Hi, /x/. How are you today? I'm posting because I cannot seem to astral project. I've done meditation, crystal work, and many other things, but when my chest starts to swell for some reason I panic every time, despite my absolute best efforts to calm down. I don't understand this, /x/. Is this common? Is there a way around it? Through it? Am I just fucked? Please help, and thank you.
>>18088755
You have something attached to you. When you try to astral project, you're getting closer to it and leaving your body vulnerable. The panic attack is your body's fight or flight technique kicking in
You're trying too hard.
>>18088780
Nah, the fear thing is common and doesn't require such an exotic explanation.
It does sound like fight or flight kicking in, but that's likely triggered by the natural fear of death, since projection imitates the process of dying. You'll need to overcome this before progressing, but that's no small task in itself. Loosening your emotional attachment to your body and having faith that the Divine will protect you no matter what happens are two of the primary methods.
>>18088755
Love Krieger
You gotta lose yourself first. It's hard to explain but full unconditional belief that you can accomplish it, no matter how crazy it seems, will get you there. Whether it be belief in a divine force, or the force within yourself.
>>18088755
OP, the feeling in you chest has nothing to do with astral projecting. Astral projection uses yin energy, the recessive force in the universe, and you cannot feel it.
This feeling in your chest that you are experiencing is bodhichittah. Bodhichittah is yang energy when put into that dichotomy with yin.
The thing about yin precisely that you can't feel it. With yang, you can feel your dick get hard hard, your face flush, ect. but yin is more subtle.
How do you know that you are not astral projecting? What are you trying to do?
If you can lift your soul up out of your body and go to a different place, for example to go to a forest and speak with the Goddess because you need encouragement about filing your extended taxes before the deadlines pass, that is astral projection and you need to be at peace with the idea that you can achieve nothing more.
>>18088780
>It does sound like fight or flight kicking in, but that's likely triggered by the natural fear of death
If you're overcoming fear, you're working the path to enter the spirit world with your yin energy.
>>18090364
You, too, are talking about piercing the veil to enter the world of the unseen.
When you balance the yin and the yang, that's when cool stuff really happens. You need both the compassion energy (the emotions that you can feel physically) and the yin (realization of emptiness, such as the idea that the entire universe ends when you die) and when you learn to mix them together in the right proportions, you can shoot energy out of your hands to heal people or whatever.
>>18090275
My first fionce showed me this show back when we lived together with my mother before she killed herself and when he was first turning the TV to it, told me about this character of Krieger and told me that I would love it because Krieger is like, who I aspire to be in real life. Lol