with the vibration in the eye. Rubbing the hands awakens a very
‘physical’ and grounded vibration in the eye, which is exactly what
you want. Maintain the throat friction to benefit from its
amplifying effect. Then try to feel the same intense vibration all
over your body.
Now, try to get a sense of the limits of your aura again. How far
do you extend? Can you still feel the limits of the room? Can you
still ‘touch’ other people and objects inside the room with your
aura?
Then sense the density of your aura. Become aware of the energy
inside and outside your physical body. Is it as fluid as before?
Spend one or two minutes exploring, keeping a strong vibration in
the eye and the throat friction.
Tips
- It is a very common experience, when going through this
practice, to feel one's aura much wider, more open and diluted in
the first phase. In the second phase, the aura is perceived as
smaller, thicker and closed to external influences. In the second
phase you can no longer feel the limits of the room, or ‘touch’
other people or objects with your aura, simply because your aura is
more compacted and does not extend as far as before. Obviously in
the first phase your aura is more open than in the second.
Another sensation can arise when your aura is fully open: it is not
uncommon to feel higher up, as if above your body. You may also
have the feeling that your energy is elongated upwards and
stretched like a marshmallow.
When the aura is closed and gathered, you will sometimes get the
feeling that your body wants to bend forwards, rounding the back
with the shoulders forward.
How does this mechanism of closing and opening the aura work? It
is nothing other than a practical demonstration of the contracting
power of the astral body. In the first phase, when you are floating
in the space, when you can hardly feel your physical body, your
astral body is half inside, half outside the etheric and physical
bodies. How far away your astral body may go depends on how
deeply you can meditate. In some states of profound meditation,
similar to the samādhi states of the Indian tradition, you are
completely out. Another situation of complete withdrawal takes
place when you have built your subtle vehicles to the point of
being able to astral travel.