Home Work assignment number 1- First try: |
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Hi there, |
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Home Work assignment number 1- First try: |
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Hi, I am glad you are interested in learning new things. You did the first step of the lesson perfectly. You became awaare of noises that your brain had been erasing only a few minutes before. Your ears had been picking up the noises before, but your brain had put them in the 90ish% of impulses it erases and discards. So, good job. For the next part you will have to leave a window part open or anything like that so that you have more sounds to hear. If it is still o silent, then put a clock or something in the room to give you at least one sound, another could be letting the faucet drip. |
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This time I decided to sit at my balcony instead of sitting inside my room since last time I opened my window and still heard quite a few sounds. So I sat down in the middle of the balcony, closed my eyes , breathed slower and concentrated. I heard the far away cars from the main streets in my neighborhood driving and producing the non stoping sound of traffic. Then a car from my street drove away while I was listening to sounds it made. A dog started to bark at another dog. The first dog started to bark long barks while the other barked short and quiet barks compared to the first dog. Then I heard two dogs which I already recognized from the past barking at the dog with the short bark, he was barking at them too and I could have sworn that I heard a shoe slips across the street floor (I have listened to my steps and to other people's steps when I was at school today so I knew...). I realized the guy who slipped his shoe across the floor took the dog for a walk and I also understood his trail from the sounds of the dogs made. In addition I heard voices similar to pigeon ,but much more quiet (baby pigeons!? ) and also a guy walking and whistling. Then I heard a guy shutting down his car and closing the door. I have heard also the sound of a plane flying above me. Now as you may have noticed this time I was able to determine the location of most sounds much more easily and I am not sure if this is even possible ,but after meditating for a while I also heard a blank voice which is sometimes described as the sound of quietness. |
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Hey Sivason, |
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The next two lessons will be reviewing a book and basic concepts. Those will be here very soon. Im going to teach the skills gradually. Try each version I listed and then create a similar meditation yourself, be creative and just make sure it brings you more awareness. |
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Hey Sivanson, |
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Last edited by Beefer; 05-18-2012 at 01:42 PM.
There is a common theme between all of the versions. They are all used to teach the yogi to have almost super-human control over levels of awareness. Keep the idea from this lesson and keep coming back to it over the years. It is like weight lifting and the meditation is you doing reps. You can quickly develop all sorts of awareness. |
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Last edited by Sivason; 05-19-2012 at 06:38 AM.
Wait I am a little confused now. Should I keep trying on focusing as much as objects as I can in the same time like I did until now or have two objects that I focus on the entire time and a third object which keeps changing while I am scanning for new objects like you said right now? |
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In waking life use the meditation where you focus on as many as you can. You need to build the brain skill to focus on about 5 objects in order to maintain focus on the three things I mentioned while in the LD. It takes a huge amount of training to keep your body, what you are examining, and the thought of it being a dream. The meditation practice is much much easier whileawake. So you are exercising the use of this skill. While awake push this as far as you can, even 6 objects,,, just so you will be capable of doing three while in an LD. |
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Hey Sivanson, |
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Very goood stuff. You are exploring and finding things out about your mind. It sounds like a very successful day. |
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Hi everyone! It has been almost two weeks. I hope everyone got a chance to practice. The thread Dream Yoga Basic Skills: Lesson 1, has been updated. I have shared a few ways these skills will be useful in LDs, and the thread is now open to Q & A. |
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Well I haven't updated my workbook in a while so I figured I should do so. Well the reason that I didn't update it is because I didn't have any new 'discoveries' or anything like that and since you said that we shouldn't turn our workbook into a daily book report I have updated my workbook only when I had something to ask or something new to share. Even though because I see you put a lot of effort into the class , I should show that I do care too. |
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Last edited by Beefer; 05-27-2012 at 12:07 PM.
I haven't read lesson 2 yet even though I saw it was out , but before I will read it I feel like sharing my experience from my last meditation. Since all day long I tried to study for my big test without much luck thanks to my little siblings and their friends who shouted, cried and whined all day long (I love them very much ,but can't they have a little respect to their elder brother especially when he tries to study!?) I have decided to go to my balcony and meditate. I sat down at my usual place ,near the glass wall (you can also refer to it as a window ,but you can't really see anything through it so I refer to it as a wall ),closed my eyes and started to meditate. |
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Last edited by Beefer; 05-28-2012 at 10:15 PM.
Damn good write up! I love it. Keep up meditations like that and your brain will be adapted to handle the more advanced stuff in no time flat! I am going to post your entire entry into the lesson and you get another 'Gold Star' which is now worth 30 hall points. |
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Hey sivason, |
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You do not want your eyes to get exausted or you are not relaxing the muscles. It sounds like you adjusted and haave a better way of looking at it now. The edges will always have poor resolution because of how the retina of the eye is set up. You can not read well with the edge of vision evn with perfect vision. You can still see every thing, but it is not as sharp. |
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Good thoughts. That is one advantage to the skill. I can now do things like carefully examine the sky in an LD with out having the sceen around me break up. It is not the main reason I am having everyone learn this skill, but it is a good use for it. You will get a "Gold Star" worth 30 hall points, when I open the lesson thread in less than 2 weeks. |
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Ok so lately I have been practicing a lot of defuse vision. So I went with my friends to The Avengers in 3D an I figured I should try to use diffuse vision. While watching the movie I noticed my friend eating nachos and another friend of mine moving every 30 minutes in his chair. On the other side (the right side) I noticed the wall and another friend of mine trying to put his head on my shoulder and touch my hand (diffuse vision was very useful here ). It was kind of hard at start to focus on the movie ,but after a while I got used to it. Even though I found it harder to read the subtitles and notice the details in the movie. I came out from the movie with a feeling that I excel at noticing what is on my side ,but lack the ability to focus on what ever happening before my eyes. So then I tried to observe a pen , but it was too big for me so I used a key instead. At the first time I pretty much failed . At the second I was already able to notice all the slopes, the scratches , the holes, the dirt and sockets on the key. |
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"Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open."
Difusse Vision does not work for reading. If you want to read anything you need to use the center portion of one of your eyes. The center few inches of the eyes feild of vision is the reading peortion. You can stay in difusse vision, but must still aim an eye right at at. Basically you can not really read with it. It is not how I would watch most movies that had subtitles. |
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Hey Sivason, |
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"Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open."
Hey there Sivason! |
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Last edited by Beefer; 06-24-2012 at 05:56 PM.
"Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open."
Well yesterday and today I tried both of the new skills after reading latest lesson before going to sleep. |
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"Dream your dreams with your eyes closed, but live your dreams with your eyes open."
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