Consistency

[knightlight]

Not sure if this has been addressed before but this is something that is driving me 100% insane!!!!! After 7 years of consistent OBE practice every night I still cant have an OBE when I want.  I don't mean in the middle of the day or anything however my goal is to be able to relax, slip off, and enjoy an OBE at night before sleep/during sleep essentially at will.  Today I woke up at 6am and went back to sleep and had 2 OBEs fairly easily.  I cant remember why or how.  It seemed so easy and simple at the time.  What element am I forgetting?

For all the consistent OBE'ers out there how did you become so consistent?

[Fred]

For me, the only thing leading to consistency is motivation, which is in itself not consistent.

Level of difficulty with reaching the OBE state itself fluctuates as well, influencing level of motivation needed at the different times to be succesful.

This interacting factors make it very difficult to predict success on any given night, as well as confusing as to what makes the OBE happen.

I hope one day very little motivation will be required. That would solve it. I still find myself at times to have to be heavily motivated however.

Often I don't even recognize it, and spend nite after nite trying to go the "easy" route without success, while staying hours awake at nite is what is required.

[Fred]

Oh..another thing is that it is fairly difficult to have an OBE before you fall asleep. The middle of the night works far better.

I often OBE before I fall asleep, but that is only because I at least I'm still motivated at that point, while I don't have it for waking up in the middle of night.

I think level of OBE frequency is also often exagerrated as people report on forums and all that. I think once a week is quite excellent already.

It also depends on your priorities of course, such as family and work, which for me definately suffer if I go for the goal a couple of OBEs a week.

Right now, I'm at like around one OBE every two weeks. Not very happy with it, but not willing to let other projects slide.

So it sounds you're doing quite well to me.

[omcasey]

Charlie, you are the most consistent OBEr I know!

I well know the feeling of wanting to be able to project at will.  The most effective means I have come up with to date is through the alignment of myself with my Wider Self.  If the 'wills' are at odds, of course nothing but the tension is going to present.  With each lucid event there is much to integrate into the daytime reality.  The quicker I integrate, the more speedily (/consistently) events begin occurring- not just when I lay down and close my eyes, but also when I am wide awake and going about my life..  What I am finding is there must be a balance, the magic must be let into both the night AND day sides of reality.  Otherwise the IMbalance begins bleeding through..

[knightlight]

Casey it seems your whole dynamic is far different from mine.  I am more or less guidance free.  My experiences have no real momentum to build off of most times and I just get lost on wondering.  I've ran into a few guide like beings but I've ran into them each only a single time.  Maybe you can send some guidance my way?

[omcasey]

Charlie, everyone has an inner guidance system, it's built in!  I think we all just have our own unique ways of referring to it, and our own preferences for whether we experience it in some sort of personified form or not.  All said, I am happy to share everything I have got with you .