Another painfully awesome sleep update, yeah!
Wooden slats.. No.. they are in the WALLS! Kidding of course Seriously have you checked/changed your washing detergent and softener that you use for washing sheets, pillow? I started using cheap washing powder and a vinegar solution instead of a softener, works great. Before that I was using ariel that caused allergy reactions just by being near it and was using the supposedly certified expensive no allergy softener which caused allergies like runny nose and itchy eyes.
is this energy or mental formation or both?
Has anyone dealt with insomnia?
Hehe I remember those days of tossing in the bed staying awake until morning just to get a few hours of sleep.. That was many years ago and I sleep like a baby since! Also what I noticed that helps is a comfortable body position (searching for comfortable and not looking for how uncomfortable you are), especially the one that opens up the navel area or the 2nd Chakra since this is where the dreaming attention comes from. This chakra naturally expands every night and invigorates our mind and brain thus making us feel dreamy and sleepy. It replenishes the body during sleep and can be used as a vehicle in dreaming as a dreaming body if intended. Happens to everyone every night and its up to you to be aware of it or not. Also one of the common position everyone assumes in bed during this chakra expansion is a natural upward pull of one leg/knee.
Yes! Stop your internal dialog and you will start dreaming, you will fall asleep! Nothing else helped me besides that and once I managed to do it in the midst of the mind storm I never really had much insomnia again. The trick is to be persistent even if it seems you are still awake suddenly your dreaming attention will appear and take over. Silence is the key!
Yes of course! Trust me one day you will be free if you really intend it so, the universe works in magnificent ways! The best way is to stop thinking, to stop being your regular self and since the regular self is compromised of chakra experiences you could start to learn about them before you can transform them and be free of their mechanical perpetual motion that makes you run in circles. There are 4 ways you can battle fear using different daily experiences or chakras which are the seats of experience. 1. using Reason 2. using Clarity 3. using Ego 4. using Heart The first way is what cowards use and they spend endless time hiding behind reason avoiding the fact that they are afraid and reason is what makes them keep walking in the daily world of mankind, keeps them organized. Its also what makes them complain a lot seeking endless solutions that the reason provides. The second way is what fools use to cope with fear trough using mentally positive affirmations, these are the people that think they know everything even without having any prior experience on the matter. The third way to battle fear is by using ego and it is what makes people too self centered striving for power which in the end turns them into ravaging tyrants. The fourth way is using the power of giving, sharing and love that comes from the heart, its called wisdom and usually is attained at old age and this is where fear easily dissolves but one is yet not completely free from the worry of predicting future events that time brings as its a lot to take in. When one gives from the heart he feels good about himself and without this ego satisfaction the love one gives is rather a mentally positive construct. The 5th way is using Transcedence to stop the internal dialog and its about using Intent directly, its the tool of the universe and the thing that transforms your chakra experience into something beyond them. Once you reach this you are free from fear! But the next battle awaits.. Most people naturally belong to either of these 4 types and there is not a big difference between them as all of them belong to the society - the very thing that makes people agitated in the first place. By using any of these levels of correspondence activates one of your first four chakras to the point that you can feel them tighten at the corresponding spots. If you don't know where chakras are putting crystals or rocks on these spots will tell you how this tightening feeling feels like. So whenever you share or give from your heart and stabilize there over a longer period of time the center of your chest will tighten energetically all because you are focusing on being a wise loving man. Even tho these experiences are positive in nature they still belong to your regular self and everyone has experienced giving and sharing periodically in their life - what those experiences consist of everyone knows best for themselves. To stop being your regular self means to release the tightening and the tiring focus of your attention. This will lead you to internal silence and your Other True Self! Most people jump from one tightening to another as a type of shielding but in the end there will always come someone who has bigger stronger shields and when this happens most people become attached to them in some way turning them into social or a type of antisocial being. The simple exercises I gave are to develop your focus further more as its already naturally there. Its all up to you in the end and as far as I can see you already intended to be a different person then just a regular guy and this is what the universe has provided you with as fast as lightning! The only question is how much time will it take for you to get where you intended to! Also if you insist with your troubles I would go with the 4th way of being respectful and loving at all times not for any other reason but for your well being which in the end will make other people feel well too and this is always good! Its also the path where you can accept others for what they are more easily. Maybe its not perfect but its good! This is the level where you feel grown up - something I thought I'll never attain as I was so full of fears, demons and self pitty I thought I'll be forever doomed even tho I had the most powerful system of knowledge at hand.. The universe is indeed marvelous! The best of luck!
I liked your post Tryingtodobetter as I see you are trying to be as clear as you can! This is all good and I'll expand on it if you allow! Learn not to think, center yourself and learn to reside here. This happens whenever you fall asleep as your mind withdraws within, observe this state so you can learn how does it feel, its the state that you experience all your life, nothing new to be learned here so its perfectly safe and natural. The same goes for taking a long walk it will make you really feel better. The mental energy body is making you feel agitated but you have another energy body that is silent by default and you reach this energy body when you stop thinking and center yourself. Try making a distinction between these two as most people miss it for what it is and just think its the same energy body and if they feel bad you try to discard all energy work, this won't help and you will need meds to ease your mental/physical energy body which again isn't a perfect solution. Try focusing gently on the center in front of your Solar Power Chakra an inch above the navel (or at the diaphragm or few inches below navel center all 3 are centers for silence). You can put a little weight there to experience what feeling you should look for when focusing gently. Then stay here center yourself make a continuity from this feeling and see the difference between this energy and the mental emotional energy that gets so easily agitated and dizzy. Mental energy body always seems agitated its just that regular persons have lots of shields that sort of makes them numb to these feelings and once you take drugs or do some energy work those shields become weaker and you feel problems more then before. Nothing new really happened its just that your mind now is giving you lots of suggestions (you heard a lot of stuff) feeding off the mental energy body (emotional energy) on what is happening most being just false or over-exaggerated. From your center you will strengthen your focus, do it when the storm begins there is no where you can really go but here. Its very subtle but this is your other self, its a real self that is with you all your life and expresses itself still daily in some simple tasks especially when you do some discipline task whatever that may be. It activates when you are honest such as when writing your initial post, this self gave you the strength when writing every word, it made a continuity out of your intent. Its you. Try being aware of this "place" as you. Also its probably the self that made you take drugs in a honest fashion, the period when you liked something about it. Nothing is that bad unless you have too much mind, that is when stuff starts to get weird. At first focus on not thinking which is done by centering - just don't allow the mind to take over 100% and then when you get the feel for it from this point on you will be able to look at all the situations with a different outlook and then you can slowly do something about it, you can even use a sweeping motion with your hand to sort of clear them out. You'll know what to do. Best of luck! Hope this will safe you time!
How can you appreciate being alive if you can't appreciate death for what it is? You do go to work and do care for your family right? If its not so important and you are still doing it then you might as well develop your astral body and turn into a immortal and stick around for some more time then what is expected in this modern age.
Here is the thing I met Jeff in dreaming before I met him in waking hours. I never said he appeared in dreams rather I felt the energy while awake trough which I felt trough meeting his followers so then followed that energy inside a lucid dream and met both his followers and him. Its a different thing. Dreams are always just dreams what else can they be but here is the catch - for example in our waking hours what we think is mostly illusion cuz in reality its just a bunch of noise and what we consider real are things that are physical, that's why we call this reality physical reality. Since dreams are similar to the mind the real thing there is energy and if you are able to feel energy that then you will know undoubtedly if you are dealing with something or someone real rather then with a dreaming projection. If you think dream is just a dream why don't you use it as such and behave as real as you do in the waking hours by implementing your will there just as you do here. Dreams are called dreams for a reason because everything is possible there you can dream real things as well and talk with anyone you want its like huge internet. This is a far better approach then to discarding dreams as something not real because that would mean you just discard the other 50% of your existence only because you think you know better which in the end is just useless noise in your head telling you that. You see you can't really eliminate what is real with dreams just because they are projections.. It would be like saying you are dead while you dream which is impossible if you are an eternal living being.
Did I say that? Wow.. Jeff is like God and admins are his archangels, Jeff doesn't intend to be a God and archangels find hard to accept that he doesn't. "Other angels" are accusing God for being well not good enough even dangerous! So they left the heaven promising to never return again but archs still believe there is a chance they do if they keep going all good on them.. On lower levels we have lions, tigers, birds, and other kung fu animals fighting for dominion while on the higher level angels are at full time work because at the heavens door there is lots of barking and roaring by animals trying to get in. Its dramatic I tell you.. The Buddha is fine, he's smiling in his grave thinking how cool and fun is to be a lamb in his local manifestation and how everything can fit into his big cozy belly, I mean heart.. Conclusion - the universe is SELF obsessed.. When Sean realized this he decided to launch his master plan and deal with all this by creating DAO BUMS and once he did he left for the beaches, I can hear him laughing there all drunk thinking to himself "I did it I did it.. I showed those archs whos the real boss!"
I said death of the physical body which is a product of non completeness of the astral body what do you mean by saying "such thing as death" I'm sure we didn't mean the same thing. We are souls and souls are immortal so there is no death really but there is death of the physical body and I was referring to that. Also every christian blindly believes that everyone is immortal and will go to heaven after their physical body dies or decomposes if you will. Is that the fate you have in mind for yourself or is it the constant reincarnation you have in mind? Death is a serious thing not something to taken lightly as if doesn't exist. Saying it doesn't exist is like saying life or that the physicality doesn't exist. Physicality itself can be experienced from various levels be it from the perspective of the mind, or astral body or other levels since it acts as a vehicle and this "vehicle" (you might call it experience instead) has an expiration date (real death I'm speaking about) and you might even shorten its span by misusing it or prolong it with longevity practices. Jeff On advanced astral skills, people have daily field trips visiting various beings at LU. Now you got me confused.. This is the first time I hear these are astral skills and I did question about them but never did anyone ever give a hint those types of practices have anything to do with astral, in fact most did say its light stuff not astral. I'm pretty sure this will come as a surprise to others too.. Anyone wants to add a comment? Its obvious you are implementing astral abilities here but why would you call them light instead? Whatsoever I think that practice is cool!