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NOT DREAMS I SAY
There is a wonderful way of living in which there is no need to think but if you find that there is a need to think to achieve a specific objective then the choice of thoughts that you use is very important. If you are resting and thinking about what you like to do, a possible holiday perhaps, you might often find that you tend to use thoughts to yourself to describe this activity as something like, ‘I have been on a journey’, whereas you have not been anywhere. Alternatively ‘I am miles away, whereas you are exactly where you are. Similarly with the thought, ‘in my dreams I was--’, whereas you are not in a dream.
The purpose of the short story, written below, is to show how your choice of thoughts to yourself, to describe what you are doing can lead to enlightenment and clarity, as distinct from a concluding thought of; ‘those thoughts do not really describe what I am doing but they will have to do’. Remember that the thoughts to yourself describing what you are actually doing are created by yourself using your tongue usually with your mouth closed and are heard by yourself from within your mouth cavity. It is therefore totally possible, with practice, for you to choose the thoughts that accurately describe what you are doing. This is very important since your thinking is your own communication to yourself and when you are thinking you should use the correct tense.
In many cases you may find that you are thinking about what you would like to do and a plan to do it and it is not unusual to find that thinking represented in pictorial form, which can only be seen when the eyelids are in the lowered position.
PLANNING A HOLIDAY
Fred woke up that morning feeling particularly grumpy; he thought to himself, ‘I have not clue what I would like to do day, nor for that matter what I would like to do for the rest of my life’. He yawned, turned over, and went back to sleep.
A little while later, about two hours, he woke up again, sweating and trembling with a mixture of despair and joy. He decided that he would get up, get dressed, and go to see a friend of his who lived close by. He thought it would make a change, for he hadn’t seen his friend for some while. He could take him out for a meal at the local café and talk to him about his experience. Fred phoned his friend and has luck would have it he was at home. He told his friend of his idea and his friend readily agreed. When they met; they had agreed to meet at the local café, he ordered food and drink and during the meal he told his friend of the experience that he had had that morning. This is what he told him.
“I woke up this morning and I was rather grumpy and went back to sleep. As I was waking up again I had this most peculiar dream. In the dream I was in the mountains I had got nothing to eat or drink and I was totally alone. I had hurt my back and I couldn’t move. In the next few seconds I was fit and well again and on a bus to this lovely village that I knew I had visited when I was a child. I had spent many happy hours there walking in the country and enjoying the country air. The bus journey was very pleasant but I never arrived at the village, instead all of a sudden I was transported onto a boat. It was an old tea clipper getting ready to set sail. I was arguing vehemently with the skipper of the boat that I had no intention of joining him on the voyage despite his insistence that I must stay on board and work as a crewmember. After some time he agreed that I was not qualified to act as a crew member on the voyage and reluctantly allowed me to leave the ship. The funny thing about this dream was that although I was still in my bed I felt as if I had been on a long journey, and I was sweating all over”.
His friend had listened to him relate his experience and said to him, “from what you have told me I would guess that you were thinking about making a journey, perhaps you are bored and you need a change of environment”. His friend started laughing when he remembered that Fred, who had invited him out for a meal, was an avid reader of adventure stories, particularly about the sea. It seems to me he said, “that the next time you wake up with that that kind of experience, instead of calling it a dream you should start planning a holiday since it seems to me that is exactly what you were doing and remember to memorise a particular feature of your bedroom, by raising and lowering your eyelids whilst still observing that feature, and continue with your planning. You will find it easier the more you practice and you will find that you don’t have to be in bed to do it. If I remember correctly you had a fairly serious back injury at one time so beware of the urge to walk in the mountains.”
Fred had listened to his friend with interest and said, “I like what you have said because I think you are quite correct, planning a holiday is exactly what I was doing simply because what I really want to do is to get away from the neighbourhood and see other places. I might even consider living somewhere else. The same idea could apply to any desire that I have and the technique of lowering and raising my eyelids could help me a great deal since as you were talking I became aware of the fact that that is exactly what I was doing and as you have said I can use that idea anywhere and at any time.”
They finished their meal, parted amicably, and went their respective ways.
©G.Myerscough 2015
There is a wonderful way of living in which there is no need to think but if you find that there is a need to think to achieve a specific objective then the choice of thoughts that you use is very important. If you are resting and thinking about what you like to do, a possible holiday perhaps, you might often find that you tend to use thoughts to yourself to describe this activity as something like, ‘I have been on a journey’, whereas you have not been anywhere. Alternatively ‘I am miles away, whereas you are exactly where you are. Similarly with the thought, ‘in my dreams I was--’, whereas you are not in a dream.
The purpose of the short story, written below, is to show how your choice of thoughts to yourself, to describe what you are doing can lead to enlightenment and clarity, as distinct from a concluding thought of; ‘those thoughts do not really describe what I am doing but they will have to do’. Remember that the thoughts to yourself describing what you are actually doing are created by yourself using your tongue usually with your mouth closed and are heard by yourself from within your mouth cavity. It is therefore totally possible, with practice, for you to choose the thoughts that accurately describe what you are doing. This is very important since your thinking is your own communication to yourself and when you are thinking you should use the correct tense.
In many cases you may find that you are thinking about what you would like to do and a plan to do it and it is not unusual to find that thinking represented in pictorial form, which can only be seen when the eyelids are in the lowered position.
PLANNING A HOLIDAY
Fred woke up that morning feeling particularly grumpy; he thought to himself, ‘I have not clue what I would like to do day, nor for that matter what I would like to do for the rest of my life’. He yawned, turned over, and went back to sleep.
A little while later, about two hours, he woke up again, sweating and trembling with a mixture of despair and joy. He decided that he would get up, get dressed, and go to see a friend of his who lived close by. He thought it would make a change, for he hadn’t seen his friend for some while. He could take him out for a meal at the local café and talk to him about his experience. Fred phoned his friend and has luck would have it he was at home. He told his friend of his idea and his friend readily agreed. When they met; they had agreed to meet at the local café, he ordered food and drink and during the meal he told his friend of the experience that he had had that morning. This is what he told him.
“I woke up this morning and I was rather grumpy and went back to sleep. As I was waking up again I had this most peculiar dream. In the dream I was in the mountains I had got nothing to eat or drink and I was totally alone. I had hurt my back and I couldn’t move. In the next few seconds I was fit and well again and on a bus to this lovely village that I knew I had visited when I was a child. I had spent many happy hours there walking in the country and enjoying the country air. The bus journey was very pleasant but I never arrived at the village, instead all of a sudden I was transported onto a boat. It was an old tea clipper getting ready to set sail. I was arguing vehemently with the skipper of the boat that I had no intention of joining him on the voyage despite his insistence that I must stay on board and work as a crewmember. After some time he agreed that I was not qualified to act as a crew member on the voyage and reluctantly allowed me to leave the ship. The funny thing about this dream was that although I was still in my bed I felt as if I had been on a long journey, and I was sweating all over”.
His friend had listened to him relate his experience and said to him, “from what you have told me I would guess that you were thinking about making a journey, perhaps you are bored and you need a change of environment”. His friend started laughing when he remembered that Fred, who had invited him out for a meal, was an avid reader of adventure stories, particularly about the sea. It seems to me he said, “that the next time you wake up with that that kind of experience, instead of calling it a dream you should start planning a holiday since it seems to me that is exactly what you were doing and remember to memorise a particular feature of your bedroom, by raising and lowering your eyelids whilst still observing that feature, and continue with your planning. You will find it easier the more you practice and you will find that you don’t have to be in bed to do it. If I remember correctly you had a fairly serious back injury at one time so beware of the urge to walk in the mountains.”
Fred had listened to his friend with interest and said, “I like what you have said because I think you are quite correct, planning a holiday is exactly what I was doing simply because what I really want to do is to get away from the neighbourhood and see other places. I might even consider living somewhere else. The same idea could apply to any desire that I have and the technique of lowering and raising my eyelids could help me a great deal since as you were talking I became aware of the fact that that is exactly what I was doing and as you have said I can use that idea anywhere and at any time.”
They finished their meal, parted amicably, and went their respective ways.
©G.Myerscough 2015