5 things astral teaches you about what you're not

A great majority of humans accept what they see in themselves on Earth without question.  They may acknowledge a body and mind, but  seem uninterested in their true nature.   Psychic energies take form on the astral and offer insight into your psyche. 

Choose to move beyond superficial self-understanding.  Do not fear who you are, where you came from, and where you're headed.  Consider 5 things astral teaches you;  

1) You are not your body.  In the astral light, you move using your Etheric body.  Since your physical body remains asleep or awake in a different place, you realize its only a temporary shell.  You move beyond that form of existence and learn in another form. 

2) You are not your mind.  Your thoughts stem from the mind, the limits of which aren't easily grasped by humans.  You are not your thoughts.  They change whereas whatever you are is constant.  How you think reveals you are an observer to what happens.  This sets you apart from the larger consciousness.  Astral travel enables you to extend your inner awareness beyond limits of the physical.  You realize you transcend that.

3)  You are not your emotions.  They are often unconscious signs or extensions of the ego.  Such disturbances arise spontaneously to overwhelm or control you.  They differ from feelings from which you learn and manage to detach or move on. Both emotions and feelings change and impact physiology.  They are the driving force behind your identity. 

4) You are not your memories. Recollections ground you in a sense of time and space.  The astral is a dimension where your thoughts become pictures and abstractions become symbols to decipher.  Unconscious forces shape images that fade, but what you are doesn't vanish.  Awareness may be confined to physical or astral, yet neither define you.

5)  You are not your personality.  Your personality evolves from birth, based in part, on your susceptibility to external influences.  It actually masks your true identity.  You are prompted to discriminate and control in astral based on what you learn in the physical world.  The extent of your personality's influence determines how distracted or focused you become in astral.  The nature of astral doesn't change.  Your personality colors it.    

Explore reasons for astral fatigue

Hi. I have been Astral Travelling & a vivid dreamer for many years now. I can still recall every detail the next morning, & I travel to lands far away spend a lot of time flying & meeting lots of new faces. My question is why do I feel so exhausted when I wake up? I am also a Spiritual Healer, & I feel my Guides & Angels require me for healing each night. I would like to communicate with them on a higher level, also to know how to bring myself back in the morning, as I feel a bit disconnected.

Thanks! M.

Dear M,

Fatigue after astral travel can indicate we are not mentally prepared for all we encounter.  Our body may take a while to reground in the physical plane when we get deeply engaged in the astral.   Moodiness or daydreams arise as a distraction. As we shift to be less 'in ego' in waking life, we are less taken with the novelty of each trip. Increasing self-awareness makes us less vulnerable to negative entities in astral.   Explore daytime relaxation exercises like mantras and visualisation. 

As we expand consciousness, we may be drawn to specific beings or guides to assist in the astral.  The nature of our communication is based on how open the heart is.  Exploring the astral enables us to explore the psyche.  The more we raise self-awareness in waking life and through dreams, gain insight into our emotions and personality, the more profound and in-depth our astral experiences become.    What we manifest and ways we respond shapes our spiritual evolution. 

Each of us progresses in astral at our own pace.  When out of the astral, the ego may think about how long in 'human time' we sense we have been astral, yet this doesn't affect our progress.  Things like your level of consciousness during astral, ability to focus, dedication, discipline, daytime mindsets and pursuits all affect your astral experiences.  You may benefit from reading How to Perform Astral Projection and Astral projection: dangerous- how to do it safely. 

Rethink the value of astral dreams

For some reason, you may sense a desire to probe the depths of your soul.  You might be searching for answers and have been told the answers you seek lie within. Where does this lead you? You may be exploring the astral plane and not even realize it yet.

Many people don't yet realize dreams are an extremely valuable tool to raise self-awareness.  As you self-examine, you also develop and strengthen extra-sensory perception.   You may underestimate your gifts and the path can follow to clarify and shape these priceless treasures. These questions are offered to help guide yourjourney:

1) What's the connection?  Since some dreams are actually messages conveyed from other dimensions, learning to recall your dreams is actually developing your ability to recognize and listen to messages from  dimensions other than the physical dimension where you are.  The dream messages you receive may seem to be from people you know or strangers.  Each one is significant for what it is and teaches you there is more to life than what you think you already know.

2) How do you heighten your sensitivities?  This is a process.  The ability to discern messages that don't reach you through your conventional 5 senses is highly-dependent on your ability to introspect and sense what goes on inside your mind.  To learn to decipher dream symbols is useful, practical training for heightening your sensitivities.  The more repressed emotions in your dreams, the more blocked the bridge is between your conscious and subconscious mind.  Until you choose to learn to discern and work through your repressed emotions, you postpone unconditional love and self-acceptance and prevent your progress on other levels.

3) Why seek to balance your mind-body-spirit?  Only a well-balanced mind-body and spirit will enable a person to make effective use of extra-sensory abilities. Your underlying motivation for building innate skills determines whether and how they evolve.  If you genuinely seek to increase spiritual awareness and desire support to repair your soul and to assist others, these kinds of motivations will propel you forward. Yet, if you simply seek to bolster and inflate an unbalanced ego, you'll go nowhere fast.

4 Discoveries you can make during astral

Robert Monroe's many astral journies helped him uncover unexpected abilities that are within your reach in your own consciousness.  During astral, his spirit remained connected to his physical body by an etheral cord while he proceeded to explore beyond the time-space continuum. His self-directed learning reveals some basic truths about meaning and purpose in life and beyond familiar layers of existence:

1) You have several knowns. Experience is the greatest teacher. As you get-to-know yourself in astral, you will gain insight into your non-physical side. You have a fear layer, an emotional layer and barriers you create based on conditioned Earthly belief systems that you must learn to grasp and erode. As you work through them, you realize the true you is an "observer" that watches reactions and operates a fear-dissolving process. Astral empowers you correct your own misunderstandings.

2) You do not need a physical body to exist and be. Learn to recognize you are more than a physical body. This offers instant perspective to any pleasure or pain. You can end your astral experience whenever you choose.  You can turn inward and discover an entirely new spectrum of being and doing.  While you are still connected to a physical world, you can explore the far reaches of infinity with your mind.

3) You can liberate yourself from any and all Earth-life-generated beliefs. Tap into your supermemory and past lives. Discerning thought patterns in present-day activity and connecting them with flashbacks will assist you to overcome anxiety, frustration, fear or whatever holds you back. The left brain becomes entrenched in the physical world and resists anything that may interfere with this process. Astral enables you to sense the timeless, core self that is unaffected by Earth's system.

4) You can heighten awareness and detect signals from spirits who have passed. Spirits that have separated from their physical bodies may send out signals that draw you nearer to them.  Some of them may be your own former incarnations.  As you find confused entities, you may choose help them move upward toward the light. Their vibrations will differ from your own and they will disappear just as you will when the time is right. As you return to the physical, they will proceed their way.

10 Tidbits for Total Recall

If you have the urge to explore your dreams, then your intuition is guiding you. When you hear the term 'Total Recall,' you might imagine the sci-fi film with Arnold Schwartzenegger.  You may also reflect on useful tips to unlock messages in your dreams.  Its possible to help jog the memory and follow the thread back home. 

Whether you are pregnant and wishing to connect to your unborn child, someone who wants to use dreams as a problem-solving tool, or see dreams are key to emotional healing or guiding you in other ways, its helpful to know you can train the mind to recall dreams consistently and in detail.  You might ask where to begin?

As you gain confidence with basic recall, you grow aware of different layers dreaming and may ready learn about astral projection. Consider ten tidbits for dream recall.  Never underestimate the power of intention.

1) Set the intention to remember

• Raise awareness of your ability to recall dreams

Pay attention to your surroundings while awake. If you aren’t already recognizing how you use your senses, how can you expect to train the mind to multi-sensual awareness while asleep? Start simple: simply notice beauty and details on route to work. Do you detect smells easily? What did you feel of trees in bloom, or even the prickly weeds that grow in your lawn? Know you hold power to recall. Notice what you tend to overlook.

2) Meditate

• Ensure you're comfortable and can achieve deep states of peace.

If it appeals, check out library books, instructional CDs, online chats or local in-person meditation groups. It’s a kind of mental training that requires discipline to teach you to move between conscious and unconscious states at will. This is not a process of forcing yourself to exert effort to quiet the mind.  Its about shifting attention away from noise and choosing to focus on messages your body is already sending and also listening.

3) Create sleep rituals.

• Schedule your sleep for a consistent sleep cycle.

Deciding to regularly get a good night’s sleep promotes clearer thinking and reflection in the morning. Do what you do to unwind. Some people read. Others engage in sex. Whenever you’re ready, prepare to sleep. Lay back flat. Take a few minutes to relax all muscles. Make a habit of saying aloud, “I will remember my dream.” Tell other people of your intention to do this.  Verbalizing makes it stronger.

4) Keep paper and pen handy. 

• Make it a habit to write or draw spontaneously (without thinking)

It makes sense to record whatever you recall just as you awaken. Many begin to recall pieces of dreams as symbols or images. You need not make sense of it.  Don’t get up and brush your teeth or use the toilet before. Change in temperature (outside bed) and altered perception of surroundings tends to affect dream recall. The fewer movements and disruptions, the more you’ll gradually  remember.

5) Develop a 'pre- get up' routine.

• Make it a habit each morning to reflect on your dreams

Allow yourself to awaken without an alarm or before an alarm sounds. To be shocked awake may lead you to lose the dream thread. Keep eyes closed. Ly still. Tell yourself to permit dream images to surface. Imagine following a thread back through whatever events are still accessible within your unconscious. Repeat what you sense aloud. Record what you remember; objects, sensations, moods, feelings, colors, or anything.  Explore possible significance later.

6) Share your dream thoughts.

• resist doubting what you see, feel in dreams

Choose people with whom you would like to share your dreams. In some cultures, this is common practice among families from childhood. Speaking about dreams can make the experiences feel more real and can bring on revelations about their meanings. Other people may help shed some light, but ultimately, you’re the best person to decipher your own dreams.

7) Explore creative memory process.

• allow yourself to free draw impressions or feelings of what stands out in dreams

To decode your dreams, explore drawing, painting, sculpting, gardening, pottery, or other appealing pursuits. Dreams aren't always easily described in words.  Some people compose music or find other creative outlets to express what is flowing through them.  Be opten to inuition. Sense new inspiration and revelations.

8) Be aware of the influence of energies.

• recognize possible external influences on dreams

Every night, between 2am and 5am in every time-zone, is when ELF and microwave transmissions are the strongest.  This is when mind-control instructions are emitted by satellites, control towers, and can compress, transmit and embed programs in the human brain.  The active waking up to go to the toilet for instance, sets the unconscious program in the mind. Your daily routines may also seem to influence how/ what you dream.

9) Keep a journal.

• When ready, maintain a dream journal every morning after you wake up.

If dreams are hard to recall at first, simply journal about what is going on in your daily life. It may simply be a few lines per day. This kind of regular, conscious reflection will help you discern patterns in emotions, feelings and behaviors that begin to stand out in your dreams. If you are writing a work diary, pregnancy journal or keeping notes for other reasons, you may notice correlations between night dreams and reflections you transcribe elsewhere.  Everything is inter-connected.  Dreams are internal messages inviting you to see this more clearly.

10) Tap into the power of mantras. 

• listen to instrumental music when falling asleep and also to jog memeory of dreams

Mantras are a repeated series of words with psychic effects.  Some people listen to mantra music like O mani padme hum as a way to relax with eyes open or closed. Some people repeat mantra chants when falling asleep or when awakening into conscious awarness.  The words and stressed vowels of mantras stimulate chakras, which heighten sensitivity in astral realms. 

"A man is a genius when he is dreaming." - Akira Kurasawa