Those two words at first sight and thought don't seem very powerful but by the end of my post you may start to contemplate them a little more. Creative Visualization, Use the Power of Your Mind to Create What You Want in Your Life was a required reading in college. I was open to the ideas and techniques but a little skeptical also. It wasn't until a few years out of college that I tried it. I was quite surprised that it did indeed work and made me feel better about myself.
Simply put, it is getting in touch with our subconscious mind. Some people might think this is nonsense but we all have a subconscious mind. It actually wakes up when you are sleeping, more on that later. Here's my common sense approach about it. We are all born with a clean slate so to speak and our subconscious is what I call programmed from our experiences. Those experiences happen in your conscious world in the form of experiences and words said to us. They can be negative and positive. You may not even realize that your subconscious actually controls a lot of your behavior, beliefs and decisions, one of which, and the most important, is how you see yourself. How we see ourselves, to me, is the most important part of our subconscious. If it is filled with more negative programs, then life may seem more difficult and those bad programs may keep you from flying in life. Like a computer you can reprogram any negative subconscious feelings. It can be a life long task but it is doable and not very hard. This book will help you, I can guarantee it, it helped me and still does today. As Marian Diamond, who was a professor of Anatomy at Berkeley, would say "Don't let your brain learn bitterness". Wow, makes you stop and think about it, doesn't it? My first thought was, how can a clean slate subconscious not learn bitterness if it is programmed with some bad stuff, physical or emotional. The good news is you can change it and it may be a life long task. There is a great PBS show about Marian Diamond and her research, truly an amazing and smart women. Oneironautics, do you know what it means? I had never seen the word in my life until one day while browsing in a small book store. I came across a book titled, A Field Guide to Lucid Dreaming, Mastering the Art of Oneironautics. It peaked my interest so I bought it and read it. It literally means, dream navigator. This book will teach you to wake up in your dreams. You can navigate anything you desire that you can't do in real life, such as flying like a bird. You can also learn a lot about your self, because this is when you subconscious is actually awake and active. For those that say they don't dream, I hate to bust your dream bubble but you do and you can teach yourself to remember those dreams and wake up in them. It's actually quite fun, I woke in a dream around Halloween in a haunted house, once I realized I was awake in the dream I no longer was afraid of the dream, it was actually fun. Lucid dreaming allows us to explore our inner selves consciously by merging our subconscious with our conscious minds. This will give you a lot of information about your self. Take notes of your dreams and look for symbols or patterns and see what they may represent or how they make you feel. One of my reoccurring dreams is about not be prepared or not having the work done for a college class, these dreams, I've learned, are coming from some negative programming as a child, you will see that in my book. A friend recently told me she had a chatty brain. Not many people have a chatty brain so if you do, embrace it and learn to enjoy it and learn from it. It's your subconscious mind that is chatty and you are already a head of the game of getting in touch with who you are. I think I've chatted enough, so read these two books and learn to get in touch with your subconscious mind. Living consciously with your subconscious will allow you to live life to the fullest. If you've got bad programming then start reprogramming now, it's never too late. I suppose I should tell you how I do it. I do it at night right before I go to sleep since this is the time right before the subconscious wakes up. One thing I do is to tell it not to clench my teeth, something I do when I feel stressed. If I tell my subconscious not to clench, I will have a clench free night. Try it, it works, repeat it about 20 times to yourself before you drift into dream land. Once you realize it works, you can now program anything you want into your subconscious. Program away as you are your own personal programmer and you will feel happier and life will be better. Also, learn to be lucid dreamer. It's quite fun.
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