Mind, Body, and Soul

[atalanta]

I think you need to consider that dream you had because the coffee may have triggered it but you could have had any kind of dream, why was it that particular dream and especially since it kept repeating itself.  

I have lots of vivid dreams when I am anxious about something I am going to do, ie, if I know I have to get up early and I will have a stressful meeting, etc.  Then I tend to see lots of vivid dreams, however, the content of the dreams usually is not random.  They tend to reflect recent thoughts and usually insecurities.  

For example, the other day I dreamnt that we were living next door to very rich people.  Their house was large, solid brick and organised and our house was made out of fibro/timber and was a total mess.  The people who owned the rich house were going to sell and I told mum that we ought to buy the house and move in and rent our place so as to pay for the mortgage of the new house.  I had such an overwhelming sense of being stuck financially, emotionally and physically (because of the apparent mess) and desperately wanting to escape.

A few days before this dream, I had watched a program on television about two households swaping wives.  One was poor and the other was rich.  While watching it, I realised that the thing that caused the poor woman to remain in her situation was the amount of negativity she had about everything in life.  I wondered if that is something true of myself although I do try to remain positive about things.  A couple of days later the dream came along, as if it reflected that discomfort I have.  My world at the moment is a mess and I am stuck in it and when I see people living easier lives, I do get even more negative about my life.  I think the dream allowed me to vent that frustration and to make the impossible, possible.

So whatever the reason for dreaming, don't discount the message in the dream.  Giving up coffee however, is probably a good thing though, it may be delicious but it does tend to have negative effects.

[TheSeeker]

As far as the financial thing goes I recommend reading 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad', it's a great book.  You'll see that being negative about money really does keep you broke.  Anyway, thanks for the insight!

[daem0n]

all of our 3 bodies: physical, astral and mental are interdependent, that's why affirmations have power, and memories and emotions are stored in muscles (for example when you look at unpleasant things in your past you relive emotions with the same intensity and even when you mentally accept the situation, you must release energy in the muscles or the emotions will reemerge) and so on and so on, you become what you eat (cheers for burger eaters [xx(])

[atalanta]

Thanks for the book recommendation, I will look it up.

[TheSeeker]

I tend to the think the mind is just part of the soul/conciousness, etc..

But, I noticed that these things are all interwoven while you inhabit this physical body.

For instance, if you're stressed out mentally (conciously) then your body will suffer for it.  If you eat poorly, your mind/emotions will suffer for it.

If you're happy, it's good for your health.  And, if you're healthy it's good for your mind.

I suppose this is a pretty basic idea, that you could write off as common sense, but I notice that a lot of people do not make the connection.


The reason I thought about this recently is because I was having a re-occuring nightmare, and I realized that I had it everytime I drank large amounts of caffeine (coffee, energy drinks).  But, by the end of the day, I would be on a huge down from the caffeine wearing off.  And, every night that happened I had this dream where I was always in this house, a house I've never seen.  Nothing terrible is happinening in the dream, but I feel overwhelmed with despair while I'm in that dream/house.

I think the setting was just a mirror of my mental state, which was caused by the way the 'down' part of caffeine makes me feel.