Astral travel can be divided into separate categories; one perhaps would be to gain better self acceptance or understanding.  This travel experience would be during a period of a time of stress or unusually difficulties and the person is desiring insight or understanding about their lives. 

Another aspect of travel is simply pleasurable, wanting to experience the sensations for there pure joy. 

The third is to learn.  Desiring to receive insight and knowledge about whatever topic is of interest at that time.

The first, of course, the traveler should be in the state of emotion that the wish to understand or find help with.  The others require a neutral emotional state.  The method of obtaining the travel experience is not important   Most find sex of course the easiest and quickest to access.  But the frame of mind that accompanies the travel experience is usually generated through a period of time greater than that which immediately precedes the experiences.  The idea is that when you are angry or frustrated, you may decide to travel to understand the reasons behind these feelings or receive input from you higher self that can allow these feeling to be negated. 

When traveling for enjoyment then a more neutral emotional state is most beneficial. 

When you desire insight or knowledge, that is when you program the soul immediately before travel to gain that insight or knowledge.  This is what is called “focusing or addressing”. This is where you visualize or implant in your mental processes the ideas or concepts that you wish to discover. 

This process of addressing or focusing can of course continue or proceed the actual travel experience.  The amount of energy spent in programming the soul is proportional to the results of the travel experience.  In other words, the more effort spent inn programming or focusing or addressing, the more likely the travel experience will produce the required information. 

The point I wish to instruct is that if you seek to address a specific individual, such as your higher self, then meditating upon the higher self, visualizing the higher self, expending effort in doing these activities will produce a greater success.  But perhaps the most important effort should proceed the actual dream state of traveling.  In other words, after sex and as you drift into sleep, try to focus the mind on the previous meditations.  This will reinforce the focusing or addressing.