The Path of the Soul

I have a go away - come back relationship with astral projection. I keep trying it for a while, then I give up. Now I'm back again at it, wanting to try it out once again.
An interesting post has been made on the Astral Pulse forum, which got me thinking, because it is also valid for regular meditation, which I do at times.

When we meditate, we always try to get the body to relax as much as possible, almost to 'go to sleep', while keeping the mind busy - not with day to day thoughts, but with whatever it needs to be focused on during meditation. However I've tried it today the other way around. I did get comfortable, while focusing all the time on relaxing my closed eyes instead, forget about the body. Just relaxing the eyes, getting them close to the stage of before falling asleep. This would be the first stage in one of the ways to get an OBE. I'm not there yet, but it was definitely an interesting experience. 25 minutes passed practically instantly. My body went at some point numb by itself, without me trying to focus on getting it there. And while I was focusing all my time on resting, relaxing my eyes, for some reason the mind chatter, the daily chit chat was gone very fast from my mind today.
Hm, very interesting, I'll try meditating this way for a while, even when I'm not trying to project.

I loved this quote from that forum regarding the usual way of getting the mind awake and the body asleep, had a chuckle at it:

"I believe 95% of you out there who have trouble inducing an OBE fall into this trap. You spend all of your time focusing on preparing the PHYSICAL BODY for an OBE (which doesn't get to experience it), and less time on preparing your MIND for an OBE (which does get to experience it).

That's like washing your brand new car for your vacation to Disneyland, and then you take the train there instead."

The whole post is talking about OBE but I can really see the benefits of this different technique for regular meditation as well.