Learning deep relaxation is a must if you want to astral project. Once you have prepared yourself for your deep relaxation exercise by wearing comfortable clothes and sitting comfortably in an arm chair with pillows beneath your feet and behind your neck and lower back, you can follow these simple steps to deep relaxation.

To relax deeply, you don’t have to put in any effort. You simply have to tense and relax certain muscle groups. You can follow any technique of full-body relaxation that you know. Or you can make use of this simple guide. Ensure that you don’t leave a single muscle without tensing and relaxing it.

1. Stretch Your Entire Body

Stretch your legs and arms the way you usually do when you are exhausted and accompany the stretching with slow, deep, and long breaths.

2. Calves and Feet

Curl your toes, tense your calves and feet, and then let go. Repeat the process.

3. Thighs and Knees

Tense your knees, calves, and thighs simultaneously and then let go. Press your heels to the floor and again tense your knees, calves, and thighs before letting go. Repeat the process.

4. Buttocks, Hips, and Groins

Press your buttocks toward the back, tense them, and let go. Push your hips forward, tense them, and let go.

5. Lower Back and Stomach

Push out your abdomen and tense all the abdominal muscles before letting go. Suck in your abdomen, tense your buttocks and lower back, and let go. Try this again.

6. Upper Back and Chest

Raise your shoulders, pull in your chest, and screw up all the muscles of your upper back and let go. Throw your shoulders back, push forward your chest, tense all muscles, and then let go.

7. Arms

Ball your hands into a fist and tense your arms, shoulders, and hands before letting go. Raise your fists to your shoulders, tense, and let go.

8. Neck

Push your chin onto your chest, tense all the muscles, and then let go. Throw your head back, push your chin up, and tense your jaw and throat muscles before letting go.

9. Face, Head, and Jaw

Throw your head back, open your mouth as wide as possible, and screw up your face. This will tense all the muscles of the head. Now let go. Tense your facial muscles and let go several times. Frown and smile in turns.

10. Full Body Stretch

Now stretch your entire body. Tense all the muscles as much as you can and let go. Repeat the process.

You might have to repeat the above steps several times before you are completely satisfied that your body is totally relaxed. As you follow this relaxation technique, focus on the muscle groups that you are working on. While relaxing, relax them completely.

The more you repeat the process, the easier it becomes. Soon, you will achieve the ability to relax any muscle at will just by focusing on it. And the more you relax; the better becomes your ability to astral project.