Breathing in Astral Projection - Neediness (Consciousness and Evolution Program) — YouTube from the CEC Library

The first question is: "I have already been able to reach an intense level of projection, feeling the astral body almost entirely outside the physical body, but my breathing always keeps me from leaving completely." Breathing should help us, but we need to better understand what is happening. The person reports that they can relax the body and the mind, but that, on trying to leave, their breathing becomes heavy, as if they were drowning, and they try to control their breathing for several minutes.

This experience is familiar to me. In adolescence, I practiced pranayama breathing, a deep breathing technique taught in the Hatha Yoga book by Hermógenes, a renowned yogi. My father, also a yogi, was an admirer of Hermógenes, who devoted his life to the practice of breathing, keeping himself energetic and strong even at an advanced age. While preparing for astral projection, I also felt a sensation of suffocation, as if someone were strangling me, although that was not what was really happening. During these exercises, we can feel everything that occurs in our vehicles, and the sensation of leaving the body can manifest physically as a feeling of being strangled. That sensation can trigger fear, interrupting the process of coming out of the body.

Recently, I heard a similar story: a person, while having a medical exam, was told they would be given medication and would feel as if they were urinating, but that it was only a sensation. This illustrates how our perceptions can be heightened while coming out of the body, producing sensations such as itching, crackling sounds, suffocation, pressure in the chest, and murmurs, which often do not correspond to physical reality.