Grounding yourself to now

[Guest guest]

This basic idea comes from the book " Meditation as Medicine " by Dharma Singh

Khalsa (which is very much about Kundalini as taught by Yogi Bhajan). There's a

short segment on Lucid Dreaming and author tells about a guy he knew who was

able to have up to 26 per month.

 

One of the primary techniques he used was, throughout the day asking himself " am

I dreaming " . The idea behind that is, if you do it enough, it becomes a habit,

that you will carry on into your dreams.. and if you ask the question " am I

dreaming " in a dream it should trigger you to consciously awake within the

dream.

 

Furthermore, he mentions a good way to further that habit. Every time you walk

through a doorway, touch the door frame and ask " am I dreaming " . Something

interesting will happen. If in the waking world, the literal answer will be

" NO " , however - you'll probably find you were completely unconscious to the

moment - lost in thought, worrying about somethign, etc, etc whatever. When you

touch the door frame and ask " am I dreaming " .. that will not only enforce the

habit, to bring into your dreams - it will ground you to the current moment..

NOW.

 

Funny too.. a few days before I read that, in this book.. I had been approaching

a door and had stressing thoughts about something.. and as I approached the door

I though, come back to now and relax.. and as I open the door.. it felt like I

was stepping into a different reality - NOW. instead whatever reality I was in.

 

Now is where it all is.. there's really nothing else. The past is gone, the

future doesn't exist - both are just thoughts cluttering our heads. Connecting

to now instantly brings me peace - unfortunately its extremely easy to get

seperated from it.

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

interesting food for thought. i have been able to have lucid dreams since i

started paying attention to my dreams. when it happens to me it is because i

have woken from a dream but not ready to get up and record it. when this happens

i try to think through my dream several time before i go back to sleep. by doing

this i am trying to make it a memory instead of just a dream. lots of times this

works sometimes it doest. but after doing this sometimes i will go back to the

same dream but adding my own thoughts to the situation i am some what in control

but not completely.

 

reading your post reminded me of something i read a while back but never put to

use or tried. i may now that i am more intuned...it said to stop before you

entered the room and see if you could feel the rooms energy. i wonder...

 

debby

 

 

[Guest guest]

yeah.. in my experience.. trying to remember a dream to record later

doesn't work.. or very seldom anyway haha.. but seems like that is a

good technique to trigger a lucid dream I'll have to try it thanks!

 

DEBRA WILLIAMS wrote:

>

> interesting food for thought. i have been able to have lucid dreams

> since i started paying attention to my dreams. when it happens to me

> it is because i have woken from a dream but not ready to get up and

> record it. when this happens i try to think through my dream several

> time before i go back to sleep. by doing this i am trying to make it a

> memory instead of just a dream. lots of times this works sometimes it

> doest. but after doing this sometimes i will go back to the same dream

> but adding my own thoughts to the situation i am some what in control

> but not completely.

>

> reading your post reminded me of something i read a while back but

> never put to use or tried. i may now that i am more intuned...it said

> to stop before you entered the room and see if you could feel the

> rooms energy. i wonder...

>

> debby

>

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