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.Nevertheless,you to express itself spontaneously as movement, your voice, feelings or you need to use thoughts in clarifying what it is that you seek an answerimagination.So you should come to the meditation with the condition of to.So write down the essence of what you already understand, and have not knowing that you practiced earlier.Then, instead of holding the done, about the problem.image of the seed, hold in your mind that you are opening to your corebeing, from which all that you are arises.You are open to the action of Step 2: the frameworkyour core and are asking for healing.Let yourself express in any way thatarises spontaneously in the meditation.This enables your core to bring Because you create a world out of your feelings, ideas, beliefs and fears,about whatever is necessary for your healing.any negative attitudes that you have can be a massive, self-fashionedwall, shutting off your creative and problem-solving abilities.Review theexercise on opening to your core, and check that you can drop any ideasUsing your problem-solving abilitiesof limitation.You are not trying to replace them with ideas of beingsuperhuman; you are simply clearing space.So build a framework ofSolving problems is a basic life skill that you use every day.Most of the thoughts and feelings that leave you open to further possibilities.time you do it unconsciously when you look for mislaid keys, or wonderwhat clothes to wear to deal with today s needs.But sometimes you mayfeel lost in confronting a situation and require extra help.To do this youStep 3: going beyond 2 Make this a fascinated enquiry, without any struggle.Take into thequestion other questions, such as: Am I my head? Am I one of myThe keyboard condition has already been used a number of times.limbs? Am I my thoughts? Am I my emotions? Am I what otherHowever, it needs further definition, as it forms a vital part of problem- people think of me, or tell me I am?solving.Above all, try to bring all of you to the condition.Each part of youis a sense organ.Apart from the five main senses, you also have a sense 3 With each of these questions, follow it through.For instance, youof balance, a sense of beauty or appropriateness, a sense of sexual might lose a limb and still feel that you exist as a person.So who areattraction or repulsion and so on, with all your emotions and hungers.you essentially? If you are not essentially a limb, how does thatYour speech too is expressed out of a subtle sense of things.So your connect with your physical characteristics?keyboard is all of these body movement, imagination, emotions, sexualfeeling, memory, voice and fantasy open to responding to your 4 Carry it further still: consider who you are and can be in your dreamsquestion or problem.It s important that your whole being is open to what does that suggest about what you are?respond.5 When you have a sense of the power and range of this question, takeit into a lucid dream and explore it.GET SOME ANSWERSRemembering your deep historyDon t think of problem-solving as sitting quietly, thinking.It isn t.Youneed some level of excitation, motivation and involvement to stimulate it.Lucidity is not a sport or a thrilling roller-coaster ride.It isn t somethingyou have a quick thrill with, and then leave behind.You are gradually1 When you feel that openness and readiness to let your whole beingmeeting yourself more and more fully.This includes the slow uncoveringrespond to what you are seeking, take this and your question into aof your history.And your history did not begin with your conception andlucid dream, using the digital watch approach.As you are going tobirth.Any brief study of history reveals that the present shape of cities,sleep, imagine yourself exploring the question lucidly in a dream.countryside, national characteristics, cultural attitudes and beliefsdeveloped from past events and people.Similarly, your own attitudes and2 If you do not achieve lucidity, take any dream you have had inpatterns of behavior did not originate with your birth and childhoodresponse to your question, or take a nightmare (if that is theexperiences.problem).Walk into the dream, keeping the keyboard condition, andIn his forties Roger had a short dream that he didn t think had much in it.watch what you feel and experience.Ask your question; work with theBut on exploring it, he uncovered the roots of a lifelong social attitudedream situation, as described earlier.that had plagued him.It became clear, as he went deeper into hisunconscious, that his father had passed this on to him, and it had come3 Alternatively (or in addition), use the seed meditation approach.Butdown through the generations for hundreds of years, from a time ofask your question instead of actually being the seed.political and religious persecution.Your present personality has its roots in the distant past.This is notreferring particularly to reincarnation that is just a word.It meansReaching beyond your limitationsobservable traits, which if you trace them back have their origins in a pastprior to your birth.But of course your deep history is also the memory ofWhen viewed as a myth, the story of Adam and Eve is a description of anyour own development and the turns it took from conception onwards.epic change in the evolution of humans.This remembering also puts you in touch with what can be called yourWe usually think of evolution in terms of physical change, but hugedestiny.You bring from your connection with the past (and from yourpsychological changes have occurred as well.Humans did not alwayschildhood) a sense of important things to do or learn in your lifetime.have self-awareness.Like animals, we were guided by instinct, by anSatisfying this innate drive brings tremendous satisfaction.inner sense or innocence.This was in the Garden of Eden, whereYou can think of who you are as a snowball that has rolled down a hillhumanity constantly had access to what we now call the unconscious.and gathered more and more snow as it rolled.The snow gathered in theThen, with the dawning of self-awareness, came a loss of that innocence,past is still with you; it is not left behind.Becoming aware of the part ita loss of constant guidance.Only in dreams and trances could humanityplays in the present has probably already begun, in remembering andnow recapture something of that wider knowing or innocence.In his bookrecording your dreams.This is because dreams are like that snowball Cosmic Consciousness (Applewood Books, 2001) Dr Richard Mauricein expressing who you are, they incorporate your past.Bucke suggests that we are at present taking the next huge step inevolution: reconnection.Bucke himself experienced what he called cosmic consciousness a massive influx of intuitive awareness, a leapPROMOTE RECALLbeyond his usual limitations.Such an experience is a reconnection withthe infinite potential underlying our existence
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