Meditation Meditation is all about focus and concentration. Many magick users will use it in magickal workings to focus their energy they've conjured up on their goal as a part of the spell.
Meditation is a pretty simple concept if you're good at visualizing and can keep your mind focused easily. What many people do in meditation is sit in a quiet place and relax all their muscles, then concentrate and visualize on a certain subject for a lengthly period of time.
Take a minute to relax and establish a condition of ease in your body. Close your eyes and mouth, breathing normally through your nose. If it helps you to relax, take a few deep breaths.
* Your goal is to turn your attention inward, away from the outside world of thought and time, towards the domain of stillness. You need a point to focus your attention so that you can slowly withdraw from the external, chaotic side of things. This focus will be your breathing. Become aware of your breathing with each inhale and exhale. Once you are aware of your breathing, slowly begin to breathe into your abdomen. In other words, breathe using your diaphragm, not your lungs. The lungs expand downward instead of out during the inhale. If you do not know how to breathe with your diaphragm or it is uncomfortable, then breathe like you normally do. Just relax as best you can.
* Keep your attention on your breathing. Feel the inhale and exhale. Withdraw your attention from thoughts about the past or thoughts about the future. Withdraw your attention from all thoughts and let your attention become more and more immersed in the feelings of your breathing. Using your Will, hold your attention and just be with your breath.
* Continuously recall your mindfulness, your awareness to the inhale and exhale of your breath. If you find yourself distracted with thoughts, gently bring your attention back to the feeling of your breathing. With each breath, allow yourself to be in the present for really, it is only the present that exists. In the present is where you can discover deeper levels of your mind and being.
* Now that you rest with your breathing, slowly turn your attention inwards and find the stillness in your mind. As you find the silence, be with it. Become the stillness. There is no reason to have any thoughts at this time. You have plenty time all day long to be with thoughts. Now is the time for stillness. Feel the silence and rest in it. If you find yourself distracted with thoughts, place your attention on your breathing again and withdraw from your thoughts. Then slowly turn back towards the silence.
Astral Projection
Astral projection is, often, a clearer and more intense experience than meditation and lucid dreaming. Some call astral travel OBE or out-of-body experience. Most people who have experienced it- myself included- can testify to it's intensity.
When astral travelling, we are aware that we are "dreaming" and our physical bodies are "asleep." Through astral projection (consciously passing from the physical plane to the astral plane), we are able to become aware of the process of allowing our body to fall asleep, and then become aware of passing from one plane to another. The astral plane is an unseen dimension, divided into seven levels, or planes, that then include many subplanes. It flows from the real-time zone but it's usually best to consider it as being completely separate from the physical plane. Some say it is nonspatial, while still spans the universe. Astral travel is a difficult concept for some to grasp. It sounds like a load of crap to many. But it is very real if we allow ourselves to learn a technique and realize our astral bodies do exist and can travel without the aid of our physical bodies. When we astral travel, we can fly through the air, some say it's more like "floating," we can glide over oceans and across the earth. We can contact spiritual entities that can guide us along our spiritual paths, and there is knowledge to be found that cannot be obtained through books or other people in this plane
