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Today’s guest is lucid dream expert, Robert Waggoner. We discuss remembering dreams, overcoming nightmares, PTSD, trauma, grief, and how to lucid dream (gain consciousness and control of your actions and dreams themselves while you are dreaming).
MIN 2
Scientific proof for lucid dreaming (discovered in sleep lab studies)
REM sleep (the brain state where dreams happen)
MIN 3:30
Robert’s dream life from childhood onward
Precognitive dreams – Dreaming something before it happens.
Robert feeling that dreaming maybe tapping into God in a timeless realm.
6:30
Half of people don’t seem to recall their dreams at all.
Keeping a dream journal
9:30
3 Reasons you don’t remember your dreams
12:30
Important reasons why we might delve into working with our dream life at all?
17:00
Using dreams for healing.
26:30
Mutual lucid dreaming
30:00
Dreams for healing phobias, anxiety, emotional healing, to aid in mediation, bad habits, obsessions, etc.
Today, I have a special guest. Eric Zimmer has one of the top podcasts as rated by iTunes. It’s called “The One You Feed” and I have personally gained a lot from listening to it.
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MIN 4:00 Eric tells the famous wolf parable that he asks each guest on his show (120 guests so far) and answers what it means for himself.
MIN 12:00 Eric’s spiritual and religious influences.
MIN 14:00 His alcoholism and addition and 12 step program.
MIN 15:00 Spirituality is the recognition that the things on the inside matter too as well as the outside.
MIN 16:30 Bill Wilson of AA interacted with Carl Jung who said alcohol is also known as “spirits” and imbibing is a search for transcendence. A “turning on” of life somehow.
MIN 20:30 Eric answers: What replaces the drugs and alcohol?
“Ask why the pain?”
MIN 22:30 On getting better and getting healthier.
MIN 36:30 On his Meditation and noticing practices
MIN 42:00 Being where you are
MIN 42:30 The waterfall and the rock metaphor – distance from the chattering thinker.
MIN 44:00 Sound meditation and training to focus
MIN 48:47 Dan Harris
MIN 50:00 Question thoughts and have a recognition of the distortions. We are not objective. We symbolize. Interrupt and generalize and seeing things as all or nothing.
MIN 54:00 On assuming others people’s motivations. The fundamental attribution error: Errors are attributed as character-based problems for OTHERS but only as circumstantial errors for ourselves.
MIN 58:00 Learn people’s stories.
MIN 59:00 Assuming that we don’t know a person’s backstory or reason they have done what they have.
MIN 60:00
We are telling ourselves stories over and over about what things mean. Our brains are meaning making machines.
Chris Shea and I discuss the importance of going back into natural surroundings to find renewal. April 10, 2016 discussion. The next one will be April 24, 2016 at 8pm ET.
I’m excited to have Bruce Van Horn on the Spark My Muse podcast.
His story is inspiring and his coaching, his presence on the internet at his WEBSITE and social media where he is one of the most Retweet encouragers on Twitter, in books, and on his podcast heard in 194 countries (Life is a Marathon) he has been an encouragement to millions.
His book “Worry No More: 4 Steps to Stop Worrying and Start Living” is an Amazing International Best Seller.
MIN 5 Early in life Bruce got into Computers/IMB and tried to make his fortune and contentment externally.
Bruce losses it all at 27. At 42 loses it all again and feels like giving up.
MIN 10
How Bruce started to turn his life around and had his major epiphany.
How Bruce learned that the hardest part of running a marathon is the decision to run one (each day).
MIN 13
How Bruce applied his big success to all the aspects of his life.
MIN 15
How Bruce started to take responsibility for his whole life and take his thoughts captive and end negative self talk.
MIN 18
Peter Sage
“Complaints are the glue that keep you stuck to your problems.”
“Think and Grow Rich” Napoleon Hill
Express gratitude for what you have because it makes it easier to get what you want.
Making a list of things to be grateful for—which, at first, was insincere.
MIN 20 What would you miss if it was gone?
MIN 22
Making changes in life and relationships. Changing language like eliminating sarcasm.
MIN 24 Starting a life coaching relationship that led to jobs all over the world.
MIN 28
The stage four cancer that changed everything.
The surgery that went wrong and no pain medication to recover with.
MIN 34
“In this moment, if I can breathe, I have everything I need.”
Pain is not a curse. Somehow this experience is a gift. The story was a detour not an end.
MIN 36
“Worry No More” the book
Worry is like Mediation done wrong.
MIN 39
Experience is thought in this moment. We are telling ourselves a story. We can see another story. Worry is a story about what you don’t want to happen. and you can tell a different story.