Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Monday, January 3, 2011

How Easy Is It To Learn Lucid Dreaming?

By Jack Hanson


Dream consciousness is referred to as lucid dreaming where one is dreaming while being aware that you are dreaming. If you want to learn lucid dreaming there are many techniques and methods that can be used for inducing lucid dreams. Read the subsequent paragraphs to know more about lucid dreams and how to induce them.

Prepare yourself mentally: In order to maximize success you need to prepare yourself mentally. Take a look at your belief systems to do this. You will directly interact with your belief systems and thoughts as you develop your aptitude to lucid dream. You will experience first hand how significant it is to manage your thoughts. For beginners it's essential to keep a positive attitude always. Following this positive attitude is to make dreaming a top priority. The moment you start believing that your dreams are vital it will noticeably augment your results. Once you have gained your confidence to lucid dream, next you must recall your dreams. You must commit to yourself to increase your dream recall as it's of importance to you and something that you wish to build up. You can look at incorporating some steps to your morning routine: When you wake up do not move and lie still.

Give yourself some time to recall your dream and wake up slowly. Your focus should not be lost in whatever you are dreaming. After this allow yourself to drift away slightly and your mind should have the mental images of the dream captured. Once you have gained success in achieving dream recall, allow other pieces to fall into pieces so that the entire dream is recalled and clear. Incase your effort to recall the dream is not successful, sit back and think again.

The alarm clock method can be followed to recall your dreams which are the easiest method to follow. The idea behind this method is to awaken yourself when you are dreaming and fresh memories are there in your mind. In order to remember your dream you can even write down your dream and for this purpose keeping a dream journal is a good idea. Your lucid dream project will get maximized with this effort. This habit of maintaining a journal should be carried throughout and consistently if you serious about learning how to lucid dream.

This habit of journal keeping and recalling your dreams eventually will help you to lucid dream. In this process you will gradually realize that there are some themes of dreams that are more common than others. Identification of your dream signs is a vital part in the process of lucid dreaming.

Next you should add awareness to your waking consciousness. When you begin to exercise your awareness, a realization that you are not typically aware of how ignorant you are most of the day may hit you. You can practice meditation to exercise your awareness and meditation and lucid dreaming are closely linked.

The final step towards lucid dreaming is to link your awareness to your dreams. A solid foundation for future lucid dreaming is laid by becoming closely acquainted with your dream signs and connecting reality checks to these dream signs.




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