Below is a small excercise drawn from the teachings of Jean Houston, which I have re-contextualized here as an example of one way of getting out of your body.
Before you begin, stand up, get a sense of your body as it is, at rest, quiet, ready to experience.
Now raise your real right arm over your head and feel the stretching of muscles thoughout you arm and the torso as you do so. (Pause, allowing time for complete feeling). Now lower your arm. Repeat this process of raising your right arm several times, remembering to conentrate of the feeling of movement within the body.
Now sense your right arm as clearly as you can with your muscular imagination (pause), and then stetch this kinesthetic right arm-that is the arm of muscular imagination-over your head, trying to expereince it as vividily as you sensed the real one. Now lower the kinesthetic right arm.
Alternate several time between stretching with your real right arm and you kinesthetic right arm.
Do the same thing with your real left arm and your kinesthetic left arm,always remembering to expereince your kinesthetic arm with as much reality as you had when stretching your real arm.
Do the same thing,alternately stretching your real and kinesthetic arms.
Let your real shoulders make circular movements forawrd down, and around, like spinning windmills, remembering to concentrate on the feeling of the movement.
Now do the same thing with your kinesthetic shoulders, trying to feel the same forward circular movement that you felt with your real shoulders.
Alternate between real and kinesthetic movements.
Let your real shoulders circle in a backward movement.
Do the same thing kinesthetically.
Alternate.
Now with your real body,make a fencing lunge to the right. Come back to center. Repeat this several times.
NOW LUNGE TO THE RIGHT WITH YOUR KINESTHETIC BODY.
Come back to center.
Do the same thing with a fencing lunge to the left.
(Feel free to expereiment with this process, utlizing as amny different movements as you like such as jumping up and down...gradually you will feel the sense of the kinesthetic body getting stonger until italmost as vividly sensed as the actual physical body...
