The first thing is to be aware of the physical body. With whatever small action the body performs remembering is absolutely necessary. There should be mindfulness with all that we do. If we begin to do all our physical acts with full awareness, then the identification with the physical becomes broken. If your lift one hand upward with full attention you will feel yourself apart from the hand – because the one who lifts is different from that which is lifted. The feeling of being apart from the physical body is the beginning of the awareness of the etheric body.
The second is to be aware of the etheric plane. All emotions rise from the etheric body. It has its own momentum; it has its own movements for anger, love, hatred, restlessness. You will come to know these vibrations. You will start noticing the movements of the etheric body-its expansions and contractions, in which situations it contracts and which situations it expands. The possibilities of its expansion are limitless. It also expands and contracts according to the emotions. It can expand so that it can fill the earth; it can contract so that there is enough place for it in an atom. When it has expanded to its full capacity, when it blossoms fully, it is connected to the first body by a bridge. It does not die with the physical body. If you wake up to the etheric body and follow the emotions to their origin you will suddenly find yourself in the astral body.
The third thing is to be aware of the astral body. Its movements are more subtle.
