Lucid Dream:
Lucid Dreaming: How to Dream Control
Here's a simple technique that will help you relax your mind and take more control over your ideas and goals. This can be used over and over and consists of two distinct phrases.
First phase:
- Decide on an aspect in your life you have been thinking of improving. Focus on just one specific element.
- Project yourself as already having succeeded in your goal. This can be done using an "I am" statement -- if you want to lose weight, you might say, "I am fit and feeling good about my body."
- When you feel confident enough, try to say your word aloud and listen to yourself speak. Try to speak in a positive manner, eliminating any negative terms (such as "I can't," "I don't" etc).
- Take a walk outside or stoll and pace inside your home and keep repeating the statement.
- Wander around for at least 15 minutes while repeating the statement in your mind. You will experience new thoughts instigated by the things you come across in your walk. If your mind gets further from the "I am" statement, gently try to concentrate more on it.
- During your walk pay undue attention to things that attract your thoughts. Have a small notebook and write them down, or draw a sketch of the object that got your attention.
For the second phase, return to your initial place and continue the process.
- Sit down and have a look at the items about which you wrote. Try to draw something that portrays all the elements you noticed; you needn't be a Rembrandt here, just put the image on paper.
- Breathe slowly and start looking at the drawings before you. Try to allow your mind to concentrate only on the drawings and nothing else.
- Think about why those items grabbed your attention during your walk.
- Also think about what grabs your attention now as you look at the drawings. New ideas might have appeared as a consequence of following step 2.
- Now try to find the connections between the items you noticed and your "I am" statement. Integrate the statement and the items into an imaginary story such as: "This oak tree had amazingly healthy and crisp leaves and seemed totally content, just like I am happy with the state of my body."
- For the last step take a few slow, deep breaths and think about how this exercise worked.
You might have noticed your mind tends to selects elements from your surroundings on its own. It's interesting to how all the selected items somehow relate to the "I am" statement.
You can use the benefits of dreaming actively, or lucid dreaming, for a wide variety of situations. The make-believe game you play puts you on a direct path to solving your problem. Constantly analyzing and worrying about what is troubling you can take a lot of your time and energy, while the results might be unsatisfactory. Learning dream control is much healthier, and it's also fun.
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