Astral Travel: A Forgotten Art
Have you ever had a dream where you were able to fly? Wasn’t that an incredible experience? As it happens, astral travel is very similar to this. Astral travel refers to the way that your astral body traverses the astral plane -by flying. All you need to do when you are astral traveling is to think of where you’d like to go and what you want to do; your astral body will take care of the rest, flying to your destination.
Astral travel is not to be confused with dreaming. Dreaming is your way of allowing yourself to work through problems and frustrations you may have encountered throughout the day. This is a very positive defense mechanism courtesy of your subconscious mind. These types of dreams are mostly dreams you cannot remember, or possibly remember only in bits and pieces.
Whenever you can vividly remember a dream, rest assured you were likely experiencing some form of astral projection. No matter what you intend to do with the information, it is a good idea to recall these dreams as best you can and put them down on paper in a journal. While one or two of these dreams will not make sense to you, there will be time when you can go through several of your recalled dreams and they will make complete sense.
Just like those dream which you don’t remember so well, astral travel is beneficial to you. This is why it’s important to keep track of everything you can remember about these dreams. Since no two people have the same astral travel experiences, the benefits you’ll see will vary from person to person.
When you take the time to record everything you can remember about your astral travel experiences you will achieve a deeper inner understanding of yourself and the world we live in. You will notice an increased sense of inner tranquility and personal spirituality, by keeping a journal of your dreams. Other benefits of astral travel may include a higher sense of creativity and the enhancement of your memories. Although this type of brain activity is not stimulated during your waking hours, it is stimulated while you are on the astral plane.
Your senses, which pertain to your natural psychic abilities, are another benefit of astral travel. Scores of people who do practice astral travel report an increase of such abilities as precognition, telepathy as well as being able to sense spiritual being from beyond the veil of this world.
Astral projection acts as a conduit to your inner self, and thus enhances these other spiritual abilities and skills.
Even die-hard skeptics who didn’t have any belief in astral travel or psychic abilities have reported being able to read auras after having some experience with astral travel.
Aside from those benefits, one has to admit that it is fun to travel outside your body, to visit places you haven’t been before and to find that inner peace everyone craves.
It is a wonder that astral projection isn’t practiced by more people. The truth is that most people are afraid or feel silly trying it out because they don’t feel they have the psychic sensitivity to do it. But everyone can use astral projection to their benefit, if only they give it a try.
It is likely that you’ve experienced some astral travel in your lifetime, as stated above, either through your remembered dreams or daydreams. You have flown out of your body before, whether you like it or not!
The best way to gain the benefits of astral projection is to simply allow these experiences to happen freely, and try to blend with these experiences and to gain some sort of control over them. Through this mental exercise, you will get stronger in mind and body.
You will find that many individuals have introduced some interesting and creative books and videos that can guide you while you learn to practice astral projection. Although this is a natural ability that anyone can do on their own, many have forgotten how to astral project as they moved on from childhood. Do not be discouraged, however since you can relearn and fine-tune your astral travel abilities.