AM/PM Meditations/Dreams

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Sat Nam Nichole,

 

Any medtiation or yoga will be beneficial regardless of the time of

the day you practice it. In the beginning..like you said...just do

whatever you can manage. As you hone and fine tune your practice

with time, you'll notice that there are benefits to be had in rising

in the earlier hours to do meditation.

 

Between 3 and 6am the subconscious mind is closest to the surface

allowing you to access it more easily and to release it...and...at

this time of the morning... the connection to God seems to be more

apparent. I experience God at other times of the day..don't get me

wrong...but it's usually more of a sure thing within these hours?

 

Regarding dreaming...I can't comment on what yogi Bhajan says about

it because I haven't read anything from him on the subject...but I

can confirm that most of our dreaming is a result of the movings of

the subconscious mind (so partly meditaiton is good at the 3-6am

slot to release this) and that some dreaming "is" of the

transformational/visionary type.

 

I think you probably deal with your dreams the same way that you

work with thoughts and feelings that arise during meditation...you

become aware of them...you allow them...gain any insight you can

from patterns in your subconscious you see surfacing and then you

let them go.

 

I described a dream I had once in a class...in this dream I had had

an experience of unity...at this time I had never had an experience

of this in my waking hours or meditations...but I remember telling

my teacher that it was so real that I felt like this was infact part

of my experience now....I believe he replied something like

"ya well...there isn't always a whole lot of difference between

dreaming and being awake"...whose to say which is reality...I

believe was the point.

 

Blessings,

Sat Sangeet