Dreaming While Awake: Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming by Arnold Mindell

Author:Arnold Mindell [Mindell, Arnold]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Published: 2002-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

The Dreaming Process The Physical Body

The figure on the left is nervous and has a headache that feels like his head is exploding. This experience is pictured in a dream. The physical headache and the dream of an explosion are the body and dream aspects of the dreambody.

THE DREAMBODY

After working with thousands of people on their dreams and body symptoms, I can draw several conclusions:

The concept of illness is part of the medical paradigm, which sees symptoms pathologically.

As far as your personal experience is concerned, every symptom is an expression of Dreaming and can be seen in dreams.

Symptoms are therefore part of your overall development and awareness process.

Scary body symptoms are like “Big Dreams”; they carry important, dramatic information about life.

Anyone, whether child or adult, has an opportunity to transform a painful and terrifying symptom into an enriching life experience by shapeshifting into the Dreaming behind symptoms.

Like all signals, body symptoms have unfolded from Dreaming, sentient experiences.

Symptoms are keys to enlightenment. They teach you about your chemical and physical body (do not drink black coffee if you have an ulcer), your dreams (that is, your explosiveness) and with lucidity training, your Dreaming.

As we move through this chapter, we will learn how to train ourselves to discover this Dreaming before symptoms actually become symptoms. In fact, becoming lucid about sentient experience might reduce or even be the cure for some symptoms that are difficult to feel. In my experience, lucidity may reduce the prevalence and lethal power of diseases such as multiple sclerosis.

Since the sentient experience of a symptom manifests physically in the body, the Feynman diagrams, which describe patterns behind physical observables such as an electron's direction, must also describe body symptoms. You may remember that whether or not an electron (or other particle) becomes annihilated or steps out of time depends in part on “its” lucidity.

Since you are composed of the same kind of energy and stardust as electrons, the laws of physics will be true for you as well. Extrapolating from physics into psychology means that if you are lucid about sentient experience, you have at least two choices as to how you experience a symptom. You can experience symptoms either as self-annihilating or as an invitation to step out of time.

In the same manner as our time-travel experience, I will show that when you relax your identity and follow your sentient experience, a symptom will take you out of your ordinary self and into the realm of ever-changing identities. The less you marginalize body experience, the less troublesome body symptoms appear.

For example, I know someone who has been working on herself a long time. She has suffered from multiple sclerosis, a chronic disease affecting many nervous system functions. When I first met her, she had a bit of trouble keeping her balance while walking and felt weak and unstable. At first she tried to allow her symptom's message into her life and allowed her life to become unstable. She freed herself from many things as a first step toward “integrating” the signals of the disease.

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