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Lesson 18: Dreams

This post is my thoughts on a lesson from the Beyond Freedom home study course for personal growth and life achievement. This course has been instrumental in transforming my life from stress-full to stress-FREE, and it can change your life, too. Click here now to order your copy and start overhauling your life right now!

It continues to amaze me how things happen in perfect synchronicity.

I started this lesson a few days ago and was reminded that dreams can be a powerful message from our subconscious mind. Remember, your subconscious mind absorbs every single thing that happens around you, to you, and within you--tens of thousands of bits of data. It is all powerful--like a massive super computer filled with data.

Your conscious mind, on the other hand, is responsible for retrieving and interpretting the data--the computer operator, if you will.

Your subconscious mind is unlimited in its capacity. It remembers every thing that has ever happened to you, everything you have ever observed, and everything you have ever learned.

Your conscious mind, on the other hand, is limited. It's role is like a gatekeeper only allowing out the wisdom it likes and can handle. Think of the computer operator--a mere human--trying to process and handle the information from the supercomputer. He is only going to pay attention to and use those things that he has decided are necessary.

Unfortunately, because the conscious mind is limited and can only handle so much, it often decides to block out things that the subconscious mind is trying to tell it--things that the conscious mind as asked for even.

Ah, but when we sleep, the conscious mind shuts off and the subconscious mind is free to send messages, and they come in the form of dreams.

So the other night when I first started this lesson, I followed the advice in the exercise and put a pad of paper and a pen next to my bed. I wrote the word "dreams" up at the top and went to bed with the intention of dreaming and remembering my dreams.

What's interesting to me about this is that I hadn't had a dream that I remembered in weeks. Yet when I set the intention to dream, sure enough I had LOTS of dreams that night.

I woke up with a smile on my face that it had "worked," but instead of writing them down, I promptly went back to sleep! Ha ha ha! :o)

Even more significant to me, though, is that I began this exercise on Wednesday, September 24. On Thursday, September 25, I went for my regular morning bike ride and had a POWERFUL REVELATION about my future and my mission, and THAT DAY, I began the Stress Free Revolution. I have been absolutely ON FIRE ever since!

You see, I set the intention that night not just to dream, but to start listening to my subconscious. I was ready to receive the message, whether it came through a dream or some other activity. And as we learned in Lesson 16, "it's the relaxed and slightly occupied mind that allows direct access to the subconscious."

Daily Gratitude

Research shows that people who keep a daily gratitude list feel better about their lives as a whole and feel more optimistic about the coming week. Compared to control groups, they exercise more frequently and report fewer physical complaints. They also experience more positive emotions, fewer negative emotions, and exhibit more helpful behavior towards friends and neighbors. (Emmons & McCullough, 2003) -- more... What are you grateful for? Here's my list today. Feel free to add yours to the comments!

Thank you for the beautiful, cool, crisp air. Thank you for autumn! Thank you making it to the bus on time! Thank you for this fire and passion. Thank you for President Nixon! Thank you for Tony & Jim and the awareness that I need regular breaks. Thank you for the wisdom and foresight to clear my calendar! Thank you for early release Mondays and the relaxing time I get to spend with my kids. Thank you for joy and happiness and love and peace and enthusiasm--and thank you for reflecting it back to me through my family. Thank you for so many blessings I can hardly count them! Thank you for technology and the joy I feel using it. Thank you for the opportunity to use my strengths--just like Shawn and others have said. I love it I love it I love it--AND I AM SO HAPPY! Thank you thank you thank you!!! :o)

"And he who receiveth all things with thankfulness shall be made glorious; and the things of this earth shall be added unto him, even an hundred fold, yea, more." (Doctrine and Covenants 78:19)