Sparks from the Fire

The Art of Healing – Step 1

At a young age I was taught the art of healing by my mother. She taught me to use basically four steps. The first was a protective or preventative measure and 2-4 were the steps I should take if I were to fail to practice the first.

Because of step one I rarely get sick or have physical problems. If I, for whatever reason, get lazy, forgetful, confused or even afraid, and have to move to steps 2-4, I at least have a plan to follow. When I’m smart or prescient enough to follow that plan to a ‘T’, I have always been a successful healer.

What proof do I have of this? I’ve never taken any medicine, I’ve only had one short visit with a doctor in my life, I’ve never felt the need to carry medical insurance and never been admitted to a hospital.

This, by the way, does not make me special. It is not really what some would deem as a ‘gift’, it’s really just normal practice. If your mom taught you to look both ways before crossing the street, you got a gift from mom. I got many gifts from my mom. Healing was one of them. Besides the fact that she gave birth to me, it was probably the best one.

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When I was in my early 30s I became fascinated with the subject of dreams.  At the time I was totally caught up in just about anything that had to do with the paranormal. I was a product of my generation, the sixties, I was a seeker, I was studying the world’s religions; I was also partaking of the world’s fads and anything to do with the exploration of the inner mind.

For two years I read every book I could get my hands on about dreams. All in all it was one of the most beneficial subjects I dabbled in because I used many of the things I learned in my dream study for the rest of my life. I took a course in dream study, self organized, which has influenced me deeply for all these years.

I learned that, as I mentioned last night, we all have 4-5 dreams every night in the course of an eight hour sleep – one about every 90 minutes. I learned about rapid eye movements (REM) and how an observer could tell when the subject was dreaming by these sure signs. I learned that sleep moves like a roller coaster through the night, from sub-consciousness plunging down into unconsciousness (deep sleep) and then back up the hill again to sub-consciousness in that 90 minute span. Then the cycle is repeated.

I learned that soon after the roller coaster reaches the bottom of the hill and turns to start back up, we begin to dream and have these REM. Wake me up the minute I start these REM over and over again for a couple of weeks, in other words, refuse to let me dream and I’ll begin to go crazy in an all too short a time.

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