18

Oct

Lucid dreaming

Dreams are illustrations…
from the book your soul is writing about you.
~Marsha Norman

I am having a ton of lucid dreams right now. Like, it’s turning into a nightly thing. What happens is I fall asleep and realize I am dreaming. I am often able to control my dreams or just be in awe of what I am seeing while asleep. Last night, I realized I was dreaming as I was standing next to a house. I started going through the different rooms and walking around outside.

It is incredible to lucid dream because everything feels and looks SO REAL. It kind of makes me question reality. You’re in this beautiful, very real (even more real than this) place, yet you know that you’re laying in bed, sound asleep. I find that the colors are more vibrant and the landscapes are vast and incredible, which is usually a signal in a dream that causes me to become lucid.

I’m really confused right now because I’m starting to feel like I have something going on that I can’t explain. Like, I am having these dreams, and I am having a lot of moments where I think of someone or something and then that person will call or email me right when (or right after) I am thinking of them.  I totally believe that we are all connected to a Universal Mind, so this really shouldn’t be a big deal. But for some reason, seeing it in action is kind of mind blowing.

A friend and I are reading this book called The Master Key System, which gets into this stuff. It also has us doing daily meditation. I am 150% sure that meditation is the reason why I’m having some of my odd experiences.

I think there is something going on that is outside physical reality. It kind of puts what we see, feel, hear, and touch in this reality to shame.


“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.”
~ C. S. Lewis

 

photos by Kitty Gallannaugh

 

 

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12

Jun

4 phrases that can change your life

There is an interesting (and apparently true) story about a therapist who cured a ward of insane patients by repeating four phrases over and over. It’s a Hawaiian healing process known as “Ho’oponopono”. What I like is the simplicity. All this therapist really did was sit and repeat these four phrases over and over, focusing on the healing of the patients.

This is useful whether you want to heal yourself or someone else. Here’s an excerpt from an article about this technique:

Dr. Len’s message may be quite hard to believe, yet it’s amazingly simple. He states that we are all responsible for everything that we see in our world. By taking full personal responsibility and then healing the wounded places within ourselves, we can literally heal ourselves and our world.

Dr. Len suggests a four-stage process for this work. Whenever a place for healing presents itself in your life, open to the place where the hurt resides within you. After identifying this place, with as much feeling as you can, say the below four statements:

  • I love you.
  • I’m sorry.
  • Please forgive me.
  • Thank you.

I think this could be useful during those times when you’re desperate. Rather than succombing to those thoughts or feelings that are harmful, repeat these phrases instead.

This kind of works for me. During those times when I don’t want to do anything to help myself and I would rather just feel bad, I can do this instead. I can do it during the day, before bed, after a conflict.

I love you. I’m sorry. Please forgive me. Thank you.

Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world.
~Joe Vitale

photos by pkirsch

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