Masterclass with Andrew Holecek. Exploring Lucid Dreaming. with Andrew Holecek

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1 Exploring Lucid Dreaming 1

2 YOUR OFFICIAL MASTERCLASS GUIDEBOOK 4 Simple Tips To Get The Most Out of This Class: 1. Print out this workbook before the class starts so you can write down your notes as you listen. 2. Review the topic outline so you know what to listen out for. Make sure you've set aside private time for this session so you ll be able to focus and fully receive the benefits of the session. 3. During the event, write down ALL the interesting and new ideas and inspirations you get while listening that way you won t lose the information most relevant to you. 4. Think of how you can quickly implement the secrets revealed in this session. Preparation Tips: Make sure you are in a quiet place where nothing can distract you, and that you are not driving a car or any other vehicle. Be in a comfortable position so you can fully take part in any guided meditation and visualization exercises that may be a part of the class. Stretch your muscles before starting the class. Stretching loosens the muscles and tendons allowing you to sit (or lie) more comfortably. Additionally, stretching starts the process of going inward and brings added focus to the body. Take a deep breath. Breathing deeply slows the heart rate and relaxes the muscles to help you have a comfortable experience during any guided meditations or visualizations that may happen during the class. You can use candles and other spiritual tools in the room to further help you feel at ease. Thank you for joining our online class. We hope you enjoy it! 2

3 SUMMARY Part 1: What is Lucid Dreaming? Part 2: How to Lucid Dream: Practical Tips to Use Tonight Part 3: Short Meditation Part 4: Self Reflection 3

4 Part 1: What is Lucid Dreaming? The part is for you to take notes while you listen to the. Fill in the banks as you progress. These will be the important takeaway points for this session. 1. According to Psychologist, Sigmund Freud, the mind is like an iceberg. Label the iceberg to show the various aspects of the mind (ie. Conscious, Unconscious). a. a. b. b. THE CONSCIOUS MIND IS DICTATED BY THE UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES. BACKSTAGE ALWAYS RUNS ON STAGE 2. On that same iceberg, label where you believe lucid dreaming occurs. 3. Throughout this, Use the below space to write some of the most exciting benefits and advantages of Lucid Dreaming. Some have already been filled in for you. _ For greater spiritual evolution To enhance creativity To enhance problem solving To purfiy karma As a training ground for the waking state 4

5 4. The Hybrid-State can be described as where the faces the directly. 5. When considering the spiritual connectivity that s possible with Lucid dreaming, Ken Wilber s levels of awareness model can help to illustrate this potential. Fill in the blanks pertaining to the model below. Egocentric The inability to differentiate between self and others. This is only accessible in the state. Ethnocentric The attitude that one's own group is superior to another Worldcentric Being aware and concerned with the welfare of all human beings The feeling of oneness and kinship with all of life 6. Which level of this diagram are you most likely accessing, when you tap into your unconscious mind via Lucid Dreaming? The further down the rabbit hole you go, the more collective the experience becomes - Harry Hunt 5

6 Exploring Lucid Dreaming 7. If you Right Hemisphere of your brain is activating while singing, the of your brain is activated while dreaming of singing. DREAMING OF DOING IT. IS NEUROLOGICALLY EQUIVALENT TO ACTUALLY DOING IT 8. According to The Journal of Sports Science, Lucid Dreaming has the following 4 farreaching implications for athletes specifically: Enabling underprivileged athletes to engage in effective practice of their sports even with limited access to physical facilities Return to question 3 to fill in some of the blanks on the benefits of Lucid Dreaming. Then, circle 3-5 that are of the greatest interest you. 10. Lucid Dreaming is different from Creative Visualisation because Creative Visualisation still involves input. WHAT YOU DO WITH YOUR DREAM BODY CAN AFFECT YOUR PHYSICAL BODY 11. You can add an additional hours to your year if you exercise your potential through lucid dreaming 12. Answer circle True or False for the following statements. Lucid Dreaming is as trainable as a skill as playing the piano You must have a Lucid Dream every night to see direct transformative power in your waking state True False True False A single powerful lucid dream can affect an entire week, month, or even lifetime. True False 6

7 Part 2: How to Lucid Dream: Practical Tips to Use Tonight Step One: Throughout the day, set the strong intent : Tonight I WILL become lucid in my dreams. Step Two: Set your alarm to go off 2 hours before you normally wake up. Step Three: Settle your mind, and prepare for sleep with good sleep hygiene. Step Four: Gently, but resolutely increase your intent when you lie down by adding some emotional charge. Step Five: Let everything go and drop into peaceful sleep. Step Six: Use the Awake and back to bed Method. After waking up 2 hrs before normal; stay up for about 30 min or so, re-set your resolve, and go back to sleep. MARINATE YOUR SLEEP WITH POSITIVE INTENTION. THE LAST THOUGHT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU SLEEP MARINATES YOUR THOUGHTS Write some positive intentions for lucid dreaming below. Be very descriptive and specific about what situations or emotions you d like to experience through Lucid Dreaming: 7

8 Part 3: Short Meditation What were some of the thoughts that came up during this short meditation? When your mind is left to wander, where do you let it go and what is your technique for bringing it back? LUCID DREAMING LEADS TO LUCID LIVING A non-lucid mind is completely connected to non-lucidity in sleep - Andrew Holecek 8

9 Part 4: Self Reflection The right questions can spur your subconscious to feed you the right answers. So ask yourself... How do you feel after the? What were some of your biggest insights and takeaways? Write down the 3 reasons why you think the art of Lucid Dreaming will help propel you into your next stage of evolution. 9

10 Academic Quotes About Lucid Dreaming By deliberately changing elements in your dream life, you can learn to confront many of your problems at their origin in your own mind, rather than years later in the therapist s office. - Patricia Garfield, PhD Dream Researcher & Renowned Author Patricia Garfield From a scientific perspective, lucid dreaming offers a kind of distilled consciousness, a way to examine consciousness in a preparation unmixed with current sensory input. - Evan Thompson, Philosopher Evan Thompson Evan-Thompson-PhD.html [Transformation] which can take years in waking physical reality, can be greatly accelerated as the psyche understands this process inwardly within a single dream. - Mary Ziemer, Manager of Dream Research Institute at the Centre for Counseling and Psychotherapy Education Mary Ziemer 10

11 Powerful lucid dreams stay with us for the lifespan, and may even permanently transform the personality structure. - Ryan Hurd, Dream Researcher & Author That night the results were immediate and life changing... How could it be so easy to have such a powerful experience?... most people who lucidly dream have the potential in short order to have experiences of their innermost selves that are consistently meaningful, inspiring, pragmatically useful, and potentially life-altering. - Ted Esser, professor of consciousness studies and transpersonal psychology It is easier to develop your practices in a dream than in the daytime. In the daytime we are limited by our material body, but in a dream our function of mind and our consciousness of the senses are unhindered. We can have more clarity. Thus there are more possibilities. If a person applies a practice within a dream, the practice is nine times more effective than when it is applied during the waking hours. -Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Dzogchen Teacher of Eastern Tibet Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche ttp://dzogchen.gr/en/news/chogyal-namkhai- People often consider their Lucid Dreams as among the most wonderful experiences of their lives. - Stephen LaBerge, Father of Modern Lucid Dreaming 11

12 Sensations in lucid dreams, which surpass waking life experience, could help writers, artists, and scientists to overcome creative blocks..lucid dream creativity likely does not stop when we wake up, but leaves its traces in our waking brain, thereby enhancing our everyday problem solving skills, artistic courage, and creative thought processes. - Clare Johnson, PhD in Lucid Dreaming & Creative Writing Dr. Clare Johnson education/interviews/dr-clare-johnson This one Lucid Dream gave me a new sense of identity. I felt as if I had discovered another form of being to which my ordinary sense of self stood in relation as a drop of water to the sea. -Stephen LaBerge, Father of Lucid Dreaming (on reporting 1 powerful lucid dream of his) Stephen LaBerge, 12