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How You Can Easily Work Through Depression

This time of year, many people are getting excited for spring, which means sunshine and warm weather for about 9 months. But for some people, even the thought of spring and summer cannot get them out of their depressed mood. So the question is – how do you deal with depression?

But the answer is not that easy because what works for one person, may not work for another. However, here are some things to try that have been known to work for a variety of people.

The first thing you should do is make sure that your depression isn’t being caused by a medical condition. Things like low thyroid function, low progesterone, or low blood oxygen can cause depression, as can bad eating habits, lack of sleep, and no exercise. All of these things can make a person feel more depressed than they normally would.

That being said, a few things that you can take away from the above information is that if you’re not currently exercising, get started!  Even if you just walk around the block you will release some of the natural “feel good” chemicals in your body (called endorphins). You might have to push yourself at first, but soon you will look forward to that natural high as well as the fresh – air and getting to know your neighborhood a little better.

Getting enough sleep is also important. If you have problems sleeping, try a few simple things: Make your routine more – well – routine! Never watch TV in bed. Instead, do the same things (at approximately the same time) each night to get yourself ready for bed (wash your face, brush your teeth, etc.). You need to let your body know that after you do these things, it’s time to sleep.

You might also try a meditation tape or the more advanced Brainwave Entrainment CD’s to calm your brain down and help stop those negative thoughts that are keeping you up at night. Use the techniques where you can lay down and relax, not something you listen to while on the computer. It’s not a good idea go get on the computer before you go to bed. Reading about other people’s problems on Facebook, or Twitter is NOT going to help your mind calm down!

And, speaking of negative thoughts, watch out for them and stop them whenever possible! Negative thoughts can creep in and feed off each other and soon, even if you were in a good mood earlier, now you’re just thinking of all the negativity in your life.  I have a simple method that I use as often as I need to when I feel like I’m talking too much crap to myself.  As negativity is going through my head and I recognize it – I scream (to myself) STOP!  Then try to think of something more positive. If the thought starts to creep in again, I say STOP again. And same as before try to think of something positive. I sometimes have to do this a few times, but that mental action combined with changing the activity I’m doing will soon put me in a better mood and get me to thinking about something more positive.

Now that you’ve stopped the chatter in your head and are getting more exercise, you’ll have time for more feel-good activities. You could cook dinner for a neighbor or take on some new responsibilities that give you a feeling of accomplishment; set some new goals – and most importantly – do something new, exciting and fun for yourself that brings a smile to your face!

Just a smile can make all the difference in the world!

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How to Inspire Your Ideas into Actions for Success

Have you ever had a really good idea and were inspired by it? You may have told a few friends and they also thought it was an excellent idea. Then what happened? You may have thought about it for awhile, and then, well, your daily life probably got in the way and it just stayed as “that really good idea you once had.”

That happens more often than most people care to admit. Life changing inspirations come along; the excitement mounts, then nothing!

Many ideas come from the subconscious as it works behind the scenes (or travels through the Universe) formulating ideas based on things you have read, come across, or talked to people about. You may not have put it all together at the time, but your mind continued to work on something that might just be your ticket out of your current situation and into something better.

So that idea comes. Basically it’s just a bunch of air circulating around in your head unless you do something about it. You have to at the VERY least write it down and begin making a plan to put something in motion. Your plan should consist of at least three things:

Research

The first thing you’ll want to do is research to make sure your idea hasn’t already been discovered. Ideas float around in the world and they can come to a few different people at the same time. The first one to act on it gets the good life! So do your research first, and if you don’t find anything, move on to the next step.

Think Again

Now that you’ve got this idea in your head, schedule some quite time to think about it. You can either:

  • relax and listen to a meditation tape to get your brainwaves into alignment so you can formulate a better plan, or
  • sit at the computer with your door closed and just start thinking about things; writing down what you need to do next.

Basically you need to have a brainstorming session with yourself; just put your hands on the keyboard and type whatever comes to mind. Don’t worry about spelling or grammar; this isn’t your actual to-do list yet.

The To Do List

Next you’ll need to go through your brainstorming session and make a To-Do list. Start by doing just a few of the smaller things, then move up. You don’t want to get frustrated and overwhelmed right away. Just put some things down that you can accomplish; things that will help you get started in the right direction.

Keep separate files for your action list and your research. While you’re making up your list you may even come up with more ideas. If they are not related to the idea you are working on at the moment, write them down in a separate notebook. Then someday when you’re feeling uninspired, go through your notebook and start the process all over again.

Now, suddenly instead of an “air head” idea, you have a list of things to do! As long as you keep moving forward, your excitement should mount as your idea comes to fruition and your life begins to change. You will not believe how much your attitude will change from the small success you experience as your idea takes on its new life. It just doesn’t get any better than that!

Lucid Dreaming Fast Track Review

how-to-have-a-lucid-dreamI just finished going through Rebecca Turner’s new Fast Track Lucid Dreaming system which includes “The Art of Lucid Dreaming – The Pursuit of Conscious Dream Control,” and I have to say I was amazed at all of the NEW information and step by step guidance she provides in this new system. I’ve been doing lucid dreaming for quite a while but there were things in this book that that I did not realize were possible!

Note: This is my review of the Lucid Dreaming Fast Track System, Click Here to Go Directly to The Art of Lucid Dreaming.

For example I really had no idea that there was such a thing called the wild technique. As Rebecca explains it:

“WILD is also referred to as the Mind Awake / Body Asleep technique, it enables you to enter a lucid dream directly from a waking state. This is method is often used by out-of-body explorers and, depending on subtle differences in induction, can either lead to lucid dreams or out of body experiences.”

She not only goes through the basics of keeping a dream journal and remembering your dreams, which is a very important first part of lucid dreaming, but then she goes through some dream symbols and a lot of other beginner to advanced lucid dreaming information.

For example if you constantly dream about animals, or being chased – maybe falling, flying or other things, she gives you an explanation of why you might be dreaming about these things.

There are actually quite a few dream symbols explained in the book from the very basic things people dream about often, to a few very odd things.

“This is The Definitive Guide To Lucid Dreaming For Beginners And Beyond! Includes Two Beautifully Presented Ebooks And A Professional Hypnosis Session. Takes You Down The Rabbit Hole, Teaching You How To Have Lucid Dreams And Use Them For Wild Virtual Adventures!”

Rebecca says that lucid dreaming is like “taking a creativity pill” and I have to agree with her once again! You can do anything and everything while you’re inside a lucid dream. She also teaches you:

  • how to stay in lucid dreams longer
  • controlling your lucid dream so you can have the lucid dream you want
  • increase your ability to travel through time
  • talk to your subconscious mind
  • . . . and much more!

    • It’s AMAZING how much you can do when you have a lucid dream – that I was not aware of before.

    In fact I did NOT know that you could talk to your subconscious mind while you were lucid dreaming. I guess as the author of “Directed Dreaming – Success from The Subconscious,” I should have considered that option, but it just never occurred to me that you could get into your subconscious while you sleep, as well as when you lucid dream!

    Later on in the book she gives you a few more challenges to do – but she doesn’t just challenge you to fly with perfect control or run through walls! There are actually 10 challenges that she goes through step by step and tells you exactly how to complete them.

    This is from her own personal experience (she’s been lucid dreaming since she was 14!). You can bet if you try to do the things like she’s done them you will have better success in not only doing these things, but in creating your own new adventures.

    I suppose this review wouldn’t be complete without telling you that she does have a section on lucid dreaming sex also. It appears that a lot of people don’t have success with having sex in lucid dreams, and there’s a good reason for that. Get her book today and you’ll know why this may be happening to you, and how to fix it!

    This is just a handful of things that you’ll find in her book – but that’s not all you get with this system. There’s also a hypnotic recording which is a Guided Meditation MP3. This meditation piece not only goes through a sleep process, but it also walks you into inducing a lucid dream, and getting into the dream.

    So while you’re listening to the MP3, you’ll actually practice lucid dreaming and GET INTO this suggested dream! This is exciting because once you’ve actually gotten into a lucid dream – even if it’s one that’s being suggested to you – you’ll know what to expect and again, be able to more easily get into your own dreams.

    If you REALLY want to have a lucid dream, my advice is to do the MP3 a few times and get a feeling for how it’s done. You’ll also get a written version of this guided meditation so if you want you can take it and make your own dream. Just memorize the steps, practice a few times, and you will know how to have a lucid dream of your choice.

    If you’re working on lucid dreaming – or even if you already lucid dream but can’t seem to make them last as long as you would like, I highly recommend you get Rebecca Turner’s new system: The Art of Lucid Dreaming.

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