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The Astral Body – And How to ‘Ground’ it to Your Physical Body (Part 1)
by Eileen Nauman

Editor's Note from Thomas Muldoon: As Neptune re-enters Pisces for the first time in over 160 years, our interest in things spiritual and metaphysical will be enhanced. The Astral Body is a 'real' body and worthy of research. I had my first experience of Astral Projection when I was in my teens and am sure you'll find Eileen's explanation down-to-earth and appealing to those who have heard of this concept but don't know where to go to find out more. In her three part article you'll be introduced to the Astral Body and how to ground it in the Physical. See Part 2 and Part 3.

If you want to 'run' energy, be able to get a 100% of the energy support that is available to you by the Cosmos, physically manifest what you want on this Earth, you need to be grounded. If you aren't, then you'll get spacey, vacuous, ungrounded and floating-like sensations, be unable to focus, be undisciplined, disorganized, unable to concentrate or perform menial 3rd dimensional tasks like driving, flying, cutting up an onion (without slicing your finger open with the paring knife) sort of things. The importance of GROUNDING cannot be over-stated.

If your astral body (your emotional body) which is supposed to fit perfectly inside your physical body, begins to unlock from your physical feet and float up and out of your crown chakra (top of your head), you aren’t going to get the support or be able to manifest what you want. You can have all the aphorisms in the world but if you aren’t “locked in” to your physical body, nothing is going to happen in your life. 

You MUST be in your body to RECEIVE energy from the Universe. This is why it’s so important that the Astral Body be locked into our physical body. People who are successful, who manifest their dreams into this world are completely grounded. In this way, they can take full advantage of the Cosmos’ offerings of prana and turn hay into money, so to speak. If your astral body isn’t “home” you are disorganized, undisciplined, can’t finish what you start and don’t have the endurance or tenacity to see anything in your life to completion (and therefore, fruition). You will not have the maximum of physical energy, either. You get tired very easily. You can’t keep up a regimen for any amount of time. People get low self esteem and take on a victim’s mentality can result. And depression is very high with this group. 

People who have suffered shock and trauma, especially early in life, have their astral body ‘hanging out’ of their head. The unlocked astral body looks like colorful, half-filled balloon floating around your head. A clairvoyant can see this and know you are “spacey” as a result of this situation. The reason WHY the astral body wants to escape is because it is our ‘mother board’ for all our emotions and feelings. When a person has been deeply wounded/traumatized, the astral body will, when under attack, escape out of the top of our head (where our Crown Chakra is located). It simply does NOT want to experience the pain, suffering, anguish, grief or agony it knows is coming. If it unlocks, you feel less of any traumatic emotion. People also report feeling emotionally “numb” and this is another red flag the astral body is unlocked and gone. 

When under threat or attack, the astral body will unlock and escape. It’s that simple. What happens when this occurs? We feel DISCONNECTED from the threat, violence or trauma. There are no emotions or far fewer of them if the astral body has unlocked. Many people report “floating” above the violence being done to them, dispassionately watching it, with no emotions attached. It’s like watching a color movie but there’s no emotional connection with what is happening to this person during the violence/shock/trauma they are experiencing. The astral body has learned over time how to ‘escape’ instead of remaining in the body to feel the powerful emotions that come with violence/trauma/PTSD/pain that is being experienced by the person. To remain unlocked can occur from one event or from a series of events. 

Any person who grew up in an abusive or very dysfunctional childhood will feel so threatened off and on (or all the time, depending upon the situation) that the astral body continues to unlock and escape so as not to feel the continued emotional pain.

If it is unlocked, you don’t feel the pain, either... or a lot less of it. Or you’re completely numb to it. This is WHY it happens. And while many will think that not feeling one’s full array of emotions is a good thing, it’s not. You chose this life and everything that goes with it to learn from. When your astral body escapes, you are short-cutting and NOT learning. It’s a standoff and the person and their soul does not grow, be educated or work through life’s many ups and downs. Further, if one is disconnected from the PTSD/trauma/ violence/shock done to them, they aren’t actively or consciously working through it. When this occurs, it’s like a toxic poison that is brewing in our unconscious. Sooner or later, if the astral body does not come back and lock in fully every day, this toxic emotional scrapheap is going to turn into physical or mental DISEASE. 

All this can be prevented IF your astral body is retrained to remain fully in your body during your waking hours. This is why we say people are “cut off at the neck.” It means the person lives their life in their head and the mental realm, due to the astral body being unlocked; they are unable to connect with or access their brilliant array of positive and negative emotions. Once locked back in and retrained, you can work through your wounding rather quickly and get on with the good cosmic gravy that comes as reward for doing this. It will also free you to be all of who you are. When we suppress/repress our toxic emotions that have caused us excruciating pain into the depths of our Unconscious, they are DISEASE just waiting to happen. Remember, you can AVOID this by engaging in this technique and retraining your Astral body to remain all the time in your physical body.

There are many, many ways to 'ground' your SELF. I'll share my technique in Part 2...

About the Author

Eileen Nauman wears many hats – all of her career areas have one focus: HEALING. She has a DHM (UK) as a homeopath and has written many books on the topic. Coming from a metaphysical family, she is one-eighth Eastern Cherokee and taught in the old ways. Her father trained her to become a family-lineage shaman beginning at nine-years-old. She is also a New York Times Best Selling author under her pseudonym, Lindsay McKenna. She has 18 million books in print in 20 foreign languages and writes three books a year for Harlequin Publishing. As a Shamanic teacher, she has trained has over 65 Shamanic Facilitators worldwide. Her students study a minimum of five years before graduating to Soul Recovery and Extraction - the method handed down through her family. She believes love is the most powerful healer in the world and utilises her many 'tools' to lift the energy of planet earth.
 
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