We have all had those incredible dreams where we are flying ? it?s an amazing feeling of complete freedom. What if you could experience this feeling anytime you wanted? Astral travel is just like these dreams. Astral travel is how your astral body makes its way around the astral plane; it does this by flying, just as in your dreams. When you astral travel, all you need to do is to think of what you want to do or where you?d like to go and your astral body will fly there at the speed of thought.

Many individuals may confuse dreaming with astral travel. Of course, this does not mean that every dream we have is an astral travel experience. You mind begins working out the occurrences of the day when you first go to sleep and begin dreaming. In this manner, your mind is working out all the stressful events that you have not settled while being conscious. This process actually keeps you from going crazy. Very few of these types of dreams are recalled upon waking. If they are recalled it is only in fragments or small bits.

Your experiences of astral travel are actually the dreams you can remember. It is a worthwhile investment to keep a dream journal to record your dreams. You can do this when you wake in the middle of the night as well as when you first wake up in the morning. Be sure to write down as much as you can remember of these dreams. Even if they do not make much sense to you, write them down anyway. Before long, they will make sense to you.

Regular dreams help to relieve daily stress and allow you to keep your sanity. Astral travel is just as beneficial to you and your healthy wellbeing. It is essential that you record the dreams you do remember in a dream journal. Keep in mind that since we are all different, that our experiences with astral travel will vary as well. We can each find something beneficial from practicing astral traveling.

In general, the benefits of astral travel include a better sense of your spirituality and your connection to the rest of the universe. This will lead to a greater sense of well being and a feeling of inner peace. Astral travel can also improve your memory and boost your level of creativity. Astral travel has this benefits because it uses a part of the brain which does not get a lot of stimulation while we are awake.

Astral travel can also sharpen your psychic abilities and even make latent psychic abilities surface. Many who astral travel regularly say that it has increased their capacities for telepathy, precognition and sensing the presence of spirits.

The reason for this is that when you start to astral project and astral travel you begin tapping into your higher spiritual energies that perhaps you have forgotten.

Even die-hard skeptics who didn?t have any belief in astral travel or psychic abilities have reported being able to read auras after having some experience with astral travel.

For many individuals learning and practicing astral travel and astral projection offers them a wonderful new freedom that they have never experienced before. Astral travel makes going anywhere you want and doing anything you like very possible.

Perhaps you wonder why more people do not enjoy the practice of astral travel since it provides some really great benefits to everyone. The answer is simple as it can be found in the fact that many individuals wrongly assume that only those who are gifted can astral travel. On the contrary, astral travel in a natural born ability, anyone can do it.

Whether you realize it or not, you have already astral traveled. You?ve had those flying dreams too ? they are astral travel experiences.

If you want to get the most out of astral travel, you need to know that is what you are doing while you are sleeping. You must then learn how to practice astral travel, while learning how to control your astral body while you are on the astral plane. Understanding this is the key to getting the best results possible.

There plenty of resources out there, including books and videos developed by people who astral travel regularly. You already have this ability ? it?s up to you to use it and reap the rewards.