Anxiety And Lucidity

This book explores the nature of modern culture as a culture of anxiety, analyzing the modes in which such anxiety presents itself. Drawing on sociological and philosophical concepts of modernity, the author builds on the work of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud to offer an understanding of modern anxiety culture as the reverse side of risk culture, which stabilizes itself by concealing or making familiar the social phenomena of risk society. Through explorations of memory, politics, art, clairvoyance, notions of national community, and identity, this volume sheds light on the fissures in our culture where anxiety appears, thus revealing its underlying volatility. A study of the ruptures in our modern culture, Anxiety and Lucidity will appeal to scholars of sociology, social theory, anthropology, and philosophy with interests in late modern culture.

In Judith Hermans book Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror, she emphasized how the conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. Finding the words to tell my story has been a long journey. My coping was entrenched, and denial was strong. Healing from the messiness of childhood incest in and of itself is so shrouded with secrecy, shame, and humiliation that putting the words together in a way that will envelop an understanding of this atrocity that refused to be buried in my mind meant allowing myself to be vulnerable to the possibility of being shunned and dismissed as crazy. It is about getting well enough to speak about without emotionally unraveling and becoming vulnerable to the stigmas that get attached to mental health. While I have learned the significance of remaining silent until emotional health is obtained, the silence kept me isolated and ashamed for far too long. My book, my words, will shed light on how complicated the journey to health and wellness is while trying to maintain normalcy. It entwines normal life experiences and looks closely at the systems (family/relationships, educational, medical, mental health) and how they either helped or hurt the process. Without looking at the progression of my life, one could not see the dynamics of recovery. Sharing this journey will provide practitioners, both medical and mental health, with a personal perspective of the road to recovery. More importantly, I have tried to communicate my journey in a way that will allow all of us to come a little closer to facing the unspeakable, to take the power out of the word incest, and to help adult survivors break the cycle of silence.

For your clients and readers of spiritual texts, a book on the power of dreams and their ability to tell us who we really are. Why we experience a dream, and how can we control them? How do you remember a dream? This book will provide an answer to these questions and many more. There is a simple answer to all these questions. Lucid dreaming is a fantastic psychological phenomenon that happens in our brains while we sleep. It is something beautiful, odd, and unique to us as humans. It is a state where you realize that you are inside of a dream while you were still dreaming, you become lucid in a sense. Lucid dreaming can also help solve problems in your daily life. Thanks to this book, you will learn the techniques to control your dreams. Imagine the potential of having control over your dreams rather than being a spectator. Everyone is capable of having a lucid dream; it only comes down to your will power. With lucid dreaming, you can also find your true potential. We are led to believe that exceptionally talented people must have been born with that gift and that we could never achieve what they have. Every night when you dream, you are the creator. There is creativity alive deep within, and lucidity can help bring that to your waking life and discover your deepest roots. Your dreams can give you something most people never find, and that is a deep connection and memory beyond your years. In this book, you will learn the following topics: Benefits of lucid dreaming Ways to induce lucid dreaming Scheduling When to Lucid Dream Setting goals and intentions How does dreaming lucidly feels like What to do when lucid dreaming ...And much more!

Each of us possesses the capacity to dream, and with every dream, we embark upon a profound exploration of our internal cosmos. This internal realm is constructed from the very essence of your being, or your state of existence. This intrinsic essence embodies the realization of your aspirations. The realm of dreams is a source of exhilaration, and furthermore, it presents an opportunity to delve into one's internal convictions, artistic ingenuity, ambitions, objectives, and all other aspects aligned with one's individuality. Each of us possesses the capacity for imagination, and with every dream we embark upon a voyage that leads us into the depths of our inner universe. This internal cosmos is constructed from the essence of your very essence, or presence. This underlying essence represents your deepest aspirations. The realm of dreams holds immense fascination, providing an opportunity for introspection into one's inner convictions, artistic expression, aspirations, objectives, and all other aspects intertwined with one's identity. This guide offers comprehensive instructions and valuable personal insights to facilitate the attainment of regular and exemplary lucid dreams, encompassing a range of topics from fundamental concepts of the dream realm to advanced methodologies. Immerse yourself in the captivating realm of dream induction techniques, stabilization, and control, and uncover the means to metamorphose your dreams into an influential instrument for personal development and spiritual inquiry.

Learn how to wake up in your dreams for creative insights and beautiful spiritual adventures The Art of Lucid Dreaming is a quick and easy guide to help you get lucid fast. Dr. Clare Johnson, world-leading expert on lucid dreaming, shares her best practical tips and a unique Lucidity Quiz that identifies your personal sleeper-dreamer type so you can fast-track to the techniques that work best for you. When you are lucid in a dream, you can choose to ask your unconscious mind for guidance, perform healing magic, seek creative solutions to problems, and explore the dream realm more profoundly than ever before. With over sixty practices and fifteen tailor-made lucidity programs to get you started, this hands-on guide helps you set up your own custom program for achieving lucidity as quickly as possible. Focusing on how to get lucid, stay lucid, and guide your dreams, this book shows how to transform your nightly slumber into an exciting spiritual adventure that fills your life with meaning.

Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book's fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who, collectively, have published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal articles. The editors' introductory chapter frames the book's subtext: that mind-brain theories embodying the constraints of individual differences in subjective experience should be given greater credence than nomothetic theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe research and theory pertaining to individual differences in conscious sensations — specifically, individual differences in pain perception, phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two succeeding chapters focus on individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters address individual differences in altered states of self-consciousness — dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and various clinical syndromes. (Series B)

To reach the power of lucidity means being able to free yourself from the manipulations of the collective unconscious and the human matrix and its standards of battle and scarcity. Lucidity is the knowledge key for evolutionary deci- sions that will bring you peace and happiness to enable the connection with the divine matrix through the higher self. People would normally conduct themselves through life searching for satisfaction of their necessities and desires without deeper questioning and therefore, by the law of attraction, they create their own dimension of karmic repetitions. Their own psychic metaverse. Without realizing it, they become reactive to the here and now by using an illusionary filter of traumas or future expectations instead of living and optimizing the only possible reality. The present moment. Only the neutral mind awakening is capable of clea- ring the meaning of our existence!

Have you ever walked into the venue of your event and felt like your nerves simply couldn't handle it? Have you ever shown hesitation on the field, afraid to take a decision? Maybe experienced tunnel vision and your gestures and movements became awkward, slow and fluctuating in effectiveness? Losing lucidity has a drastic negative impact on your performance and it is vital to learn how to regain it quickly. The state of lucidity involves ongoing action that calls for discernment, the correctness of perception, decision, emotional stability and action of the individual. This book is packed with practical exercises that will have an immediate impact on leveling you up to the lucidity state and ultimately your performance.

The average person spends nearly 25 years of their life sleeping. But you can get a lot more from sleeping than just a healthy night’s rest. With the art of lucid dreaming—or becoming fully conscious in the dream state—you can find creative inspirations, promote emotional healing, gain rich insights into your waking reality, and much more. Now, with Lucid Dreaming: A Concise Guide to Awakening in Your Dreams and in Your Life, Stephen LaBerge invites you on a guided journey to learn to use conscious dreaming in your life. Distilled from his more than 20 years of pioneering research at Stanford University and the Lucidity Institute—including many new and updated techniques and discoveries—here is the most effective and easy-to-learn tool available for you to begin your own fascinating nightly exploration into Lucid Dreaming. Guided dream practices include: Two trance inductions into the lucid-dream stateTwo daytime exercises designed to trigger lucid dreams at nightLaBerge’s breakthrough MILD technique for increasing lucid-dream probability fivefold or moreA Tibetan-yoga dream practice Includes digital access to audio tracks.

When this important work was originally published in 1950--the first book in this country on anxiety--it was hailed as a work ahead of its time. This book is the result of several years of exploration, research, and thought on one of the most urgent problems of our day. Clinical experience has proved to psychologists and psychiatrists generally that the central problem in psychotherapy is the nature of anxiety. To the extent that we have been able to solve that problem, we have made a beginning in understanding the causes of integration and disintegration of personality. But if anxiety were merely a phenomenon of maladjustment, it might well be consigned to the consulting room and the clinic and this book to the professional library. The evidence is overwhelming, however, that men and women of today live in an “age of anxiety.” If one penetrates below the surface of political, economic, business, professional, or domestic crises to discover their psychological causes, or if one seeks to understand modern art or poetry or philosophy or religion, one runs athwart the problem of anxiety at almost every turn. There is reason to believe that the ordinary stresses and strains of life in the changing world of today are such that few if any escape the need to confront anxiety and to deal with it in some manner. This study seeks to bring together in one volume the theories of anxiety offered by modern explorers in different areas of our culture, to discover the common elements in these theories, and to formulate these concepts so that we shall have some common ground for further inquiry. If the synthesis of anxiety theory presented here serves the purpose of producing some coherence and order in this field, a good part of the writer’s goal will have been achieved.