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All dreaming occurs in Theta state, and that is why we often forget our dreams, because we don’t know how to stay there long enough  to remember the experience.\n\nREM phase sleep, occurs in Theta state, and often, for many, it is their first conscious experience of Theta, and it freaks them out because it is so strange to be awake in the mind, yet asleep in the body.  It is a state of relaxation, that we are not used to.  What’s happening, is your mind is awake, but your body is asleep… Meditation is known as conscious sleep, and that is exactly what this is, it is the meditative state, and this state is where we discover our inner world, our inner wisdom, and the truth of the nature of reality. It’s not to be feared, but rather, explored with love.  However, because it is so new, and because you are so used to having control of your body, and because the ego doesn’t understand what it is, fear arises, and causes you to have irrational thoughts.  When really, you are just being afraid of your own being, your own light, your own consciousness.  You start holding onto everything you know to be true, and refuse to let go into the unknown.  You are actually giving into negative entities, allowing them to have power over you. Negative entities can only have an impact on you, if you are in fear. If you can face negative entities with love, they have no power over you, they cannot touch you. Negative entities are preventing you from experiencing that love. They make REM phase sleep terrifying, so you never explore it. Because once you explore it, they lose their power over you, and you start to remember who you really are.\n\nWhen you can wake up into this state and not be afraid, you are capable of doing many things, such as meditating within yourself and feeling your energy throughout your body. You are also capable of astral projecting and coming to a realization that you are not bound to your body. As you lose your fear of this, your vibration will increase, and you will be able to experience bliss and pleasure throughout your body. You may even be able to experience a full body orgasm and a Kundalini awakening. REM phase sleep is very important for our spiritual growth, and it should not be feared, but rather embraced as a learning experience. If this happens to you, there is nothing wrong with you, observe the feelings, and just surrender to it. If you wish to come out of this state, its very simple…. Just simply take control of your breathing, rather than in a panic trying to move your arms and legs that feel like dead weights. Just breathe, and within seconds, you will be awake.\n\nREM phase sleep, is the key to understanding and exploring our own consciousness.  Every time we try to meditate, this is the state we are trying to get into, it opens the body up to the energies that are surrounding you and flowing through you at all times.  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He didn’t believe me, and was going to go watch the hockey game instead. But perseverance paid off, because I kept offering to take him out driving, and my grandfather also offered when he heard what we were talking about. So finally he decided to accept the offer, and we went driving. Somewhere along the way he had decided that he was really going to try hard to pass the test only a week away. And because of this act of intention, several people from the family offer their help. He was driving every day with someone different, and offers on the table from others if he needed them. During the next week, his confidence behind the wheel increased, and with such little practice, he passed the driving test with flying colors. It was the act of intention that caused this result. Had he gone to watch the hockey game, he wouldn’t have his license right now. But this story is far from over.\n\nI run a lawn care business, and my cousin works with me a couple of days a week. 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      "body": "A very important practice, to creating the reality you want to create, is the monitoring of your thought patterns. Even the smallest thought patterns that occur every day. The majority of us, think the same thoughts, day after day, and find that nothing changes for them. If you want happiness and you are focused on wanting happiness every day, then every day, you’ll always want happiness. You won’t actually be happy, because your thoughts aren’t about being happy, they’re about wanting happiness.\n\nSo from the moment you wake up in the morning, monitor what you’re thinking, do you get out of bed with thoughts of excitement of what the day might bring, or do you get out of bed with thoughts of dread, or a sense of duty to get to work, or frustration that you have to get up? Just by changing that one single thought pattern, can alter your entire day. These thought patterns occur, every moment of the day, they occur at breakfast, they occur when feeding your pets, they occur when taking your kids to school, they occur when driving to work…. It never stops.\n\nSo by monitoring what you are thinking, while doing these things, you have the ability to recognize and change how you respond to those thought patterns. Which then enables you to change the thought pattern, into a pattern more in alignment with how you want to feel. With enough monitoring, and enough conscious change, you can go from wanting happiness, to being happiness, without actually changing your daily activities. Change the thoughts about your daily activities, and your entire state of being changes as a result.\n![thought patters.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmamtZoqKbDyxdgFDRicGxuUEnbwbiDKoz7Rb1S5gA3NS1/thought%20patters.jpg)",
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      "body": "The reason it is hard to communicate with family and friends after an awakening process or a conscious change, is not because you have changed, it is because their perception of you has not changed.  They have an image of who they think you are, and so when you are in the middle of a great change, they can’t see that.  They think it’s just a phase, and that you will sooner or later resume your old habits and continue to be the person in that mental image. \n\nSo every attempt you make at change, is always met with negativity from family, which makes it very hard to authentically be yourself, the new you, around them. This negativity, can, if you are not aware of it, cause you to become that image for them, just so harmony remains in the relationship.  However, it is only an illusion of harmony, because while it appears to be harmonic on the surface level, there is a part of you, that doesn’t want to have to put on an act just to avoid conflict.  Which is not harmonic at all. \n\nSo the only way to really bring about peace is to be unapologetically you, even if conflict comes with that.  If you can remain unapologetically you, eventually, family and friends will begin to let the old image of you fall away, and see that you have truly changed.  Or sometimes, by being unapologetically you, you discover who is really meant to be in your life and who isn’t.  Either way, leads to peace, because when you live true to yourself, there is no conflict about your integrity.  You love who you are.\n![watts.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmSMxz3spb7P2eY9fuxZYVndXdewpAhhZDLXxCPt5d1L4U/watts.jpg)",
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      "body": "We often don’t think of thoughts, as being in another realm. Since they appear to only be contained within our heads, but are they?  Is it really so hard to consider the idea that thoughts might actually exist in another dimensional realm, outside of the confines of the physical realm that we live our lives in?  A realm that is very much interconnected with the physical realm, but still having it’s own reality, that we are simultaneously aware of while going about our daily lives.  Sort of like the blueprints for a building are only 2 dimensional, they represent something that will be functional in 3 dimensional form, thoughts are similar in that respect.  Doesn’t it astonish you, that you can close your eyes, and think up how to build a car, or come up with the idea to write something like Harry Potter, in the fraction of a second.  We don’t even need all the details of it, we just need the idea, and the more we think about the idea, the more it expands and grows until we take the action to create it into a physical experience. And it all happens in seconds, not minutes or days or months or years, but seconds.  The computing power required to operate that fast hasn’t been invented yet.\n\nWhen you look at it that way, you sort of begin to understand the idea that your brain, is not a creator of thought, but rather, a receiver and transmitter of it.  Ideas come to you, and you express them.  We don’t create the idea in our minds, we don’t create thoughts, we tune in, we listen, and sure enough, something comes though, an understanding, an intuitive jolt of inspiration, an ah-ha moment when you realize the answer to a problem, or where you forgot your keys.  It is an entire realm of reality that we tune into every single day, every moment of our lives, and it is the thought’s we’ve tuned into, that determine what actions we take, and how we express ourselves.  We’ve all met someone who is depressed, and after spending a little bit of time with them, we can feel their depression weighing down on us.  We’ve also all met someone who’s happy and energetic, and after spending a little time with them, we start to feel happy and energetic.  Why is that?  It is because since our brains are receivers and transmitters of thought, we are picking up what others are transmitting.  \n\nThis is also what politicians play upon when running campaigns for election, or the media when it reports the news at night.  It’s the subtle instilling of thoughts, that make us feel a certain way about something, from which, we base our opinions.  From that point forward, our opinions on certain things become automatic, as if they were built in.  This is why it is so hard for religions to get along, it’s why people are divided in politics, and separated by racism. There is a whole realm of thought that is in action, that we cannot see, but we think it and feel it, and as a result, it shapes the world we live in.  However, when our opinions are formed based on the media, and politics and religion, and other things, the vast majority of people, lose the ability of critical thinking, of free thinking, of forming their own opinions. In a sense, they lose their individuality.  A Conservative must have conservative opinions, a Christian must have Christian opinions and so on.  So critical thinking becomes an impossibility, because they cannot see past their automatic opinions.  Usually it takes some sort of catalyst, or a series of unfortunate events, or a radical shift, a revolution, a paradigm shift of some kind, for people to see beyond and around their old opinions, and be open to new possibility.\n\nOnce that possibility is revealed, the realm of thought becomes available to that person once again, and it can be a shock, it can be a life  changing moment in their lives, and only then, are they  capable of great change, because they can see who they thought they were, from a new perspective. It is that perspective in which, they can see unlimited possibilities, and understand, that they create their own limitations. The thought realm becomes wide open to them, great inspiration and wisdom can arise from this.  The courage to face fears, the  calmness to be brave, the strength to face anxiety and sadness, and the power to overcome addiction.  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