mind is asleep, and out of the bio-energetic equation?When asleep, you'll find you slip out with hardly a murmur from your hear chakra,feeling only a mild, brief falling sensation. At the very worse this level of exit sensationswill make you catch the sides of your bed, especially at times when you are drifting inand out of sleep, before actually falling asleep.When awake consciousness is present during an OBE attempt, a true'complication of bio-incarnated consciousness' arises. Your awake mind changes thewhole equation, and the usual bio-energetic projection mechanism comes under a lot ofunusual pressure. It finds it must work overtime to provide the energies needed togenerate the projected double while awake consciousness is present. When awakeconsciousness is present during projection, the bio-energetic projection mechanism has toovercome the awake mind's conscious control over its physical body, and the 'tension'this automatically generates.By partly true, I mean that the heart chakra does speed up when increased energydemands are placed upon it. This can occur during an OBE, when the projected doubledeliberately draws more energy from its physical/etheric counterpart, which isenergetically maintaining its projected double via the Silver Cord. A noticeable heavierthrumming will also be felt from within the perceived chest area of the projected doublewhen this happens, even though it does not have a chest, per se. This is especiallynoticeable at close range, within 20 feet (6 meters) or so, during a Real Time OBE, andeases with greater distance.But, when heart center throbbing speeds up during a conscious exit OBE attempt(which is especially noticeable during early OBE's and OBE attempts), this is a sign thatawake consciousness is throwing a spanner into the works, so to speak.Apart from the 'unavoidable' presence of awake consciousness - which must beovercome through repeated OBE attempt experience (which develops the projectionmechanism to the point where it can compensate), plus simple bio-energetic development- most of the problems this causes stem from a lack of deep physical relaxation. This isthe most 'widespread' problem and general cause of this. The vast majority of would-beprojectors do not attain a sufficient state of deep physical relaxation prior to OBEattempts, and then experience heavy exit sensations and problems as a result."No way!" you might say, "I'm in full trance and so 'must' be deeply physicallyrelaxed enough for projection to occur. Well, while an understandable assumption, thinkon this: it is quite possible to attain a fairly deep level of trance (usually too deep foreasy OBE) while the physical body still retains sufficient physical tension to interferewith the projection mechanism. In a similar way, it is also possible to fall asleep while still full of stress and tension. For example, I can attain a full trance state while standingand even walking - which obviously entails physical tension, which obviously wouldinterfere with an OBE attempt, if I attempted one at this time.My suggestion is to read The Treatise on OBE, Version 2.00, parts 1 - 8, and thento spend at least a few weeks practicing deep physical relaxation, and trance work only.Do this 'separately' from OBE attempts, preferably at times when you are wide awake,like in the morning. This makes