Day 1 of 90

Yesterday I was tasked with the following:

1) Optional: Listen to Week 1 BrainWave Generator (20minutes)
2) Relaxation: Legs (3 minutes)
3) Breathwork: Breath awareness (5 minutes)
4) Mobile Body Awareness (7 minutes)

After listening to the optional audio with one interruption, I was able to relax my body quite well.

The leg relaxation exercise had me tense up and relax my leg muscles over and over to help them relax better.

The breathwork had me think about breathing and become aware of it

The Mobile Body Awareness was a real powerful exercise. It had me close my eyes and picture certain energies in my inner body, but actually on my body. For example, I saw my knee with my body awareness alone (eyes closed) and was able to create energy by tracing up and down my body. This would help me focus on one part of my body and forget the rest, to build up and create energy. This energy is required and helpful for inducing OOB's and is a good start in the training, at least I hope.

Once nightfall hit, I listened to Wave I - Orientation of the Monroe Institute's Gateway Experience and believe to have hit "Focus 3". "Focus 3" is the state of increased mental coherency and balance. I was able to create vivid visualizations in my mind and actually focus on them quite well. I also found memory to be amplified as i could pull high school memories into my thoughts and via some scenes from high school rather vividly. This actually inspired me and energized me. It was rather difficult to fall asleep after experiencing this. I also seemed to have heightened senses after doing this. I was able to watch some TV without glasses and seemed to have a heightened sense of smell. I considered this day successful, but I have a very long ways to go.

Other things to mention, I dreamed two dreams last night, one kind of bleak, and one very vivid:

Dream 1: I had a dream where I was with my brother Dave and my wife Sara and we went to a 4th of July event. Except it wasn't the 4th of July. Instead of shooting fireworks, people were pulling down stars from the sky to play with. We didn't pull any stars down, but we did bring a football to play catch with. I remember vividly that attendance was taken and we had our hands stamped. I can't believe I didn't become aware within my dream (or maybe I did, but my feedback is poor), because I could remember my hands looking fuzzy from my dream.

Dream 2: This one was very emotional and hard to digest this morning. I had a dream where I was with my wife Sara and we were in a bookstore. A bookstore I have never been to, but is very familiar to me. As I was browsing some books I've never read, but were still familiar, an old high school friend of mine came running over to me. She had her boyfriend nearby which was strange to me for some reason. She crawled on my legs like my daughter does when she wants me to walk her places, and wouldn't let me move. This same person is someone I kind of neglected and abandoned during the latter days of High School and it was hard to come out of this dream without emotion. I think the dream is telling me I need to reunite.