Finding Balance Between Positive Thinking and Reality at Bedtime
It starts with positive thinking, but it doesn’t end there.
Author: James Cobb
5 Reasons the Rosary Is a Powerful Night Prayer
There are many different types of prayer. There are formal, memorized prayers, informal contemporaneous prayers, songs, and spiritual reading. There are prayers of petition, thanksgiving, grace before meal, and aspirations. There are others too numerous to mention here. The Rosary, however, is a kind of a big prayer made up of many smaller prayers. It…
What Are Possible Meanings For Dreams About Car Accidents?
Most people don’t have precognitive dreams. They may reel off an accurate prediction now and then, but that’s more of a question of getting lucky. It’s not useful if it’s not consistent. That doesn’t mean one can’t put two situations together and determine a likely result. That’s not the same thing as being able to…
Another Way To Journal A Dream
Sometimes dreams don’t have a discernable story or scene. They’re too disorganized or minimalistic to put into words. When this happens, the SOM format doesn’t work. How are you going to make or tell a story if there’s no story? Try this alternate dream journal method. What to do When this happens, simply make a…
Good Sleep Hygiene Is Among the Top 7 Most Underrated Habits For Keeping Weight Off
Did you break your diet? It can be hard to keep a diet, especially when foods that tempt you to break it surround you. You’ve got to have some wins sometime. If you don’t, you can start to feel like a loser, like being at the weight you want to be at is impossible. If…
The Gist Of a Dream Is More Important Than Any Single Detail
Sometimes you’ll draw a blank when you wake up and try remembering what you were dreaming about. Maybe you were woken suddenly and the memory of the dream shatters. Maybe the details were simply dim. Whatever the reason, you know you were dreaming and you’re coming blank. You might only be left with a memory…
Reishi: AKA the Mushroom of Sleep, Calmness, and Microbiome Health
Reishi mushrooms are not your average fungi. The bioactive components found in reishi mushrooms (Ganoderma lucidum) have been shown and suspected, among other things, to have a soothing effect on the nervous system. One such compound is triterpene, which can ease anxiety. While unfamiliar to many Americans, reishis have long been used for general health…
Gotu Kola: Benefits, Uses, and More
For centuries, gotu kola has been a superstar in traditional medicine. It’s like an herbal superhero, swooping in to save the day with mental clarity and memory improvement powers. And if it were an herbal superhero, it would have more powers than just greater mental clarity and memory improvement. It’s also noted to be good…
My AI Dream Interpretation Experiment
Want a picture? Type a few guidelines in a field. An artificial intelligence (AI) can draw it for you. How about a story? Same thing. Put in a few guidelines. AI will tell you one. Many times, AI output is pretty good, useful even. Just how lazy artificial intelligence makes people remains to be seen.…
A Way To Find a Good, Free Sleep Course
Almost every job in every industry seems to come with requirements to complete training in an LMS at least every year. They’re not often considered to be an employee benefit. They are. Many LMSes offer a free sleep course. LMSes—which are “Learning Management Systems—are cloud-based software packages focused on employee training. They can cover a…
Is Lucid Dreaming A Sin?
To understand whether lucid dreaming is a sin, it helps to first understand what is meant by “sin.” To “sin” means to violate the law of God. It can also refer to the state of human nature where one is estranged from God. When you sin, you’re acting in a way God doesn’t approve of.…
Why Do We Dream In Symbols?
The human brain and mind have been compared to a computer. Understanding why we dream in symbols is easier when you consider computers. First, there are the parts of the computer you interact with. These include the keyboard, the monitor, and the mouse. In addition, there are the programs you interact with. This would include…
How To Dream More
When I was in school there was this kid, Dave. He remembered all of his dreams, so he said. They’d be crazy. They’d have monsters in them, people with no faces, and talking ducks. Every so often he’d keep us entertained before school and at recess with his tales from the night before. Sometimes his…