[dodsCooggipsedebt]

wow lightlizard...that was an amazing story.

I am particularily interested in Lucid Dreaming - I have had a few spontaneously Lucid Dreams but would like to know more - how did you learn how to do it? Just by practice - was there a workshop that helped? Any books you can reccommend - any insite would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for sharing your story!

Silverthread.

[kubekniekubek]

Blessings Silverthread. My lucid dreaming began spontaneously, when I found myself aware of the fact that I was dreaming and was able to take control of the dream. But, it still requires a great deal of persistant practice for me.
I am sure you could learn it in a fairly short time with consistency. See the thread I put on the 'Dreams' forum, and this site is pretty good, too...
http://www.lucidity.com/

love

~LL~

[kubekniekubek]

A few years ago I was well into the practice/disipline of 'Lucid Dreaming.'
My main motivation was to seek direction in my life and path as a 'Healer'.
I had been teaching tai chi, qigong, meditation and healing techniques for a number of years, and the successes I had experienced with the healing of several of my friend/client/students, over the years, inspired and motivated me to want to do more, as a healer. Two students, in particular, were dramatic indications that I was on the right path. One, a gentleman who had been on heart medications for 12 years, was told by his doctor that he didn't need the medications anymore. The only thing 'different' he had done was take one of my basic qigong courses, for 8 weeks, and after a year, his heart condition was simply gone.(!)
An older woman came to me for private lessons. She was in her 70's and had been diagnosed 15 years before, with 'fibromyalgia' and 'chronic fatigue syndrome'. She had heard of the healing powers of qigong and became one of my private students for a short time. (12 weeks.)
On the final day of our time together, I decided to do some 'Healing Energy'-work on her back, which was troubling her, as it had been for many years.
The Energy healing technique I used at that time was a combination of the traditional healing techniques I had studied over the years, Reiki, Therapuedic Touch and Qigong Healing (known as 'External Qigong Healing').
I had developed my own style, so to speak, which was an eclectic, intuitive method that relied mostly on emptying oneself and allowing the energy to flow where it would, naturally.
During the session with this woman, as I worked on her back, I suddenly could 'see' a strange, putrid-colored 'mist' coming out of her back where I was focusing my energy. She began to moan in discomfort and pain and asked what I was doing, as she could not see what I was up to, behind her.
I told her to be silent and just wait it out. Her moaning increased in intensity and the 'mist' seemed to grow fairly large and distinct as it exited from her back. I 'wafted' it towards the nearby open window and it flowed out with the slight, summer breeze and was gone. Her moaning stopped. She stood up quickly and turned around and said, 'I don't know what you did, but for the first time in 15 years, my back is not hurting!'
I saw her again, 5 months later, after the course had ended, and she had lost 30-some-odd pounds,(she was quite overweight before) had not had a single back-pain or reoccurance of her 'fibromyalgia' and was so energetic and happy that I barely recognised her. When I saw her, I thought she was her daughter!
These incidents demonstrated to me that the path I was on was a valid and worthy one, and so, in this spirit, I pursued the practice of Lucid Dreaming- to increase my knowledge and to learn what I could from the depths of my being.
One night, during a lucid dream, I asked to meet a guide. Soon, I saw him through a stand of trees. He was facing a small pond with his back to me.
I moved through the forest to stand by his side and asked him; 'how may I help the sorrowed'? He continued to gaze out into the water as he replied; 'You have to go to the other side', he said.
I was confused by this and asked him to clarify. He responded with the same words; 'You have to go to the other side'!
I awoke and pondered his words. In fact, I meditated on this dream for several weeks.
Not too long after, in May of 2005, I fell very ill. I was bed-ridden for 7 months, unable to walk. I gained about 60 pounds of fluid. Finally, after 18 months of doctors' visits and cat-scans, bloodwork and the like, I was diagnosed with 'hepatitis C-related kidney disease'.
It turned out that at the age of 2, I had developed pernicious anemia and needed to have all the blood in my body changed, to save my life.
In 1951 there was no knowledge of hepatitis C in North America. Some of the blood had been tainted with the virus, it seems, and 54 years later, the 'Silent Killer' in my system became known, as it destroyed my kidneys and turned me into a dialysis-dependant person.
I have gone to the other side, now.

It's really not that bad!

LOVE

~LL~

[clapsoewmred]

Wow LightLizard. That is wonderful what you do and what you have experienced. I got goosebumps as I read what you were sharing. It's sad that your body has to go through what it has....but your inner strength and light is still shining through!!! Thank you LightLizard.

Love and Light xxxxxxxxx

[Wezfyowk]

As always, LL, your words inspire and amaze me.

more warm, loving fuzzies headed your way! (((hugs)))

[kubekniekubek]

Thank you Meandrethal and MoonGlitter.
I should also say that through this journey to 'the other side' I have learned more about what really matters than any other event in my life and I would not change a thing, regardless of the physical inconvieniences.

I truly feel that I have been blessed, both by the 'detour' in my journey, and in meeting and sharing with LightKin like yourselves.

Walk in beauty!

LOVE

~LL~

[Smabeabumjess]

I haven't really done much lucid dreaming lately because I've simply been looking forward to wherever my dreams are taking me. I do remember, however, that when I was doing it I'd start off the night by reminding myself that my dreams were like stories I was creating, and that if at any point it felt like I'd like to change that direction, I would be able to do so. I always thought of them as adventures, and I guess that's why I never really had what most people would consider to be nightmares. If it seemed to be getting too intense, I'd turn things around to prove I was the one in control at all times. Maybe because I just naturally started doing this as a child, it seemed easy to me. As for the kind of lucid dreams in which I can dictate exactly what the dream would be about--that is much more difficult, something I rarely accomplish because I don't sleep well when I concentrate on a particular kind of dream.

[Hmwmzian]

Good words LL, I always hear too many people say "if I ever get like that [insert condition here] I would rather just die, I wouldn't be able to live that way" yet people live, and are happy. What healthy people sometimes don't understand is that being "sick" becomes part of life, just like being healthy. You do what you need to do (even if it's a bit more of an inconvenience) and then things go on, just like with anything else.

Good luck with being a healer , it can be a lonely but rewarding path.