Thread: ADA 7 Mindfullness

self awareness practices are really vague as no one except dear Sageous has talked about it in methodology. even the word awareness is vague. for example you pause for a moment and then you say: OK what should i be aware of now? my clothes? my room? my breath? the feeling that i am now here? what are the elements that are in my waking life that can't be in the dreams? even if we see a weird thing in dreams we can still fabricate something about it. so what's the point of being aware (whether internally or externally)?

these questions have one important mission...they are used to create a pause between what we are involved in our daily activities and the moment of RC. when you use an awareness boost exercise, you should feel like someone who has stick out his head out of the sand...you should get into the moment of deep state of wonder...you can wonder about the environment and how they look real and dreamy like (sort of dream yoga) and if you are awake or dreaming or you can do some internal awareness boost like asking about where you have been and will be in previous and next 15 minutes to pause for a moment. this pause and state of checking yourself in that time duration will make you more aware of yourself and many sort of interactions you had in your life. of course this does not make you lucid as you may also do that in your dreams.

but researches shows that in LD, the frontal lobe of our brain is active and that part of the brain is responsible for self-awareness. by increasing the activity of this part of the brain through awareness exercise of any kind, you will get lucid more often. that's the reason why self-awareness practices and king-Yoshi method both works. so feel free to mix both types of practices for your awareness boost.