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while still within your physical body or that you will experience yourself out of sync with your physical body. Remain calm and direct your inner self, your awareness, away from your physical body. Allow the inner sensations to develop as you continue to direct your full attention away from your physical body. Focus all your thoughts upon the idea of moving to another area of your home. It’s essential to maintain your awareness fully directed away from your physical body; any thoughts of your body will snap you back within it. Request clarity anytime your awareness or vision is less than ideal. “I request complete clarity now” or “Clarity now!” Always make your request a firm, specific demand for immediate action. This entire process is very natural. Now, more than ever, I believe that dreams are created and designed to assist us in our personal development. It is our choice to recognize and use them or to ignore them. Whatever we decide, our subconscious mind will continue to send its dream messages to our conscious mind. Maybe the time has come to listen and learn from the imagery we receive every night in our dreams. Dream Signals • Feeling or seeing yourself in or near a vehicle of any kind— an automobile, boat, or plane, for example. Also, any dream experience involving a vehicle, such as a space flight or a boating adventure. • Recognizing a change in your day-to-day environment, such as your home becoming a castle, palace, or log cabin. Also, any change in the location, construction, or color of the surroundings. • Having feelings, sensations, or experiences such as numbness, paralysis, energy surges, or sounds out of the norm. • Recognizing any event, situation, or ability that is out of the norm, such as the ability to fly, float, or move in other unconventional ways. • Experiencing yourself as falling or sinking. This includes movement up and down stairs, elevators, and escalators. • Having any experience in which you and your out-of-body partner are together. • Being in any environment that changes rapidly (that is, things appear or disappear quickly). • Finding yourself in an environment that you can easily manipulate or control. Exploring a new environment such as a desert, forest, or snow-covered landscape. • Recognizing a problem or conflict—for example, driving a car down a mountain and the brakes are useless. • Recognizing a bridge, tunnel, or opening of any kind. In your dream this opening may enable you to overcome an obstacle or barrier—a wall or a river, for example. • Being taught or guided in any way or being with a companion who seems to act as a guide. Often this companion is next to you but remains out of your vision. • Meeting with small groups of people in a classroom or conference-room atmosphere. • Encountering multiple levels or floors of any kind: parking garages, office buildings, ships, and so forth. • Reading a book or computer program that contains unusual or advanced information. The following is an example of a conscious dream conversion that one of my workshop students experienced. It occurred the day after a six-hour workshop. I lay in bed this morning deciding whether to start my morning or stay there and relax for a little while longer. It was not long before I drifted off to sleep. I found myself dreaming I was in a classroom sitting at a desk. There were other students in the room. There was a teacher walking around at the front of the room. She had blonde hair and seemed to be very nice. I was in the room briefly, then found myself at my parents’ house. At this point, the dream became lucid. I was lying on the couch in my parents living room thinking about out-of-body experiences and made it my intention to have one. At first I felt some tingling, then some movement. I went with the flow of it. Suddenly I found that the upper half of my body was sitting up and away from the part still lying down. From my waist down, I was still inside my body. I asked for help to complete the experience; then the rest of me slipped out of my body and onto the floor. I felt very heavy and could not get up. Everything seemed clouded and unclear around me. I remembered what Bill said in class, and I called all my energy back to me. As soon as I did, I felt light and was able to get up and move around. I was very excited about my accomplishment. I remember saying: “I did it! I can’t believe it! This is great!” I wanted to tell someone who would understand. My brother was in the room lying on the other couch nearby. I went to my parents bedroom to tell my mom what I had done and saw my dad walking out of the room. He seemed to see me but did not say anything. I entered the room and stood by my mother’s bedside. I was excited to tell her, but she was still sleeping. I was deciding whether to wake her when someone appeared alongside her in the bed and told me not to wake her. I agreed. When I opened my eyes, I was back in my body and the clock said 9:20. Affirmations Affirmations have proved their effectiveness over the past twenty years. Today they are a regular part of self-improvement courses worldwide. An affirmation is essentially a strong, positive statement about yourself framed in the present tense. The root word affirm means to “make firm”; it is a method of solidifying a thought or idea within ourselves. Affirmations should always be formed as a positive statement; for example, “I am a positive person,” “I deserve love,” or “I am getting better and better every minute, every day” are commonly used affirmations. Every moment of our lives, our minds are flowing with a constant stream of thoughts. Our thoughts are continuously influencing our physical and non-physical reality. Our intellectual, our emotional, and finally, our physical state of consciousness is the direct result of our thoughts. Affirmations allow us to focus our thoughts and counteract some of the negative ideas we have accepted. The practice of doing affirmations enables us to begin the process of replacing negative or limiting thoughts with fresh, positive ones. It is a powerful method for reprogramming ourselves for positive change and personal success. Affirmations can be repeated silently, aloud, or in writing; they can even be expressed in the form of a song or rhyme. In out-of-body exploration they are generally repeated silently, with increasing emphasis on the last few moments before the onset of 47