‘Out of Body’ is a term that is denoted to specific experiences of man which involves a feeling of traveling or floating outside one’s own body. Commonly known as OBE, short for out of body experiences, the concept is synonymous to ‘autoscopy’, which refers to watching one’s own body and the world from a separate location and ‘astral projection’, referring to leaving one’s body and traveling to another astral plane.
Out of body experiences occur in various stages of withdrawal, comatose, separation, flexibility and return phases. In the first step of withdrawal, the body stops responding to inputs from the sense organs. It is a state which is similar to that of sleeping when your body does not interact with the external environment and the attention of your mind is focused elsewhere.
The second comatose stage of any out of body experience involves total paralysis. That is, no kind of movement of body takes place and all body muscles turn rigid. However, other extra sensory perceptions take place and you might experience shivering and tingling sensations primarily and then intense vibrations, loud noises or even sight through closed eyes.
The third stage of separation is perhaps the most important and crucial phase of an out of body experience where your perceptual existence separates and travels forth from your physical body. Still accompanied by strong sensations, it is the stage where people fail, the physical pull and emotional fears not letting the separation to take place. Remember that in case you are inducing an OBE, even the smallest of fear or anxiety regarding whether you can come back or not will result in your body pulling you back. Complete relaxation and letting your spirit loose can only achieve successful separation.
The fourth stage of freedom is where the real out of body experience is enjoyed. After the initial inertia and a tendency to get pulled back into the body, your astral body starts moving freely once a certain distance is covered. Watching your own body from a distance can be an eerie but out of the world experience and you travel to higher planes and realms.
The last phase of the out of body experience consists of the re-entry of one’s free force. Most of the time the individual’s sudden anxiety regarding return, after he has traveled too far away from the body, results in a sudden pull-in, or sucking in or a sudden awakening from the experience. On the contrary it may also happen that instead of such suddenness, the re-entry is slow and gradual with a feeling of awakening from a deep trance.
An out of body experience, most often than not, is seen to occur in relation to sleeping or a near death experience. Most of the time OBE takes place before, after or during sleep, especially while lucid dreaming when the body sleeps but the mind is wakeful, focused and in control of the dreams. This is an extremely rare phenomenon but is highly conducive to out of body experiences. Moreover, near death experiences like drowning or road accidents also results in an OBE with the individual being able to watch the accident as if from a distance.
The best technique to induce out of body experiences is that of meditation. It is singularly the most effective way of gaining control on one’s subconscious mind, improve on powerful visualizations, and channeling of one’s attention and energy. Apart from meditation, modern technological interventions like binaural beats may also come in handy in inducing out of body perceptions with its different sound vibrations. These different sound waves going through each ear fuses into each other in the brain for creating a mental state that facilitates out of body experiences. It can be concluded that such incidents are extremely rare and if one is fortunate enough to experience even one, it will be an experience of a life time.
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