If you want to
LEARN HOW TO LUCID DREAM USING MEDITATION then you're
probably a little bit confused.
Why is meditation good for lucid dreaming?
How can I make meditation the most effective for my lucid dream practice?
Well, in today's video, we're going to explore the importance
of meditation for lucid dreaming.
So let's get started.
Hi dreamers.
So you've probably been told that meditation is vital when you are learning
how to lucid dream ,but then it all goes quiet or mysterious, and nobody really
explains why meditation is important for learning how to lucid dream well.
Today I want to DEMYSTIFY MEDITATION AND ITS USE FOR LUCID DREAMING
so before we go any further, we need to address a weird paradox at the center
of lucid dreaming and meditation, and it goes something like this: is
meditation good for lucid dreaming?
Well, the answer to that is yes.
But then here comes the paradox.
Does being good at meditation make you a good lucid dreamer?
So is a meditation teacher automatically good at lucid dreaming?
And the answer to that is no.
But why?
Well, the answer is, is that meditation is more than one thing.
There are meditations for mindfulness, meditations for focus, visualization
meditations, and many, many more.
And not only that, but out of all the subjects out there, meditation
has to be one of the vaguest and most subjective and hard to pinpoint
of any psychological practice.
So being good at meditation doesn't necessarily mean that the kind
of meditation you are good at has anything to do with lucid dreaming.
So the way to look at meditation is to consider it as exercise for the mind.
You are building mental muscles.
So think of lucid dreaming as a skillset that requires certain
mental muscles to be stronger.
So one way to look at it, an analogy, would be that people who do kung
fu tend to be quite musclely, but people who are musclely aren't
necessarily good at kung fu.
But the better your muscles are, the faster and quicker you'll
be with your kung fu practice.
So being good at meditation won't make you good at lucid dreaming in the same
way that going to the gym and getting built won't make you good at kung fu.
If you want your meditation practice to be useful for lucid dreaming,
then you need to build the right muscles using meditation and then
learn lucid dreaming alongside that.
So the two complement each other.
So what are the muscles you need to build using meditation that will
be beneficial for lucid dreaming?
So the first mental muscle or psychological skillset that meditation
can bring to lucid dreaming is the ability to observe and become
familiar with how your mind works.
So this is the most basic form of meditation, mindfulness meditation,
where you watch the monkey mind at play and discover how your brain works.
Over time, the more familiar you become with your mind, the less
of a confusing place it will be.
And this is very beneficial for things such as maintained awareness
lucid dreaming, where you really need to know where the pitfalls of your
mind are, especially distractions.
The second psychological skillset that meditation can help build for lucid
dreaming is maintained awareness or focus.
Now, any meditation practice that helps you to maintain your awareness
throughout the meditation in a calm and settled way will be beneficial
for maintained awareness lucid dreams.
But there is an important thing to note: which is aggressive focus in meditation,
and many meditations are quite aggressive in their focus, aren't so helpful for
maintained awareness, lucid dreaming because they require too much mental
effort and in a maintained awareness dream that will actually cause insomnia.
So it's passive focus that you are looking to develop.
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So the third meditation practice that can be useful for lucid
dreaming is the ability to calm your mind and to center your emotions.
So this, again, is helpful for maintained awareness lucid dreams,
but also regained awareness lucid dreams where you realize you're
dreaming in the middle of the dream.
In these states, often your emotions and your excitement
will get the better of you.
So if you are used to being able to calm yourself down and to stay
centered and relaxed, this will help you to avoid unnecessary waking up
in the middle of your lucid dream.
So a calm, focused mind with a control of your emotions can be incredibly
beneficial for lucid dreaming.
It can also help with dream control and expectations, because if your emotions
get the better of you in a dream often that will flavor your expectations and
lead to results that you are not after.
The fourth skillset,
Which technically isn't meditation, but many people use the word interchangeably.
Is visualization, the ability to rehearse in your mind, things that
you want to practice, things that you want to prepare yourself for.
So visualization practices are incredibly useful for lucid dreaming techniques.
Many lucid dreaming techniques require you to visualize something, to have the
good mental image of what you're doing.
So any daytime practice that allows you to visualize and build your abilities
to visualize can be useful for all sorts of lucid dreaming techniques.
Also, if you have lots of recurring dreams of times gone by where you can't
apply your lucid dream practices today to those such as your dreaming of returning
to school and you never performed reality tests at school, you can use
visualization to embed reality tests into memories about your days in school.
So visualization practice can be a very wide ranging skill for lucid dreaming.
So as you can see meditation isn't some wooey spiritual intangible
thing when it comes to lucid dreaming it is immensely practical.
You're essentially going to the gym and building muscles that you'll be able
to use in your lucid dream practices.
So if your idea of meditation is sitting cross-legged and feeling
spiritually superior, and there are some people who do that, sadly,
then that's gonna have absolutely no benefit for your lucid dream practices.
Think of meditation and the various forms of meditation as mental muscle
building, it is a gym for the mind.
So the next time you sit down or lie down to meditate, do some lucid
dream hypnosis or do auto-suggestion.
Do so with a purpose.
What is it that you are trying to develop as you're doing it?
It's not simply sitting there with your eyes closed and hoping for the best.
You are doing meditation with a practical purpose in mind.
It is no different from deciding to do pushups or.
sit-ups.
That's the way to think about it.
Anyway, that's it for today.
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