Alternative Medicines - How To Lucid Dream And Awake In Your Sleep
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Ever wanted to be the President? Maybe you’ve always wondered what it would be like to time travel; perhaps even take a ride on the back of a brontosaurus.
Once you learn how to lucid dream all this and more is available to you on command. The only limit to what you can do is your own imagination.
Put simply a lucid dream is a dream in which you become aware of the fact that you are dreaming. For most people the ability to differentiate between a dream and reality is only available when they are awake. It may happen like this: We have a nightmare that causes us to jolt awake. It may take us a few moments, but once we wake up we can usually reassure ourselves that “it was only a dream”. If you have lucid dreams you are able to realize that you are dreaming before you wake up. Not only that, but if you’re having a nightmare you can consciously pursue many options to make the dream less distressing.
Most people already have some level of lucid dreaming skill. Many people have had the occasional dream where the sequence of events is so unusual or unexpected that they can only conclude that they must be dreaming. Often when this happens the person will either wake up, or continue dreaming passively. Unless they have learned how to lucid dream, rarely will they be able to take control of the dream from that point and direct the action as they see fit.
Lucid dreaming can best be likened to writing and starring in your own movie. Once you have developed the ability to distinguish dream from reality whilst asleep, you’ll find that the entire dream world is your movie set. Limitations that restrict you in your waking life simply no longer apply. Causality, Physics and even language barriers can be overcome simply by wishing it so. Want to fly? Try it and see what happens. Feel like a afternoon tea with Genghis Kahn? Grab some scones and your teapot and get comfortable. Leap over a building in a single bound? Stop a speeding locomotive with your bare hands? Tie your cape on and have at it.
As fun as this sounds, for most people it can be difficult even to recall a normal dream, much less be consciously aware of it while it is happening. Learning how to lucid dream is something that can be done easily with a little practice and determination.
If you want to learn how to lucid dream you’ll need to first learn to recall your dreams. Often you might find that you’ll recall a dream from the previous night only when something happens during the day to remind you. Dream recall is important for two reasons. Firstly if you can’t recall your dreams it’s possible that you may have achieved some level of lucidity and forget all about it when you wake up. Secondly the ability to identify common themes, symbols, people or places in your dreams will become an important aid to your becoming aware of a dream.
As you practice dream recall, you may discover that you regularly dream about penguins. Unless you see penguins frequently in your daily life the sight of a penguin may be enough to trigger a reality check inside a dream and cause you to become lucid.
Reality checks are the second important skill to master. Most people find it helps to regularly ask themselves the question: “am I dreaming at the moment?” Once this becomes a habit during waking hours the act of habitually performing your reality check in a dream should be enough to alert you to the fact that, this time, you are dreaming.
When I first began to learn how to lucid dream, I found that performing regularly scheduled reality checks or setting up triggers that would remind me to perform reality checks was just too difficult. Instead I found that I had success just by focusing on the intention to have a lucid dream. When I started to focus on dreaming as I went to bed, and dream recall after I awoke two things happened: My dream recollection increased dramatically, and in a week I’d had my first lucid dream.
Because lucid dreaming is a skill, you can expect to have some less-than perfect results to begin with. Let’s suppose that flying is one of the main reasons you want to learn how to lucid dream. You might find that initially you’ll have a dream where you either fly, or try unsuccessfully to fly. Because your dream recall is working, you recall the dream, but you won’t realize that you were dreaming about it until the next morning. This should not be interpreted as failure. Indeed it’s a signal that your unconscious mind is paying attention.
The best advice that I can give to you as you begin to learn how to lucid dream is to treat as you would any other skill. Have in your mind a clear understanding of why you want to be able to lucid dream: Do you want to create a dreamscape as your own private playground, or do you want to be able to do something very specific? Unless you’re very clear on your desire to develop the skill, chances are you will have limited or no success.
Once you’re clear on why you want to learn how to lucid dream, you need to focus your attention on it each time you think about sleep. Whenever you feel tired, remind yourself that sleep time equates to dream time. When you wake up make it a habit to exercise dream recall. Dream recall fades in direct proportion to your alertness levels so it’s best to do this as close to the time you wake up as possible.
Finally, search for ways that your unconscious mind might be trying to use to alert you to the fact that it is doing its part to help. Taking flying as the example again, are you perhaps noticing that you see more planes or birds lately? Maybe you heard “Learning to Fly” by Pink Floyd when you turned the radio on. In the initial stages you want to notice and reinforce approximately correct results so that your unconscious mind will continue to work with you.
It may take a little bit of time, and your initial dream results may be less impressive (In my first lucid dream, all I could do was change one person into somebody I liked better) but once you’ve learned how to lucid dream, you’ll never think about going to bed the same way again.
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Alternative Medicine ? Ayurvedic Medicine
Alternative medicines come in many forms and Ayurvedic is one of them. Many people have not heard of this healing medium as it only came to the fore in 1980 although the practice of Ayurvedic healing is said to be over 5000 years old.
Ayurvedic means life and knowledge. This ancient alternative healing system has been practiced in India for many years although there is now a tendency towards western style medicine in the main cities. But most of the population live in rural areas where it is estimated that 70% still use this form of healing.
The basics of Ayurvedic are broke down into three main categories and those are diet, herbs, and yoga.
Certain authorities have warned that some of the herbs used could be poisonous, and there are a host of people saying that this form of alternative medicine is a rip off, and that if anyone should want to go down this route of alternative medicine is that they should double check what they are taking. Not being a scientist or a botanist I feel as though I do not have that sort of expertise to comment any further about the herbs used.
But again with all forms of alternative medicine there will always be people that will say that the unusual does not work although a lot of the websites I visited said that it was good for arthritis and Rheumatoid arthritis. A good point to push forward here would be to mention the fact that one of the more popular food supplements on the market today is Micro Phytoplankton which is nothing but a single cell alga, and who would have said ten years ago that we would be taking this type of food supplement on a daily basis.
Like a lot of alternative medicine cures Ayurvedic medicine is diet based which seems to be the modern trend and when you read all the reports on how diet based cures are having success it?s no wonder that this type of alternative medicine is catching on.
Another thing I did notice about Ayurvedic medicine is that is based on a vegetarian diet which would be on the alkaline side rather than the acid contents of sugar based products and meat.
As for Rheumatoid arthritis that can leave people in such a bad way that they can become bed ridden and in so much pain I do believe from reading reports of them being cured through these diet related cures is a good thing. Perhaps modern medicine has a lot to learn although I do believe that some of the large drug companies have taken out patents on certain of the drugs that are used in Ayurvedic medicine, which to me tells me that there is something there otherwise they would not be taking such measures.
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Mike Hince writes articles on Medical and Alternative medical health. To learn more about Ayurvedic medicine or information on other medical conditions please go to the following website.
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Alternative Medicine Is Preventive; Western Medicine Is Curative
Have you heard the term ?wellness?? It has two contexts, one in alternative medicine and one in Western medicine.
In the alternative medicine world, wellness means taking care of yourself so you don’t get sick.
Let’s find ways to avoid cancer, heart disease, mental illness. We can do this through changing our diet, exercising more, and changing our energy fields.
In Western medicine, we wait until we get one of these diseases, then we rush heroically to ?beat the disease.? In Western medicine, the term wellness means ?early detection? of disease. If you walk into a ?Wellness Center? in a hospital, you’ll see mammogram screening rooms, MRI machines and other tools to scan for the existence of disease.
Is that wellness? To me, it’s not. Wellness is about staying well, it is about avoiding disease in the first place. When a person is told ?You have cancer,? it is a major blow to their psyches, and their lives. Why go through that if you don’t have to? Why not do whatever you can to avoid that terrible day?
Western medicine treats the ?pre-detection? part of life as a kind of random soup of nothingness. You can’t really do anything about any of these diseases, you just get them or you don’t. No rhyme or reason to it, it just hits you, and then you deal with it.
Genetics is a big factor in the Western medical model. If you get cancer, ah, well, it was in your genes that you’d get it. You see, your great grandfather had cancer, so it was inevitable that you’d get it too.
Huh? Unfortunately, Western medicine can’t explain why siblings get or don’t get diseases supposedly passed on from their parents. One sister dies of cancer at a young age (because of genetics) and the other sister lives to be 100 (genetics).
For my part, I’m going to take the best care of myself possible, and not play a silly waiting game for disease.
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Daryl Kulak is the author of www.healthoffthegrid.com? target=?HOTG?>Health Insurance Off the Grid, a book that explores how a combination of holistic health and the new Health Savings Account (HSA) can make an enormous difference in the budget and health of the self-employed. Daryl is not a medical doctor and is not an insurance agent.
