Dreams

How do dreams figure into a program on personal growth? Your dreams are important resource for communicating with your subconscious mind. They can assist in understanding your true desires and allow you to jump – start your creativity. Dreams are a straight shot from the subconscious. So it’s to your advantage to figure out what they mean.

Dream may seem like unintelligible imagery, but they are not insignificant. Dreams are always about us. Always commenting and instructing us about our concerns. They’re often filling in the blanks or waving red flag or giving us a road map. So learning to interpret their messages becomes a valuable resource.

It’s no accident that we dream more often and more vividly when we are under stress. Ever notice that you dream more when starting a new job, or engaged in an unfamiliar area of expertise? Big changes translate to big dreams. We have more to think about and evaluate during these times. Our subconscious is weighing the options even as we sleep. The message it has for us are clouded in the obscure images and the disconnected concepts we often experience in dreams.

Why must we dream in metaphors? Try to hold on to something we couldn’t understand.

Before we develop verbal skills, we still had to communicate with our minds. Without words to rely on, it was necessary to transfer meaning through images. Dreams are like a long-lost language. They’re offering us valuable information. The trick is figuring out what they’re attempting to say.

You may be one of those people who say they can never remember their dreams. You probably have the most to discover. It does take a little time and effort to translate our dreams. But it is fun and enlightening to discover what they are telling us.

Exercise: Journal Code: DRM

Analyze your dream 3-5 days per week. Make notations in your journal about the dream itself as best you can recall and include your analysis of the dream. Also examine how you were reacting within the dream. Were you feeling overwhelmed or in control.

Here are a few tips for interpreting dreams:

1. Start by going to bed at night with the expectation that you will dream about something important and that you will remember the dreams.
2. Be prepared. Have your journal or a notepad and pen within easy reach. By going to bed ready to interpret your dreams. You are telling your subconscious you mean business. You may be rewarded with more meaningful dreams and an easier recall.
3. When you first wake up, a remnant of your dream will probably still be hovering, all wispy and tailing away as if a light silk scarf has been trailed across your face. If you let it get away the dream will disappear. Mentally reach up and gently pull it back. The more you pull back, the more you will begin to remember the characters, actions and symbolism. Reconstruct the dream as carefully as possible in your mind. Set it into conscious mind.
4. Begin writing your newly forged memory of the dream. As you write, be open to new details and plot twists as they present themselves.
5. After you’ve written down the dream, go back and give it a title. Don’t fret over what to call it, go with the first thing that pops into your head. The title is often an enormous clue to the meaning of the dream.
6. When trying to make sense of a dream, it is best not to be too literal. Actions, locations, characters and feelings are often metaphors for a message.
7. Unless you specifically recognize someone you know in your dream, most of the characters are you.
8. Pay attention to the way you were feeling toward a person or event can be a clue to its meaning. For instance, a death in a dream often represents change. So if you were happy observing the death, it means you are welcoming the change.
9. Dreams that repeat themselves are communications trying to break through. They will usually stop only when you get the message.

Don’t be discouraged if it takes some practice before you can consistently recall your dreams. Many people report that they never remember them. But by simply starting with a regular interpretation you will be impressed with how quickly you begin to grash the messages presented to you by your subconscious.

Intuition

In football, the ball is snapped and players from both teams scatter in all directions at top speed. There is hitting and blocking and deception. But there are certain very gifted players who despite the chaos, despite the opponents attempts to take them out, always seem to be in the right place at the right time. The announcers say, “He has a nose for the bal.” What he really has is a well-developed intuition. Granted he may be smart and experienced. He may have prepared will with the game plan. He may have worked his body into top shape. But when the play starts, there is very little time to react. So the great player sniffs out a p-lay with his intuition.

We can do the same with intuition. It is a key a success. A Key to making the correct moves in life at the exact moment in time they must be made. But first we must develop a relationship with our intuition. We must become attuned to the ways it is communicated to us.

Strengthen intuition the same way you would enhance a relationship. Give it attention. Become familiar with it. Look for it when you require help. Let go and trust your intuition and act on it when your feelings are strong.

1. Preparation is always a key with intuition. Get as much information as possible that surrounds the issue you are attempting to address or solve.
2. Allow the normal creative process to take over. There is usually an amount of time required to allow the thoughts to sort themselves and make previously unconsidered connections.
3. Don’t wait on the answer. Getting impatient or tense or demanding only makes it worse. Trust that your mind is working for you.
4. Occupy yourself with other task or pleasurable pursuits. It can be during these “down moments” that the intuitive ideas appear.
5. Learn to recognize intuition and acknowledge its ideas.

It can take a little practice to ensure you are not simply grasping at straws, that the ideas you now have, are in fact intuition. The feeling you get with an intuition thought is one complete certainty. “This is it!” “Its just feels right.” “I’ve never been so sure of anything in my life.” Sometimes the answer you are seeking arrives in your consciousness as if you’ve known it all along. Other times it may sound like that familiar voice inside your head. But normally it’s not so much a string of thought leading to its discovery, as a finished thought arriving to you whole, completely formed, and remarkably appropriate.

More and more, we’re hearing workers being encouraged t think out of the box. What at first may seem like a crazy idea, upon examination, may be a break through concept. Innovation is the faucet at the end of the intuition pipeline.

Exercise

Select an issue or question that you have been thinking about or struggling with. It could be a decision you will soon have to make, or an action you’ll have to take. But it doesn’t even have to be about you. Maybe someone you know has asked for your advice. Tonight, just before bed, spend a few moments allowing yourself to acknowledge your subconscious mind. Feel its power and ability with absolute clarity. Recognize deep down that your mind clearly and decisively what it is you would like to know. Feel your mind beginning to sort and access the information, as if it is a computer clicking away, processing information. Repeat the request if necessary. That’s its. That’s all you have to do. Just be aware that the perfect answer or insight is on its way. And keep your journal at your bedside while you sleep. Be prepared to quickly write down the information and the feelings that will carry it to you. The intuition may come to you as you wake up, or it may appear in your dreams.

Accessing the Subconscious

Have you ever heard the phrase, “I want to sleep on it?” It is actually good bit of wisdom being put into practice. Rather than making a decision solely using the conscious mind, the person is saying they want to access their subconscious for deep, gut level decision.

Accessing the subconscious is not something we are practiced at doing. There is a storehouse of knowledge in our subconscious but it can be like walking into one of those enormous home improvement warehouse. You spend more time walking up and down the aisle filling your basket with needless items, than finding what you came to get.

The subconscious mind does not speak English. It’s an internal guidance system. It communicates through concepts, emotion and feeling. It presents us with options that lead us to our desires. But ultimately, we must make the choice. Turn left or right. Say hello or walk on by.

Part of the problem in accessing the subconscious is that we chase the information rather than allowing it to come to us. There is no easy way to coax the information into your brain, but it normally arrive after you have relaxed and allowed the information to sink in.

Have you ever tried to chase a cat? They are fast little things. The way to catch a cat is not to run after it, but to stand still. Sweet-talk it into coming over. Act as if you don’t care. Next thing you know it is rubbing against your leg. That is the best way to describe how to coax an idea from the subconscious.

Where do you get your best ideas? Some people get them while bating. Other get great ideas while driving, or talking on the phone, or listening to music. It is the relaxed and slightly occupied mind that allows direct access to the subconscious.

Exercise

In your Journal, attempt to recall where and how you had your best ideas –the breakthrough ideas in your life. Were you in bed? Were you relaxed or nervous? Were you busy trying to come up with the idea or did it plop in front of you like a big, nicely wrapped present? List the way you felt when the idea came to you. We are trying to isolate the feeling and methods that will lead us unequivocally to our pure subconscious wisdom.

Usually, it is the rational decisions that end up costing us the most. We out think ourselves. We play if safe, when our true desire demands a leap of faith.

We are all Connected

Some are more directed than others, but no thought enters the universe without leaving some effect.

We have learned that thoughts are energy. And we know that energy never dies, it is only transformed. So where do thoughts go? How are they transformed? Using the power of relaxed yet focused thoughts, the subconscious mind is able to send and receive thoughts that connect us all.

Have you ever felt like you could read somebody’s mind? Ever known what someone was going to say before they said it? In all probability, you did read their mind. The sensitive receiver in your subconscious picked up their message because their thought energy was strong and directed.

Every single thought is beamed from the subconscious into the buzzing hub of the universe, the library of all known knowledge. That is why positive thought is so important.

Think of it this way. If a factory is belching smoke into the air in Michigan, eventually it will make the air less breathable in China. It’s the same with thoughts. The more positive thoughts we contribute to the great beyond, the better off we all become.

Exercise:

Think of the universe as a great bank. Every time you have a positive thought, the bank outs a buck into your bank. And each time you let a negative thought or action into your mind, the bank withdraws a dollar. What would your account look like? In either case it is good to keep ledger. So in your journal , you are going to add up the day’s totals. Since it is too difficult to account for each thought, we are going to account for each action. Give yourself $5 for every good or positive action of the day. Subtract $5 from any activity that was based in negativity. Now be honest. Was this day typical? Did you do more nice things today because you knew you were keeping track? Well there’s no problem with that. Keep it up. Each thought and every action counts.

Reminder

Eon is designed for maximum portability and usefulness. Keep it with you. It will begin to feel like a companion. Take out your Journal and write while drinking your morning coffee. Post affirmations and acknowledgments on sticky pads where you can't miss them. Review your goal cards at least once per day. Clear time for workbook exercises before bed. It may take some rearranging of your schedule, a reworking your current habits, but focus is necessary. Plan for daily practice of the suggested techniques in Eon and in 120 short day you will enjoy personal progress that can change your life forever.

Positive and Negative Energy

Energy is everything and everything is energy.

That is more than just a catchy phrase. It is full of meaning. If you could look through the most powerful electron microscope and examine a rock, you would see a perfect example. The closer you look at the rock, the more movement you would begin to see. Eventually, the matter is broken down into atoms. The rock becomes a swirling, orbiting mass of constantly moving atomic energy. It is the same for every single thing. In their most basic form, all objects, all people, all everything is nothing more than energy.

Thought are also energy. In physics, they like to say. “Like energy attracts.” It means one type of energy is drawn to a similar type of energy. So, positive thoughts attract more positive energy. And of course negative thoughts attract more negative energy. You’ve seen it happen.

It takes a gentleman to suffer ignorance and smile,

If you are a cynical, angry, negative person now, take a look at what negativity has brought into your life. Can you honestly say, “the more negative I am, the better my life becomes?”

Describe people overflowing with positive energy.

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Describe the traits of super negative people>

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Why would anyone consciously choose to be in the second group? They don’t sound like any fun to be with or around. The positive people are leaders. They set examples. They don’t have time to complain. They are too busy moving forward with rewarding activities.

Do yourself and the world a favor. Blanket yourself in positive thoughts and positive energy. Just that single effort could change your life from one of frustration and anger to one filled with optimism and opportunity.

Remember, it’s easier to see what is wrong in the world than truly appreciate what is right. It may take some training, but start by seeing what you want for yourself and those you love, and simply expect it to happen.

Exercise: Journal Code: NOT

Start your day with Positive Energy Activator. That a few moments three times a week to jot out a quick note or card. Two or three sentences are enough. It is a personal note, It must be a physical object expressing your feelings positive energy. You will see. People hold onto these little expressions like they are treasures.

You will be writing these notes these note three times a week. Write them to anyone who you’d like to give encouragement, or thanks, or advice, or just to say I miss you. You will drop off at the post office or deliver it to a mailbox, or leave it in an envelope on a desk. It can be written to a business associate who has been impressive. Yes, even a thank you note for a present or a recent dinner party will count. Make a gesture to someone who you’d like to know better, or an understanding missive to a friend who could use a kind work. Use your imagination. Begin to line up your contact list. It will grow longer every day. During the next 90 days you may send out close to 40 cards, and you will be spreading a tangible example of positive energy.

Now you should know that at first, people may mot know what to make of your notes. We are not used to getting unsolicited support. They may be suspicious that you have an ulterior motive. So don’t get discouraged if you are not immediately contacted in return. But you will be filled a vault with positive energy, much of which will returned in unexpected ways. Your recipients will file away your gesture and look for a reason to do something nice in return, creating a cycle of positive energy.

Yes, this requires you to put yourself out there. You are making the effort to activate positive energy. For those who are sky or don’t like to write, it is even more important tjo do this exercise. Id you run out of people, get creative. Remember old friends you haven’t spoken to in years. Write to a congressman or a child from an orphanage. Send notes of encouragement to anyone you admire. Repeat notes to the same people are allowed. Some lucky cardholder will look forward to more. They may have a drawer full of them eventually. Think of how many people will keep them and read them and smile all over again.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confident.

If you search for the positive in life, positive energy will find you.

This is not just a saying. There are scientifically measured methods that help make it so. One of them is the Reticular Activating System, it’s actually a filter. If you can program yourself to allow specific, positive and useful information to enter your consciousness, all sorts of doors will begin to open.

Our conscious mind is able to sort through 30,000 bits of information per second. There’s much more that that coming at our senses at any given time. But 30,000 bits is more than enough information for us to be able to function. In essence, your subconscious mind is offering information on a need to know basic. Potentially dangerous situations are always red-tagged with emotion. That which is familiar or things you admire are almost always given priority.

For instance, if you’re ever bought a car you will soon notice that everyone seems to be driving the same model. Or you might have heard a new word or phase, and suddenly it seems to be on everyone’s lips.

It may seem that anything you’ve invested with emotion is fast tracked to your brain. And that goes for negative things as well. If you are really bothered by people cutting into line in front of you, then you will notice it happened all the time.

So begin to program yourself to see good, and there will be more good. If you are lacking in opportunities, know that opportunities abound. By noticing and feeling good about opportunities where ever they occur and to whomever they occur, you will be opening your RAS sensitivity to opportunities that may be tapping you on the shoulder.

Keep in mind this important point. These techniques are a means of changing the way we approach life from the inside out. You may really, really want a new car. But that doesn’t mean you’ll get it. Crossing your fingers and hoping for better life, pretty much guaranteed you’ll never get it. We have to adjust the way we think first. It’s always a new way of thinking that comes first, before our circumstances ever change.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.

The Subconscious Mind

Subconscious Mind

Up unit this point we’ve really focused on the conscious mind. It is easy to relate to this part of our mental capacity. The conscious mind is the part of our brain that deals with our daily reality.

But there is a second mind you’ve also probably heard about: the subconscious mind. It operates simultaneously and in conjunction with the conscious mind, yet functions quite differently. Test your own knowledge of the subconscious.

How far back does your memory go?

What percentage of brainpower do you use on a daily basis?

Body functions operate independently of our conscious minds. True or False?

In making a tough decision, people often advise, “go with your gut.” They are referring to your subconscious.

The subconscious mind carefully evaluates all information it encounters. True or False?

Read on for the answers.

The subconscious mind, your subconscious mind, is your closest friend, loyal ally and most trusted advisor. Learning how to access, connect, program and response to the subconscious mind gives us the ability to rise above the fray of everyday living, and achieve another level of greatness. The subconscious mind is where our unlimited power lies.

The general consensus is that we use about 1% of our brainpower. But before you say that seems like a really low estimate, consider this. Some researchers insist it is really a much smaller fraction, one-thousandth of a percentage point or even less. That would mean we have a mind-boggling brain capacity. That brainpower is to be found in the subconscious.

Our normal body functions, the ones we don’t really think about, are all controlled by the subconscious mind. Our hearts beat and lungs breathe and nerves fire without any conscious effort. But our mind controlling and regulating these vast functions that are keeping us alive. Can you imagine it any other way? If the conscious mind controlled body functions, then after you had a meal you would literally have to concentrate on your stomach to begin digesting your food. You’d also be putting a tremendous effect into sending blood through each and ever vein. You see that we’d never get anything done. Think of it this way: if our subconscious didn’t control our bodily functions then as soon as we lost consciousness, like when we sleep, we would die. Can you imagine? You sleep, you die! That is how important our subconscious mind is to our body.

Most of us don’t have much of a memory before the age of 4 – 5. And some of us can’t even remember what we had for breakfast this morning. But etched in our subconscious mind is every event, every single thing we’ve every said or done, read or seen, heard or even overheard. Each and every ache or pain. They’re all inscribed in detail, in our subconscious minds. That’s pretty impressive. But there’s more. The subconscious mind is responsible for intuition and creativity. Even dreams emerge from your subconscious mind. The subconscious offers us guidance and ‘gut reactions.”

Not done yet. There’s another function of our ever-active subconscious mind that is even less understood. Have you ever heard the phrase “we are all one?” Through the power of focused thought, the subconscious mind is able to transmit and receive thoughts that connect us all in integral way.

Finally, the subconscious is able to direct our thought, desires, and purpose. When focused with regular and heart felt repetition and set in motion through synchronicity, a transformation of thought energy can transform into physical reality.

You’ve probably heard the old adage, you reap what you sow. That bit of wisdom, passed on through the ages, describes the interaction between the conscious and the subconscious. The subconscious has been likened to a fertile garden. The conscious mind, its gardener. Whether you know it or not, you intensely felt thought and beliefs are the seeds that you are planting. So be very careful what you place in your head. Good thoughts or bad thoughts can be the difference between a garden filled with weeds, or one overflowing with roses. You seeds, your thoughts, absolutely will and so make the difference.

This is how our two minds work together. The conscious mind is the evaluator, the instigator. It can discern right from wrong, lie from truth, beauty from beast. In the previous example, it is the conscious, “the gardener” creating the type of garden, choosing which flowers, which colors, which texture make the most striking combination.

The subconscious mind “the garden” will accept any passionately felt thought or belief. Whatever “seed” is pressed upon it. It doesn’t matter if it’s true or false, positive or negative. The subconscious is unable to evaluate, as the conscious mind is able to do.

It is a provider. A plowed field can’t determine what it will grow. It simply waits for the seeds to be planted in it’s midst, eager to nourish them and provide to gardener with splendid bounty.

The point is that the conscious and subconscious work in tandem but are absolutely dependent upon each other. The soil is at the mercy of the gardener. If the gardener has acute vision, creativity, a love of beauty and willingness to carefully tend the garden, then the soil will provide an exquisite out growth of his vision and care. Neglect the garden and return is a dusty patch of dirt and weeds.

Likewise the gardener is reliant upon soil. Plants roses on rocks and you still have rocks. He is gardener with no garden. Without the resource of the soil, he cannot nurture his vision into a reality.

Acknowledging

Are you guilty of this? Are you the first one to notice your own flaws? Are you the last to acknowledge your achievements? Well don’t (continue) to beat yourself up. This is very common.

Early on, we are taught that someone who is “stuck up” or full of themselves” or “on an ego trip” is a jerk. We’ll often hide the pride we feel after having succeeded grandly. We are conditioned generally not celebrate our wins or even acknowledge when we’ve been very good.

We are certainly never tempted to rub our successes in the faces of those we’ve vanquished, right? That would be considered bad sportmanship.

But ignoring our own accomplishments or refraining from the occasional pat on the back, is a beg waste of energy surrounding a success. We’ve all seen success energy. It is almost an explosion. A team wine the World Series and they all run and pile on top of each other. A basketball player sinks a winning shot at the buzzer and lifts his arms in triumph. The world loves a winner, so don’t be afraid to acknowledge your success to your self or to others.

Having conquered one achievement, we often move right on to the next. Focusing on the next step on the ladder, or the next milestone in our goal. As our new desires become the focus, we can lose touch with the vibration of success we felt after our last win.

A good thing to do is to create a book of your wins. You can even use scrapbook or a photo album to document wins. It’s good to include a picture or any other memento along with a written description of what it took to achieve this win. Also note how you feel about your accomplishment. Imagine the stored energy inside this book of wins. It will be available to revel in each time the pages are opened. Of course, we are not suggesting you endlessly wallow in past glories, but it is important to recall the impact your wins had on your life.

And why stop with your wins? Sometimes we make progress slowly and steadily. It is progress nonetheless. Take the time to look at what you have gained, how you have grown, what the cumulative effect of your accomplishments in life have brought to you and to those around you.

By constantly focusing on what we still have to attain, we put out an unconscious message to our brains that we are lacking. To counteract that, it is worthwhile to focus, from time to time, on our victories and achievements. Create a vibration of success in the present tat is vital for attracting further success.

Exercise: Journal Code: AKN

Take just a few minutes after your morning visualization session to acknowledge the blessings all around you. And don’t stop with the obvious. Look deeply for the little miracles in life that have made you thankful. This is a give and get world. When you get, give back thanks in return and it will keep the cycle of energy flowing around you.

Exercise:

Acknowledging is also a good way to provide support during the process of achieving your specific goals. Once you have established a goal, it is advisable to list the qualities you already posses which will help you attain your objective. What do you bring to the party? Make your list long. Refer t it often.

Within us, we have the power to change and improve our reality. By mastering techniques that utilize the unique power of the mind, we can create and control our own consciousness. And our consciousness can literally turn our thoughts into physical reality.