One of the most important lessons of successfully mastering this art lies in training the subconscious mind to align with your conscious desire for an out-of-body experience or astral projection. You can harmonize your conscious intent with your subconscious mind to achieve astral projection with consistency and clarity.
It’s important to first understand the role of the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind governs many of your automatic processes, including those tied to deep-seated beliefs, habits, and repetitive patterns. It influences your dreams, intuition, and creative insights, as well as your internal state while asleep. To successfully achieve a conscious astral projection, you must convince the subconscious mind that it’s not only possible but also desirable. In other words, you need to let your subconscious mind clearly understand that conscious astral projection is something you want. It needs to be very clear.
Astral projection requires a delicate balance between awareness and relaxation—your subconscious must allow you to remain calm while transitioning to the astral state without fully waking up. By focusing on training your subconscious, you can create the mental and emotional pathways needed for your conscious mind to stay awake during this process.
One of the most important and often overlooked techniques in training your subconscious mind is by immersing yourself in the topic of astral projection. When you regularly read books, listen to podcasts, or watch videos on the subject, you send a strong signal to your subconscious mind that this is something important to you. The more information and insights you expose yourself to, the more your subconscious mind will begin to adopt astral projection as a goal.
Consistent exposure to information about astral projection also reinforces your conscious desire. By keeping your mind engaged with the topic, you naturally increase your chances of having an out-of-body experience because your subconscious starts associating your conscious thoughts and intentions with this practice.
Set a Clear and Powerful Intention before you attempt to experience a conscious astral projection. Intention-setting is crucial for priming the subconscious mind. Before going to bed or attempting astral projection, spend a few moments in meditation or contemplation, and state your intention out loud or in your mind. Use a positive affirmation like:
“I consciously choose to astral project tonight and remember the experience vividly.”
Repeat this with clarity and emotional conviction. The more you repeat this intention, the more you’re embedding the desire into your subconscious. Over time, your subconscious will begin to align with this intent and recognize that astral projection is something you want to experience.
Visualization is one of the most effective tools for training the subconscious. When you vividly imagine yourself leaving your body and exploring the astral realms, you’re giving your subconscious mind a blueprint to follow. Here’s a simple visualization exercise:
• Close your eyes and imagine yourself lying in bed.
• Visualize a soft, glowing light surrounding your body.
• In your mind’s eye, see yourself slowly rising out of your body and floating effortlessly above it.
• Focus on how real and natural this experience feels.
By doing this consistently, you train your subconscious to accept this imagery as a possibility. When you’re ready to project, your subconscious will already have an internal map of the experience.
Meditation helps quiet the conscious mind and gives you greater access to the subconscious. Through mindfulness meditation, you train your mind to become more aware of subtle states of consciousness that occur between wakefulness and sleep, where astral projection becomes possible. Regular meditation also strengthens your focus and reduces mental chatter, which is crucial when trying to maintain conscious awareness during projection.
A simple meditation practice to try:
• Sit or lie down in a quiet space.
• Close your eyes and focus on your breathing, following each inhale and exhale.
• As thoughts arise, observe them without judgment and gently bring your attention back to your breath.
Over time, this practice will make it easier to slip into the deep relaxation needed for astral projection without falling asleep.
Hypnosis taps into the power of suggestion to directly influence the subconscious mind. You can use self-hypnosis or guided hypnosis sessions focused on astral projection. During hypnosis, the mind is in a highly suggestible state, making it easier to plant the seed of astral projection into your subconscious.
A typical hypnotic suggestion might sound like this:
“Whenever I reach a state of deep relaxation, my consciousness will naturally detach from my body, allowing me to explore the astral plane with ease.”
Repeating these suggestions while in a hypnotic or deeply relaxed state encourages the subconscious to adopt this as a belief and act on it during sleep.
Your dreams are a window into your subconscious mind, and by keeping a dream journal, you can become more attuned to your inner world. Recording your dreams also helps to strengthen your memory and awareness during altered states of consciousness, such as astral projection.
When you wake up, jot down any dreams, sensations, or fragmented memories. Over time, you may notice patterns or symbols related to astral projection, which could indicate your subconscious is preparing you for an OBE.
The hypnagogic state is the liminal space between wakefulness and sleep, where your subconscious mind is highly active and accessible. This is a prime time to use affirmations or visualizations for astral projection. As you drift to sleep, repeat your chosen affirmation and visualize yourself leaving your body. Your subconscious is particularly impressionable during this state so reinforcing your intention here increases the likelihood of achieving an astral projection.
If your subconscious associates astral projection with fear or uncertainty, it may resist the experience. Overcoming fear requires both conscious effort and subconscious retraining. Address any doubts or fears you may have about astral projection by educating yourself about the process and focusing on the positive aspects of the experience.
You can also create affirmations that help to counter fear, such as:
“Astral projection is a safe and enlightening experience, and I am ready for it now.”
The more you reinforce positive beliefs around astral projection, the more your subconscious will align with this viewpoint, enabling a smoother transition during an OBE.
Like any skill, astral projection requires consistent effort and practice. By combining intention, visualization, meditation, immersion in astral knowledge, and subconscious retraining techniques, you are creating a mental environment conducive to astral projection.
Even if your initial attempts are subtle or unsuccessful, trust that your subconscious mind is adapting to this new goal. Stay patient, committed, and open to the experience, and over time, conscious astral projection will become more natural.
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