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“Through the study of dreams, one achieves steadfastness and peace of mind.” 
                                                – Patanjali; The Yoga Sutras

Index

  1. Entering Dreams in Peace
  2. Meditate to Sleep & Dream
  3. Focus on Higher Spiritual Centers

Safe Lucid Dreaming

This page is currently being constructed and written, so please come back.
  1. We must first enter sleep and dreams with a peaceful state of mind. To do this, we must quiet our mind, our emotions, and our trials and possible sorrows of the day, focusing on a positive affirmation, or short prayer. It is also important to "clean-up" our current conflicts and past "karmas" or emotional history, as much as possible through self-refection and inner-healing, and doing healing dreamwork, interpretation or analysis, on our regular dreams of the night - so our unconscious memories do not overwhelm us in the dream state and throw us into conflicted, threatening, or fearful dreamworlds. To dream safely, lucidly, we need an armor of peace – and fearlessness.
  2. If we are a meditator, one can enter the dream state meditating on one's mantra, one's easy-smooth breath, that is, its sound deep in the throat, or on the Light of consciousness. Yogis meditate on a small red light at the base of the throat, but you can meditate on the inner light in many ways, as taught in many forms of meditation. Light is protective, power itself, and "guiding" – from the light of the Inner Self.
  3. If one is a practitioner of yoga or meditation, and knowledgeable of the meditative energy centers in the body, one can and should focus on one of three centers: the heart center, the throat center, as mentioned above, or the center above the nose between the eyes, or the ajna center. If we consciously or unwittingly are focused in a lower energy center in the body, we can be taken into or enter lower dream states that can be the source of conflict dreams, nightmares, sorrow, or even depression.
  4. .... work in progress


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The mandala above is the symbol of ​Paul Overman, PhD
​and his Integral Dreaming &

Shamana Dream Work. 
Samana Lucid Dreaming is seeing things hidden, but secretly affecting and guiding us.

Samana Lucid Dreaming is dreaming for and with others – to have peace and harmony.

Samana Lucid Dreaming is exploring life and nature around you for self-discovery through their "dream fields" around you.

Samana Lucid Dreaming is seeking and listening to your soul and your Higher Self, while "living in" the dream world, while dreaming.

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