When I first tried the various wake inducing methods (back in my teens) I had the same issues. It seems as if the issue is in the body, but it's actually a problem of the mind... The most important step for wake inducing methods is falling asleep successfully, so I'm thinking that you just need to relax a bit and forget about the step to step guideline - just try to start falling asleep as you're doing normally.
So basically when attempting any wake inducing method, just lay in bed, forget about how much you want it to work and all, and just relax (if you want you can even focus on the body part by part, until you relax all of it. It's not a long process - a few seconds on each part.) Then just start falling asleep - nothing more - like you do normally when heading off to bed. When you start feeling something like sinking into the bed or hovering above it - gather your focus on maintaining awareness (e.g. use a mantra, like "I'm dreaming"). By that point the body should be gone - just like you don't feel the need to swallow, or turn, or itch, when you normally go to sleep...
Some other advice - don't focus on HH and / or REM atonia / SP when or if they appear... Focusing on these only intensifies them until something jolts you up or tenses you up preventing falling asleep. Let these things play in the background... You should only focus on maintaining awareness as well as the anchor (which depends on the method, in regular WILD, it's either breathing or counting or a combination of the two). Also, by that stage you might see pre-dreams (HI) - short dream scenes... They will feel like you aren't really present there - so (if you're doing regular WILD) just watch them passively and don't try to be active yet. Wait for the real dream, you will feel like you are present there, just like in RL, so only then it's time to get active and do stuff (awareness affirmation, stabilization, dream control...).
To sum up, do it stage by stage: relax -> go to sleep like you would normally do -> when the body is not an issue focus on maintaining awareness and your anchor, and just passively wait (and watch pre-dreams if they appear) -> when it feels like RL, only then start being active.
Hope this helps!
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