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In all likelihood, you won't be able to accomplish these feats on your first attempt. But here's an exercise to get you started on the astral traveler's path. |
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Exercise to Activate Your Second Self |
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1. While relaxing in a protected space, visualize your second self. Imagine it positioned just in front of or above you (depending on whether you are sitting or lying down), in the exact position of your physical body. |
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2. Carefully observe how your double looks. Check out the back of your head and body, as well as your lower halfparts of yourself that you don't normally see from a different perspective. |
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3. Allow your consciousness to move to your double. Begin to look through its eyes. |
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4. Look at your surroundings from this new perspective. Then move around the room, looking at everything from this new perspective. |
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5. Ponder what you would like to do next. You can stay close to home, by looking at other rooms in your own home. Or you might want to try reaching through your walls, and moving through your neighborhood. Or yo/might venture even farther, perhaps farther than you can now imagine. |
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You may also want to visit a place or person who is normally far away through a process called targeting. This can be done by focusing on the image of the location or the person's face, then seeing it at the end of a tunnel. You then move yourself through the tunnel until you arrive at the desired place or with the intended person. |
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Another type of altered consciousness involves the sense of separating from the body (and often traveling through a tunnel), but it stands out from astral travel in one big way: It does not require conscious control. We are referring to a near-death experience (NDE). |
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