General Tips for OBEs

A Self-Induced OBE most often occurs when you are in a state somewhere between being asleep and being fully awake. It is very important to find that balance, otherwise you will either be completely unsuccessful, or end up having a great sleep, with lovely dreams, but have no idea whether or not these dreams were part of the OBE.

So let’s see how you can find that balance:

Balancing Between Sleep And Awakeness

Body Position: depending upon your body position - lying flat or sitting more or less upright - you can learn to trigger your degree of awareness. Naturally the flatter your position, the stronger the tendency to fall fully asleep. Nevertheless, some people prefer to induce an OBE lieing down. But this will come only with lots of practice.

Body Temperature: A second parameter on the awake-sleep scale, is the body temperature. Coolness is activating, but if you get too cold or too hot, it can interfere with your practice. You can stay fully awake too long and get stuck in a long thread of thoughts. If the body is kept too comfortably warm however, it is too easy to fall properly asleep.

Degree of Light: You can make yourself follow an ‘asleep-awake’ pattern by dimming the lights. Equally, if you need to stay awake (but in ‘asleep-awake’ mode) when practcing Induced OBEs at night, or when you are tired, it is best to have the room very well lit.
Some reports suggest that blindfolding also works to induce the ‘asleep-awake mode during the day, but I haven’t tried this myself.

The time of day is also important to your degree of wakefulness. If beginning your Induced OBE session too early in the day, you may be like me; I have a tendency to fall asleep too easily soon after I have woken up. Nevertheless, many people find induced OBEs in the morning hours to be much more effective.
The onus is on being fully awake before you begin. Practicing at weekends or on days you do not go to work seems the best plan here.

However, those who practice OBEs regularly, try to increase their frequency of OBE’s and therefore want to train throughout the week. In this case they tend to start OBE’s at night time, after work. Since one tends to fall asleep at that time, it is useful to counteract this by sitting in an armchair, rather than lieing down. And you can get very good results this way.

Exercises To Help Self-Induced OBEs

First of all, it must be realised that success in OBE practice will fluctuate. It can depend upon all sorts of things: your energy levels (physical and psychic), your stress levels, what is on your mind, surrounding distractions, and many more.

Practice at OBE also requires steadyness: practicing often and ensuring that conditions for practice are right. This in itself will come with experience.

Advice On Developing Your OBE Skills

Control and guide your thoughts and emotions. Even a partial control is better than none at all.

Practice Yoga. Many Yoga exercises are good for inducing OBEs. Among the best ones are those associated with body-energizing, body-awareness and visualisation.

For OBE’s in the sense of “stepping out”, the best exercises, I personally have found, are those in which you are concentrating on body processes. This prevents you drifting away in consciousness.

Meditation can be practiced using pictures as a guide, but I have found with practicing OBE, pictures very easily tend to consume your attention and they can let you drop into ordinary dreams. In contrast, concentrating on body processes gives you no distractions (other than your own body) if your attention is directed on slow motions or vibrations in the range of deep sounds felt in your abdomen or breast.

Another way to practice is to concentrate on a warm feeling, starting from the feet and going upwards, or circling that warmth through your whole body (except the head - it is best to let the head remain cool). This I have found to also work well, but not as well as concentrating on body processes themselves.

You could also visualise energy circling around your body and then circling within your body. This will enable you to stay alert whilst in the ‘asleep-awake’ state.

Another helpful exercise I have not tried is Eutonie (you may need to translate this page), a train of feeling-imagination exercises concerning body inspection. Some who practice Eutonie claim to have had their first OBE’s spontaneously, when performing these exercises, without ever having heard about OBE’s before.

In conclusion, there are many different ways to practice Induced OBE. You need to understand what suits you best and you will only do this by understanding your own body and how it reacts to different stimuli.

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