been "studying" occult for almost 5 years now (wanted to ap for at least 7 years) with very little to show for it. My longest streak was 2 and a half months of daily and semi daily practice in late 2023 (life felt amazing) unti l went back to 0 again. I dont know what to do anymore... Total amount of times I tried to have an obe experience in those 7 years is I believe about 5 even tough astral projection is one of my biggest life dreams:/
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Extreme laziness to practice anything related to occult/spirituality
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Pretty normal human experience. We crave the easy. Hard things are hard, if they weren’t then everyone would do them.
You said legendary chore, view it as a legendary foe to vanquish. Don’t water down your ritual to make it easier but don’t overdo it either. Pick one ritual and do it in its entirety daily. Beginners like to try to add 5+ rituals into a 2 hour slog fest for some reason to force something to happen (I know I did).
If it helps my biggest break throughs often came after periods of feeling the most resistance to actually do anything.
Get out of the bed early daily, do the ritual, and preserve and you will eventually hit that moment that will define you for years to come.
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You said legendary chore, view it as a legendary foe to vanquish. Don’t water down your ritual to make it easier but don’t overdo it either. Pick one ritual and do it in its entirety daily. Beginners like to try to add 5+ rituals into a 2 hour slog fest for some reason to force something to happen (I know I did).
If it helps my biggest break throughs often came after periods of feeling the most resistance to actually do anything.
Get out of the bed early daily, do the ritual, and preserve and you will eventually hit that moment that will define you for years to come.
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It's like trying to motivate yourself to stay focused on a task in a dream... because your daily life is just a repetitious waking dream and stirring within it isn't effortless, you need to be galvanized, curious, or fed-up.
You will die someday, your body will cease to sustain you and all you've come to know will vanish. What are you here for? What and who are you? What were you before birth? What makes something alive? What is what is? If these statements don't spike interest in you, it's a sign you're anesthetized in a cocoon of apathy, false-confidence, and disordered thinking.
Your practice needs fire to power it, and your fire needs to be fueled. From the sounds of it you have nothing to feed the fire, so the practice has stopped. You need a real reason to practice. Why do you want to Astral Project? Cause you think it'd be neat? The jarring realization that your body is nothing but a meat-vase for consciousness and not a source of identity is more than many people could handle, would you be able to face that viscerally? To exist without flesh and breath, as a spectre? As something other than your body?
Perhaps the reality of the practice isn't there for you. I like intensity because it makes the flame burn hot, but more importantly life deserves to be taken with seriousness when nessecary (like when getting motivation to practice
).
You will die someday, your body will cease to sustain you and all you've come to know will vanish. What are you here for? What and who are you? What were you before birth? What makes something alive? What is what is? If these statements don't spike interest in you, it's a sign you're anesthetized in a cocoon of apathy, false-confidence, and disordered thinking.
Your practice needs fire to power it, and your fire needs to be fueled. From the sounds of it you have nothing to feed the fire, so the practice has stopped. You need a real reason to practice. Why do you want to Astral Project? Cause you think it'd be neat? The jarring realization that your body is nothing but a meat-vase for consciousness and not a source of identity is more than many people could handle, would you be able to face that viscerally? To exist without flesh and breath, as a spectre? As something other than your body?
Perhaps the reality of the practice isn't there for you. I like intensity because it makes the flame burn hot, but more importantly life deserves to be taken with seriousness when nessecary (like when getting motivation to practice
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If I were you, I'd start by running a diagnostic. Why this situation happened. Then I would cleanse the house from negativity. For cleanliness of the house it is not enough to do physical cleaning, as it is necessary to do energetic cleaning, because the dirt on the subtle plane also settles at home from quarrels, household negativity. Then again diagnostics, whether anything has changed, then we start cleaning ourselves. Through force, through “can't”. After cleaning yourself, you will be like a white sheet, and you can start practicing.
But in my personal opinion, diagnosing your situation is very important. Perhaps you have provoked somewhere yourself that the tradition in which you are practicing has “closed the door” to you. It is possible that a stronger practitioner or a person stronger than you is energetically stealing your energy and personal power. Then such a channel should be cut off.
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But in my personal opinion, diagnosing your situation is very important. Perhaps you have provoked somewhere yourself that the tradition in which you are practicing has “closed the door” to you. It is possible that a stronger practitioner or a person stronger than you is energetically stealing your energy and personal power. Then such a channel should be cut off.
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I've experienced that laziness and overloads and overburns, messed up mind, messed up senses, weird spiritual issues. A few times it felt like that too, how 5 minutes felt like doing a marathon. Fighting against a storm.
Usually I just forced it, to get into the mode and to keep going. This helped but also led to the aforesaid issues with the overkilling. It becomes natural when you do something daily. This can take a while though to get into that mode. I remember when I first started doing some long rituals, 2+ hours a day, I thought I was going insane at first but the thirst for power & results motivated so much. Still I had to somewhat force it and every now and then felt like going crazy.
I think what @beardedeldridge said is so true. "We crave the easy. Hard things are hard, if they weren’t then everyone would do them."
Everything needs this dedication, devotion, inner madness, desire to achieve something. Mental exercises, training and more training. The goals are important but it is even more important to enjoy the journey, without thinking about the outcome!
Find the motivation, enjoy the journey!
Usually I just forced it, to get into the mode and to keep going. This helped but also led to the aforesaid issues with the overkilling. It becomes natural when you do something daily. This can take a while though to get into that mode. I remember when I first started doing some long rituals, 2+ hours a day, I thought I was going insane at first but the thirst for power & results motivated so much. Still I had to somewhat force it and every now and then felt like going crazy.
I think what @beardedeldridge said is so true. "We crave the easy. Hard things are hard, if they weren’t then everyone would do them."
Everything needs this dedication, devotion, inner madness, desire to achieve something. Mental exercises, training and more training. The goals are important but it is even more important to enjoy the journey, without thinking about the outcome!
Find the motivation, enjoy the journey!
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Maybe meditation and chakra balancing don't go together so well as daily practice if done one after the other and without some activity (could be something mundane like doing chores) to separate them. After all, meditation is such a huge challenge for many because it means not doing anything, just letting things settle down in your mind without interfering, and people are not used to being inactive and not in control. I'm not familiar with the concept of chakra balancing but I suspect that it involves active intervention, the polar opposite of the meditational approach (always assuming that you're using some empty-mind technique like Culadasa's). This means that you're first struggling to let go and then struggling to actively intervene, perhaps it's all this struggling that caused your spiritual overburn. Add to this such an ambitious goal like having OBEs… better to keep it simple for starters and emphasise your meditation practice instead.
Meditation alone, however, can be quite boring, perhaps you'd like to add a simple ritual like the LBRP or Aidan Wachter's Reclaiming Rite (which I myself perform every day).
Meditation alone, however, can be quite boring, perhaps you'd like to add a simple ritual like the LBRP or Aidan Wachter's Reclaiming Rite (which I myself perform every day).
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hey Alanford and everyone
alanford congrats on the 2 and a half month streak in 2023 !!
ONLY speaking from my own experience .
Long ago i decided to take up running without a solid plan that ended poorly . When i began i didnt complete
the distances or the amount of time doing the running. I was exhausted my form was off no proper pacing . I
had days i skipped a couple of streaks here and there yet it was non consistent and a joke at best .
a half a year passed what i did to turn things around was simply MAKING A FIRM DECISION that everyday no matter what is happening
no matter the weather or my mood if i was tired or hungry or what ever happened the day before or on that day . I
WILL RUN between this time and end at this time . It was a fixed time each day for example 7am-730am . NO MATTER
if its snowing, raining or sun is blazing too hot THAT time between 7am-730am I AM RUNNING ! dont care about results
dont care if i only get 1/4 2/4 of the way or finish the distance if i get tired walk slowly for the remainder of the time either way
I AM GOING RUNNING each day at that exact time NO EXCUSES
or EXCEPTIONS. The world stops and nothing other than 7am-730am running is happening.
NO EXCEPTIONS ! running is at 7am-730am ! NO EXCEPTIONS ! i decided to make this firm commitment for 3 days straight at the start of it all
after that success i challenged myself for 4 days straight ! if i happen to be sick i walked it yet i was out there 7am-730am NO EXCEPTIONS.
with myself i had a serious discussion . I am going to start this because its really what i want in my life or i dont want it .
IF i really want it this strict routine without giving myself any options out is the only way i'm going to get it done. IF i honestly dont want it
i should look into doing something else which has similar benefits and channel myself into that .
so basically for me what worked is making a firm decision without exception with a fixed time of the day which doesnt change
NO MATTER WHAT ! or dont do it at all and find something else .
Thats what helped me.
Alanford and everyone have a great week !!
alanford congrats on the 2 and a half month streak in 2023 !!
ONLY speaking from my own experience .
Long ago i decided to take up running without a solid plan that ended poorly . When i began i didnt complete
the distances or the amount of time doing the running. I was exhausted my form was off no proper pacing . I
had days i skipped a couple of streaks here and there yet it was non consistent and a joke at best .
a half a year passed what i did to turn things around was simply MAKING A FIRM DECISION that everyday no matter what is happening
no matter the weather or my mood if i was tired or hungry or what ever happened the day before or on that day . I
WILL RUN between this time and end at this time . It was a fixed time each day for example 7am-730am . NO MATTER
if its snowing, raining or sun is blazing too hot THAT time between 7am-730am I AM RUNNING ! dont care about results
dont care if i only get 1/4 2/4 of the way or finish the distance if i get tired walk slowly for the remainder of the time either way
I AM GOING RUNNING each day at that exact time NO EXCUSES
or EXCEPTIONS. The world stops and nothing other than 7am-730am running is happening.
NO EXCEPTIONS ! running is at 7am-730am ! NO EXCEPTIONS ! i decided to make this firm commitment for 3 days straight at the start of it all
after that success i challenged myself for 4 days straight ! if i happen to be sick i walked it yet i was out there 7am-730am NO EXCEPTIONS.
with myself i had a serious discussion . I am going to start this because its really what i want in my life or i dont want it .
IF i really want it this strict routine without giving myself any options out is the only way i'm going to get it done. IF i honestly dont want it
i should look into doing something else which has similar benefits and channel myself into that .
so basically for me what worked is making a firm decision without exception with a fixed time of the day which doesnt change
NO MATTER WHAT ! or dont do it at all and find something else .
Thats what helped me.
Alanford and everyone have a great week !!
I will do that from now on, sadly I am a master of excuses but I really want to change that. Congrats on your regime, going walking even if you are sick and its snowing is extremely admirable!
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They do and always have spiked an interest in me, since early childhood. My reasons for wanting to astral project is to learn more about different planes of existence. I dont want to ap just because it would be neat, I want to expand my knowledge and being able to ap opens many doors to further progress. I dont have a specific plan on how to do that once I make it because Im focusing on achieving ap first. Now that I think about it the most likely reason for why I only tried it 5 times in 7 years is because Im terrified I wont be able to do it even if I try daily for years. I am afraid of failure, I was always told I cant do shit and that Im incompetent whenIt's like trying to motivate yourself to stay focused on a task in a dream... because your daily life is just a repetitious waking dream and stirring within it isn't effortless, you need to be galvanized, curious, or fed-up.
You will die someday, your body will cease to sustain you and all you've come to know will vanish. What are you here for? What and who are you? What were you before birth? What makes something alive? What is what is? If these statements don't spike interest in you, it's a sign you're anesthetized in a cocoon of apathy, false-confidence, and disordered thinking.
Your practice needs fire to power it, and your fire needs to be fueled. From the sounds of it you have nothing to feed the fire, so the practice has stopped. You need a real reason to practice. Why do you want to Astral Project? Cause you think it'd be neat? The jarring realization that your body is nothing but a meat-vase for consciousness and not a source of identity is more than many people could handle, would you be able to face that viscerally? To exist without flesh and breath, as a spectre? As something other than your body?
Perhaps the reality of the practice isn't there for you. I like intensity because it makes the flame burn hot, but more importantly life deserves to be taken with seriousness when nessecary (like when getting motivation to practice
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It was sent accidentally, what I was trying to say is that I am likely suffering from low self esteem
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I didnt know that, I will separate my meditating and chakra work then. My logic was that its better to visualise chakras with an emptier mind after meditating. The hardest part for me is to make myself meditate and the first minute of meditating. After that I just let go and end up meditating for much longer because I actually like it once I start. I just use 5 minutes as a motivator to do it. I guess I also get demoralized because I dont know what is the next step after I make a consistent meditating regiment.
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After reading these replies and some thinking I diagnosed Its most likely due to low self esteem and like you said feeling like the doors have been closed for me. I dont know how to do energetic cleaning so I will research that, someone stealing my energy and personal power also seems highly possible to be honest. You think I can break this channel?
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After reading these replies and some thinking I diagnosed Its most likely due to low self esteem and like you said feeling like the doors have been closed for me. I dont know how to do energetic cleaning so I will research that. Someone stealing my energy and personal power also seems highly possible to be honest. You think I can break this channel?
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After more thinking on this problem I diagnosed that Its most likely due to low self esteem and like you said feeling like the doors have been closed for me. I dont know how to do energetic cleaning so I will research that. Someone stealing my energy and personal power also seems highly possible to be honest. You think I can break this channel?
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And thank you all for your help, I highly appreciate it
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Why do you want to do this? What goals do you want to achieve, what answers are you trying to find? Yearning is a great resource, like hope, it can be an endless source of fuel.
This is madness. You are afraid of failing, and so you choose to fail. This is a blatant hurdle you have to logic your way out of, and you'll be stronger & more determined for having done so.
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You are not the only one. I am there too.
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I will suggest a few methods to you, but I am not sure if they will suit you. However, as they say, in war, all methods are good!!))) The simplest options for cleansing yourself are to take a bath with salt, after having spoken over the salt and water. Or, in your own words, ask to take away all the negativity, everything bad, everything that prevents you from living a full life. Also, during the waning moon, it works wonderfully to take a candle (made only from natural materials) and, after speaking and asking the fire to cleanse you, move the candle in a spiral in front of yourself. Important! Do not do this in front of a mirror. And light the candle only with matches! You will notice where the candle smokes, sputters, goes out, or burns intensely—work on that area longer. Then place the candle next to you, let it burn down, and watch the flame. Bring your palms close to the flame, but do not burn yourself. Fire is a very powerful element; it can burn away everything. Cleansing and cutting off unnecessary channels using a photo is also effective. Print a recent photo of yourself, make a disposable candle holder from foil or use a metal lid, place it on your photo (important: you should be alone in the photo, without live flowers, animals, or people), pour salt into it, recite a spell that resonates with you, light a candle, place it in the salt, and let it burn down. Then, without touching it with bare hands, immediately throw away the entire candle holder with the salt and the remaining candle. Often, the leftover candle can tell and show a lot. Examine it.
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That Shia Lebouf video is funny.
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The old consistency problem.
If there is one thing I've learned in life is that, if you must learn something or do something, you will do/learn that by force or by your own will. After some beatings, you may not want to do that on your own, but you will have to. Instead of waiting for something nasty to happen that compels you to do what you had to do for a long time, it's better to do with bitter taste in your mouth than to sit on your misery.
You don't want to be obligated to search for it desperately in times of necessity.
If it is your path or your Dharma, it will be done. Keep that in mind.
Of course, if you take this too far, you will become robotic and soul less. But we as humans are too whimsical and pampered to become rigid to that extent, so please don't use that as excuse, like many do. Just don't be too extreme about it, to the brink of masochistic behavior.
Pushing beyond pain is part of the journey, don't be afraid to stretch your threshold of discomfort. Challenge yourself. A strong liberating instance cannot generate results without a strong controller instance. And vice-versa.
If there is one thing I've learned in life is that, if you must learn something or do something, you will do/learn that by force or by your own will. After some beatings, you may not want to do that on your own, but you will have to. Instead of waiting for something nasty to happen that compels you to do what you had to do for a long time, it's better to do with bitter taste in your mouth than to sit on your misery.
You don't want to be obligated to search for it desperately in times of necessity.
If it is your path or your Dharma, it will be done. Keep that in mind.
Of course, if you take this too far, you will become robotic and soul less. But we as humans are too whimsical and pampered to become rigid to that extent, so please don't use that as excuse, like many do. Just don't be too extreme about it, to the brink of masochistic behavior.
Pushing beyond pain is part of the journey, don't be afraid to stretch your threshold of discomfort. Challenge yourself. A strong liberating instance cannot generate results without a strong controller instance. And vice-versa.
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I feel you. i kind have stopped with all the jazz with chakras and chants and crap because it really kind of is an unreliable way to have a spiritual experience given it offers no real path forward other than "just keep doing it until it works, trust me".
its really just better to approach this from a more introspective and contemplative angle, because no amount of mindfulness ever helped me astral project and the resources i find on it seem to be heavily infected by new age woo to be taken seriously.
so yeah, i might be missing something, but i need to focus on practical concerns for the time being... i want to accomplish more than just being "serene".
its really just better to approach this from a more introspective and contemplative angle, because no amount of mindfulness ever helped me astral project and the resources i find on it seem to be heavily infected by new age woo to be taken seriously.
so yeah, i might be missing something, but i need to focus on practical concerns for the time being... i want to accomplish more than just being "serene".
Hello dear members! Is this a somewhat common phenomenon and has anyone else experienced something similar or has some advice please? I read about spiritual overburn but that sounds unlikely as I have nothing to be overburnt from. I tried to make it easy for myself with only 5 minutes of meditation+14 minutes of chakra balancing per day for starters until I pick up a tempo. However it feels like Im fighting against a storm to bring myself to meditate for only 5 minutes (like its some legendary chore). I have been "studying" occult for almost 5 years now (wanted to ap for at least 7 years) with very little to show for it. My longest streak was 2 and a half months of daily and semi daily practice in late 2023 (life felt amazing) unti l went back to 0 again. I dont know what to do anymore... Total amount of times I tried to have an obe experience in those 7 years is I believe about 5 even tough astral projection is one of my biggest life dreams:/
My question to you is what are you focused on achieving?
If you were lifting weights in the gym , and had no specific purpose as to what your goal is , then I would be very surprised that you would avidly get yourself to the gym regularly. But if you were training for a specific well defined clear reason , then You would be motivated.
Its the same with occult / spiritual practices
Have a clear well defined specific reason / goal.
Also something that I have noticed over the time I have been exploring this (decades) is that there are 3 things to be aware of in general terms
1. the what .. the details of what you are doing
2 . the how .. the details of ritual practice
and
3 . the how to .. the actual day to day week in week out work on yourself to get yourself out of your own way , stop self sabotage , so that you can do what is required and how to do it.
Your "laziness" is part of the doing of the "how to " .. working on your internal state(s) of mind , emotion , motivation that are getting in the way.
Consider that your laziness is symptom of too wide a focus , on too many things , all at once , so that the self preservation parts of your deep mind are holding you back , and that manifests as somewhat of a desire , but a lack of drive.
A test in terms of ideomotor reaction for agreement from your deep mind , choose one thing .. "commit to doing it for 2 years .. then .. wait for confirmation in the form of "active driven interest"
No drive = give it a miss for now
There will be something that activates drive and energy and focus .
My question to you is what are you focused on achieving?
If you were lifting weights in the gym , and had no specific purpose as to what your goal is , then I would be very surprised that you would avidly get yourself to the gym regularly. But if you were training for a specific well defined clear reason , then You would be motivated.
Its the same with occult / spiritual practices
Have a clear well defined specific reason / goal.
Also something that I have noticed over the time I have been exploring this (decades) is that there are 3 things to be aware of in general terms
1. the what .. the details of what you are doing
2 . the how .. the details of ritual practice
and
3 . the how to .. the actual day to day week in week out work on yourself to get yourself out of your own way , stop self sabotage , so that you can do what is required and how to do it.
Your "laziness" is part of the doing of the "how to " .. working on your internal state(s) of mind , emotion , motivation that are getting in the way.
Consider that your laziness is symptom of too wide a focus , on too many things , all at once , so that the self preservation parts of your deep mind are holding you back , and that manifests as somewhat of a desire , but a lack of drive.
A test in terms of ideomotor reaction for agreement from your deep mind , choose one thing .. "commit to doing it for 2 years .. then .. wait for confirmation in the form of "active driven interest"
No drive = give it a miss for now
There will be something that activates drive and energy and focus .
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Personally, I always found laziness is cured by the same medicine as fear: good ol', much-maligned denial. If one does not say he is afraid or lazy, the problem stays manageable. If you start talking to that devil, you get possessed faster than meth sells out at a Korn concert.
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I often reach that shore when you're about to cross over or project when I don't want to. "Mind awake; body asleep." Basically, you have to create the conditions in your room and body to where your body is completely relaxed and starting to cycle through the stages of sleep while your mind has near-wakefulness. It's like when you know you have to get up in the morning for work, and your body is tired, but you just can't shut off your mind and go to sleep. The fact that your alarm will go off in a couple of hours is still on your mind. Alternatively, you're anxious about something and can't sleep. Whatever it is, you need your 'mind' focused on something external to yourself and what's going on in your body.
Beyond that, just get really really comfortable in your bed like the way you get comfortable before you sleep. You can even do progressive muscle relaxation techniques: "Start with your toes, release any tension..." Once you reach the point where your body is a non-point, I often focus on myself. Think about the person you see in the mirror, how you are in your day to day life and how that person differs from the person you feel you are in your head. Feel that mirror person - don't think about it - feel it. For me it's a bit fear-inducing that I'm that person, that I'm them, this person that feels different from mind-me. Basically meditate or shift the focus you had on that external thing keeping your mind awake to mirror-you. (Sorry for the vague description, but all I know is how it feels.) Anyway, you want to focus on the mirror-you until it makes the thinking-you get a little anxious and then... go deeper into that feeling of mirror-you.
You may get little... sparks. Vibrations. In your head, your toes - wherever. You want your whole body to vibrate. You want that electricity to run through your whole body like a circuit from your head to your toes. It's almost like flexing a muscle. In your daily life you can focus on feeling your energy, or your chi, or whatever you want to call the sensation of being alive in your hands and fingers. When you can make your whole body sing with the vibrations, you just want to deepen that and make it more intense. You may start to feel lighter, or fade out, and your heart WILL START POUNDING OUT OF YOUR CHEST. You may feel fear, or feel like you are dying - this can cause you to pull back. You just have to ignore it and keep going. There may also be a buzzing sound like tinnitus on steroids. You will literally start to feel yourself leave your body, and you can tell it is a real experience really happening - haha.
Beyond that, I have no pointers. Beginners often have the biggest trouble reaching the vibrational state and mastering it. Because really there's no exact field manual to it, you just have to experiment. Apparently once you get the hang of shaking off your skin it gets easier. Texts I've read on the subject talk mostly about what to do after. The meditation thing is more simple, just gotta' focus on that feeling that makes you want to stop and erase it. Let the fullness of nothing trample upon it. Or something like that.
The vibrational state makes me feel a little weird after, I assume that's normal though. There's no Astral Projector's Anonymous.
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I lnow this from my music study. Persistenting and doing every day the hard things, is not easy. And no, it doesn't get easier with knowing more or with more experience. This is one of the flaws of the human mind and people who can succesfully cope with the human flaws of their mind, are succesfull in doing magic.
The human brains gets easily bored when they have to do things on repetion, because of automatisation and the new connections that are made in the brain. Partly this is functional: you don't have to think about how to grab the door knob or how to vaccume clean your house. Partly this is a not so nice feature: your brains don't want to give attention to things they have done hundreds of times. They only pay attention to things that are different to the last time you did the same thing.
This causes often in beginners that they are trying all kinds of techniques, but not a single technique long enough to really benefit from it. I know for sure that the more experienced magicians recognize this in beginners or even in their own path. And often beginnets crash after a long period of doing different techniques, or they get bored.
Sollutions: do the same thing over and again but change tiny little details when you notice feelings of being bored with it. Focus on the things you've changed. And keep notes of it! Focus in that diary on the tiny little changes that you experience from day to day, because that is what the human mind keeps going. That is how our brains work. But never forget to write in the diary. It is part of the learning process. I cannot stress this enough.
The human brains gets easily bored when they have to do things on repetion, because of automatisation and the new connections that are made in the brain. Partly this is functional: you don't have to think about how to grab the door knob or how to vaccume clean your house. Partly this is a not so nice feature: your brains don't want to give attention to things they have done hundreds of times. They only pay attention to things that are different to the last time you did the same thing.
This causes often in beginners that they are trying all kinds of techniques, but not a single technique long enough to really benefit from it. I know for sure that the more experienced magicians recognize this in beginners or even in their own path. And often beginnets crash after a long period of doing different techniques, or they get bored.
Sollutions: do the same thing over and again but change tiny little details when you notice feelings of being bored with it. Focus on the things you've changed. And keep notes of it! Focus in that diary on the tiny little changes that you experience from day to day, because that is what the human mind keeps going. That is how our brains work. But never forget to write in the diary. It is part of the learning process. I cannot stress this enough.
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agreed, the human bias towards novelty is the biggest habit you need to break if you want to become truly successful in any craft, repetition is boring but it pays off over time the more you practice.