Many of the ideas I come up with, derive from my dreams. I have always had extremely lucid dreams, I can see, touch, taste, smell and hear everything in perfect clarity just as I do while I am awake. On many different occasions I am also aware that I am dreaming and more than just a few times, I have awoken from one dream to think I was awake only to find that I had only entered into another dream. I have heard people say that they don't dream and I will tell you this, you do dream, you just aren't remembering them. Our dreaming mind is what anchors us to reality and keeps us from going insane. When we dream, this is a way our mind solves everyday problems in our lives. If you are like so many others out there, remembering your dreams has become more than just a little difficult. When I started studying dreams when I was in my twenties, I began by keeping a dream journal on my nightstand with a pen. Upon awakening, I would jot down anything I remembered about the dream I had. In the beginning this wasn't working out as I had anticipated that it was going to. So before bed, I would do some deep breathing exercises and repeatedly tell myself that I will remember my dreams. Over a period of approximately two weeks or so, I began to have better success at remembering my dreams. As we dream our mind gives us hints as to how we may be able to solve problems in our lives. Upon awakening write down anything you remember from that particular dream and once you have jotted down everything, do some word associations with what you have written. Take for example you dreamed about a cat, I would associate a cat with curiosity. That is me personally though. You on the other hand my see a cat as sneaky, your best friend, or even an annoyance. What you associate certain symbols to in your dreams, is in the mind of the individual and since every person is different, so is what each symbol represents in your dreams. There are however, no wrong or right answers. I have come to find that utilizing my dreams in this fashion, I have come to understand more about what I am dreaming about and I have become better able to figure out some of my more perplexing problems in life. I used to suffer from nightmares from the age of five until my twenties. Then once I started remembering my dreams and studying them, I have learned how to remove myself from my nightmare and merge into another more pleasant dream. Our brain is amazing and we have not even come close to even touching the surface of just what our minds are capable of doing. Along with a dream journal, I recommend yoga, deep mediation, creative visualization and aroma therapy. All of these things will help stimulate your mind and they are also amazing tools for over coming stress. Stress will always exist, there is no way around that. However, by reducing some of your mental stress, it will have an extremely powerful effect upon your waking state and your dreaming state. Reducing stress levels are important, because there are numerous health related issues to living a highly stressful life. But by getting inside of your own mind and learning more about who you are mentally not merely physically, you may be adding years to your life. Thus reducing the risk of serious health related issues due to all of your built up stress and anxieties over personal issues causing you difficulty in your awake state. I have started over forty- four novels, I have completed seven and the others have already reached their half way mark to being complete. All of this is because of my dreams, everything I have dreamed over the last twenty five years, I have utilized in the way of writing my books. Not only does this reduce my stress levels, but my over all health has improved dramatically and I have written some amazing books in the process. We feed our bodies and we should also feed our minds. There are so many people who are mentally starving to death, but it doesn't have to be that way. We have control over all aspects of our lives, for it is after all our lives and only we can determine the way we want our lives to be. Our dreaming mind is more powerful than we could ever begin to imagine and it is a tool we need to apply to our lives. Many of the answers we seek already lie within the core of our being, sometimes we just need to dig a little deeper into our psyche to find them.
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My name is Tina Taylor and I would like to welcome you to my web page. "Exit The Subzone" is my third book, but not the last by any means. ArchivesCategories
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Throughout the span of our lives we pass through many doors some physical and others upon a mental dimensional realm of realities.
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