Is there a reason there is a high level of insomnia co-occurring with our lack of health? Through time sleep has become elusive and we have forgotten the values that sleep brings us and how it connects us to our inner development, spiritual awakening, heightening awareness, healing, and our evolution.
We have become disengaged from
- the easiest methods of healing and restoration
- the ability to access methods that help us get answers
- connecting with deeper parts of ourselves
- communicating with those who have passed
- interacting beyond this time and space while our body is restoring and
- understanding the value of different dreaming experiences, like out of body experiences and others that occur while we are sleeping and dreaming.
Have We Been Separated from the Sacred Wisdom of Our Dreams and the Dreamtime On Purpose?
There is an ancient use of specific sound pattern systems that ignite the relationship with our ancient connection to the many transformational benefits of our sleep and dreaming. Our experiences of stress and trauma individually, within families, and over generations, and our collective consciousness and morphogenic field have relegated our dreams and sleep to only a necessary function and often challenging, while forgetting how to access restorative states, and the elements of the sacred wisdom and transformational elements of sleep that are innate to us. But the ancient wisdom of specific sound pattern systems and the relationship with sleep and dreaming is being restored!
Methods that connect us to our restoration, falling asleep, dreaming, staying asleep also connect us to and develop our inner wisdom. Specific sound healing patterns establish resonance and receptivity within. They develop and deepen relaxation and restoration, comfort, calmness, and a feeling of trust creating the resonance as a bridge for our consciousness, neurological system, brain waves, respiration, and heart rate.
Here are comparison characteristics between sleep and listening to specific sound healing patterns that connect to our sleep and dreams
- Both are states that have restorative changes in brain wave activity, body temperature, heart rate, and pulse.
- Sleep and using specific sound healing patterns are restorative to the physical body, mind, and emotions, and connect us to our deeper selves.
- Like sleep and accessing dreams, specific sound healing patterns give access to inspiration, problem-solving, and insight
- Sleeping and dreaming are vital for our health and longevity. Accessing restorative states with particular sound healing boosts our immune system and creates emotional and mental regulation, while lessening cortisol the stress hormone which is the underlying cause of most illness
- Specific sound healing patterns, sleeping and dreaming access different brain waves states that each have experiences within them depending on the state
- Using specific sound healing patterns like going to sleep changes our responsiveness to outside stimulus
- Using specific sound patterns that are relaxing and restorative restore our ability to connect to sleep developing receptivity to getting all the benefits.
Dreams are one of the sacred places where human beings and the Cosmos meet and interact.
Dispelling Our Oversites About Dreams and Sleep
Is the reason why we scoff at and preface any reference to our own dreams as “I had a crazy dream’ an unconscious way we have been acculturated to dismiss the value of sleep and dreaming? When we use the statement, “I had a crazy dream” it separates us from valuing our sleep and the levels of dreaming that have been honored, understood, and utilized as an invaluable method of insight, transformation, and guidance throughout time.
Another component of sleep and dreaming is being woken up. Sometimes people are cranky because they are being woken but that is how we remember our dreams which makes waking an invaluable component. The sound, or need to use the bathroom, or other reason for waking is what allows the person to remember their dream because otherwise the person does not wake up.
Before covering the 7 Benefits of Sleep and Dreaming that Expand Consciousness and Empowerment, I want to cover how insomnia arises and the consequences of insomnia.
What is insomnia and how does insomnia relate to our modern time? What are sleep disturbances and how can we reclaim our sleep and dreams.
First is Primary insomnia. Primary insomnia means not being able to get to sleep or stay asleep resulting in not getting enough sleep. In the daytime as a result of not getting enough sleep the person can be cranky, irritable, and tired. Other ways that lack of getting enough sleep or good sleep effects our body is feeling drained of energy, which overtime can affect health, our ability to focus, weakening of our immune system, and cause us to make errors.
Disturbances that interfere with Getting to Sleep. We have many different disturbances that influence our ability and inability to get to sleep and get good sleep. Disturbances to our sleep can be from 5G, looking at screens from two-four hours or sometimes longer before our sleep time, a room too hot or too cold, dogs on the bed, interfering thoughts and negative thoughts, upheaval that causes repeating thoughts, consuming foods and beverages that keep us awake, eating too late, not having a sleep routine, and the use of substances can interfere with getting sleep, staying asleep, and getting good sleep. There is always a range of sensitivity levels depending upon each person as well. An example I have run into is people who do not consider themselves sensitive to, for example eating chocolate at 4:00 in the afternoon or after dinner but they can’t get to sleep and stay asleep. And they continue to eat the chocolate as a dessert at night. And other people who do not categorize caffeinated tea as caffeine and drink this tea throughout the day cannot get to sleep.
Secondary insomnia is the inability to get sleep due to an illness or condition. Secondary insomnia can also be the result of medications or even substance use/abuse which can include caffeine and the nicotine in tobacco. Other causes of secondary insomnia are chronic pain, an overactive thyroid, dementia, and Alzheimer’s, breathing problems which can be the result of asthma or even a cold, depression and anxiety, heartburn, and hypertension.
The benefits of getting good sleep help the conditions above that are caused by primary and secondary insomnia. Using specific sound healing protocols and systems trains us into relaxation, restoration, and connection to the brain waves states. This familiarity makes it easier to get to sleep. Using these sound patterns facilitates moving into the sleep state easily and effortlessly simply by listening.
The Highest Regard for Dreams and Sleep
Examples of How Dreams Are Useful for Transformation
Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, valued people’s dreams immensely. Jung considered dreams an invaluable symbolism with messages that are archetypal symbols that transcend the individual in their life. These archetypes are universal symbols relevant for all humans through
1.Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, valued people’s dreams immensely. Jung considered dream content a valuable communication connection between the unconscious and conscious realms. In other terms dreams, their symbols, and the experiences we have when we are in the dream state of consciousness are part of the morphic resonance field that is a collective memory of consciousness of knowing and extremely valuable content for us. The extraordinary element of the morphogenic field is the content evolves! The evolution of the morphogenic field is in part by individual strides that contribute to the whole knowing, activating, and expanding for all.
These theories are not unique to this time. Ancient and indigenous peoples globally have used the dream time with reverence for guidance and as a reliable resource that in still unprecedented today. Understanding how dreams and sleep were and are valued and considered useful empowers us to reclaim our sleep, our dreams, and the dream time.
2. During the times of ancient Greece people had dream temples. The dream temple was the place where you could sleep and capture your dream or dreams on a specific topic that was for healing. That is because dreams were valued and seen as significant guidance methods that offered content that was not available in any other way.
Other ways that dreams were used in ancient Greece were for medicine and diagnosis and treatment, and purposes related to religious, political, social, philosophical information for individuals and for nations’ action’s. Dreams were considered to be prophetic signs and omens about future events and as such were sought after for guidance for decisions about war and peace and other political moves.
3.When people have an after-death communication it is through their nighttime dreams also known as the dreamtime. The statistics from the Pew Research Center reveal 53% of people have contact with a deceased friend or family member! And the majority of these contacts are through dreaming. It is common for people to have an experience or several experiences with people or their animal friends after they have passed. These experiences often are reported as real as ordinary life or more real because these experiences have different elements of our senses as part of the experience. These may be touching, as in feeling the fabric of someone’s clothes when they are hugging, hearing the sound of their deceased cell phone go off. And a common occurrence is smelling the odor of the cologne or perfume or even the pipe smoke of the person who has passed. These experiences have communication involved which is either telepathic or a kind of knowing what the message is that is being relayed. The dreamtime is a safe place to have an after-death communication because we would be unnerved if the experience took place in our waking state.
The characteristics of these dreams are that they are often remembered for years because of the feeling content unlike other dreams. These kinds of dreams often occur when we are just about to wake up, so it is the waking up part that allows us to remember. And while the majority of these dreams are often closer after the time the person has passed there are also many reports from the dreamer who says the deceased person shows up years later to tell them something important. There is an element in the dream that causes the person to have the dream imprinted in their memory.
What else is getting good sleep for that benefits our relationship with our innate abilities, inner wisdom development, healing, and transformation?
4. A somewhat common use of sleep and dreaming is incubation. Incubation is turning over a question, issue, concern, creative idea, need for an idea or resolution when we go to sleep. In some uses of this method, the turning over is simply letting it go to the Universe/Multiverse and knowing in some way, undetermined, the answer or direction will come. This is also called indirect processing where there is no focus on the issue. For some people they wake up with the answer or they no longer feel troubled by the issue. Other times people wake up with the answer from a dream that gives them the content, or they wake up knowing something they didn’t know when they went to sleep.
5, While this writing is from a Western perspective within the scope of the US there are other deep and profound perspectives and understandings of the use of dreams. Dream walking is a method used to offer teachings and also transmit information to what we would call a receiver or student. This is not a form of lucid dreaming but instead a person intentionally enters the dream of their student (or the person with whom they are interacting) and interacts with them imparting content and/or a teaching. The person may receive conscious training in this method for their preparation or they may not recall their training. This method is not limited to humans who know how to do this but also with enlightened beings who meet and interact with specific humans.
While I am referencing here first Nation Native American practices other older cultures have never suppressed or lost this knowledge and understanding. Having studied with two different First Nation Medicine Women from two different First Nations, one was a Cherokee Shaman, and the other was a Blackfoot also healer shaman I can verify these abilities.
6. Other cultures who have valued the use of our sleep and the dream time for spiritual development are in the ancient Vedic wisdom tradition of yoga Nidra. In Yoga Nidra practices the conscious state of mind is bypassed that allows the practitioner of yoga Nidra to navigate realms of higher dream states retaining content when awake. These practices have been useful for accessing even scientific breakthroughs as well as guidance and insight. An example of the use of yoga Nidra is Srinivasa Ramanujan, who was a genius mathematician who received his groundbreaking formulas from his dream work.
7. What other purposes do dreams offer? Dreams or night visions can warn a person about something, convey information about a future event or precognitive content. A dream message can be a spiritual truth or omen.
The ability to access the dream state for dreams is not new, or New Age, or only with indigenous peoples of the world. In the Bible there are references to waking dreams, night visions, and dreams which guide those who are receiving them. One example is Daniel 2:19 states that a secret was revealed to the prophet in a ‘night vision.’ There is even a famous dreamer, Joseph (Genesis 37:1-11) and many other references to dreams and how they guide people.
8. In Tibetan Buddhism using the dream state for spiritual development and answering questions about health is part of an advanced practice. This practice is for people who are dedicated to their studies using suggestions before sleep to connect to specific energy and dream being that works within dreams and the dream state and takes years to develop. In this method of dream development during sleeping the practitioner uses their ability to help heal people.
9. Other occurrences include lucid dreaming and Out of body experiences (OBE’s) occur often while sleeping (although not limited to occur during sleep) and we are in what might be called a ‘dream state.” In the OBE, the center of the person or center of awareness is outside of the physical body and located wherever the person is. An OBE is sometimes also called astral travel and can be linked with lucid dreaming. Lucid dreaming is awakening within the dream and an OBE is seeing and knowing your body is beside or beneath your awareness which are separate abilities. In either ability of lucid dreaming or an OBE the person has the ability to use this experience ethically as a method of heightening and developing their spiritual awareness and capabilities.
7 Benefits of Sleep and Dreaming that Expand Consciousness and Empowerment. Why are getting good sleep, dreaming, and specific sound healing patterns invaluable for us, especially at this time?
- We know sleep is essential for our longevity and wellbeing. There is a long list of the benefits later in the video. Even if we limit this perspective from only considering the mental and emotional and physical values ,Considering we are going through the particular sound healing patterns train us into the healing states that access and support restoration. When our body is familiar with the particular sound patterns effects, and when we hear the beginning of our selected curated sound healing composition there is an immediate automatic response of changes in breathing, relaxation, changes in heart rate, releasing tensions, changes in brain waves that carries and hold the listener. This change is also comforting, relaxing, and knowing that allows the listener to deepen into the experience in safety and trust.
- Plus when we use particular sound healing rhythms and patterns to release stress before it is time to go to sleep we are preparing ourselves for a positive dreamtime experience because when we are relaxed we are not only releasing the stressors of the day we are creating the opportunity for imparting to our subconscious the energy, feelings, and content we want to carry into our dreaming. The optimum use of this opportunity is stating our happinesses, our gratitude, what we want to bring into and learn about as we are falling asleep. This practice allows us to imprint our subconscious because we are transitioning into the hypnogogic state which occurs between waking consciousness and sleep.
- And why are dreams important to the sound healing patterns. When we draw upon curated sound healing patterns that change our respiration, heart rate, and brain waves we become familiar with this process, so it easily and quickly carry sus. There can be an overlap of insightful, inspiration and problem solving because in both sleep and particular sound healing patterns receptivity is established. This receptivity is allowing for content to percolate through that is not available to us in waking consciousness as a resource. The synergistic relationships of sleep and particular sound listening enhances the other as well as using specific sound healing patterns for getting to sleep aids in getting to sleep.
- The relationship between sleep and listening to specific sound patterns is synergistic. Drawing upon particular sound healing patterns, rhythms, tones, vibrations, and frequencies in a system of protocols develops our relationship, familiarity, and benefits from consciously accessing ‘waking’ non-ordinary consciousness that improves our relationships with our sleeping state. This is because through specific sound patterns and tones we connect to and deepen our relationship with getting into a calm state and staying in a calm state. The calm state also reduces stress and is restorative like sleep. The process teaches our neurological, mental, emotional system what it feels like, so it is easier to get into the sleep state as well.
- The Lullaby Effect. In addiction training the body, mind, emotions, and spirit to connect into relaxation with a specific curated sound pattern selection is the same effect as a lullaby on a child. There is an immediate response because of the training. The sound patterns are comforting, trusted, relaxing, and safe. This makes it easier to fall asleep and stay asleep enhancing sleep quality. When we hear these sounds we immediately connect to them and begin to shift our brain waves, heart rate, and respiration easily and effortlessly.
- Another benefit of using particular sound healing patterns and tones systems is the ability to cross over from one the restorative state of curated sound listening and dreams. When we have a relationship with the restorative and expanded state of curated sound listening there often is a cross over and strengthening of incubation. I mentioned incubation before which is turning over a question, issue, concern, creative idea, need for an idea or resolution. the turning over is simply letting it go to the Universe/Multiverse and knowing in some way, undetermined the answer or direction will come. This is also called indirect processing where there is no focus on the issue. Other enhancements and benefits of using sound healing patterns and tones is other dream work, problem-solving, insights, questions, inspirations.
- Additional benefits of particular sound healing patterns and tones is the benefits that support our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual health, progress, and evolution. When we shift into restorative states where our heart rate, brain waves, respiration we also do the following
- Restore the neurological system from trauma
- Diminish cortisol production that is caused from stress and trauma.
- Reduction in Inflammation is the underlying cause of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, addiction, schizophrenia, bi-polar, anxiety and depression
- Increase in dopamine and serotonin the feel-good chemicals
- Change from mental and emotional dysregulation to mental an emotional regulation
- Epigenetic responses are created which means our system does not turn on the switches for disease and illness which equals empowerment!
- Boost of the immune system
All of the above responses work with and enhance the benefits of getting good sleep. It is a method that allows us to be in the lullaby response; the response of comfort and restoration easily as soon as we hear the first notes of the music that we know is holding us in the relaxed state. It isn’t all music that gives us these benefits, nor is it all tones, or all patterns of sounds, it is particular sound patterns, tones, and rhythms that we enjoy that are soothing but also are entrancing that create the entrainment effect of resonance that facilitate the necessary changes.
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