Chapter 7 – The Sub Conscious, Dreams & Meditation
Dreams are an essential part of a person’s spiritual development as they can shed much necessary light on shaded areas of life which can often prove difficult to navigate through. Without a true sense of direction people can become lost and confused, but there is a natural method for attaining mastery over the dreams that can develop foresight and understanding in any situation.
The subconscious is more like a tool of reflection as it knows no reasoning and so, cannot base its calculations on any emotional level; it merely responds to the input that you feed it with.
Meditating daily is a fine way to develop the mind to become more receptive to dream time. With consistent meditation you soon gain the ability to recall what you dream of so that in your waking reality you can get to work deciphering the hidden meanings of your dreams.
Furthermore, your meditation sessions will teach you how best to communicate with your sub-conscious by ways of opening your mind to the world around you; new understanding about how your mind processes information will lead to further discoveries about the different conscious states that you know as the mentality. You will learn how to override the old subconscious programming, which affects the way that you function, how you communicate with others, the way that you embrace change and adapt to new circumstances, people and places.
The dreams that you encounter whilst you are asleep can be either prophetic or a relaying of a certain activity you were involved in that day/night before falling to sleep – perhaps you were watching your favourite soap show or movie right before you fell asleep, or you could have been reading a novel or newspaper story, in any case, your subconscious could see fit to impress this upon your dreaming vision.
As your subconscious knows no reasoning it will take this last input of the day to be gospel or important to you, hence why many people around the globe recall dreaming of the show they were watching before sleep, or the phone conversation they had, or the dinner that they prepared for the family. In any case, the subconscious must be programmed to your expectations. Treat it as you would your laptop, PC or smart phone; input decides the output, no sense in expecting a computer to know emotional context, right?
The subconscious can be either your worst enemy or your best friend, how will you engage with your mind now? The mentality needs to be yours to control, not somebody else’s property. There are some people who prefer to be told what to do in life as this type of lifestyle is seemingly easier for them to cope with, opposed to the idea of having to think for themselves as this is too difficult a task for them to cope with. Whilst there is no crime in being weak minded, there is a huge price to pay for people who would rather not have to face up to reality or the world in which they are living.
The price for hiding from responsibilities is a life of cowardice. Everyone knows that to be successful in life depends on how well a person manages their own responsibilities; this is where meditation can bring about ease of what most people would deem to be burdensome. Meditation can develop the awareness to recognise that certain obstacles in life are merely challenges or stepping stones in the disguise of burden. Meditation allows people to make profound discoveries about hidden strengths that had always been dormant, deep inside of you, stirring in wait for you to ‘tap’ your hidden potential or genius.
When the subconscious state is controlled by you and not by the world and the subliminal realities created to manipulate folk, your evidence will be evident in your actions. Meditation can teach you how to reconstruct the mechanism of the subconscious state, making it bow in your favour instead of working against you without your knowing or understanding. The mind is powerful beyond recognition, a tool that has the ability to change lives.
You can control this power with developed focus and new levels of intuition from dreams and the messages they provide – used as a road map to navigate your way through life in an almost effortless manner.
If you find that your dreams are just making no sense then sit quietly and focus on your breathing for a few minutes until you feel relaxed and the rhythm of your breathing has slowed itself slightly, next you will need to visualise the dream or whatever you can remember about it and hold the image/s (that you’re having difficulty with deciphering) in your mind’s eye and focus until something is revealed to you. Interruption of any kind will lengthen this process as you will need to bring your focus back to the point of clarity and start again, but with continual practice you’ll find ease in maintaining your concentration in silence and stillness.
Allow yourself to become anew with meditation as your number one guide in life, always one step ahead of this life-ride, knowing when to hold off from making an important move, being able to trust in your instincts and believe in your own intuition. Life doesn’t get any better than this; having the control to put right what has always been so wrong, turning situations to your advantage, never being lied to again as your intuition will teach you truth in the words of others, always knowing where you are in life as well as knowing where you’re going from one moment to the next – that golden sense of direction.
Want to live a life with no boundaries, no limits, having the ability to learn a new thing without having the doubt of failing the exams or struggling to understand complex studies, free from the fear of the working world, free to revel in any and all challenges so long as you live.