Do not think of your Soul as a thing apart from you, for YOU are the Soul, and the body is the unreal and transitory part of you which is changing in material every day, and which you will some day discard.
You may develop the faculties so that they will be conscious of the reality of the Soul, and its independence of the body.

The Yogi plan for such development is by meditation upon the real Self or Soul, accompanied by rhythmic breathing.

The following exercise is the simplest form.
EXERCISE .-- Place your body in a relaxed, reclining position.

Breathe rhythmically, and meditate upon the real Self, thinking of yourself as an entity independent of the body, although inhabiting it and being able to leave it at will.

Think of yourself, not as the body, but as a spirit, and of your body as but a shell, useful and comfortable, but not a part of the real You.