In my last episode I spoke a little about active listening, and how it can take you into the present moment. Well I decided to practise a little when I wake up during the night. I often listen to tracks when I do wake up as it helps me relax and get back to sleep. So this particular morning I wake up and put on a track called the Chakra/Brainwave Harmonizer by Jonathan and Andi Goldman, I start to listen to the music, not just hearing it and allowing myself to drop back off to sleep but actively listening to see where it takes me.

After a while I realise my body has gone to sleep and I am feeling energy sensations that I recognise as the precursor to an OBE so I get up out of my body, go over to the window and fly through it. I am feeling full of energy and euphoric, my heart centre is particularly active, as I fly through the window I am surrounded by what I would describe as mist or light clouds, this is the nearest I can get to describing it. I feel so full of joy and want to connect to the Divine. Just in front of me I see a dark shadow, potentially it could have been a bit scary but I am so full of joy that I go over to it and give it a big hug, it immediately disintegrates and disappears. Some more stuff happened after but I can’t remember very well. Then I wake up.

I wasn’t intending to have an OBE I just thought that I would see where active listening to this track would take me, the track starts at the Crown chakra goes down to the Root then up again and finishes on the Crown. It could be that when I had my OBE the Heart chakra track was playing, considering my heart center felt very active.

It could be that I was doing some ‘shadow work’ as I did hug the shadow and it disintegrated, which is possibily demonstrating that if we hug our shadows, i.e. accept them as part of who we are and not try to hide and resist them, then our shadows will disappear.

This is an example of one of the benefits of OBEs, they help us evolve, we can deal with our shadows and grow just a little bit more each time. Of course this is not the only path to evolution but it is indeed a fascinating one.