have had many many experiences with this meditation. Some have been physical and some spiritual, even some I can't begin to describe in words.
From the very beginning:
* I felt a lot more relaxed and clear-headed, very 'at peace with myself'.
* I experience a euphoric feeling after listening to the audios almost always.
*I have a sense of well-being. Little things don't bother me anymore.
I can remember getting into such a relaxed state that I yawned constantly over and over. Yawning is a bodily shift into relaxation, an energy shift.
I feel energized after listening as if I just had taken a nap for a couple of hours. I always feel refreshed and alert afterwards, never groggy.
I have experienced loss of body consciousness where I've felt as if I was floating and I felt very warm, this is true deep meditation! A little scary the first time since I've never experienced it. I believe I've even stopped breathing during those brief moments.
I experience energy shifts all the time when meditating which means my body is releasing energy and removing energy blocks.
Once I felt tremendous energy and vibrations. Unlike an out-of-body experience, which I've had also, this was an inside-of-body experience. I was in my core center looking out at my hands. I didn't want to leave, it was so perfect and peaceful and warm there. I had recently fallen and bruised my knee pretty badly, had to limp on it. After this mediation episode, my knee never felt better: I truly believe some healing took place that day because the knee improved rapidly afterwards.
There have been sessions that have gone by it what seemed like a few minutes and there have been times that seemed to drag on while meditating.
The best advice I was given and I will give to anyone interested in this type of meditation is to let whatever happens before, during or after your meditation be alright.
*Let whatever happens be ok, let it happen and don't try to analyze or figure it all out.
These audios really and truly expand your awareness. In the beginning just after a couple of times of listening I started observing myself and watching what I did.
*I have read that if we live consciously we won't ever do anything that doesn't serve us.
(Read that again, it is so true)
I have experienced a closer attachment to nature, especially right after a meditation. I seem to notice everything, the trees swaying, the leaves, the subtle colors I usually don't notice. All of the sounds surrounding me seem to culminate into one harmonious melody.
*I feel so alive at those moments.
I have experienced REM, rapid eye movement, once during a meditation. I believe REM occurs only when we dream yet I was awake, conscious.
Once I meditated with my cat, Ansley, on my lap. She didn't budge during the whole session and didn't appear to be sleeping but was alert. I believe she liked feeling the energy from my hands.
This is another thing, when I meditate there is so much energy in my hands, I feel it instantly. I use this energy to soothe any pains I have at the time.
When I first started I used to analyze everything that happened, kept a journal. That didn't last because it seemed unnecessary. I started becoming more and more content, worry-free and stress-free.
There have been so many subtle changes that are hard to put in words.
I know I was suffering emotionally from what I thought was peri-menopause but come to find out that was what I was blaming my crazy emotions on for lack of better reasoning. For instance, there was a situation where in the past I would have started crying. I deserved a good cry and I felt I had a good reason for it. BUT instead since I've become more watchful of myself, I realized that just because you would've cried in the past doesn't mean you have to cry and suffer now. So I didn't!
I CHOSE NOT TO CRY and moved past those thoughts and I thought, "Wow, this is different."
When you watch yourself you choose wisely because you are aware, just think of the power this holds for you!
* I live more consciously now, I'm not on auto-pilot
I notice when I meditate in the mornings my whole day just smoothly flows by, everything just seems to click. I prefer the evenings, though, since it is so refreshing after a long day of work or study. It's best to do it around the same time every day.
Another thing that has happened to me is that I used to always have a couple of drinks/glasses of wine at the end of the work day. When I meditate I don't want the alcohol. I have no need for it. I guess I was using the drinks to wind down and didn't really realize it had become such an ingrained habit until I started meditating. This is a very very positive change.
Once while working I was thinking of how happy I was. And I asked myself why? Why are you so happy? What happened? Actually at the time I had just found out I was being laid off and also my cat was sick. Didn't seem to matter, I was happy and I couldn't figure out why. Then it dawned on me. Do I really need for something to happen to be happy? Why are we constantly in a state of unhappiness unless something happens to us to make us happy. My meditations have made me a very happy person overall and now this is the state I usually find myself in and not the other way around. It was obvious my left brain logic met its match, the right brain, and the left relinquished its power. Basically, nothing needed to occur for me to just be happy, wow! And when all the voices finally stopped asking why, I guess it was because they finally got the message, too.
Meditating yesterday evening at the end of my hour long sit I experienced something very spiritual. People talk about becoming awake, not in a literal sense, but consciously. I experienced both I believe. Literally, the concept of becoming awake is to wake up from sleep, the darkness. I sensed a bodily shift and with my eyes already closed, I sensed that I closed them again but when I did it, it wasn't darkness (as in sleep) but light, I transcended. It was extra-ordinary so I held my position for as long as I could. Those few seconds I am still cherishing. How many few consecutive moments in a day do we actually remember? We typically remember events and those events on an average taking an educated guess would have to last at least a few minutes or at least half of an hour or longer for us to found them monumental, good or bad. But for a few seconds to make such an impact is amazing, undescribable. So I closed my eyes in the physical sense to wake up in the metaphysical sense?
* I believe that this is due to the correct functioning of my brain, better known as whole-brain thinking. The right and left becoming one, meshing. No arguments, no judgements, just radiant bliss.
Later, of course, I ask myself, smiling, how could this be? I closed my eyes and woke up? I closed them twice, but how could I if they were already closed? This brings up one of my favorite cliches, QUESTION EVERYTHING, meaning just because in our physical world we open our eyes to wake up doesn't mean that in another we can't close them to come awake.
Have you ever been irritated at yourself for wanting to do something good for yourself? The other day driving home I was listening to my deliberate creation, disc 5, for the fifth time.
I became annoyed and irritated listening to the familiar words, wanting to shout, 'Okay, I hear you, alright already!'.
What I didn't realize at the time that it wasn't me, who I am really, that was disgruntled but it was my ego. As I walked on the beach later, I got it, I understood!
It's my ego, the uncooperating part of me that wants to protect me even if that means staying miserable. See, the ego like the subconscious only knows, well what it knows. It is made up of years of past experiences and beliefs. And when we go after our heart's desire or just try to change, the ego freaks out! Typically because our hearts desire is something other then what we are currently putting our emphasis on.
When you start living consciously you notice everything and take conscious action to correct those beliefs that were never in your best interest.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Creating Gem Essences
Gem Essences:Liquid Crystal
As I write this article I'm in the process of taking a gem essence of peridot. My dreams have been powerful and vivid; emotions and obsolete beliefs are coming up for healing and release; and I sense the departure of much psychic debris.
I've found gem essences to be one of the most powerful ways to work with crystals, and highly recommend this method to you.
The basic principle behind the use of gem essences is the same as that of flower essences: that the interaction of water and sunlight with the essential energy of crystals charges the water in which crystals are placed with their subtle energy. When you drink this water, that energy works to rdissolve the blockages which promote the persistence of painful emotions and prevent personal and spiritual growth.
While you can buy commercially-prepared gem essences. I feel that, unlike flower essences, they are easy to make. This has to do with the differences between stones and flowers.
* You don't have to grow the stone.
* You don't have to decide when the stone is at its peak blossoming.
* You don't need large quantities to make a gem essence.
Please Note: As with all practices relating to crystals, you may come across resources which have much more strict rules and regulations about preparing gem essences than those I follow. My philosophy is to find the simplest ways of doing something, and I've gotten excellent results with the methods I use.
How to Prepare An Essence
What You Need
1. A glass container filled with about 12 ounces of water. Many sources recommend using a glass dish. If you are going to be placing your essence outside be sure to cover it; otherwise you will be adding insect essences to your mixture. I prefer to use a glass jar with a lid. Any container you use should be sterilized.
2. Water. Distilled water is preferable because it's free of mineral content.
3. A crystal, which should be cleansed in salt water before being used. If you're going to make an essence which combines more than one crystal you can put them in the same container.
Basic Preparation
It may deepen your experience of making the essence to sit quietly in meditation for a few minutes before preparing it. It's usually not a good idea to prepare a mixture when you're upset, agitated, or in a hurry to do something else.
1. If the temperature is above freezing you can put the water outside. Leave it there for two to four hours (it doesn't matter if you leave it there for longer). If it's below freezing put the water in a sunny place in your house. Some sources say you can boil the crystals for fifteen minutes in water. I would rather not.
2. Take the crystals out of the water with sterilized tongs. Pour a small quantity of the water into a one-ounce amber dropper bottle. If you are not alcohol-sensitive put in a teaspoon of brandy to preserve it or put in the refrigerator. (During cold weather this isn't necessary. The brandy is mainly for the purpose of keeping plant life from growing inside the bottle). Store the remainder of the essence in the refrigerator.
3. I recommend taking four drops of the essence every four hours (excepting sleep time). It is best to take it before, rather than after, a meal. How long to take the mixture is up to you. I usually find that when I no longer need an essence, whether flower or gem, I find myself "forgetting" to take it.
What Crystals Can Be Used?
All of the crystals available at Beyond the Rainbow are safe for use in making gem essences. If you decide to use other crystals check them for the presence of arsenic or lead. A gem encyclopedia can give you this information, or you can most likely find it on the Web.
Some sources say that only mineral specimens (i.e., stones which have been neither cut nor polished) should be used. I prefer to use such stones, but often specimens are not available or not affordable. In such cases I've used tumbled stones with good results. When I do I use several tumbled stones to equal one specimen.
Whatever kind of stone you use, its quality is more important than its size. A crystal point, such as clear quartz, amethyst, or citrine, should have an unbroken termination, and the more clear it is the better. A tumbled stone should not be chipped or scratched.
Beyond these technical considerations, I feel that it's important that the crystals you use appeal to you intuitively. If you are, for example, drawn to the particular patterns or markings on a rhodonite, malachite, or moss agate, or have crystals which are special favorites, these will be powerful for you.
Combining Stones
You will find a list of the characteristics of about forty crystals and gemstones in Gems and Their Gifts to Us with links to more detailed descriptions of over twenty crystals.
To get you started, here are some combinations I've used:
For the experience of abundance in all ways: citrine, emerald, green tourmaline.
For the expansion of love: rose quartz (for loving oneself), rhodonite (for patience), rhodochrosite (for releasing any anxiety about opening the heart).
For opening up creativity: malachite, aquamarine, green fluorite.
For mental/emotional balance: moonstone, sodalite, moss agate.
When clear quartz is used in combination with any other stones its effect is to enhance the energies of those stones. This is also true of gem essences. My peridot essence, for example, was enhanced with a small clear quartz.
If you're wondering what peridot is for, it helps to release old beliefs and behavior patterns which no longer serve one.
Gem Essences
Anxiety: Rhodochrosite and Chamomile
Being Critical: Chrysocolla and Beech
Concentration: Carnelian and Madia
Depression: Smoky Quartz and Gorse
Dream Work: Amethyst and Mugwort
Effective Communication: Turquoise and Trumpet
Ending Procrastination: Rutilated Quartz and Blackberry
Guilt: Sugilite and Pine
Meditation: Clear Quartz and Lotus
Mental/Emotional Balance: Sodalite
Patience: Rhodonite and Impatiens
Self-esteem: Citrine and Larch
Self-love: Rose Quartz and Holly
Setting Appropriate Emotional Boundaries: Hematite and Pink Yarrow
By studying the characteristics of various crystals you will come up with combinations uniquely suited to your individual needs.
Enjoy your adventures with gem essences.
As I write this article I'm in the process of taking a gem essence of peridot. My dreams have been powerful and vivid; emotions and obsolete beliefs are coming up for healing and release; and I sense the departure of much psychic debris.
I've found gem essences to be one of the most powerful ways to work with crystals, and highly recommend this method to you.
The basic principle behind the use of gem essences is the same as that of flower essences: that the interaction of water and sunlight with the essential energy of crystals charges the water in which crystals are placed with their subtle energy. When you drink this water, that energy works to rdissolve the blockages which promote the persistence of painful emotions and prevent personal and spiritual growth.
While you can buy commercially-prepared gem essences. I feel that, unlike flower essences, they are easy to make. This has to do with the differences between stones and flowers.
* You don't have to grow the stone.
* You don't have to decide when the stone is at its peak blossoming.
* You don't need large quantities to make a gem essence.
Please Note: As with all practices relating to crystals, you may come across resources which have much more strict rules and regulations about preparing gem essences than those I follow. My philosophy is to find the simplest ways of doing something, and I've gotten excellent results with the methods I use.
How to Prepare An Essence
What You Need
1. A glass container filled with about 12 ounces of water. Many sources recommend using a glass dish. If you are going to be placing your essence outside be sure to cover it; otherwise you will be adding insect essences to your mixture. I prefer to use a glass jar with a lid. Any container you use should be sterilized.
2. Water. Distilled water is preferable because it's free of mineral content.
3. A crystal, which should be cleansed in salt water before being used. If you're going to make an essence which combines more than one crystal you can put them in the same container.
Basic Preparation
It may deepen your experience of making the essence to sit quietly in meditation for a few minutes before preparing it. It's usually not a good idea to prepare a mixture when you're upset, agitated, or in a hurry to do something else.
1. If the temperature is above freezing you can put the water outside. Leave it there for two to four hours (it doesn't matter if you leave it there for longer). If it's below freezing put the water in a sunny place in your house. Some sources say you can boil the crystals for fifteen minutes in water. I would rather not.
2. Take the crystals out of the water with sterilized tongs. Pour a small quantity of the water into a one-ounce amber dropper bottle. If you are not alcohol-sensitive put in a teaspoon of brandy to preserve it or put in the refrigerator. (During cold weather this isn't necessary. The brandy is mainly for the purpose of keeping plant life from growing inside the bottle). Store the remainder of the essence in the refrigerator.
3. I recommend taking four drops of the essence every four hours (excepting sleep time). It is best to take it before, rather than after, a meal. How long to take the mixture is up to you. I usually find that when I no longer need an essence, whether flower or gem, I find myself "forgetting" to take it.
What Crystals Can Be Used?
All of the crystals available at Beyond the Rainbow are safe for use in making gem essences. If you decide to use other crystals check them for the presence of arsenic or lead. A gem encyclopedia can give you this information, or you can most likely find it on the Web.
Some sources say that only mineral specimens (i.e., stones which have been neither cut nor polished) should be used. I prefer to use such stones, but often specimens are not available or not affordable. In such cases I've used tumbled stones with good results. When I do I use several tumbled stones to equal one specimen.
Whatever kind of stone you use, its quality is more important than its size. A crystal point, such as clear quartz, amethyst, or citrine, should have an unbroken termination, and the more clear it is the better. A tumbled stone should not be chipped or scratched.
Beyond these technical considerations, I feel that it's important that the crystals you use appeal to you intuitively. If you are, for example, drawn to the particular patterns or markings on a rhodonite, malachite, or moss agate, or have crystals which are special favorites, these will be powerful for you.
Combining Stones
You will find a list of the characteristics of about forty crystals and gemstones in Gems and Their Gifts to Us with links to more detailed descriptions of over twenty crystals.
To get you started, here are some combinations I've used:
For the experience of abundance in all ways: citrine, emerald, green tourmaline.
For the expansion of love: rose quartz (for loving oneself), rhodonite (for patience), rhodochrosite (for releasing any anxiety about opening the heart).
For opening up creativity: malachite, aquamarine, green fluorite.
For mental/emotional balance: moonstone, sodalite, moss agate.
When clear quartz is used in combination with any other stones its effect is to enhance the energies of those stones. This is also true of gem essences. My peridot essence, for example, was enhanced with a small clear quartz.
If you're wondering what peridot is for, it helps to release old beliefs and behavior patterns which no longer serve one.
Gem Essences
Anxiety: Rhodochrosite and Chamomile
Being Critical: Chrysocolla and Beech
Concentration: Carnelian and Madia
Depression: Smoky Quartz and Gorse
Dream Work: Amethyst and Mugwort
Effective Communication: Turquoise and Trumpet
Ending Procrastination: Rutilated Quartz and Blackberry
Guilt: Sugilite and Pine
Meditation: Clear Quartz and Lotus
Mental/Emotional Balance: Sodalite
Patience: Rhodonite and Impatiens
Self-esteem: Citrine and Larch
Self-love: Rose Quartz and Holly
Setting Appropriate Emotional Boundaries: Hematite and Pink Yarrow
By studying the characteristics of various crystals you will come up with combinations uniquely suited to your individual needs.
Enjoy your adventures with gem essences.
Life's Scales Creating Balance
Life’s Scales
Balance
Like pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of your being come together to form the person that you are. You work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with your body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of your life and self are in harmony. Your life force flows in a state of equilibrium because nothing feels out of sync. While balance is necessary to have a satisfying, energetic, and joyful life, only you can determine what balance means to you.
Achieving balance requires that you assess what is important to you. The many demands of modern life can push us to make choices that can put us off balance and have a detrimental effect on our habits, relationships, health, and career. In creating a balanced lifestyle, you must ascertain how much time and energy you are willing to devote to the different areas of your life. To do so, imagine that your life is a house made up of many rooms. Draw this house, give each part of your life its own room, and size each room according to the amount of importance you assign to that aspect of your life. You can include family, solitude, activities that benefit others, healthy eating, indulgences, exercise and working on self. You may discover that certain elements of your life take up an inordinate amount of time, energy, or effort and leave you with few resources to nurture the other aspects of your life. You may want to spend less time on these activities and more on the ones that! fulfill you.
A balanced lifestyle is simply a state of being in which one has time and energy for obligations and pleasures, as well as time to live well and in a gratifying way. With its many nuances, balance can be a difficult concept to integrate into your life. Living a balanced existence, however, can help you attain a greater sense of happiness, health, and fulfillment.
Daily OM
Balance
Like pieces of a puzzle, the many different aspects of your being come together to form the person that you are. You work and play, rest and expend energy, commune with your body and soul, exalt in joy, and feel sorrow. Balance is the state that you achieve when all of the aspects of your life and self are in harmony. Your life force flows in a state of equilibrium because nothing feels out of sync. While balance is necessary to have a satisfying, energetic, and joyful life, only you can determine what balance means to you.
Achieving balance requires that you assess what is important to you. The many demands of modern life can push us to make choices that can put us off balance and have a detrimental effect on our habits, relationships, health, and career. In creating a balanced lifestyle, you must ascertain how much time and energy you are willing to devote to the different areas of your life. To do so, imagine that your life is a house made up of many rooms. Draw this house, give each part of your life its own room, and size each room according to the amount of importance you assign to that aspect of your life. You can include family, solitude, activities that benefit others, healthy eating, indulgences, exercise and working on self. You may discover that certain elements of your life take up an inordinate amount of time, energy, or effort and leave you with few resources to nurture the other aspects of your life. You may want to spend less time on these activities and more on the ones that! fulfill you.
A balanced lifestyle is simply a state of being in which one has time and energy for obligations and pleasures, as well as time to live well and in a gratifying way. With its many nuances, balance can be a difficult concept to integrate into your life. Living a balanced existence, however, can help you attain a greater sense of happiness, health, and fulfillment.
Daily OM
Staying Grounded in a Big City or Busy World
Staying Conscious
Staying Grounded in a Big City or Busy World
1. Live simply and live deliberately. By choosing not to get caught up in the details of this fast-paced world, you are doing your part to slow down the . You will also discover that you have more time to enjoy being alive.
2. Stay in touch with yourself. Soul searching, meditation, and journaling are just a few of the many activities you can take part in to stay aware and learn as much as you can about your emotions, reactions, likes, dislikes, dreams, and fears. Having a solid sense of self gives you a firm foundation for living in this world.
3. Support or teach others as often as you can. This can help you form connections with people while also giving you an opportunity to make the world a better place.
4. Consciously choose what you will allow into your being. The media bombards us with visions of hate, war, and pain. Be judicious about what you read, watch, and listen to.
5. Acknowledge the beauty that resides around you. Whether you live in a sprawling metropolis or a stereotypical suburb, there are natural and man-made wonders just waiting to be discovered by you.
6. Nurture your ties to your tribe. If you don’t have one, create a community that you can belong to. Modern life can be isolating. When you have a tribe, you have a circle that you are a part of. Its members – loved ones, friends, or neighbors - can be a source of support, caring, guidance, and companionship.
7. See the larger picture. Remember that the way that you choose to live is not the only way to live. Widen your perspective by exploring other modes of being through research, travel, and discussion.
8. Embrace the challenges that life presents to you, and challenge yourself often. After a time, even the most exciting jobs or lifestyles can seem routine. Never stop assimilating new knowledge about whatever you are doing, and your life will never seem dull.
9. Move your body. In this busy world, it can be easy to live a sedentary life. Movement reacquaints us with our bodies and connects us to the earth in a visceral way. It also restores our vitality.
10. Make time for stillness, silence, and solitude. The world can be noisy, and we are subject to all kinds of noises nearly every waking hour. We are also often "on the go" and unable to relax. Being alone in a peaceful place and making time for quiet can help you stay in touch with yourself.
The Daily OM
Staying Grounded in a Big City or Busy World
1. Live simply and live deliberately. By choosing not to get caught up in the details of this fast-paced world, you are doing your part to slow down the . You will also discover that you have more time to enjoy being alive.
2. Stay in touch with yourself. Soul searching, meditation, and journaling are just a few of the many activities you can take part in to stay aware and learn as much as you can about your emotions, reactions, likes, dislikes, dreams, and fears. Having a solid sense of self gives you a firm foundation for living in this world.
3. Support or teach others as often as you can. This can help you form connections with people while also giving you an opportunity to make the world a better place.
4. Consciously choose what you will allow into your being. The media bombards us with visions of hate, war, and pain. Be judicious about what you read, watch, and listen to.
5. Acknowledge the beauty that resides around you. Whether you live in a sprawling metropolis or a stereotypical suburb, there are natural and man-made wonders just waiting to be discovered by you.
6. Nurture your ties to your tribe. If you don’t have one, create a community that you can belong to. Modern life can be isolating. When you have a tribe, you have a circle that you are a part of. Its members – loved ones, friends, or neighbors - can be a source of support, caring, guidance, and companionship.
7. See the larger picture. Remember that the way that you choose to live is not the only way to live. Widen your perspective by exploring other modes of being through research, travel, and discussion.
8. Embrace the challenges that life presents to you, and challenge yourself often. After a time, even the most exciting jobs or lifestyles can seem routine. Never stop assimilating new knowledge about whatever you are doing, and your life will never seem dull.
9. Move your body. In this busy world, it can be easy to live a sedentary life. Movement reacquaints us with our bodies and connects us to the earth in a visceral way. It also restores our vitality.
10. Make time for stillness, silence, and solitude. The world can be noisy, and we are subject to all kinds of noises nearly every waking hour. We are also often "on the go" and unable to relax. Being alone in a peaceful place and making time for quiet can help you stay in touch with yourself.
The Daily OM
You Have to become the Vibration
You have to become the vibration before you can become magnetically attractive to that reality, so it can express itself through you. That's why it excites you so much.
If it were not so easily manifestable something else would excite you, instead. Because the universe does not do pointless things. The universe does not say, "I will make this your heart's desire, but you can't have it!" Trust your heart's desire.
Why base your happiness on what you think must happen outside you? BE HAPPY! And as you are happy you become the vibration of happiness, attracting all the circumstances and situations in life that reflect the concept of happiness. But, be happy because that is what you prefer to be, not just so you will attract those things. Be happy and you will attract those things that are representative of
happiness.
This is not philosophy, this is physics!
What you put out is what you get back. The energy level or frequency you operate on
determines the kind of reality you will experience. It's physics. You have to become a particular frequency in order to be the antennae that will receive an echo of the same frequency. Keep it simple. It is ALL about vibration, about states of being.
Become as transparent as glass and all that is not of your frequency shall pass right through you.
If it were not so easily manifestable something else would excite you, instead. Because the universe does not do pointless things. The universe does not say, "I will make this your heart's desire, but you can't have it!" Trust your heart's desire.
Why base your happiness on what you think must happen outside you? BE HAPPY! And as you are happy you become the vibration of happiness, attracting all the circumstances and situations in life that reflect the concept of happiness. But, be happy because that is what you prefer to be, not just so you will attract those things. Be happy and you will attract those things that are representative of
happiness.
This is not philosophy, this is physics!
What you put out is what you get back. The energy level or frequency you operate on
determines the kind of reality you will experience. It's physics. You have to become a particular frequency in order to be the antennae that will receive an echo of the same frequency. Keep it simple. It is ALL about vibration, about states of being.
Become as transparent as glass and all that is not of your frequency shall pass right through you.
5 Things Happy People Do
5 Things Happy People Do
By Gabrielle LeBlanc
Sages going back to Socrates have offered advice on how to be happy, but only now are scientists beginning to address this question with systematic, controlled research. Although many of the new studies reaffirm time-honored wisdom ("Do what you love," "To thine own self be true"), they also add a number of fresh twists and insights. We canvassed the leading experts on what happy people have in common—and why it's worth trying to become one of them.
1. They find their most golden self.
Picture happiness. What do you see? A peaceful soul sitting in a field of daisies appreciating the moment? That kind of passive, pleasure-oriented—hedonic—contentment is definitely a component of overall happiness. But researchers now believe that eudaimonic well-being may be more important. Cobbled from the Greek eu ("good") and daimon ("spirit" or "deity"), eudaimonia means striving toward excellence based on one's unique talents and potential—Aristotle considered it to be the noblest goal in life. In his time, the Greeks believed that each child was blessed at birth with a personal daimon embodying the highest possible expression of his or her nature. One way they envisioned the daimon was as a golden figurine that would be revealed by cracking away an outer layer of cheap pottery (the person's baser exterior). The effort to know and realize one's most golden self—"personal growth," in today's lingo—is now the central concept of eudaimonia, which has also come to include continually taking on new challenges and fulfilling one's sense of purpose in life.
"Eudaimonic well-being is much more robust and satisfying than hedonic happiness, and it engages different parts of the brain," says Richard J. Davidson, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The positive emotion accompanying thoughts that are directed toward meaningful goals is one of the most enduring components of well-being." Eudaimonia is also good for the body. Women who scored high on psychological tests for it (they were purposefully engaged in life, pursued self-development) weighed less, slept better, and had fewer stress hormones and markers for heart disease than others—including those reporting hedonic happiness—according to a study led by Carol Ryff, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2. They design their lives to bring in joy.
It may seem obvious, but "people don't devote enough time to thinking seriously about how they spend their life and how much of it they actually enjoy," says David Schkade, PhD, a psychologist and professor of management at the University of California San Diego. In a recent study, Schkade and colleagues asked more than 900 working women to write down everything they'd done the day before. Afterward, they reviewed their diaries and evaluated how they felt at each point. When the women saw how much time they spent on activities they didn't like, "some people had tears in their eyes," Schkade says. "They didn't realize their happiness was something they could design and have control over."
Analyzing one's life isn't necessarily easy and may require questioning long-held assumptions. A high-powered career might, in fact, turn out to be unfulfilling; a committed relationship once longed for could end up being irritating with all the compromising that comes with having a partner. Dreams can be hard to abandon, even when they've turned sour.
Fortunately, changes don't have to be big ones to tip the joy in your favor. Schkade says that if you transfer even an hour of your day from an activity you hate (commuting, scrubbing the bathroom) to one you like (reading, spending time with friends), you should see a significant improvement in your overall happiness. Taking action is key. Another recent study, at the University of Missouri, compared college students who made intentional changes (joining a club, upgrading their study habits) with others who passively experienced positive turns in their circumstances (receiving a scholarship, being relieved of a bad roommate). All the students were happier in the short term, but only the group who made deliberate changes stayed that way.
3. They avoid "if only" fantasies.
If only I get a better job…find a man…lose the weight…life will be perfect. Happy people don't buy into this kind of thinking.
The latest research shows that we're surprisingly bad at predicting what will make us happy. People also tend to misjudge their contentment when zeroing in on a single aspect of their life—it's called the focusing illusion. In one study, single subjects were asked, "How happy are you with your life in general?" and "How many dates did you have last month?" When the dating question was asked first, their romantic life weighed more heavily into how they rated their overall happiness than when the questions were reversed.
The other argument against "if only" fantasies has to do with "hedonic adaptation"—the brain's natural dimming effect, which guarantees that a new house won't generate the same pleasure a year after its purchase and the thrill of having a boyfriend will ebb as you get used to being part of a couple. Happy people are wise to this, which is why they keep their lives full of novelty, even if it's just trying a new activity (diving, yoga) or putting a new spin on an old favorite (kundalini instead of vinyasa).
4. They put best friends first.
It's no surprise that social engagement is one of the most important contributors to happiness. What's news is that the nature of the relationship counts. Compared with dashing around chatting with acquaintances, you get more joy from spending longer periods of time with a close friend, according to research by Meliksah Demir, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Northern Arizona University. And the best-friend benefit doesn't necessarily come from delving into heavy discussions. One of the most essential pleasures of close friendship, Demir found, is simple companionship, "just hanging out," as he says, hitting the mall or going to the movies together and eating popcorn in the dark.
5. They allow themselves to be happy.
As much as we all think we want it, many of us are convinced, deep down, that it's wrong to be happy (or too happy). Whether the belief comes from religion, culture, or the family you were raised in, it usually leaves you feeling guilty if you're having fun.
"Some people would say you shouldn't strive for personal happiness until you've taken care of everyone in the world who is starving or doesn't have adequate medical care," says Howard Cutler, MD, coauthor with the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. "The Dalai Lama believes you should pursue both simultaneously. For one thing, there is clear research showing that happy people tend to be more open to helping others. They also make better spouses and parents." And in one famous study, nuns whose autobiographies expressed positive emotions (such as gratitude and optimism) lived seven to 10-and-a-half years longer than other nuns. So, for any die-hard pessimist who still needs persuading, just think of how much more you can help the world if you allow a little happiness into your life.
By Gabrielle LeBlanc
Sages going back to Socrates have offered advice on how to be happy, but only now are scientists beginning to address this question with systematic, controlled research. Although many of the new studies reaffirm time-honored wisdom ("Do what you love," "To thine own self be true"), they also add a number of fresh twists and insights. We canvassed the leading experts on what happy people have in common—and why it's worth trying to become one of them.
1. They find their most golden self.
Picture happiness. What do you see? A peaceful soul sitting in a field of daisies appreciating the moment? That kind of passive, pleasure-oriented—hedonic—contentment is definitely a component of overall happiness. But researchers now believe that eudaimonic well-being may be more important. Cobbled from the Greek eu ("good") and daimon ("spirit" or "deity"), eudaimonia means striving toward excellence based on one's unique talents and potential—Aristotle considered it to be the noblest goal in life. In his time, the Greeks believed that each child was blessed at birth with a personal daimon embodying the highest possible expression of his or her nature. One way they envisioned the daimon was as a golden figurine that would be revealed by cracking away an outer layer of cheap pottery (the person's baser exterior). The effort to know and realize one's most golden self—"personal growth," in today's lingo—is now the central concept of eudaimonia, which has also come to include continually taking on new challenges and fulfilling one's sense of purpose in life.
"Eudaimonic well-being is much more robust and satisfying than hedonic happiness, and it engages different parts of the brain," says Richard J. Davidson, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "The positive emotion accompanying thoughts that are directed toward meaningful goals is one of the most enduring components of well-being." Eudaimonia is also good for the body. Women who scored high on psychological tests for it (they were purposefully engaged in life, pursued self-development) weighed less, slept better, and had fewer stress hormones and markers for heart disease than others—including those reporting hedonic happiness—according to a study led by Carol Ryff, PhD, a professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2. They design their lives to bring in joy.
It may seem obvious, but "people don't devote enough time to thinking seriously about how they spend their life and how much of it they actually enjoy," says David Schkade, PhD, a psychologist and professor of management at the University of California San Diego. In a recent study, Schkade and colleagues asked more than 900 working women to write down everything they'd done the day before. Afterward, they reviewed their diaries and evaluated how they felt at each point. When the women saw how much time they spent on activities they didn't like, "some people had tears in their eyes," Schkade says. "They didn't realize their happiness was something they could design and have control over."
Analyzing one's life isn't necessarily easy and may require questioning long-held assumptions. A high-powered career might, in fact, turn out to be unfulfilling; a committed relationship once longed for could end up being irritating with all the compromising that comes with having a partner. Dreams can be hard to abandon, even when they've turned sour.
Fortunately, changes don't have to be big ones to tip the joy in your favor. Schkade says that if you transfer even an hour of your day from an activity you hate (commuting, scrubbing the bathroom) to one you like (reading, spending time with friends), you should see a significant improvement in your overall happiness. Taking action is key. Another recent study, at the University of Missouri, compared college students who made intentional changes (joining a club, upgrading their study habits) with others who passively experienced positive turns in their circumstances (receiving a scholarship, being relieved of a bad roommate). All the students were happier in the short term, but only the group who made deliberate changes stayed that way.
3. They avoid "if only" fantasies.
If only I get a better job…find a man…lose the weight…life will be perfect. Happy people don't buy into this kind of thinking.
The latest research shows that we're surprisingly bad at predicting what will make us happy. People also tend to misjudge their contentment when zeroing in on a single aspect of their life—it's called the focusing illusion. In one study, single subjects were asked, "How happy are you with your life in general?" and "How many dates did you have last month?" When the dating question was asked first, their romantic life weighed more heavily into how they rated their overall happiness than when the questions were reversed.
The other argument against "if only" fantasies has to do with "hedonic adaptation"—the brain's natural dimming effect, which guarantees that a new house won't generate the same pleasure a year after its purchase and the thrill of having a boyfriend will ebb as you get used to being part of a couple. Happy people are wise to this, which is why they keep their lives full of novelty, even if it's just trying a new activity (diving, yoga) or putting a new spin on an old favorite (kundalini instead of vinyasa).
4. They put best friends first.
It's no surprise that social engagement is one of the most important contributors to happiness. What's news is that the nature of the relationship counts. Compared with dashing around chatting with acquaintances, you get more joy from spending longer periods of time with a close friend, according to research by Meliksah Demir, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Northern Arizona University. And the best-friend benefit doesn't necessarily come from delving into heavy discussions. One of the most essential pleasures of close friendship, Demir found, is simple companionship, "just hanging out," as he says, hitting the mall or going to the movies together and eating popcorn in the dark.
5. They allow themselves to be happy.
As much as we all think we want it, many of us are convinced, deep down, that it's wrong to be happy (or too happy). Whether the belief comes from religion, culture, or the family you were raised in, it usually leaves you feeling guilty if you're having fun.
"Some people would say you shouldn't strive for personal happiness until you've taken care of everyone in the world who is starving or doesn't have adequate medical care," says Howard Cutler, MD, coauthor with the Dalai Lama of The Art of Happiness in a Troubled World. "The Dalai Lama believes you should pursue both simultaneously. For one thing, there is clear research showing that happy people tend to be more open to helping others. They also make better spouses and parents." And in one famous study, nuns whose autobiographies expressed positive emotions (such as gratitude and optimism) lived seven to 10-and-a-half years longer than other nuns. So, for any die-hard pessimist who still needs persuading, just think of how much more you can help the world if you allow a little happiness into your life.
Monday, January 26, 2009
Becoming Who you May Become, Being Who you Are!
Becoming Who you May Become
Being Who you Are!
by Dionne Hogen of the Netherlands
On the cutting surface of Being and Becoming you find Awakening.
A beautiful and intense process of cleaning up, letting go and growth. An intense process of the growing of Love and Oneness and living to see and experience what it really means to become a cosmic human being.
Becoming who you are allowed to become seems a process from A to B, but nothing is less true. Because just when you think you are at point B, you'll experience the truth of A once more.
But then maybe from a different dimension?
It is a reflexive process that the lemniscate shows us, whereby we ourselves stand in the centre of the figure eight. We are the true center of the process and by Being in this centre we develop ourselves in our capacity to Be on the earth and in the cosmos at the same time.
It is a deep Still Point from were all starts.
Every moment anew.
The power of Being.
By being in the power point over and over again, we experience the powers that are available to us, from the Earth and from the Cosmos. They are energetic powers who help us to stand firmly with two feet on the ground to experience what true Love is.
In the next section I want to help you come to the center of Being.
To come to your resting point.
It is an essential starting point to begin to create in the new dimension on earth. It is the basis you form to Be from in your cosmic and earth connection and to give form to your task on earth. It is the intention from your Self to guide you to who you Are and who you may become.
By asking yourself the right "Quintessence Questions" , 'All that is in between' will reveal itself.
Every question is connected with the basis of each of the 13 energy centers. In the right connection with cosmos and earth a direct transformation and transmutation takes place.
Have confidence and Be!
Working with the 13 Quintessence Questions of Being
Pure connection
For every situation in which you work with the earth and cosmos you'll be asked to be in a pure connection. A pure connection with the center of the earth, a direct connection with the Source and a direct connection with your Heart.
To do so, you visualize your 13 energy centers and you build a golden ray connection from your heart to the Central Sun, The Source and to the center of the Earth.
Then you let this golden ray connection flow from the center of the Earth through your base and from the Sun through your crown back to your Heart.
Then you connect from your Solar Plexus to nature, the water and All that is, only there where it is meant to Be.
Focus your attention on your Heart and surrender to the connection.
Feel all that is in and around you. See the ray connection in yourself and the center of the eight, the lemniscate in which you Are the center.
Speak out within yourself that you want to connect to All that is, only there where it is meant to be.
You are now in a powerful multidimensional earth/cosmic connection as it is meant at this moment.
The Quintessence Questions
Every quintessence question that you ask yourself will touch and move something inside yourself. I invite you to stay close to your Heart and to Feel, Hear or See from your Heart.
From your Hearth you will receive the message that tells you what you may do to lay claim to Transformation, Transmutation or Creation.
First, read the questions and their meaning attentively. It will increase the power of intention of the quintessence question.
Then begin to ask yourself the questions and work through them slowly step by step. Don't force anything and stop as soon as you feel you should stop. You're working on the basis of Your Being and it's allowed to do that step by step.
Getting to work
Ask yourself the quintessence question and close up with the integration text
Make sure you are in a pure connection and focus your attention on your Heart. Ask yourself the first quintessence question and then become still for a moment. Feel inside your body where this question brings movement or causes a feeling.
Put your hand on there.
Then go with your attention from your Heart to this part in You. Ask for transformation and again be still for a while.
Work ar choose the symbols, colours, etc. that you're familiar with.
Then pronounce the integration text that belongs to the first quintessence question and feel again where this causes any motion or feeling. Of choice, repeat the process of transformation. You may ask your light beings to help.
Always end with pronouncing the integration text. It is the text that you are allowed to carry with you for some time until you work along with the next question. Give yourself time and a rest to come into a new balance.
Working together
Working with these questions may be many times more powerful by doing it together with two or three people.
Make sure that everybody is in a pure connection and that you are only connected with each other where it is meant to be.
This way you shape the conditions for a pure energy field and you give the earth and the cosmos the chance to help you heal the parts you meet.
The working-out
You are literally working on the basis of your Being.
This can cause some strong reactions. Your body and spirit are going to purify themselves through your deep touch.
Be aware of this and take yourself seriously here.
The Quintessence questions of Being
1. "Who am I as an earthly-cosmic human being?"
I am Silence.
On the 1st level of the 1st energy center we find the base, the pillars that reach into the deepest essence of Being. It is the earthly Being , influenced by the Sun, Earth, Sky and Light.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Who am I as an earth-cosmic human being?"
It is the level of the "naked" human of Being.
2. "Do I choose to Be?"
I choose to Be.
On the 2nd level we find the essential first choice to Be. It is the choice in essence to Be.
It is the intention to design your Being on earth from the basis. Diverging rays/energies of masculine and feminine powers influence this level into its deepest essential design resolution. It is a powerful level to work out through problems like courage and power of achievement, but also soft power of achievement, sexuality from a higher level of consciousness.
At this level we find the unravelling of the old and new masculine and feminine patterns and here is where the old pain pieces of former lives are filed.
At this level one can directly claim Transformation and Transmutation by connecting the circular moon with the blazing golden sun, which will promptly reveal itself as a golden transparent ball. Radiant as day and night together.
The quintessence question is:
"Do I choose to Be?"
3. "Am I in unconditional Being?"
"I am unconditional Being.
At this level of being we find the essential considerations which let themselves be heard, felt and seen as soon as we touch the basis of being a cosmic human being. During the "who am I and who may I become" questions come to you like: "Which basic elements may I use as the foundation of Being?"
"Which essentials of life appeal to me and ensure that I can live by the heart?"
It is the level on which the 1st contours of the structures of Being are becoming visible and the essence structure of cosmic Being and the Father-Mother-Child connection is being made, formed and restored. It is this level on which the essence of the earthly vital power in direct connection with the cosmos is being connected in the body. It is a direct entrance and exit of chi, on an earthly-cosmic level.
The quintessence question is: "Am I in unconditional Being?"
Problems on this level will become visible in the working-out of this within relations between several people/groups/ organisations.
Working on this level requires that you create the right connections inwards and outwards and to break up or disconnect where this is meant to be.
4. "Do I really want to Be?"
I am real.
This level is a transition level. It is an embedding and steering level what is necessary to be able to come to action from direct intention.
In the essential-elements of this level, basic structures and actions are stored, with which you can Be in the direct creation from the heart.
These are essential-elements within the human being, but also within groups. Within these essential-elements are the conditions to be able to Be in a connection in the basis on an earthly-cosmic level.
It guarantees grounding and becoming.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Do I really want to Be, do I really want to Be Earth Cosmic Human Being?"
Problems on this level reveal themselves as defence, escapist behaviour, dejectedness, depressiveness because the Sight on the perspective is disturbed. This can be solved by discussing the perspective and to describe it into detail and reading it over and over again.
Working with symbols/colours and visualisations is very healing.
Softness.
5. "Do I love my Being? "
I Love my Being.
This level is the true cherishing of Being, truly feeling the Love for your own basis. The true love for yourself is imbedded in this part of the 1st energy center. It is this part that you can only feel scarcely and which is screaming for attention, screaming to be touched and screaming to be truly acknowledged. Also in the deepest basis of Being we find the Love as we know it in our Heart. By now putting all our attention on this level in the 1st energy center, the Love from the Heart can be in connection with the basis of our Being, as a pillar, as an acknowledgement of Being with Love.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Do I love myself?"
"Do I love my Being? " "I love myself because I Am?"
The problems we meet at this sublevel will show themselves as a subconscious rejection of Being. Saying you do, but as a gramophone a counter voice comes up softly from the lower being, from the deepest level of sub consciousness which directly calls the opposite. This way you can feel depression when you feel love. You say to yourself: I should actually feel good, but I feel kind of depressed.
"I Love myself" ( 'I don't love myself at all') It is a interweave experience of Being which, through the subconscious sounds inside yourself, produces the exact opposite. You can turn this around by making the turn visible inside yourself. Visualize the part of you that is dissociating itself over and over again from loving yourself. A deep fear is underlying and wants to be touched with true love. Allow this part to show itself and let us hear what it needs. Now give all your attention to this part and really turn it around, let it turn itself around in the image and anchor it with the symbol of a transparent violet or any other symbol that announces itself spontaneously.
The fifth level of the first energy centre is a basic level from where further steps truly can be taken. It is the level that guarantees Unconditional Love as a basis, however powerful the counter streams may be. So therefore, connect strongly with this part and reassure it whenever there are hiatuses in the flow.
6. "Am I whole?"
I Am whole.
The sixth level of Being of the first Energy centre is a circulation level that lets itself be fed by the heart-throat centre.
It is the level that guarantees the necessary connections and cleaning up on the first level. It is the level that starts the transparency of Being and guards the true grounding in the purest form. It is the level that lets the true grounding to cosmic creation and the other way around be what it may become. It is the basis of Being cosmic human.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Am I whole?"
When the sixth level of Being is disturbed, we find a consequent movement and vibration in the stability. With other words, there is a consequent misbalance in the basis to be felt. This let itself be felt as a feeling of shakiness, rash and itching and other complains on the lower parts of your body.
The body takes on a consequent form of purification and consequently let you hear and feel that there is something going on.
By getting in contact with this part of the 1st energy centre it is possible to open up the 6th level and to clean out the old traces.
Do this by looking at this part and by Seeing what the intention is; what is necessary to give this part space and to let it flow.
What is restraining or holding back?
7. "Am I Being?"
I Am Being
On this level we find expression on the level of Being.
Expression of the basis sections. It is the level that announces itself as a deep emotion of Being, a deep feeling of really Being. Like you Are doing the Being. It is a first form of expression of Being as a cosmic human being and it is a true creator. It is the one asking and the one taking, it is the one who does and the one who sits still at the same time. In this part of the basis the quintessence question "Am I Being?" being asked.
In other words: Am I in the present and Am I doing in the PRESENT?
The 7th level of the first energy center is a crucial connection to come to the true fundamentals of creating and grounding. It is the level on which the foundation of creating and essential expression is being built. By looking at the connections and the flow, one can see where the eventual blockages lie.
Problems on this level are aligned with coming out and making contact to others on an essential level, from the basis. It shows us our fears regarding to making contact with others. It makes us feel and see our communicative basis.
Lack of this part in relation to others will break down the communication on the deepest level. Because here it is all about a sublevel it may seem as if it is all fine, and only later it will makes visible that there is something wrong, there is still 'some sand in between the wheels'.
8. "May I Be who I Am?"
I may Be who I Am.
The 8th level of the 1st energy center represents in its essence the spirit of enterprise in life, the life of Being. The ultimate Being-principle that will show itself through an internal motive of progression. You can say a connection to the perpetual motion, the cosmic spiralling of life which always continues to move from the essence, the remembrance of life as it allowed to Be. In connection with this part of the 1st energy centre you'll meet whatever resists to truly standing for your own Self, your own Being. It is this part of the 1st energy center that truly generates power and produces a progression in the grounding of Being, being cosmic human. In the problematic nature belonging to this part you will meet all of your old masculine and old feminine motives of being allowed to be. These are the motives that belong to the need for recognition, being material, being through the material. It is this part that thinks that it 'might be too late', what keeps on hitting the breaks whenever a feeling of progression through cosmic movement is showing itself in visibility and feeling and when it shines through in your daily life.
Letting go of these old masculine and feminine convictions can be effected by being in an active connection with this part of and to invite it to make known what it needs to Be, like the other parts, in a position of Love and rest. The position of Being in the Present.
This makes it possible, in the basis, to live on a higher level of consciousness as well and to lift the basis to a higher step on the 'life ladder'.
The quintessence question belonging to this part and level is:
"May I be for who I Am?"
9. "Am I equal to Christ?"
I Am equal to Christ
On this level we find the basic trust in life. The basic trust in the movement of life, in Being. This part represents the Christ trust in the Mother and the Father, the divine child part from the ancient. In this part we find the building stones for exploration from the soul, exploration from the soul through being who you are in trust with the Christ in you. In this part you'll get the answer to the question, if you trust yourself in the being-equal-to-Christ.
It is the Christ equality that wants to sow the grounding and trusting through this part, in order to reap when the time is right.
It is this part of the first energy center that creates and maintains the connections from the mother to the father, the cosmos and the central sun. Through this part the sun shines into the earth and the mother sun shines into the father, the cosmos. Open this part by connecting, at the same time, both the sun and the moon with your heart and by letting the flow of love flow to this part.
In this part a large uncertainty is imbedded. It is a basic uncertainty of being worthy, being worthy to be equal to Christ. Only love can open and heal this part. So, connect yourself regularly with the heart flow where through real Love heals.
10. "May I See who I Am?"
I may see who I Am.
The 10th level of the first energy center lets itself be Seen, literally.
It is an all-embracing part in the basis and is seen and felt from the heart. It is the basis of ancient power in connection with the heart through the Knowing, the Feeling, the Hearing and the Seeing. It is the basis of Being. In this part you find the real original human-being-state as it was meant in the essence of life. It is the part that initiates and that generates motive power from the Heart to an idea, a Knowing, an image. Disruption of this part let itself be seen in bizarre dreams whereby you may release old images, old memories from the basis of life or from former lives.
In this part the ancient mystic secrets are filed, that you may use at all times in life, initiated by the higher Self.
In connection with these basic ingredients it becomes possible to work things out from the ancient basis of Being. A trusted soul wisdom that has always 'Been' there, the ancient memory from the Source.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"May I See who I Am?"
11. "May I Be who I Am?"
I May Be who I Am.
In this part of the 1st energy center, the divine/Christ connection in the ancient earth is stored. It is the Source connection that basically lets itself be felt as a umbilical cord or navel-string to the source. It is a spiritual navel-string that has being laid by leaving the Source, and it receives a flow of energy in order to be able to receive and to give cosmic life power in the basis of Being. It is in that sense a cord, a navel-string because the nourishment from the earth and the cosmos is been given through this level and only then can we partake of the energy, when the connections are intact. Make the connections by opening the level with a golden heart ray. Then bring the mother force energy out of the earth and the father force energy out of the cosmos to this level, this sub-energy centre, and let it Be right there.
Problems in this basis part of Being, in the circulation of the spiritual navel-string, let themselves be Seen and Felt by feeling inconvenienced on earth because one rather is in a cosmic connection only. In other words, being ungrounded.
It is this part that carries self-destruction in it; it is the part that chooses death in order not to live.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"May I Be who I Am?"
12. "Am I who I Am?"
I Am who I Am.
By recognising and acknowledging this part it becomes possible to place spiritual human being and cosmic human being in the whole of the cosmos and earth at the same time. It is the basis part of placing Oneself in Being. How do I relate to earth and cosmos, Father and Mother. It is the cutting surface of experiencing and being able to place the spiritual and the personality, and through that truly integrating earthly and cosmic Being in the Being One with All That Is.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Am I who I Am?"
Problems that will show up are related to giving a basic place to being cosmic human. Who am I to…………..
13 . "Am I?"
I Am.
On the 13th level of the first energy center we find the divine portal and the grounding at the same time. It is the cyclical connection portal with an upstairs and downstairs, with cosmos and earth from the basis of being human. It is this part that directly connects itself again with the 1st sublevel. It is the Being with God. It is the God in Being. In connection with All That Is, you'll experience the connection with the earth and the cosmos in One.
In this part of Being an earthly fulfilment is being enjoyed and a divine level of consciousness can truly ground itself and be lived. The essence of this part is creating up to the highest level, creation force in its most earthly form.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Am I?"
The flowing of this subpart guarantees a pureness of being. Clearing up disturbances can only be done when one works with a pure connection with the cosmos and earth and by using the right symbols/energy.
"I AM"
*Working with this text is designed for the self-actualization of the individual on the path of awakening, Being human. The consequences of working with this text are the responsibility of the reader him/her self.
See a doctor when you experience a physical/mental imbalances.
Being Who you Are!
by Dionne Hogen of the Netherlands
On the cutting surface of Being and Becoming you find Awakening.
A beautiful and intense process of cleaning up, letting go and growth. An intense process of the growing of Love and Oneness and living to see and experience what it really means to become a cosmic human being.
Becoming who you are allowed to become seems a process from A to B, but nothing is less true. Because just when you think you are at point B, you'll experience the truth of A once more.
But then maybe from a different dimension?
It is a reflexive process that the lemniscate shows us, whereby we ourselves stand in the centre of the figure eight. We are the true center of the process and by Being in this centre we develop ourselves in our capacity to Be on the earth and in the cosmos at the same time.
It is a deep Still Point from were all starts.
Every moment anew.
The power of Being.
By being in the power point over and over again, we experience the powers that are available to us, from the Earth and from the Cosmos. They are energetic powers who help us to stand firmly with two feet on the ground to experience what true Love is.
In the next section I want to help you come to the center of Being.
To come to your resting point.
It is an essential starting point to begin to create in the new dimension on earth. It is the basis you form to Be from in your cosmic and earth connection and to give form to your task on earth. It is the intention from your Self to guide you to who you Are and who you may become.
By asking yourself the right "Quintessence Questions" , 'All that is in between' will reveal itself.
Every question is connected with the basis of each of the 13 energy centers. In the right connection with cosmos and earth a direct transformation and transmutation takes place.
Have confidence and Be!
Working with the 13 Quintessence Questions of Being
Pure connection
For every situation in which you work with the earth and cosmos you'll be asked to be in a pure connection. A pure connection with the center of the earth, a direct connection with the Source and a direct connection with your Heart.
To do so, you visualize your 13 energy centers and you build a golden ray connection from your heart to the Central Sun, The Source and to the center of the Earth.
Then you let this golden ray connection flow from the center of the Earth through your base and from the Sun through your crown back to your Heart.
Then you connect from your Solar Plexus to nature, the water and All that is, only there where it is meant to Be.
Focus your attention on your Heart and surrender to the connection.
Feel all that is in and around you. See the ray connection in yourself and the center of the eight, the lemniscate in which you Are the center.
Speak out within yourself that you want to connect to All that is, only there where it is meant to be.
You are now in a powerful multidimensional earth/cosmic connection as it is meant at this moment.
The Quintessence Questions
Every quintessence question that you ask yourself will touch and move something inside yourself. I invite you to stay close to your Heart and to Feel, Hear or See from your Heart.
From your Hearth you will receive the message that tells you what you may do to lay claim to Transformation, Transmutation or Creation.
First, read the questions and their meaning attentively. It will increase the power of intention of the quintessence question.
Then begin to ask yourself the questions and work through them slowly step by step. Don't force anything and stop as soon as you feel you should stop. You're working on the basis of Your Being and it's allowed to do that step by step.
Getting to work
Ask yourself the quintessence question and close up with the integration text
Make sure you are in a pure connection and focus your attention on your Heart. Ask yourself the first quintessence question and then become still for a moment. Feel inside your body where this question brings movement or causes a feeling.
Put your hand on there.
Then go with your attention from your Heart to this part in You. Ask for transformation and again be still for a while.
Work ar choose the symbols, colours, etc. that you're familiar with.
Then pronounce the integration text that belongs to the first quintessence question and feel again where this causes any motion or feeling. Of choice, repeat the process of transformation. You may ask your light beings to help.
Always end with pronouncing the integration text. It is the text that you are allowed to carry with you for some time until you work along with the next question. Give yourself time and a rest to come into a new balance.
Working together
Working with these questions may be many times more powerful by doing it together with two or three people.
Make sure that everybody is in a pure connection and that you are only connected with each other where it is meant to be.
This way you shape the conditions for a pure energy field and you give the earth and the cosmos the chance to help you heal the parts you meet.
The working-out
You are literally working on the basis of your Being.
This can cause some strong reactions. Your body and spirit are going to purify themselves through your deep touch.
Be aware of this and take yourself seriously here.
The Quintessence questions of Being
1. "Who am I as an earthly-cosmic human being?"
I am Silence.
On the 1st level of the 1st energy center we find the base, the pillars that reach into the deepest essence of Being. It is the earthly Being , influenced by the Sun, Earth, Sky and Light.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Who am I as an earth-cosmic human being?"
It is the level of the "naked" human of Being.
2. "Do I choose to Be?"
I choose to Be.
On the 2nd level we find the essential first choice to Be. It is the choice in essence to Be.
It is the intention to design your Being on earth from the basis. Diverging rays/energies of masculine and feminine powers influence this level into its deepest essential design resolution. It is a powerful level to work out through problems like courage and power of achievement, but also soft power of achievement, sexuality from a higher level of consciousness.
At this level we find the unravelling of the old and new masculine and feminine patterns and here is where the old pain pieces of former lives are filed.
At this level one can directly claim Transformation and Transmutation by connecting the circular moon with the blazing golden sun, which will promptly reveal itself as a golden transparent ball. Radiant as day and night together.
The quintessence question is:
"Do I choose to Be?"
3. "Am I in unconditional Being?"
"I am unconditional Being.
At this level of being we find the essential considerations which let themselves be heard, felt and seen as soon as we touch the basis of being a cosmic human being. During the "who am I and who may I become" questions come to you like: "Which basic elements may I use as the foundation of Being?"
"Which essentials of life appeal to me and ensure that I can live by the heart?"
It is the level on which the 1st contours of the structures of Being are becoming visible and the essence structure of cosmic Being and the Father-Mother-Child connection is being made, formed and restored. It is this level on which the essence of the earthly vital power in direct connection with the cosmos is being connected in the body. It is a direct entrance and exit of chi, on an earthly-cosmic level.
The quintessence question is: "Am I in unconditional Being?"
Problems on this level will become visible in the working-out of this within relations between several people/groups/ organisations.
Working on this level requires that you create the right connections inwards and outwards and to break up or disconnect where this is meant to be.
4. "Do I really want to Be?"
I am real.
This level is a transition level. It is an embedding and steering level what is necessary to be able to come to action from direct intention.
In the essential-elements of this level, basic structures and actions are stored, with which you can Be in the direct creation from the heart.
These are essential-elements within the human being, but also within groups. Within these essential-elements are the conditions to be able to Be in a connection in the basis on an earthly-cosmic level.
It guarantees grounding and becoming.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Do I really want to Be, do I really want to Be Earth Cosmic Human Being?"
Problems on this level reveal themselves as defence, escapist behaviour, dejectedness, depressiveness because the Sight on the perspective is disturbed. This can be solved by discussing the perspective and to describe it into detail and reading it over and over again.
Working with symbols/colours and visualisations is very healing.
Softness.
5. "Do I love my Being? "
I Love my Being.
This level is the true cherishing of Being, truly feeling the Love for your own basis. The true love for yourself is imbedded in this part of the 1st energy center. It is this part that you can only feel scarcely and which is screaming for attention, screaming to be touched and screaming to be truly acknowledged. Also in the deepest basis of Being we find the Love as we know it in our Heart. By now putting all our attention on this level in the 1st energy center, the Love from the Heart can be in connection with the basis of our Being, as a pillar, as an acknowledgement of Being with Love.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Do I love myself?"
"Do I love my Being? " "I love myself because I Am?"
The problems we meet at this sublevel will show themselves as a subconscious rejection of Being. Saying you do, but as a gramophone a counter voice comes up softly from the lower being, from the deepest level of sub consciousness which directly calls the opposite. This way you can feel depression when you feel love. You say to yourself: I should actually feel good, but I feel kind of depressed.
"I Love myself" ( 'I don't love myself at all') It is a interweave experience of Being which, through the subconscious sounds inside yourself, produces the exact opposite. You can turn this around by making the turn visible inside yourself. Visualize the part of you that is dissociating itself over and over again from loving yourself. A deep fear is underlying and wants to be touched with true love. Allow this part to show itself and let us hear what it needs. Now give all your attention to this part and really turn it around, let it turn itself around in the image and anchor it with the symbol of a transparent violet or any other symbol that announces itself spontaneously.
The fifth level of the first energy centre is a basic level from where further steps truly can be taken. It is the level that guarantees Unconditional Love as a basis, however powerful the counter streams may be. So therefore, connect strongly with this part and reassure it whenever there are hiatuses in the flow.
6. "Am I whole?"
I Am whole.
The sixth level of Being of the first Energy centre is a circulation level that lets itself be fed by the heart-throat centre.
It is the level that guarantees the necessary connections and cleaning up on the first level. It is the level that starts the transparency of Being and guards the true grounding in the purest form. It is the level that lets the true grounding to cosmic creation and the other way around be what it may become. It is the basis of Being cosmic human.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is: "Am I whole?"
When the sixth level of Being is disturbed, we find a consequent movement and vibration in the stability. With other words, there is a consequent misbalance in the basis to be felt. This let itself be felt as a feeling of shakiness, rash and itching and other complains on the lower parts of your body.
The body takes on a consequent form of purification and consequently let you hear and feel that there is something going on.
By getting in contact with this part of the 1st energy centre it is possible to open up the 6th level and to clean out the old traces.
Do this by looking at this part and by Seeing what the intention is; what is necessary to give this part space and to let it flow.
What is restraining or holding back?
7. "Am I Being?"
I Am Being
On this level we find expression on the level of Being.
Expression of the basis sections. It is the level that announces itself as a deep emotion of Being, a deep feeling of really Being. Like you Are doing the Being. It is a first form of expression of Being as a cosmic human being and it is a true creator. It is the one asking and the one taking, it is the one who does and the one who sits still at the same time. In this part of the basis the quintessence question "Am I Being?" being asked.
In other words: Am I in the present and Am I doing in the PRESENT?
The 7th level of the first energy center is a crucial connection to come to the true fundamentals of creating and grounding. It is the level on which the foundation of creating and essential expression is being built. By looking at the connections and the flow, one can see where the eventual blockages lie.
Problems on this level are aligned with coming out and making contact to others on an essential level, from the basis. It shows us our fears regarding to making contact with others. It makes us feel and see our communicative basis.
Lack of this part in relation to others will break down the communication on the deepest level. Because here it is all about a sublevel it may seem as if it is all fine, and only later it will makes visible that there is something wrong, there is still 'some sand in between the wheels'.
8. "May I Be who I Am?"
I may Be who I Am.
The 8th level of the 1st energy center represents in its essence the spirit of enterprise in life, the life of Being. The ultimate Being-principle that will show itself through an internal motive of progression. You can say a connection to the perpetual motion, the cosmic spiralling of life which always continues to move from the essence, the remembrance of life as it allowed to Be. In connection with this part of the 1st energy centre you'll meet whatever resists to truly standing for your own Self, your own Being. It is this part of the 1st energy center that truly generates power and produces a progression in the grounding of Being, being cosmic human. In the problematic nature belonging to this part you will meet all of your old masculine and old feminine motives of being allowed to be. These are the motives that belong to the need for recognition, being material, being through the material. It is this part that thinks that it 'might be too late', what keeps on hitting the breaks whenever a feeling of progression through cosmic movement is showing itself in visibility and feeling and when it shines through in your daily life.
Letting go of these old masculine and feminine convictions can be effected by being in an active connection with this part of and to invite it to make known what it needs to Be, like the other parts, in a position of Love and rest. The position of Being in the Present.
This makes it possible, in the basis, to live on a higher level of consciousness as well and to lift the basis to a higher step on the 'life ladder'.
The quintessence question belonging to this part and level is:
"May I be for who I Am?"
9. "Am I equal to Christ?"
I Am equal to Christ
On this level we find the basic trust in life. The basic trust in the movement of life, in Being. This part represents the Christ trust in the Mother and the Father, the divine child part from the ancient. In this part we find the building stones for exploration from the soul, exploration from the soul through being who you are in trust with the Christ in you. In this part you'll get the answer to the question, if you trust yourself in the being-equal-to-Christ.
It is the Christ equality that wants to sow the grounding and trusting through this part, in order to reap when the time is right.
It is this part of the first energy center that creates and maintains the connections from the mother to the father, the cosmos and the central sun. Through this part the sun shines into the earth and the mother sun shines into the father, the cosmos. Open this part by connecting, at the same time, both the sun and the moon with your heart and by letting the flow of love flow to this part.
In this part a large uncertainty is imbedded. It is a basic uncertainty of being worthy, being worthy to be equal to Christ. Only love can open and heal this part. So, connect yourself regularly with the heart flow where through real Love heals.
10. "May I See who I Am?"
I may see who I Am.
The 10th level of the first energy center lets itself be Seen, literally.
It is an all-embracing part in the basis and is seen and felt from the heart. It is the basis of ancient power in connection with the heart through the Knowing, the Feeling, the Hearing and the Seeing. It is the basis of Being. In this part you find the real original human-being-state as it was meant in the essence of life. It is the part that initiates and that generates motive power from the Heart to an idea, a Knowing, an image. Disruption of this part let itself be seen in bizarre dreams whereby you may release old images, old memories from the basis of life or from former lives.
In this part the ancient mystic secrets are filed, that you may use at all times in life, initiated by the higher Self.
In connection with these basic ingredients it becomes possible to work things out from the ancient basis of Being. A trusted soul wisdom that has always 'Been' there, the ancient memory from the Source.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"May I See who I Am?"
11. "May I Be who I Am?"
I May Be who I Am.
In this part of the 1st energy center, the divine/Christ connection in the ancient earth is stored. It is the Source connection that basically lets itself be felt as a umbilical cord or navel-string to the source. It is a spiritual navel-string that has being laid by leaving the Source, and it receives a flow of energy in order to be able to receive and to give cosmic life power in the basis of Being. It is in that sense a cord, a navel-string because the nourishment from the earth and the cosmos is been given through this level and only then can we partake of the energy, when the connections are intact. Make the connections by opening the level with a golden heart ray. Then bring the mother force energy out of the earth and the father force energy out of the cosmos to this level, this sub-energy centre, and let it Be right there.
Problems in this basis part of Being, in the circulation of the spiritual navel-string, let themselves be Seen and Felt by feeling inconvenienced on earth because one rather is in a cosmic connection only. In other words, being ungrounded.
It is this part that carries self-destruction in it; it is the part that chooses death in order not to live.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"May I Be who I Am?"
12. "Am I who I Am?"
I Am who I Am.
By recognising and acknowledging this part it becomes possible to place spiritual human being and cosmic human being in the whole of the cosmos and earth at the same time. It is the basis part of placing Oneself in Being. How do I relate to earth and cosmos, Father and Mother. It is the cutting surface of experiencing and being able to place the spiritual and the personality, and through that truly integrating earthly and cosmic Being in the Being One with All That Is.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Am I who I Am?"
Problems that will show up are related to giving a basic place to being cosmic human. Who am I to…………..
13 . "Am I?"
I Am.
On the 13th level of the first energy center we find the divine portal and the grounding at the same time. It is the cyclical connection portal with an upstairs and downstairs, with cosmos and earth from the basis of being human. It is this part that directly connects itself again with the 1st sublevel. It is the Being with God. It is the God in Being. In connection with All That Is, you'll experience the connection with the earth and the cosmos in One.
In this part of Being an earthly fulfilment is being enjoyed and a divine level of consciousness can truly ground itself and be lived. The essence of this part is creating up to the highest level, creation force in its most earthly form.
The quintessence question belonging to this level is:
"Am I?"
The flowing of this subpart guarantees a pureness of being. Clearing up disturbances can only be done when one works with a pure connection with the cosmos and earth and by using the right symbols/energy.
"I AM"
*Working with this text is designed for the self-actualization of the individual on the path of awakening, Being human. The consequences of working with this text are the responsibility of the reader him/her self.
See a doctor when you experience a physical/mental imbalances.
Twelve Signs of Your Awakening Divinity
The Shaumbra Symptoms
Twelve Signs of Your Awakening Divinity
1. Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the "Christ seed" awakens within. This too shall pass.
2. Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason. You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many, many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This too shall pass.
3. Crying for no apparent reason. Similar to #2 above. It's good and healthy to let the tears flow. It helps to release the old energy within. This too shall pass.
4. Sudden change in job or career. A very common symptom. As you change, things around you will change as well. Don't worry about finding the "perfect" job or career right now. This too shall pass. You're in transition and you may make several job changes before you settle into one that fits your passion.
5. Withdrawal from family relationships. You are connected to your biological family via old karma. When you get off the karmic cycle, the bonds of the old relationships are released. It will appear as though you are drifting away from your family and friends. This too shall pass. After a period of time, you may develop a new relationship with them if it is appropriate. However, the relationship will be based in the new energy without the karmic attachments.
6. Unusual sleep patterns. It's likely that you'll awaken many nights between 2:00 and 4:00 AM. There's a lot of work going on within you, and it often causes you to wake up for a "breather." Not to worry. If you can't go back to sleep, get up and do something rather than lay in bed and worry about humanly things. This too shall pass.
7. Intense dreams. These might include war and battle dreams, chase dreams or monster dreams. You are literally releasing the old energy within, and these energies of the past are often symbolized as wars, running to escape and boogiemen. This too shall pass.
8. Physical disorientation. At times you'll feel very ungrounded. You'll be "spatially challenged" with the feeling like you can't put two feet on the ground, or that you're walking between two worlds. As your consciousness transitions into the new energy, you body sometimes lags behind. Spend more time in nature to help ground the new energy within. This too shall pass.
9. Increased "self talk." You'll find yourself talking to your Self more often. You'll suddenly realize you've been chattering away with yourself for the past 30 minutes. There is a new level of communication taking place within your being, and you're experiencing the tip of the iceberg with the self talk. The conversations will increase, and they will become more fluid, more coherent and more insightful. You're not going crazy, you're just Shaumbra moving into the new energy.
10. Feelings of loneliness, even when in the company of others. You may feel alone and removed from others. You may feel the desire to "flee" groups and crowds. As Shaumbra, you are walking a sacred and lonely path. As much as the feelings of loneliness cause you anxiety, it is difficult to relate to others at this time. The feelings of loneliness are also associated with the fact that your Guides have departed. They have been with you on all of your journeys in all of your lifetimes. It was time for them to back away so you could fill your space with your own divinity. This too shall pass. The void within will be filled with the love and energy of your own Christ consciousness.
11. Loss of passion. You may feel totally disimpassioned, with little or no desire to do anything. That's OK, and it's just part of the process. Take this time to "do no-thing." Don't fight yourself on this, because this too shall pass. It's similar to rebooting a computer. You need to shut down for a brief period of time in order to load the sophisticated new software, or in this case, the new Christ-seed energy.
12. A deep longing to go Home. This is perhaps the most difficult and challenging of any of the conditions. You may experience a deep and overwhelming desire to leave the planet and return to Home. This is not a "suicidal" feeling. It is not based in anger or frustration. You don't want to make a big deal of it or cause drama for yourself or other. There is a quiet part of you that wants to go Home. The root cause for this is quite simple. You have completed your karmic cycles. You have completed your contract for this lifetime. You are ready to begin a new lifetime while still in this physical body. During this transition process, you have an inner remembrance of what it is like to be on the other side. Are you ready to enlist for another tour of duty here on Earth? Are you ready to take on the challenges of moving into the New Energy? Yes, indeed you could go Home right now. But you've come this far, and after many, many lifetimes it would be a shame to leave before the end of the movie. Besides, Spirit needs you here to help others transition into the new energy. They will need a human guide, just like you, who has taken the journey from the old energy into the new. The path you're walking right now provides the experiences to enable you to become a Teacher of the New Divine Human. As lonely and dark as your journey can be at times, remember that you are never alone.
Twelve Signs of Your Awakening Divinity
1. Body aches and pains, especially in the neck, shoulder and back. This is the result of intense changes at your DNA level as the "Christ seed" awakens within. This too shall pass.
2. Feeling of deep inner sadness for no apparent reason. You are releasing your past (this lifetime and others) and this causes the feeling of sadness. This is similar to the experience of moving from a house where you lived in for many, many years into a new house. As much as you want to move into the new house, there is a sadness of leaving behind the memories, energy and experiences of the old house. This too shall pass.
3. Crying for no apparent reason. Similar to #2 above. It's good and healthy to let the tears flow. It helps to release the old energy within. This too shall pass.
4. Sudden change in job or career. A very common symptom. As you change, things around you will change as well. Don't worry about finding the "perfect" job or career right now. This too shall pass. You're in transition and you may make several job changes before you settle into one that fits your passion.
5. Withdrawal from family relationships. You are connected to your biological family via old karma. When you get off the karmic cycle, the bonds of the old relationships are released. It will appear as though you are drifting away from your family and friends. This too shall pass. After a period of time, you may develop a new relationship with them if it is appropriate. However, the relationship will be based in the new energy without the karmic attachments.
6. Unusual sleep patterns. It's likely that you'll awaken many nights between 2:00 and 4:00 AM. There's a lot of work going on within you, and it often causes you to wake up for a "breather." Not to worry. If you can't go back to sleep, get up and do something rather than lay in bed and worry about humanly things. This too shall pass.
7. Intense dreams. These might include war and battle dreams, chase dreams or monster dreams. You are literally releasing the old energy within, and these energies of the past are often symbolized as wars, running to escape and boogiemen. This too shall pass.
8. Physical disorientation. At times you'll feel very ungrounded. You'll be "spatially challenged" with the feeling like you can't put two feet on the ground, or that you're walking between two worlds. As your consciousness transitions into the new energy, you body sometimes lags behind. Spend more time in nature to help ground the new energy within. This too shall pass.
9. Increased "self talk." You'll find yourself talking to your Self more often. You'll suddenly realize you've been chattering away with yourself for the past 30 minutes. There is a new level of communication taking place within your being, and you're experiencing the tip of the iceberg with the self talk. The conversations will increase, and they will become more fluid, more coherent and more insightful. You're not going crazy, you're just Shaumbra moving into the new energy.
10. Feelings of loneliness, even when in the company of others. You may feel alone and removed from others. You may feel the desire to "flee" groups and crowds. As Shaumbra, you are walking a sacred and lonely path. As much as the feelings of loneliness cause you anxiety, it is difficult to relate to others at this time. The feelings of loneliness are also associated with the fact that your Guides have departed. They have been with you on all of your journeys in all of your lifetimes. It was time for them to back away so you could fill your space with your own divinity. This too shall pass. The void within will be filled with the love and energy of your own Christ consciousness.
11. Loss of passion. You may feel totally disimpassioned, with little or no desire to do anything. That's OK, and it's just part of the process. Take this time to "do no-thing." Don't fight yourself on this, because this too shall pass. It's similar to rebooting a computer. You need to shut down for a brief period of time in order to load the sophisticated new software, or in this case, the new Christ-seed energy.
12. A deep longing to go Home. This is perhaps the most difficult and challenging of any of the conditions. You may experience a deep and overwhelming desire to leave the planet and return to Home. This is not a "suicidal" feeling. It is not based in anger or frustration. You don't want to make a big deal of it or cause drama for yourself or other. There is a quiet part of you that wants to go Home. The root cause for this is quite simple. You have completed your karmic cycles. You have completed your contract for this lifetime. You are ready to begin a new lifetime while still in this physical body. During this transition process, you have an inner remembrance of what it is like to be on the other side. Are you ready to enlist for another tour of duty here on Earth? Are you ready to take on the challenges of moving into the New Energy? Yes, indeed you could go Home right now. But you've come this far, and after many, many lifetimes it would be a shame to leave before the end of the movie. Besides, Spirit needs you here to help others transition into the new energy. They will need a human guide, just like you, who has taken the journey from the old energy into the new. The path you're walking right now provides the experiences to enable you to become a Teacher of the New Divine Human. As lonely and dark as your journey can be at times, remember that you are never alone.
Home Made Facial Cleansers & Toners
Simple but sophisticated homemade facial cleansers/Toners are easy to use, healthy, inexpensive and effective.
The legendary beauty Cleopatra's famed milk baths made her skin soft and supple because milk contains alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs). AHAs such as those that are found in milk are also found in lemon juice, vinegar, blackberries, grapes, oranges, tomatoes, and apple juice and they exfoliate the skin by dissolving the glue that holds dead skin cells together. They cleanse the top layer of skin, allowing the body's natural emollient oils to reach the surface cells and help moisturize and relieve dryness. They also cleanse oily skin and remove blackheads.
AHA chemical peels of between 20 and 70 percent acidity are available from some doctors, but they are so strong they can leave scars, and the FDA believes that these strong peels could expose the skin to an increased risk of sunburn. The ingredients I mentioned here, such as organic apple cider vinegar, are all-natural AHAs that you can use at home (avoid the eyes), have seven percent acidity, and all are a safe and sure way to get the benefit of fruit acids without danger to the skin (although even at this low level, you should be aware of the increased risk of sunburn).
The benefits of homemade fruit acids become evident as soon as you start using them; your skin starts feeling soft and smooth. To my skin's great benefit I squeeze a lemon once a week and keep its juice in the refrigerator. In the morning, I dab some of the juice on my fingers and pat it onto my face, leave it on for ten minutes or so and then rinse.
The legendary beauty Cleopatra's famed milk baths made her skin soft and supple because milk contains alpha-hydroxy acids (AHAs). AHAs such as those that are found in milk are also found in lemon juice, vinegar, blackberries, grapes, oranges, tomatoes, and apple juice and they exfoliate the skin by dissolving the glue that holds dead skin cells together. They cleanse the top layer of skin, allowing the body's natural emollient oils to reach the surface cells and help moisturize and relieve dryness. They also cleanse oily skin and remove blackheads.
AHA chemical peels of between 20 and 70 percent acidity are available from some doctors, but they are so strong they can leave scars, and the FDA believes that these strong peels could expose the skin to an increased risk of sunburn. The ingredients I mentioned here, such as organic apple cider vinegar, are all-natural AHAs that you can use at home (avoid the eyes), have seven percent acidity, and all are a safe and sure way to get the benefit of fruit acids without danger to the skin (although even at this low level, you should be aware of the increased risk of sunburn).
The benefits of homemade fruit acids become evident as soon as you start using them; your skin starts feeling soft and smooth. To my skin's great benefit I squeeze a lemon once a week and keep its juice in the refrigerator. In the morning, I dab some of the juice on my fingers and pat it onto my face, leave it on for ten minutes or so and then rinse.
The Astral Senses-----
The Astral Senses-----
This week we will start to take a look at our "inner-senses", that
is to say those senses that do not rely on our physical eyes, ears,
nose, taste or touch.
Our inner senses are based in our Astral body; otherwise known as
the Soul. The Astral senses correspond very closely to the
equivalent physical senses, but are vastly more acute and far
ranging due to the fact they are not restricted by the density and
low vibration of physical matter.
In most people the Astral senses are, during normal waking
consciousness completely overwhelmed by the physical senses during
the sensory overload known as "physical existence". Everywhere we
go the physical senses are bombarded whenever we walk into a store,
watch the TV, walk down the high street and so on. This assault on
the physical senses almost guarantees that the inner Astral senses
have little chance to exert any meaningful influence.
Therefore, over the course of thousands of years, humans have
progressively lost the use of many inner abilities that make use of
the inner senses as well as other natural inner abilities such as
telepathy.
However, it is possible to experience the Astral senses under the
right conditions, as well as to consciously develop them with the
right exercises.
This week we will take a look at some of the situations where we
experience our Astral senses due to natural conditions.
There are a very wide variety of beings inhabiting the Astral
worlds at all levels in addition to humans and other advanced forms
of Universal life. These beings exhibit a very wide variety of
characteristics and purpose in accordance with their position in
the grand scheme of the Universe, often existing as members of a
single element of Fire, Air, Water and Earth.
There are particular classes of these inner beings of the single
elements that are actually extremely well-known to everyone, and in
particular to children who enjoy hearing stories about them;
stories often known as "fairy-tales". The beings featuring in these
"fairy tales" are actually very real indeed, but live in the Astral
worlds rather than in the physical world as most people suppose.
There is a very large array of these "fairytale creatures" of the
Astral worlds, some of the most well-known ones being:
Salamanders: beings of the pure element of Fire.
Sylphs: beings of the pure element of Air.
Undines: also known as mermaids, beings of the pure element of
Water.
Gnomes: beings of the pure element of Earth.
In addition, other beings instantly recognisable to most people
include fairies, often also known as faeries or fay folk, satyrs,
wood nymphs, water sprites and numerous other such delightful
beings. All of these creatures have their own place in the grand
Universal scheme of things, often being involved with aspects of
nature in the physical world.
Fairy stories originally came about because throughout the ages
people with no natural psychic ability to perceive the inner realms
of life have experienced a spontaneous "vision", where the psychic
senses which are latent in most people have suddenly and
temporarily become activated.
This can happen much more easily and more often than most people
might believe. If a person is "mesmerised" by a scene, it might for
example be a scene in a forest clearing, a beautiful meadow, a view
by the sea, a mountain vista or a sparkling lake, it becomes
possible to see these wonderful Astral creatures. This happens when
the physical senses including vision become "paralysed" by the
scene while focusing intently on the scene, causing an altered
state of Consciousness often known as a "trance" condition,
characterised by a slowing down of brainwave frequencies. When this
situation occurs a person can then "see" beyond the "veil"
separating the material world from the Astral worlds and into the
realms inhabited by these "fairytale creatures".
Another, condition that allows the viewing of these beings is
called the "Ganzfeld" effect. A "Ganzfeld" effect occurs due to
either natural or deliberate sensory deprivation, during which, due
to "paralysis" of the corresponding physical senses, the Astral
senses are able to take over for a time.
For example, a person standing on the deck of a cruise liner might
be staring intently out to sea at the seemingly endless expanse of
shimmering water, and then all of a sudden see a mermaid.
This person might well later doubt what they saw, and would most
probably be afraid to tell other people about the experience, but
there is no doubting at all what they actually saw, albeit only
transiently, was a very real mermaid going about its usual
activities in the Astral worlds but close to water in the physical
world with which they are associated through the element of Water.
What has occurred here in fact is that the act of staring out over
an endless expanse of featureless open water has caused "paralysis"
of the physical sight allowing the Astral site to take over, thus
allowing the viewing of beings and scenes of the inner worlds.
Undines, or mermaids, are beings of the Universal element
of Water and therefore tend to be "seen" in the regions of the
earthly counterpart in accordance with the Universal Law of
Correspondence. The same might happen in a woodland setting, where
fairies or faeries or fay folk as they are known from more ancient
sources can be seen flitting around a winding stream. In a forest
wood nymphs might be seen, or even a unicorn standing in a
clearing. Around hillsides and other such "earthy" areas gnomes
might be seen going about their busy lives.
Although all of this might seem like something from one of the
great fairy story books with which we are all familiar as children,
these stories have a very real origin indeed, the results of people
from cultures all over the world over the millennia actually seeing
these beings for themselves, writing about them, eventually
becoming the fairy tales so fondly told today to the great delight
of children everywhere.
These creatures abound in folklore all over the world, and what is
known to some people as a "fairy", "mermaid" or a "gnome" in one
part of the world is known by a completely different name
elsewhere.
As with all Astral beings these are "Etheric" creatures which, like
everything else in the Astral worlds, have no material or solid
form and are therefore "seen" in accordance with the psychic
perceptions of the observer. These beings can take on any size and
shape they desire at any time. Over the ages people have formed
very detailed perceptions as to what these fairy tale beings look
like, probably based on the first written accounts and the many
sightings related by word of mouth. Undines, or mermaids, will
therefore be seen as human type beings with fins and flippers
instead of legs. Fairies will be seen as small, human type
creatures with small wings with which they flit around and hover
over flowers, water and other features in nature. Gnomes are
usually seen as small men and women busily going about their work,
sometimes carrying a lantern or other working implements, wearing a
tall cap on the head. Male gnomes will often be perceived with a
long beard, and wearing the familiar tunic as pictured in fairy
tales. Much more could be said about the existence and work of
these wonderful Astral beings, but suffice it to say they are very
real indeed and have their own position in the grand Universal
scheme.
Children, often until the age of five years old or so are still
very tuned into the Astral and Spirit worlds and also have a much
higher degree of natural clairvoyant and psychic ability than older
children and adults. From the moment of birth children are
indoctrinated constantly by parents, relatives and others to make
full use of their five physical senses, and are often discouraged
from playing with "imaginary friends". The fact of the matter is,
these friends far from being "imaginary" are very real indeed to
the children who really can "see" and interact with them; another
reason why children enjoy hearing "fairy tales" about their little
friends so much.
Another situation where the Astral worlds can be viewed, almost as
if watching a movie in a cinema, is just before sleep.
During the process of drifting off to sleep we go through a state
where the physical senses "switch-off" and the Astral senses
take-over.
Often this process occurs so quickly that it is not noticed.
However, if the sleep entry process is slowed down, very often a
"window" appears at the position of the "brow chakra" or "third
eye", that is like a movie screen upon which vivid, colorful moving
images can be seen of scenes, people, locales such as vast cities
and much more that often defies description.
These are very real images of the Astral worlds, and practice it is
possible to project into these scenes and become part of them; a
process known as "phasing"; a type of Astral projection.
This week we will start to take a look at our "inner-senses", that
is to say those senses that do not rely on our physical eyes, ears,
nose, taste or touch.
Our inner senses are based in our Astral body; otherwise known as
the Soul. The Astral senses correspond very closely to the
equivalent physical senses, but are vastly more acute and far
ranging due to the fact they are not restricted by the density and
low vibration of physical matter.
In most people the Astral senses are, during normal waking
consciousness completely overwhelmed by the physical senses during
the sensory overload known as "physical existence". Everywhere we
go the physical senses are bombarded whenever we walk into a store,
watch the TV, walk down the high street and so on. This assault on
the physical senses almost guarantees that the inner Astral senses
have little chance to exert any meaningful influence.
Therefore, over the course of thousands of years, humans have
progressively lost the use of many inner abilities that make use of
the inner senses as well as other natural inner abilities such as
telepathy.
However, it is possible to experience the Astral senses under the
right conditions, as well as to consciously develop them with the
right exercises.
This week we will take a look at some of the situations where we
experience our Astral senses due to natural conditions.
There are a very wide variety of beings inhabiting the Astral
worlds at all levels in addition to humans and other advanced forms
of Universal life. These beings exhibit a very wide variety of
characteristics and purpose in accordance with their position in
the grand scheme of the Universe, often existing as members of a
single element of Fire, Air, Water and Earth.
There are particular classes of these inner beings of the single
elements that are actually extremely well-known to everyone, and in
particular to children who enjoy hearing stories about them;
stories often known as "fairy-tales". The beings featuring in these
"fairy tales" are actually very real indeed, but live in the Astral
worlds rather than in the physical world as most people suppose.
There is a very large array of these "fairytale creatures" of the
Astral worlds, some of the most well-known ones being:
Salamanders: beings of the pure element of Fire.
Sylphs: beings of the pure element of Air.
Undines: also known as mermaids, beings of the pure element of
Water.
Gnomes: beings of the pure element of Earth.
In addition, other beings instantly recognisable to most people
include fairies, often also known as faeries or fay folk, satyrs,
wood nymphs, water sprites and numerous other such delightful
beings. All of these creatures have their own place in the grand
Universal scheme of things, often being involved with aspects of
nature in the physical world.
Fairy stories originally came about because throughout the ages
people with no natural psychic ability to perceive the inner realms
of life have experienced a spontaneous "vision", where the psychic
senses which are latent in most people have suddenly and
temporarily become activated.
This can happen much more easily and more often than most people
might believe. If a person is "mesmerised" by a scene, it might for
example be a scene in a forest clearing, a beautiful meadow, a view
by the sea, a mountain vista or a sparkling lake, it becomes
possible to see these wonderful Astral creatures. This happens when
the physical senses including vision become "paralysed" by the
scene while focusing intently on the scene, causing an altered
state of Consciousness often known as a "trance" condition,
characterised by a slowing down of brainwave frequencies. When this
situation occurs a person can then "see" beyond the "veil"
separating the material world from the Astral worlds and into the
realms inhabited by these "fairytale creatures".
Another, condition that allows the viewing of these beings is
called the "Ganzfeld" effect. A "Ganzfeld" effect occurs due to
either natural or deliberate sensory deprivation, during which, due
to "paralysis" of the corresponding physical senses, the Astral
senses are able to take over for a time.
For example, a person standing on the deck of a cruise liner might
be staring intently out to sea at the seemingly endless expanse of
shimmering water, and then all of a sudden see a mermaid.
This person might well later doubt what they saw, and would most
probably be afraid to tell other people about the experience, but
there is no doubting at all what they actually saw, albeit only
transiently, was a very real mermaid going about its usual
activities in the Astral worlds but close to water in the physical
world with which they are associated through the element of Water.
What has occurred here in fact is that the act of staring out over
an endless expanse of featureless open water has caused "paralysis"
of the physical sight allowing the Astral site to take over, thus
allowing the viewing of beings and scenes of the inner worlds.
Undines, or mermaids, are beings of the Universal element
of Water and therefore tend to be "seen" in the regions of the
earthly counterpart in accordance with the Universal Law of
Correspondence. The same might happen in a woodland setting, where
fairies or faeries or fay folk as they are known from more ancient
sources can be seen flitting around a winding stream. In a forest
wood nymphs might be seen, or even a unicorn standing in a
clearing. Around hillsides and other such "earthy" areas gnomes
might be seen going about their busy lives.
Although all of this might seem like something from one of the
great fairy story books with which we are all familiar as children,
these stories have a very real origin indeed, the results of people
from cultures all over the world over the millennia actually seeing
these beings for themselves, writing about them, eventually
becoming the fairy tales so fondly told today to the great delight
of children everywhere.
These creatures abound in folklore all over the world, and what is
known to some people as a "fairy", "mermaid" or a "gnome" in one
part of the world is known by a completely different name
elsewhere.
As with all Astral beings these are "Etheric" creatures which, like
everything else in the Astral worlds, have no material or solid
form and are therefore "seen" in accordance with the psychic
perceptions of the observer. These beings can take on any size and
shape they desire at any time. Over the ages people have formed
very detailed perceptions as to what these fairy tale beings look
like, probably based on the first written accounts and the many
sightings related by word of mouth. Undines, or mermaids, will
therefore be seen as human type beings with fins and flippers
instead of legs. Fairies will be seen as small, human type
creatures with small wings with which they flit around and hover
over flowers, water and other features in nature. Gnomes are
usually seen as small men and women busily going about their work,
sometimes carrying a lantern or other working implements, wearing a
tall cap on the head. Male gnomes will often be perceived with a
long beard, and wearing the familiar tunic as pictured in fairy
tales. Much more could be said about the existence and work of
these wonderful Astral beings, but suffice it to say they are very
real indeed and have their own position in the grand Universal
scheme.
Children, often until the age of five years old or so are still
very tuned into the Astral and Spirit worlds and also have a much
higher degree of natural clairvoyant and psychic ability than older
children and adults. From the moment of birth children are
indoctrinated constantly by parents, relatives and others to make
full use of their five physical senses, and are often discouraged
from playing with "imaginary friends". The fact of the matter is,
these friends far from being "imaginary" are very real indeed to
the children who really can "see" and interact with them; another
reason why children enjoy hearing "fairy tales" about their little
friends so much.
Another situation where the Astral worlds can be viewed, almost as
if watching a movie in a cinema, is just before sleep.
During the process of drifting off to sleep we go through a state
where the physical senses "switch-off" and the Astral senses
take-over.
Often this process occurs so quickly that it is not noticed.
However, if the sleep entry process is slowed down, very often a
"window" appears at the position of the "brow chakra" or "third
eye", that is like a movie screen upon which vivid, colorful moving
images can be seen of scenes, people, locales such as vast cities
and much more that often defies description.
These are very real images of the Astral worlds, and practice it is
possible to project into these scenes and become part of them; a
process known as "phasing"; a type of Astral projection.
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Keep in mind that pre ordering is NOT available to the public.
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Prosperity LOA Book Review: The Starter Book for Positive Thought "Open Your Mind to Receive"
I'm truly amazed at the weather in Arizona. It's almost the end of January and we are having 80 degree days! While other parts of the USA are being burried in snow, I'm absolutely counting my blessings! I hope you are having a wonderful day no matter how the weather is.
You know how we think of a situation shapes our views of what is going on at the moment. So try to focus on the good that is in what ever situation you are in. Kind of like the saying where I grew up, "if you don't like the weather give it a minute it'll change". Life is flowing and ever changing so think of the good in where you are at now because now becomes the past in the next second.
This brings me to a passion of mine. Reading. Yes I'm an avid reader, and I'm not talking about the editing machine either. *laugh*
I love to read and have a huge library of books so I thought that it might be nice to once a week or a couple of times a week, depending on what is going on, give a short review of a book that has helped me on my path. With the hope that I am able to help someone else on their path as well.
The first book is:
"Open Your Mind to Receive" by Catherine Ponder
To me this is the training wheels book for The Law of Attraction. It's as easy to put into practice as it is to read. It lays the foundation for building your LOA and Positive Thoughts practice. If you need a little direction or are just starting or are trying to put into practice what you have read before this is the book I recomend.
Open Your Mind To Receive is a 120 page soft cover that is easy to read and put into practice. No matter what you are going through in life this book helps you to take steps toward your wants and dreams.
The chapter titles say it all:
1. Open Your Mind to Receive
2. Your Gift of Release
3. Your Gift of Prophecy
4. Your Gift of "Nothing But the Best"
5. Your Gift of a "People Consciousness"
6. Your Gift of Growth and Expansion
7. Your Gift of Prosperous Increase
Catherine Ponder known as "the pioneer of positive thinking" uses a no nonesence
approach to teaching. She shares the hows of attraction in a way that makes it easy to receive.
Product Description:
Year after year, Catherine Ponder's books continue to enlighten the world with prosperity secrets that work. Countless authors credit her inspiring words as the spark that set them on their own path to prosperity. OPEN YOUR MIND TO RECEIVE is now updated with new real-life stories, all revealing the laws of abundance that help the reader to pinpoint the source and open the floodgates of prosperity.
Just click on the image below to find out more or to purchase the book..it is absolutely a must read (along with the other Catherine Pounder books) for those that want to change their lives for the better in any way.
You know how we think of a situation shapes our views of what is going on at the moment. So try to focus on the good that is in what ever situation you are in. Kind of like the saying where I grew up, "if you don't like the weather give it a minute it'll change". Life is flowing and ever changing so think of the good in where you are at now because now becomes the past in the next second.
This brings me to a passion of mine. Reading. Yes I'm an avid reader, and I'm not talking about the editing machine either. *laugh*
I love to read and have a huge library of books so I thought that it might be nice to once a week or a couple of times a week, depending on what is going on, give a short review of a book that has helped me on my path. With the hope that I am able to help someone else on their path as well.
The first book is:
"Open Your Mind to Receive" by Catherine Ponder
To me this is the training wheels book for The Law of Attraction. It's as easy to put into practice as it is to read. It lays the foundation for building your LOA and Positive Thoughts practice. If you need a little direction or are just starting or are trying to put into practice what you have read before this is the book I recomend.
Open Your Mind To Receive is a 120 page soft cover that is easy to read and put into practice. No matter what you are going through in life this book helps you to take steps toward your wants and dreams.
The chapter titles say it all:
1. Open Your Mind to Receive
2. Your Gift of Release
3. Your Gift of Prophecy
4. Your Gift of "Nothing But the Best"
5. Your Gift of a "People Consciousness"
6. Your Gift of Growth and Expansion
7. Your Gift of Prosperous Increase
Catherine Ponder known as "the pioneer of positive thinking" uses a no nonesence
approach to teaching. She shares the hows of attraction in a way that makes it easy to receive.
Product Description:
Year after year, Catherine Ponder's books continue to enlighten the world with prosperity secrets that work. Countless authors credit her inspiring words as the spark that set them on their own path to prosperity. OPEN YOUR MIND TO RECEIVE is now updated with new real-life stories, all revealing the laws of abundance that help the reader to pinpoint the source and open the floodgates of prosperity.
Just click on the image below to find out more or to purchase the book..it is absolutely a must read (along with the other Catherine Pounder books) for those that want to change their lives for the better in any way.
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Hidden Meaning of Your Dreams
Whether you are asleep or awake, your mind is constantly in motion. It communicates thoughts and messages to you in the form of ideas, when awake, and dreams, when asleep. You can train yourself to listen and become aware of the messages you receive during your sleeping state.
Dreams help us to work out our problems and concerns. Many people think that our brain sleeps when our body sleeps, but this is not the case. When the body rests, the brain spends much of the night dreaming as it swells in the Theta and Delta states, which can be detected on a bio-rhythm machine. The stories within our dreams are messages we need to absorb for our own good and more than likely a direction to take to solve a current problem or concern. We can learn their meaning if we pay attention to our dreams. Some simple techniques can put your brain power to work for you while you sleep, and then help you to recall your dreams so you can benefit from them when awake. It is always best to keep a dream journal, at your bedside, with a pen, so you can make notes as you are awakened by these dreams.
Dreams can reveal a rich inner life waiting to be discovered. In a dream state, we can put our life force to work and solve many problems that seem insurmountable when we are awake. That is because there are no emotions involved. No guard up. When we dream, we connect with our Blessed Higher Self and Spirit Guides, through our energy system. This is done at the basic cellular level. For example, we can receive important messages about our health and well being long before a disease appears on the body or a doctor has to be called. Dreams can also spice up your sex life. Basically dreams bring understanding, problem solving, and may give clues to our future.
Follow the Dream If one advances in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unsuspected in waking hours.
In ancient times it was thought that dreams were messages from the gods or from demons. Priests were the only people skilled enough to interpret these dreams. People would travel far distances to visit a temple and get a reading of their dreams. The readings would show guidance on health, wealth, war, peace. or whether next year's crops would be plentiful.
One of the oldest books known to man is the Bible, which mentions more than 700 dreams, all showing an important connection to the lives, problems and well-being of the ancient Tribes of Israel.
In the new testament, Joseph was cautioned by a dream to flee to Egypt with Mary and the baby Jesus to avoid the coming wrath of Herod. The Wise Men were also warned in a dream to return home another way, avoid returning to Herod, which would keep them out of danger.
Perhaps the most famous Biblical dream is the story of another Joseph, whose brothers, jealous of his understanding of dreams and his coat of many colors, sold him into slavery in Egypt. Later, after interpreting the Pharaoh¹s dream of the seven fat cattle and the seven lean cattle as a prophetic dream of a famine yet to come, Joseph became governor of Egypt. That was when he confronted, and forgave, his brothers.
As time went on, people began to think that events in the real world caused dreams. Someone wearing a damp nightshirt would dream about water. Someone who ate too much at dinner would have a nightmare. We know now that outside factors such as noise or cold can enter your consciousness and affect small details in a dream, but have little to do with the main content of the dream.
Then Sigmund Freud, in the 1930's, the most famous psychoanalyst of the 20th Century caused a revolution when he said that dreams are created from images, memories, thoughts, wishes and fears that are stored within a person's brain. He used dream interpretation when treating his patients.
Carl Jung added to this new approach by saying that dreams are a tool for learning more about ourselves and help us to achieve our full potential. He thought the same images appear in many people's dreams because there is a collective unconsciousness in which we all share basic knowledge, even though we come from different cultures and speak different languages.
The actual study of physiology (or biology) of dreams began when a researcher at the University of Chicago checked on his sleeping son and noticed that the child¹s eyes, though closed. were moving back and fourth. This is called REM movement, and can be noticed easily in cats. It is thought that when the REM movement is present. a person is dreaming.
We spend two of every twenty four hours dreaming each day, which can add up to more than five years during a lifetime.
MAKING SENSE OF YOUR DREAMS
You don't have to analyze your dreams for them to be of help to you. the mere fact that you dream is good for you, and will help to keep your life in balance. In experiments, people who constantly wake up while they are dreaming develop serious psychological problems, we all need to dream, and it is an important part of the life process, as much as eating or drinking. However, many people feel that figuring out the meaning of their dreams gives them a richer understanding of their lives.
Your dreams can tell you what you are really feeling about your mate, your job, your parents, children, financial situation or your past and also help guide you as to what you may really want - what the Soul needs - in your future. The more you practice becoming aware of your dreams, the better you will become in remembering them as well as recording them. If your company is having layoffs, and you dreams about a collapsing building or a sinking lifeboat, you'll figure out exactly where your anxiety lies, and can begin preparing by sending out an updated resume.
The most important thing to know is this, you are the best person to figure out your dreams! There are many dream books that tell you meanings, and when one rings true for you from within, that is the way to go.
KEEPING YOUR DREAM JOURNAL
The first step to deciphering your dreams is to write them down - keep a dream journal. By writing your dreams down and making a regular effort to remember them, you will begin to recall them in more detail. You will be surprised as how good you will get if you follow this routine.
Begin by writing down the date of each dream. Allow free flowing thought to atake over.
Give your dream a title, so you can easily find the reference again.
Write down as much detail as possible concerning each dream.
Write in the present tense, not in the past tense, and don¹t worry about grammar or punctuation. this is only for your eyes.
Now, suppose you wake up and know you dreamed something about a car. Try to recall as many details as you can along with any feelings you may have had in the dream. What color was the car? Were you driving?
The dream dictionary tells you the car is a symbol of your body and show if you have your life under control. This could be connected to your self-image, your personality, the freedom to come and go as you wish, or your drive for success. Ask yourself some questions about your dream.
Was the car damages or dented? This could mean some poor self-esteem. Also, check your health.
Are you in the driver¹s seat? Whoever is driving the car is in control of your life. If you are in the back seat, you are allowing others to manage your life.
Was the air conditioner working? You may be feeling smothered, or may need to check the condition of your lungs, especially if you smoke.
Did the breaks fail? This connects with will power, discipline, overspending, and suggests you need to slow down.
Did you run out of gas? Check yourself - are you out of energy? Do you need vitamin supplements? Do you need some R&R or a vacation?
Now you can begin to see how to bring the details of the dream to light if you ask yourself questions about your dream. Sometimes it is easy to remember a dream, if it was a very powerful one or a happy one. Sometimes remembering can become difficult, especially if you tend to jump right out of bed in the morning to begin your daily routine, without meditation or contemplation.
Here are some tips to improve dream recall:
Tell yourself several times during the day that you intend to remember your dreams. This is called setting a condition. Then, just before you fall asleep, when you are relaxed, tell yourself, "I will remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning."
Place an object with a scent, a bag of herbs or sachet, near your bed. Associating the scent with dreaming may trigger some dream recall.
Keep your Dream Journal next to your bed. Just knowing it is there will help. You may need to use it in the middle of the night!
Drink a glass of water before retiring. Avoid drugs or alcohol as they tend to repress REM sleep.
If you are trying to work out a problem, write it down just before you go to sleep. then ask your Higher Self to work with you in finding a solution.
When morning comes - as you awaken - don't move! Don't even open your eyes. Hang on to the energies of the night. Lie still for a moment and concentrate on recalling your dreams. Try to remember how they felt. The mood of the dream may still be with you.
Even if you recall only a small chunk of the dream, write it down anyway. Ask yourself who was in you dream. Did the people remind you of anyone? Bear in mind that things in a dream can often be disguised, as a person in a dream may not be the person you will deal with in reality. For example, you may dream about the Queen of England, but in reality she actually represents a friend, parent, relative or teacher who you feel is ruling over you.
Then, ask yourself where the dream took place?
Did the location in your dream remind you of any place you are familiar with?
Ask yourself if anything in your dream reminds you of anyone in your real life?
Ask yourself how you were feeling in the dream?
As time goes by you will get better and better with this process.
WHY AM I HERE?
A dream that is not understood is like an unopened letter. Every night we have important messages from the unconscious. Whether we find ourselves in a car plunging down a steep slope, or piloting a plane through heavenly skies, we will do well to ask why our unconscious put us there. TALMUD
PART 2
So what are dreams all about? The true meaning of our dreams and what they signify has puzzled mankind for thousands of years. In the ancient world, dreams were often considered prophetic. Homer's Iliad contains a passage where King Agamemmon is visited in his dream by a messenger from Zeus to prescribe the king's future actions.
In the Bible, the Old testament is filled with accounts of prophetic dreams. Dreams have also been viewed as nothing more than extensions of the waking state, a carry over into sleep of what a person has thought or experienced while awake. All the conflicting notions about the nature of dreams led to no definite conclusions. It is perhaps best to agree with the French writer Michel de Montaigne that "Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations, but art is required to sort them out..."
You can become smarter by thinking up new ideas when you sleep. Your brain is constantly at work whether you are sleeping or not. Dreams can be a part of your personal creative process. Your conscious mind may not recognize a great idea, but your subconscious could be working on it - full time - while you sleep. Some of the great literary works were conceived in this way. Robert Louis Stevenson was desperate for money and couldn't think of anything to write about. Then one night he had a dream that was the inspiration for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine, dreamed a solution about how to make it work. He dreamed a tribe were throwing spears at him. The spears had a hole in the pointed tip, and they stuck point first into the ground. When he awoke, he knew he should put the hole for the thread in the pinpoint of his needle.
You can pull many answers from your subconscious while sleeping. You can sometimes find the missing pieces. Suppose something is really lost, like your car keys. You have no idea where they are. Before you go to sleep, write down something that states what you are looking for. You may find that your dreams that night will show you exactly where you misplaced the keys.
Make it a routine to jot down your dreams and study ideas that turn up, no matter how strange they may seem to you. Try to relate them to things you are working on in life. Example: You want to buy yourself a new TV but you can't afford it right now. Then you dream you've done a great job painting the living room. When you jot that down and think about it, you will realize you¹ve come up with a great idea to get the extra cash to purchase the TV. Since you're a handy person. you can do a few painting jobs for the neighbors to pay for it.
You can also influence your dreams. You don't have to wait for your dreams to provide a solution to your problems. You can directly influence them to give you more information or guidance by instructing your dream state or Blessed Higher Self to answer some specific questions as you are dozing off. Your brain can be programmed to come up with specific ideas as you sleep! Suppose you are about to give a presentation to the PTA. All your materials are together, but you feel that something is missing, and cannot seem to come up with exactly what it is.
When you go to bed, think about the presentation, and actually begin going through it as you fall asleep, bearing in mind that you are looking for some ingredient to add to it. You may dream that a slide show or guest lecturer from a local college can make your presentation even better. This missing part, or idea, was in your subconscious all the time, but you couldn¹t access it any other way except through your dreams, probably because of stress.
Always remember to sleep on it. You can use your dreams to help you solve just about any problem that is bothering you. It's easy and anyone can learn to do this. Dreaming is essential to good mental health. We all need our dreams, even if we don't understand them, even if we can¹t always analyze their messages, dreams of all kinds are still worth having. Dreaming is healthy for us.
Just because dreams are different from normal life, surprising, unusual and perhaps even bizarre or frightening, dreams make unexpected connections that we are not able to make when we are awake. We may be able to solve problems in our dreams that our self-conscious, wide-awake minds just cannot do.
DREAM WORK
To do some dream work, pick a night when you are not too tired and you have not used any alcohol or medication.
Just before bedtime, write down a problem or a question you would like to resolve.
Keep the question simple. Do not ask any questions that will have a yes or no answer.
As you begin to fall asleep, repeat the question over and over in your mind.
Many people have difficulty remembering their dreams, so when you wake up, whether in the middle of the night or the next morning, immediately write down what you have been dreaming about.
The answer to your problem will be somewhere in the content of your dream.
At first it may not appear obvious, but with a little thought, you will be able to interpret the dream and unlock the answer you are looking for.
DREAM INCUBATION
Incubating a dream simply means targeting a dream for specific problem solving. Let's say a woman and her husband are having a difficult time in their relationship. So she begins her dream work by writing down the question, "Why are my husband and I bickering all the time?"
Then she dreams about Hillary Clinton and she thinks, what does Hillary have to do with me? The wife needs to pretend she is talking to a stranger and describe everything in her dream to that stranger. She might see that Hillary is showing that wives can be both independent and active.
The next insight may be, "I'm afraid to pursue my career because I may loose my husband. I'm afraid I'll outshine him."
Suddenly the wife realizes she is holding herself back, feeling resentful and taking in out on her husband. The more she describes Hillary, in her dream, the more she can see that it is possible to have a strong marriage and an independent career.
This dream not only explains why the woman was bickering with her husband, but it gives her a solution to the problem as well as some comfort. It is OK for you to have a career!
This method of focusing on a question is called dream incubation. Another method of using your dreams to solve problems is called lucid dreaming.
LUCID DREAMING
Sometimes when you are asleep and dreaming, you suddenly become aware that you are dreaming. This is called a psychic dream or lucid dream, as you split with your Etheric Double, and the double acts out in the dream, as you. If you try, you can take part in directing as to which way your dream goes.
For example, before you go to sleep, you think about your boss, a bad tempered man who is hard to talk to. Later you dream that you are being chased by an angry bear. If you realize you are dreaming you can confront the bear, who represents your boss, instead of running away from it. Talk with the bear, work out your problems, feel safe, then say good-bye. In lucid dreaming, you will conquer some real life problems, and the bear will then go away. Dreams are always trying to help us solve problems we face in waking life. By tapping into information in your dreams, you become receptive to the answers. No matter which method you choose to solve problems in your sleep, the most important thing you can learn is that the solution to your problems are often within your own head - or can be brought to you from the other dimensions. You only have to fall asleep to find your answers.
DO DREAMS HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL?
Native American cultures have long believed that nightly messages have much to do with your mental and physical health. Now a growing number of doctors agree that dreams should be taken seriously as an indication of health. Some doctors who listen to their patient's dreams, find that these dreams can provide valuable guidance in the patient¹s treatment.
Here are some common dreams that may represent some kind of health problem:
Excessive heat or fire
Excessive cold, ice or snow
Excessive fluids
Blockages - in pipes or rivers, for example
Insects or other animals that cause you to feel repulsion or disgust
Broken machines or structures
Here is an example of a health dream:
A woman found herself as a leafless tree with a froze limb. She had fractured her wrist and the break was undiagnosed. It failed to heal properly and the dream pointed her to the direction that she needed to take proper care of that injury.
Aristotle believed that dreams were an early warning system for illness, and recent studies show that he may have been right. Think of a dream as a message from your unconscious. The mind picks up body messages, physical sensations, that we perhaps have been too busy to make note of while we are awake, or may dismiss as to minor to pay attention to. Our dreams can pass this information along to us. They tell us to pay attention to some important part of our life. It may be a message from an organ deep in the abdomen, or from a blood vessel that is straining to stay open. The message may come to us in code, and when we dream, we break the code to understand the message.
Dreams of Pregnancy. Some women dream they are pregnant before it has been confirmed and way before it is possible to detect a fetal heartbeat. Their bodies know what is happening and the dream will simply pass on the message. One scientific journal reported that a woman with rheumatoid arthritis dreamed that her arms were bound in a straightjacket. her illness then flared up. Sometime later she dreamed she fell on ice, but got up easily. Shortly after that her illness subsided.
If our dreams can tell us that an illness is developing in our bodies even before we experience the symptoms, or before our doctors can detect signs of the illness, then it is possible to use our dreams to get treatment earlier, and improve our chances of recovery.
Research is just beginning - through the acceptance of complimentary or alternative medicine - on whether dreams have diagnostic validity and can even predict the course an illness will take.
PRE-COGNITION OR FUTURE DREAMS
Females experience more psychic dreams than males, in which they see future events, and their forecasts are accurate more often than men's.
What can you do when terror strikes in your dreams? Just as everyone has dreams, everyone also has some nightmares. Studies indicate that nightmares are twice as common among adults than sleep researchers once thought. In fact the average person has one bad dream about every two weeks, unless they meditate a lot. Nightmares have been defined as dreams that frighten, sadden or upset the dreamer.
Some prescription drugs, such as tranquilizers, barbiturates and blood-pressure medications can cause bad dreams. Most people do not require professional help to handle nightmares. There are simpler ways to get at these bad dreams. If the nightmare becomes so intense and painful that you fear going to bed at night, it may be time to consult a doctor.
Here¹s What To Do:Jot down your nightmareAs soon as you can, describe your bad dream on paper, including as much detail as you can. If you are being chased, write down how the chase starts, whether your pursuer looks like anybody you know, and how the nightmare ends.
Decide to change the nightmare - or go back into the dream.Think carefully about how you would like to change your dream. If the dream ends with you being chased off a cliff, attach a parachute to your back, or have Superman catch you.
Imagine the new sequenceClose your eyes, relax, and play back the dream in your mind. This time use the new plot. You are chased off the edge of a cliff you fall, and a parachute opens or Superman catches you. See yourself landing safely.
Practice for two weeksFor a few minutes every day for two weeks, mentally rehearse the altered version of the dream. By doing this, you are imprinting a new image in your mind, and letting this seep into our subconscious. A bit of self-hypnosis.
Enjoy your nightmare free sleepYou should see a marked improvement within these two weeks. As the nightmares diminish, you can use your dream rehearsals less and less and the nightmares will disappear for good.
Nightmares can be good for you as far as unearthing your hidden fears. This will allow you to resolve some of the conflicts in your life. Sometime we may be more troubled than we realize, and these nightmares, when we look carefully, can help us to identify exactly what is bothering us. It may be a buried memory from your past, or a present life situation or person. As you work to understand your nightmares, the thing that was troubling you can be brought from the subconscious to your conscious mind, and you van recognize it and begin to deal with it.
Author: Elizabeth Joyce
Dreams help us to work out our problems and concerns. Many people think that our brain sleeps when our body sleeps, but this is not the case. When the body rests, the brain spends much of the night dreaming as it swells in the Theta and Delta states, which can be detected on a bio-rhythm machine. The stories within our dreams are messages we need to absorb for our own good and more than likely a direction to take to solve a current problem or concern. We can learn their meaning if we pay attention to our dreams. Some simple techniques can put your brain power to work for you while you sleep, and then help you to recall your dreams so you can benefit from them when awake. It is always best to keep a dream journal, at your bedside, with a pen, so you can make notes as you are awakened by these dreams.
Dreams can reveal a rich inner life waiting to be discovered. In a dream state, we can put our life force to work and solve many problems that seem insurmountable when we are awake. That is because there are no emotions involved. No guard up. When we dream, we connect with our Blessed Higher Self and Spirit Guides, through our energy system. This is done at the basic cellular level. For example, we can receive important messages about our health and well being long before a disease appears on the body or a doctor has to be called. Dreams can also spice up your sex life. Basically dreams bring understanding, problem solving, and may give clues to our future.
Follow the Dream If one advances in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unsuspected in waking hours.
In ancient times it was thought that dreams were messages from the gods or from demons. Priests were the only people skilled enough to interpret these dreams. People would travel far distances to visit a temple and get a reading of their dreams. The readings would show guidance on health, wealth, war, peace. or whether next year's crops would be plentiful.
One of the oldest books known to man is the Bible, which mentions more than 700 dreams, all showing an important connection to the lives, problems and well-being of the ancient Tribes of Israel.
In the new testament, Joseph was cautioned by a dream to flee to Egypt with Mary and the baby Jesus to avoid the coming wrath of Herod. The Wise Men were also warned in a dream to return home another way, avoid returning to Herod, which would keep them out of danger.
Perhaps the most famous Biblical dream is the story of another Joseph, whose brothers, jealous of his understanding of dreams and his coat of many colors, sold him into slavery in Egypt. Later, after interpreting the Pharaoh¹s dream of the seven fat cattle and the seven lean cattle as a prophetic dream of a famine yet to come, Joseph became governor of Egypt. That was when he confronted, and forgave, his brothers.
As time went on, people began to think that events in the real world caused dreams. Someone wearing a damp nightshirt would dream about water. Someone who ate too much at dinner would have a nightmare. We know now that outside factors such as noise or cold can enter your consciousness and affect small details in a dream, but have little to do with the main content of the dream.
Then Sigmund Freud, in the 1930's, the most famous psychoanalyst of the 20th Century caused a revolution when he said that dreams are created from images, memories, thoughts, wishes and fears that are stored within a person's brain. He used dream interpretation when treating his patients.
Carl Jung added to this new approach by saying that dreams are a tool for learning more about ourselves and help us to achieve our full potential. He thought the same images appear in many people's dreams because there is a collective unconsciousness in which we all share basic knowledge, even though we come from different cultures and speak different languages.
The actual study of physiology (or biology) of dreams began when a researcher at the University of Chicago checked on his sleeping son and noticed that the child¹s eyes, though closed. were moving back and fourth. This is called REM movement, and can be noticed easily in cats. It is thought that when the REM movement is present. a person is dreaming.
We spend two of every twenty four hours dreaming each day, which can add up to more than five years during a lifetime.
MAKING SENSE OF YOUR DREAMS
You don't have to analyze your dreams for them to be of help to you. the mere fact that you dream is good for you, and will help to keep your life in balance. In experiments, people who constantly wake up while they are dreaming develop serious psychological problems, we all need to dream, and it is an important part of the life process, as much as eating or drinking. However, many people feel that figuring out the meaning of their dreams gives them a richer understanding of their lives.
Your dreams can tell you what you are really feeling about your mate, your job, your parents, children, financial situation or your past and also help guide you as to what you may really want - what the Soul needs - in your future. The more you practice becoming aware of your dreams, the better you will become in remembering them as well as recording them. If your company is having layoffs, and you dreams about a collapsing building or a sinking lifeboat, you'll figure out exactly where your anxiety lies, and can begin preparing by sending out an updated resume.
The most important thing to know is this, you are the best person to figure out your dreams! There are many dream books that tell you meanings, and when one rings true for you from within, that is the way to go.
KEEPING YOUR DREAM JOURNAL
The first step to deciphering your dreams is to write them down - keep a dream journal. By writing your dreams down and making a regular effort to remember them, you will begin to recall them in more detail. You will be surprised as how good you will get if you follow this routine.
Begin by writing down the date of each dream. Allow free flowing thought to atake over.
Give your dream a title, so you can easily find the reference again.
Write down as much detail as possible concerning each dream.
Write in the present tense, not in the past tense, and don¹t worry about grammar or punctuation. this is only for your eyes.
Now, suppose you wake up and know you dreamed something about a car. Try to recall as many details as you can along with any feelings you may have had in the dream. What color was the car? Were you driving?
The dream dictionary tells you the car is a symbol of your body and show if you have your life under control. This could be connected to your self-image, your personality, the freedom to come and go as you wish, or your drive for success. Ask yourself some questions about your dream.
Was the car damages or dented? This could mean some poor self-esteem. Also, check your health.
Are you in the driver¹s seat? Whoever is driving the car is in control of your life. If you are in the back seat, you are allowing others to manage your life.
Was the air conditioner working? You may be feeling smothered, or may need to check the condition of your lungs, especially if you smoke.
Did the breaks fail? This connects with will power, discipline, overspending, and suggests you need to slow down.
Did you run out of gas? Check yourself - are you out of energy? Do you need vitamin supplements? Do you need some R&R or a vacation?
Now you can begin to see how to bring the details of the dream to light if you ask yourself questions about your dream. Sometimes it is easy to remember a dream, if it was a very powerful one or a happy one. Sometimes remembering can become difficult, especially if you tend to jump right out of bed in the morning to begin your daily routine, without meditation or contemplation.
Here are some tips to improve dream recall:
Tell yourself several times during the day that you intend to remember your dreams. This is called setting a condition. Then, just before you fall asleep, when you are relaxed, tell yourself, "I will remember my dreams when I wake up in the morning."
Place an object with a scent, a bag of herbs or sachet, near your bed. Associating the scent with dreaming may trigger some dream recall.
Keep your Dream Journal next to your bed. Just knowing it is there will help. You may need to use it in the middle of the night!
Drink a glass of water before retiring. Avoid drugs or alcohol as they tend to repress REM sleep.
If you are trying to work out a problem, write it down just before you go to sleep. then ask your Higher Self to work with you in finding a solution.
When morning comes - as you awaken - don't move! Don't even open your eyes. Hang on to the energies of the night. Lie still for a moment and concentrate on recalling your dreams. Try to remember how they felt. The mood of the dream may still be with you.
Even if you recall only a small chunk of the dream, write it down anyway. Ask yourself who was in you dream. Did the people remind you of anyone? Bear in mind that things in a dream can often be disguised, as a person in a dream may not be the person you will deal with in reality. For example, you may dream about the Queen of England, but in reality she actually represents a friend, parent, relative or teacher who you feel is ruling over you.
Then, ask yourself where the dream took place?
Did the location in your dream remind you of any place you are familiar with?
Ask yourself if anything in your dream reminds you of anyone in your real life?
Ask yourself how you were feeling in the dream?
As time goes by you will get better and better with this process.
WHY AM I HERE?
A dream that is not understood is like an unopened letter. Every night we have important messages from the unconscious. Whether we find ourselves in a car plunging down a steep slope, or piloting a plane through heavenly skies, we will do well to ask why our unconscious put us there. TALMUD
PART 2
So what are dreams all about? The true meaning of our dreams and what they signify has puzzled mankind for thousands of years. In the ancient world, dreams were often considered prophetic. Homer's Iliad contains a passage where King Agamemmon is visited in his dream by a messenger from Zeus to prescribe the king's future actions.
In the Bible, the Old testament is filled with accounts of prophetic dreams. Dreams have also been viewed as nothing more than extensions of the waking state, a carry over into sleep of what a person has thought or experienced while awake. All the conflicting notions about the nature of dreams led to no definite conclusions. It is perhaps best to agree with the French writer Michel de Montaigne that "Dreams are the true interpreters of our inclinations, but art is required to sort them out..."
You can become smarter by thinking up new ideas when you sleep. Your brain is constantly at work whether you are sleeping or not. Dreams can be a part of your personal creative process. Your conscious mind may not recognize a great idea, but your subconscious could be working on it - full time - while you sleep. Some of the great literary works were conceived in this way. Robert Louis Stevenson was desperate for money and couldn't think of anything to write about. Then one night he had a dream that was the inspiration for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine, dreamed a solution about how to make it work. He dreamed a tribe were throwing spears at him. The spears had a hole in the pointed tip, and they stuck point first into the ground. When he awoke, he knew he should put the hole for the thread in the pinpoint of his needle.
You can pull many answers from your subconscious while sleeping. You can sometimes find the missing pieces. Suppose something is really lost, like your car keys. You have no idea where they are. Before you go to sleep, write down something that states what you are looking for. You may find that your dreams that night will show you exactly where you misplaced the keys.
Make it a routine to jot down your dreams and study ideas that turn up, no matter how strange they may seem to you. Try to relate them to things you are working on in life. Example: You want to buy yourself a new TV but you can't afford it right now. Then you dream you've done a great job painting the living room. When you jot that down and think about it, you will realize you¹ve come up with a great idea to get the extra cash to purchase the TV. Since you're a handy person. you can do a few painting jobs for the neighbors to pay for it.
You can also influence your dreams. You don't have to wait for your dreams to provide a solution to your problems. You can directly influence them to give you more information or guidance by instructing your dream state or Blessed Higher Self to answer some specific questions as you are dozing off. Your brain can be programmed to come up with specific ideas as you sleep! Suppose you are about to give a presentation to the PTA. All your materials are together, but you feel that something is missing, and cannot seem to come up with exactly what it is.
When you go to bed, think about the presentation, and actually begin going through it as you fall asleep, bearing in mind that you are looking for some ingredient to add to it. You may dream that a slide show or guest lecturer from a local college can make your presentation even better. This missing part, or idea, was in your subconscious all the time, but you couldn¹t access it any other way except through your dreams, probably because of stress.
Always remember to sleep on it. You can use your dreams to help you solve just about any problem that is bothering you. It's easy and anyone can learn to do this. Dreaming is essential to good mental health. We all need our dreams, even if we don't understand them, even if we can¹t always analyze their messages, dreams of all kinds are still worth having. Dreaming is healthy for us.
Just because dreams are different from normal life, surprising, unusual and perhaps even bizarre or frightening, dreams make unexpected connections that we are not able to make when we are awake. We may be able to solve problems in our dreams that our self-conscious, wide-awake minds just cannot do.
DREAM WORK
To do some dream work, pick a night when you are not too tired and you have not used any alcohol or medication.
Just before bedtime, write down a problem or a question you would like to resolve.
Keep the question simple. Do not ask any questions that will have a yes or no answer.
As you begin to fall asleep, repeat the question over and over in your mind.
Many people have difficulty remembering their dreams, so when you wake up, whether in the middle of the night or the next morning, immediately write down what you have been dreaming about.
The answer to your problem will be somewhere in the content of your dream.
At first it may not appear obvious, but with a little thought, you will be able to interpret the dream and unlock the answer you are looking for.
DREAM INCUBATION
Incubating a dream simply means targeting a dream for specific problem solving. Let's say a woman and her husband are having a difficult time in their relationship. So she begins her dream work by writing down the question, "Why are my husband and I bickering all the time?"
Then she dreams about Hillary Clinton and she thinks, what does Hillary have to do with me? The wife needs to pretend she is talking to a stranger and describe everything in her dream to that stranger. She might see that Hillary is showing that wives can be both independent and active.
The next insight may be, "I'm afraid to pursue my career because I may loose my husband. I'm afraid I'll outshine him."
Suddenly the wife realizes she is holding herself back, feeling resentful and taking in out on her husband. The more she describes Hillary, in her dream, the more she can see that it is possible to have a strong marriage and an independent career.
This dream not only explains why the woman was bickering with her husband, but it gives her a solution to the problem as well as some comfort. It is OK for you to have a career!
This method of focusing on a question is called dream incubation. Another method of using your dreams to solve problems is called lucid dreaming.
LUCID DREAMING
Sometimes when you are asleep and dreaming, you suddenly become aware that you are dreaming. This is called a psychic dream or lucid dream, as you split with your Etheric Double, and the double acts out in the dream, as you. If you try, you can take part in directing as to which way your dream goes.
For example, before you go to sleep, you think about your boss, a bad tempered man who is hard to talk to. Later you dream that you are being chased by an angry bear. If you realize you are dreaming you can confront the bear, who represents your boss, instead of running away from it. Talk with the bear, work out your problems, feel safe, then say good-bye. In lucid dreaming, you will conquer some real life problems, and the bear will then go away. Dreams are always trying to help us solve problems we face in waking life. By tapping into information in your dreams, you become receptive to the answers. No matter which method you choose to solve problems in your sleep, the most important thing you can learn is that the solution to your problems are often within your own head - or can be brought to you from the other dimensions. You only have to fall asleep to find your answers.
DO DREAMS HAVE THE POWER TO HEAL?
Native American cultures have long believed that nightly messages have much to do with your mental and physical health. Now a growing number of doctors agree that dreams should be taken seriously as an indication of health. Some doctors who listen to their patient's dreams, find that these dreams can provide valuable guidance in the patient¹s treatment.
Here are some common dreams that may represent some kind of health problem:
Excessive heat or fire
Excessive cold, ice or snow
Excessive fluids
Blockages - in pipes or rivers, for example
Insects or other animals that cause you to feel repulsion or disgust
Broken machines or structures
Here is an example of a health dream:
A woman found herself as a leafless tree with a froze limb. She had fractured her wrist and the break was undiagnosed. It failed to heal properly and the dream pointed her to the direction that she needed to take proper care of that injury.
Aristotle believed that dreams were an early warning system for illness, and recent studies show that he may have been right. Think of a dream as a message from your unconscious. The mind picks up body messages, physical sensations, that we perhaps have been too busy to make note of while we are awake, or may dismiss as to minor to pay attention to. Our dreams can pass this information along to us. They tell us to pay attention to some important part of our life. It may be a message from an organ deep in the abdomen, or from a blood vessel that is straining to stay open. The message may come to us in code, and when we dream, we break the code to understand the message.
Dreams of Pregnancy. Some women dream they are pregnant before it has been confirmed and way before it is possible to detect a fetal heartbeat. Their bodies know what is happening and the dream will simply pass on the message. One scientific journal reported that a woman with rheumatoid arthritis dreamed that her arms were bound in a straightjacket. her illness then flared up. Sometime later she dreamed she fell on ice, but got up easily. Shortly after that her illness subsided.
If our dreams can tell us that an illness is developing in our bodies even before we experience the symptoms, or before our doctors can detect signs of the illness, then it is possible to use our dreams to get treatment earlier, and improve our chances of recovery.
Research is just beginning - through the acceptance of complimentary or alternative medicine - on whether dreams have diagnostic validity and can even predict the course an illness will take.
PRE-COGNITION OR FUTURE DREAMS
Females experience more psychic dreams than males, in which they see future events, and their forecasts are accurate more often than men's.
What can you do when terror strikes in your dreams? Just as everyone has dreams, everyone also has some nightmares. Studies indicate that nightmares are twice as common among adults than sleep researchers once thought. In fact the average person has one bad dream about every two weeks, unless they meditate a lot. Nightmares have been defined as dreams that frighten, sadden or upset the dreamer.
Some prescription drugs, such as tranquilizers, barbiturates and blood-pressure medications can cause bad dreams. Most people do not require professional help to handle nightmares. There are simpler ways to get at these bad dreams. If the nightmare becomes so intense and painful that you fear going to bed at night, it may be time to consult a doctor.
Here¹s What To Do:Jot down your nightmareAs soon as you can, describe your bad dream on paper, including as much detail as you can. If you are being chased, write down how the chase starts, whether your pursuer looks like anybody you know, and how the nightmare ends.
Decide to change the nightmare - or go back into the dream.Think carefully about how you would like to change your dream. If the dream ends with you being chased off a cliff, attach a parachute to your back, or have Superman catch you.
Imagine the new sequenceClose your eyes, relax, and play back the dream in your mind. This time use the new plot. You are chased off the edge of a cliff you fall, and a parachute opens or Superman catches you. See yourself landing safely.
Practice for two weeksFor a few minutes every day for two weeks, mentally rehearse the altered version of the dream. By doing this, you are imprinting a new image in your mind, and letting this seep into our subconscious. A bit of self-hypnosis.
Enjoy your nightmare free sleepYou should see a marked improvement within these two weeks. As the nightmares diminish, you can use your dream rehearsals less and less and the nightmares will disappear for good.
Nightmares can be good for you as far as unearthing your hidden fears. This will allow you to resolve some of the conflicts in your life. Sometime we may be more troubled than we realize, and these nightmares, when we look carefully, can help us to identify exactly what is bothering us. It may be a buried memory from your past, or a present life situation or person. As you work to understand your nightmares, the thing that was troubling you can be brought from the subconscious to your conscious mind, and you van recognize it and begin to deal with it.
Author: Elizabeth Joyce
Affirmations for Self-Actualization And Spiritual Growth
I accept myself, others and the natural world just as we are and without any judgment.
My acceptance of and benevolence, affection and friendliness towardseveryone demonstrates a greater love than others think possible.
I am free of fears and inhibitions.
I realistically see the truth, free of distortion by fears, in all areas of my life and I am comfortable with it.
I learn from everyone and accept all as my equal.
I avoid harming anyone with my thoughts, words and actions.
I use humor only as a means of elevating human consciousness.
I transcend my culture and environment and seek long term improvement of both.
I see the commonality in polar opposites, which dissipates any apparent conflict between them.
I am an original thinker and my thoughts are free from conventional wisdom.
My uniqueness results in original, inventive and uninhibited ways of interacting with life.
I live fully in the present moment.
Life is good and I appreciate that every moment is thrilling, transcendent and spiritual.
I accept complete responsibility for myself, my behavior and my experiences.
I am serene in the midst of chaos, confusion and personal misfortune.
I rely on myself for happiness, rather than on responses from society or others.
My ethics are of my own conscious choosing, rather than adopted from others.
My life mission is: focused on problems outside myself, the source of my energy, and my reason for existence.
Fulfilling my mission keeps me at peace and free from worry.
I am transformed in my daily life by frequent peak experiences which fill me with ecstasy, awe and the vision of limitless horizons.
I am motivated to continually grow.
I use all my experiences as learning opportunities to accelerate my personal growth.
I am self-actualized as I actively explore the truth of myself.
Keep your affirmations and targets confidential unless you are part of a team aimed at the same target, if so make sure your team knows them.
Write 1 complete affirmation on each 3x5 card, commit your emotions to paper.
Start with the three affirmations that are most true for you now and the three affirmations that are least true for you now.
As one of those affirmations becomes true for your daily life, and one of the affirmations that is not yet fully true for you.
Schedule 1 minute for each affirmation and do the following affirmation process when you wake up in morning and just before you got to bed at night:
-relax (take 3 to 4 slow deep breaths)
-read the affirmation aloud with as much emotion as possible
-repeat the affirmation 7 times
-close your eyes and vividly visualize the experience of its accomplishment
-feel the emotions and continue to experience the situation for 20 to30 seconds for the brain to imprint
-repeat this process for each affirmation
My acceptance of and benevolence, affection and friendliness towardseveryone demonstrates a greater love than others think possible.
I am free of fears and inhibitions.
I realistically see the truth, free of distortion by fears, in all areas of my life and I am comfortable with it.
I learn from everyone and accept all as my equal.
I avoid harming anyone with my thoughts, words and actions.
I use humor only as a means of elevating human consciousness.
I transcend my culture and environment and seek long term improvement of both.
I see the commonality in polar opposites, which dissipates any apparent conflict between them.
I am an original thinker and my thoughts are free from conventional wisdom.
My uniqueness results in original, inventive and uninhibited ways of interacting with life.
I live fully in the present moment.
Life is good and I appreciate that every moment is thrilling, transcendent and spiritual.
I accept complete responsibility for myself, my behavior and my experiences.
I am serene in the midst of chaos, confusion and personal misfortune.
I rely on myself for happiness, rather than on responses from society or others.
My ethics are of my own conscious choosing, rather than adopted from others.
My life mission is: focused on problems outside myself, the source of my energy, and my reason for existence.
Fulfilling my mission keeps me at peace and free from worry.
I am transformed in my daily life by frequent peak experiences which fill me with ecstasy, awe and the vision of limitless horizons.
I am motivated to continually grow.
I use all my experiences as learning opportunities to accelerate my personal growth.
I am self-actualized as I actively explore the truth of myself.
Keep your affirmations and targets confidential unless you are part of a team aimed at the same target, if so make sure your team knows them.
Write 1 complete affirmation on each 3x5 card, commit your emotions to paper.
Start with the three affirmations that are most true for you now and the three affirmations that are least true for you now.
As one of those affirmations becomes true for your daily life, and one of the affirmations that is not yet fully true for you.
Schedule 1 minute for each affirmation and do the following affirmation process when you wake up in morning and just before you got to bed at night:
-relax (take 3 to 4 slow deep breaths)
-read the affirmation aloud with as much emotion as possible
-repeat the affirmation 7 times
-close your eyes and vividly visualize the experience of its accomplishment
-feel the emotions and continue to experience the situation for 20 to30 seconds for the brain to imprint
-repeat this process for each affirmation
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