Hello everyone,
some are studying OBEs so I thought it might be interesting for some to read about what was going on with me the time before my first OBE.

The weeks before I had problems with uncomfortable feeling at certain points in my body. At first in the heart area after I did an exercise to experience PUL in my heart center. Then this faded away but my solarplexus area started hurting. A narrowy feeling, as if something is pressed on me below the breastbone, sometimes below the entire front ribcage. Also, I was tired and felt like not really being here.

I then started doing a root chakra exercise for better grounding. I was getting more energized with this. In one of this exercises which always are accompanied of a strong sensation of energy movement (like a swirling gentle breeze or a sort of magnetic field) at the top of my head and forehead I tried to bring down here to earth the serenity of a "high" place I visited in meditation. I then felt a reaction in my heart center, it was something light, fresh, friendly, it was joy. At the same moment I realized I rejected to fully get into this feeling because it don't seem to fit here in this earth world, it seems to be such fine and fragile, and would make me fragile and vulnerable too, like a child is. I identified the region between chest and navel has something to do with this rejection, it seems as if this was the place where fear and self-doubts are felt, and it was as if therefore this place was responsible for creating an armor to be tough enough for this world and it allowed not to be light, friendly, serene and faithful and to keep me busy with concerns and thoughts about dangers and sad scenarios. I knew then I had to pay attention on this struggle between this both approaches to the world.

After reading some chapters in Bruce Moen's "Voyage to Curiosity's Father" about the hells and how to get out, "love shots", I decided to try to get a love shot in a meditation. So I layed myself down and started.
After some preliminaries I thought of a helper I met earlier, but not often. I expressed to him my wish to get some relief of my solarplexus pain and tiredness. Also there was my familiar nonphysical "wife" (don't know a better word) and she gave me support. We went to the healing area of Focus 27. There was a doctor with a white coat (well, my imaginative abilities are limited), I should tell him about my complaints like a doctor here on earth would ask, which was a bit strange to me, and he did something with his hands on the whole front side of my body.

Then the scene changed, and I was in a setting for receiving love shots. First a little tuning in, remembering being loved. I remembered the "Love Center" which I visited once and how it felt. I had the impression that before me was standing a group of people. A woman from the group was projecting love energy to me. I felt it, it was that light, breezy, clearing feeling. Then my physical nose started itching heavily. I got the advice I should not scratch, but go deeper in relaxation until it wouldn't bother me anymore. After some minutes I actually reached this state. I thought that this had been part of an exercise. I had to concentrate back on the group and realized, experiencing PUL has something to do with to be wide awake, it doesnt work very well in a sleepy-dreamy state, PUL IS somehow a sort of awakenness. So, I was ready for another love-boost exercise. Again, the woman started with projecting. I noticed I couldn't receive this energy in the same degree when it came from men as when it came from women. I was told I shouldn't worry, I now should de-focus from receiving it from humans, instead I should focus on my general approach to the whole world, and not only receive but also let it radiate outwards me again. This gave my ability to feel this lovely energy a much greater degree. I had associations of a beautiful fresh morning promising a time full of new lively events, the color rose especially in combination with rose-quartz, a mild light-green color and other soft-light colors, the scents of roses and honey. There was no fear, relief from having fear, no concerns, no worries, self confidence and acceptance. It was as if this energy was streaming inside my body, between the top of the head and the forehead, coming in a diagonal direction. First the head, arms and chest were filled with it, then it streamed further down, "Let it fill all of your body" came to me. I then felt like my second body was expanding.
After this meditation I felt much better.

I read in the book club section about a question concerning Monroe's imagination method for OBEs he described in his first book. So I was looking after the description in that book and the first thing that got my attention was a passage where Bob had written about a solarplexus cramp he had before his first OBE. He didn't know if this had something to do with that, and I don't know too.

In my meditation I did at the day before my OBE my left arm started hurting, tingling and went a bit numb, this lasted for about 20 minutes after the meditation. This was very unusual, it was only the left arm. My little experiments later in the OBE I did with my left (nonphysical) arm.

Cheers,
Spooky

beautiful description Spooky of what you had done immediately prior to your obe. I had a similar exercise of expanding my energy outward into the world, and that night I immediately had the most intense obe I've ever encountered. I feel directly related to the exercise I'd done in the afternoon.  hugs, and keep em' coming! alysia

It was something light, fresh, friendly, it was joy."

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I couldn't describe PUL better than this Spooky.

love, alysia

Thank you all for your posts, still learning!
Spooky

At least it won't stop as long as time exists...I guess.