Andrew Holecek
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Merit | Importance in our Lives & Practice
This session opens with a guided Tonglen practice for those who have been impacted by covid, and then moves into a discussion about the Pure Land tradition and the importance of merit in our lives and practice.
This talk is part of my free Weekly Hangouts. Join us this week:
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Dreams of Light Book Study Group, which meets weekly:
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The Lucid Dreaming Workbook is available now:
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My In-Depth Introductory Course on Lucid Dreaming:
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My In-Depth Course on Working with Fear & Anxiety:
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Mind & Body | How are they connected?
มุมมอง 7113 ปีที่แล้ว
Here, I share an excerpt from the book I’m currently writing. In this excerpt, I speak about the importance of the body & learning to stay embodied. What are the wonders of the mind, and how are they contained within the wonders of the body? How can we use our understanding of the body to refine our understanding of the mind? How does meditation mend the fracture between mind and body? This tal...
Interview with Sharon Salzberg
มุมมอง 8113 ปีที่แล้ว
Join the esteemed teacher Sharon Salzberg in a pointed discussion about the place of meditation and spirituality in politics and world affairs. The conversation turns to an honest look at the opportunities that lie within all the current obstacles, and how crises can ignite evolution. What can I do to help the world in these difficult times, and what am I not seeing? How can we work with our bl...
Communicating Authentically | Spirituality & Empathy
มุมมอง 3073 ปีที่แล้ว
How can we reach the people who we perceive to be unreachable? Here, I address how we can communicate with both others and ourselves authentically, and how can we step into the shoes of others, especially those we may not like. We'll also speak about nature vs. nurture and how much nurture really impacts nature... and what role spirituality plays in all of this. This talk is part of my free Wee...
Relating to the World & Staying Grounded
มุมมอง 5913 ปีที่แล้ว
How can we relate to what's happening in the world? How do we relate to current events without getting lost? I'll provide you with emergency meditations and other tools and practices for working with what we find difficult to relate to. We will look at how to work with our own reactivity, aggression, and anger, and learn how to feel our emotions without feeding them. I will lead you through sev...
Spiritual Bypassing in the Mindfulness Movement
มุมมอง 5273 ปีที่แล้ว
What are the shortcomings of the mindfulness movement? Is mindfulness being commodified? What is spiritual bypassing, and how is it present in the mindfulness movement? And what is the next step after mindfulness? An excerpt from the new book I'm writing touches on all of these questions and concerns. This talk is part of my free Weekly Hangouts. Join us this week: bit.ly/3aYDCD8 Dreams of Ligh...
Dream Interpretation | Dream Symbolism
มุมมอง 2.5K3 ปีที่แล้ว
How can we interpret our dreams? I'll share with you about one of my own dreams, a dream of clarity, and share with you how I set about interpreting that dream and the dream symbolism. We'll also touch briefly on how somatic practices relate to dream interpretation. This talk is part of my free Weekly Hangouts. Join us this week: bit.ly/38fO6wt The Lucid Dreaming Workbook is available now: bit....
How to Embody Spiritual Practice | The Importance of Motivation
มุมมอง 4383 ปีที่แล้ว
What is the difference between the spiritual and the material? How can we avoid the pitfall of "setting out for heaven" on the spiritual path? Why is it important to stay embodied in difficult situations, and how can it help our spiritual path progress? Here, I discuss all these topics and will lead you in a short tonglen meditation. This talk is part of my free Weekly Hangouts. Join us this we...
The Lost Temple of Sleep | How Lucid Dreaming can Heal You
มุมมอง 1.5K3 ปีที่แล้ว
What are the different levels of expression of the mind? Here, I answer these questions and talk to you about my new book, Dreams of Light, and why I wrote this book. I'll talk to you about lucidity vs. non-lucidity and why we suffer, as well as how we can use lucid dreams to become lucid in the waking state as well. This is a clip from my Book Study Group, which meets weekly: bit.ly/37FEzP0 Dr...
The Lucid Dreaming Workbook | Book Trailer
มุมมอง 4273 ปีที่แล้ว
The Lucid Dreaming Workbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Mastering Your Dream Life, published by Reveal Press, is an introductory level book on the nuts-and-bolts of lucid dreaming. The workbook format is unique, and invites readers to explore topics through contemplations, exercises, and meditations peppered liberally throughout the book. The reader’s written responses to these exercises also serv...
Mindfulness | Limitations, and Taking it to the Next Level
มุมมอง 4333 ปีที่แล้ว
Why is mindfulness limited, and where do we got next in order to take our spiritual practice up a notch? Here, I discuss why mindfulness is a good place to start, but how it won't lead to enlightenment (and why). I also discuss what exactly mindfulness is, and how the Buddha didn't invent mindfulness. From here, I'll tell you what liminal dreaming is, and how adding liminal dreaming practice to...
How Our Minds Trick Us | A Contemplation on Reality
มุมมอง 1.3K3 ปีที่แล้ว
How are we trained to see the world in a dualistic way, and how can we "break" our misperceptions of reality? Here, I discuss non-contextual realism and how it relates to duality, as well relational vs. phenomenal reality, and the difference between the two. After a brief discussion, I introduce a contemplation that can help us wake up to the true nature of reality, rather than the illusory ver...
Defeat Anxiety | How to Work with your Fear
มุมมอง 5064 ปีที่แล้ว
How can we work with our anxiety and hyper-reactivity in current times? What are samskaras, and how can learning about them help us with overcoming our anxiety? I'll answer these questions for you and teach you how this can help to limit our karmic footprints, and enable us to lead more peaceful lives. The Lucid Dreaming Workbook is available tomorrow, December 1st! www.andrewholecek.com/the-lu...
Using Dreams to take Your Power Back | Clean Up Your Projections
มุมมอง 1.5K4 ปีที่แล้ว
How can we use our dreams to take that power back, and how can becoming lucid help us take ownership of our projections? Here, I'll answer these questions for you, and also touch on how nothing has inherent power - we imbue people and situations with the power that we perceive them to have. This talk is part of my Free Weekly Hangouts. Join us next week: www.andrewholecek.com/events/virtual-wee...
Fear & Anxiety in an Uncertain World
มุมมอง 4144 ปีที่แล้ว
Learn more about these practices & enroll in the course here: bit.ly/34vbLqP By exploring the nature of anxiety and fear you can better understand these lifetime partners, and transform your relationship to them. Anxiety and fear are incredibly important on the spiritual path, and armed with the proper tools, spiritual warriors go directly into them to transform them into opportunities for awak...
New online community for lucid dreaming and dream yoga
มุมมอง 2.9K5 ปีที่แล้ว
New online community for lucid dreaming and dream yoga
Dream Yoga by Andrew Holecek
มุมมอง 8K8 ปีที่แล้ว
Dream Yoga by Andrew Holecek
Dream Yoga: More Than Lucid Dreaming
มุมมอง 99K10 ปีที่แล้ว
Dream Yoga: More Than Lucid Dreaming
Andrew Holecek on his book "Preparing to Die
มุมมอง 7K11 ปีที่แล้ว
Andrew Holecek on his book "Preparing to Die
Global Dental Relief
มุมมอง 40212 ปีที่แล้ว
Global Dental Relief

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  • @susancherian6359
    @susancherian6359 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Buddhism was birthed out of Hinduism which is a very scientific body of language also ❤ A Course in Miracles is a great book 📕

  • @CesarSandoval024
    @CesarSandoval024 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What book is this? Is it published already?

  • @susanbarbella3477
    @susanbarbella3477 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you practice Dream Yoga if you have insomnia or use sleep aids?

  • @artrahman169
    @artrahman169 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If buddhists believe in reincarnation then why prepare too much for death? Am i the only one bemused by this ?

    • @jenniesaxonne8270
      @jenniesaxonne8270 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Cuz we don’t wanna get a rebirth in the realms of suffering , we wanna go beyond the enlightenment to escape from this samsara

  • @LoreenWong-m1i
    @LoreenWong-m1i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I had a problem saying protect

  • @maebewood
    @maebewood 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    wonderful! incredible!! helpful!!! thank you. have you read The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda? i'm curious what you would think about it 🙏🏼

  • @blackklu805
    @blackklu805 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Tuesday night I dropped to Turiya or Turiyatita then woke up immediately as I noticed. During the day in yesterday's nap my dreams were Lucid. Tonight I couldn't sleep.

  • @caterpillakilla
    @caterpillakilla 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have suffered from sleep awareness and lucid dreams my entire life. I can’t believe anyone would want to learn to do it. be careful because it doesnt go away and you’ll never feel well rested again

    • @hrabinajezowa
      @hrabinajezowa 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Interesting. What is difficult for you about being aware of dreaming?

  • @youtube_acct_42
    @youtube_acct_42 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is the video from the next day?

  • @TheinternetArchaeologist
    @TheinternetArchaeologist 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is why i don't like Buddhism as a religion.You just end up talking in circles for hours Without really saying anything and shallow people think it's deep

  • @rajdeep49
    @rajdeep49 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hi... I'm from India.... Where I can learn this 6 yogas of Naropa.... Plz guide....

  • @JennipherKawangu
    @JennipherKawangu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dreaming about Wilbur shavel and a cement in it

  • @alienjugakepo1415
    @alienjugakepo1415 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤ i did meditation n i had twice lucid dream

  • @margott.244
    @margott.244 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your book “ The Dream Yoga” is my favourite guide and encouragement to nurture my wealthy world of dreams , I almost see the waking state, physical reality is a continuum of a dream 😊💜

    • @margott.244
      @margott.244 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would like to see your new content here. Please take care 😊💜

  • @margott.244
    @margott.244 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You are so right on the Dream Yoga! Recently I have had a dream when my past traumas from schools days were TRANSFORMED in one dream!!!! I am not sure how I did it but I recollect I was meditating on Jesus words from the Bible 💜😊

  • @margott.244
    @margott.244 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Much 💜Andrew, I’m so glad I’ve found you 😊🙏

  • @XTSY
    @XTSY 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I saw this video years ago and I had it open in a tab for a few days because I wanted to watch it again. In the meantime, I had a lucid dream in which in front of a door, I was unable to go through it (passing through it when it was closed) and for the first time I "felt" the surface of an object with the touch of my hands. It was shocking to hear about this very thing now that I've rewatched the video!

  • @Jacob-og9pz
    @Jacob-og9pz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In those 8 hours days and weeks can go by, to say to add 30 years is an understatement lol

  • @ketwals2723
    @ketwals2723 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thats true...I always thought they have it all backwards...the waking dream is the most asleep= true. Nice talk ❤Thx❤

  • @LuminaryMonochrome
    @LuminaryMonochrome ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, you had previously talked about liminal meditation or hypnagogic meditation however when this is normally mentioned, its normally mentioned under the context of mindfulness meditation but i was wondering how hypnagogia would interact with vipassana consider vipassana activates different regions of the brain as opposed to mindfulness and vipassana is related to immediately verbalising the sensation youre experiencing eg. "Thinking, thinking, thinking" "seeing seeing seeing" etc. And maintaining this level of focus which i feel would be interesting because one of the uses of the hypnagogic state is to view the projections of your subconscious mind and vipassana allows you to notice it in greater detail and also the paralel simulatenous process of vipassana alongside the hypnagogic visualisation may enhance the encoding of the visualisations into memory and increase its intensity also hypnagogia is the precursor to lucid dreaming occasionally or atleast its connected and vipassana is similar to that technique where you tell yourself "i'm in a dream" but this time youre not focusing on the birds eye view aspect of being someone who is merely in a dream but instead the internal aspect of the hypnagogic sensations themselves however to compensate for the lack of anchor that keeps you from drifting to regular sleep in the first technique, the second technique is performed under hypnagogia which is a state in between wakefulness and sleep so this might be a sibling process albeit different to the lucid dreaming process with cocomitantly brain region activation in the same manner. Altho with this, youre focusing on your senses and einstein did say that integration of senses is a crucial part of intelligence. Im going on a bit of a waffle now xd.

  • @moesypittounikos
    @moesypittounikos ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy is very articlate, enthusiastic and wise. I discovered him in the Kastrup interview. He hasnt a big following mind. This is the state we are in

  • @Triptweeze
    @Triptweeze ปีที่แล้ว

    Gaaaahhhhhh! This video found me at the EXACT right time! I've had insomnia for a very long time. I just now have started getting back into actually sleeping. The medication that I'm taking extends the hypnagogic state. This is the first time in over 9 years that I have experienced all that is in that phase. Instead of this being a light trip into slumber, it turned into a journey. I used to experience this state every single night. It was part of my practice, part of my lucid dreaming, and part of who I was. After all of this time I've become so unfamiliar with it and it makes me realize that it's not just the practice that I have become unfamiliar with. Wow wow wow. I just now started reconnecting with myself over the past 3 years. My spiritual journey is back on course... It's humbling to know that there is still work to be done. Thank you Thank you Thank you. This is very eye-opening.

  • @codylittleton9741
    @codylittleton9741 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is it just me or did your voice change? Is sounds deeper...

  • @lordarchontitus
    @lordarchontitus ปีที่แล้ว

    Read The WILD Way To Lucid Dreaming by Slider.

  • @melaniemarxer5255
    @melaniemarxer5255 ปีที่แล้ว

    ♥️🙏♥️

  • @FauxFoe
    @FauxFoe ปีที่แล้ว

    🙏

  • @Kholakogeet84
    @Kholakogeet84 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have been trying a number of techniques available on TH-cam to have lucid dreams; but none of them worked for me. I usually have bad dreams like being chased by animals etc. I never tried this technique. Let me try it from tonight till the next seven days. I'll come back again with a comment.

    • @redpillmatrix3046
      @redpillmatrix3046 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dream yoga advanced techniques work instantly if you are a mediator

    • @Kholakogeet84
      @Kholakogeet84 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you so much. Not sure what a mediator mean but I don't think I am one. I would be grateful if you could recommend any particular video.

  • @lookmagazine2667
    @lookmagazine2667 ปีที่แล้ว

    16.30 Does consciousness really ever turn off? Doesn’t make sense to me….

  • @trish3580
    @trish3580 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow! Andrew teaches so clearly...would love to hear the rest of the weekend. Can these videos be found somewhere on youtube? thank you

  • @starmorph
    @starmorph ปีที่แล้ว

    I learned about the goal of attaining awareness in the three states and am very excited to begin to utilize dreams as a skillfull means to see deeper levels of reality and expand my awareness. Thank you for this amazing information! Much respect and reverance for Tibetan wisdom.

  • @user-cz4zu4hx8m
    @user-cz4zu4hx8m ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow you believe in cnn and msnbc? I’m glad I didn’t sign up for your upcoming dream yoga retreat. Although I did enjoy your book dream yoga a lot and am starting to read dream of light. I think I can overcome the political differences because so far most of your spiritual teachings resonate well with me. Still thanks for the spiritual messages

  • @equaleyez
    @equaleyez ปีที่แล้ว

    Book is ordered. I've tried lucid dreaming techniques about ten years ago, it worked one or two times and then I lost interest after a mere month, and also used substances at the time that didn't really got me into a decent REM. I now am sleeping sober each night and getting back into lucid dreaming, Andrew Holecek you are an inspiration.

  • @the_oneironaut
    @the_oneironaut ปีที่แล้ว

    Who is the boy with the "joy" in the name?

  • @bartwisse8197
    @bartwisse8197 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Transparent thought , best thought

  • @zacksymes
    @zacksymes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love when people are better than me in a certain spiritual domain or field - if they can back it up. Who else can I learn from if not someone “better” than me?

  • @zacksymes
    @zacksymes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I definitely suffer from this, through and through. And although this may sound like my ego using twisted logic, I really do wonder if being better than other people is a bad thing exactly. Meaning, isn’t that what we all want and learn from? Someone better than us? Do we not go to the mechanic because they are “better” than us at cars? When finding a guru or teacher do we not want someone again, better? Now thinking that I am better than you could be? That’s dangerous. But acknowledging someone is further on the path… why is that bad exactly. I think my point needs more nuance than a TH-cam comment section can provide, but I hope I am getting close to explaining it. I love my ego, obviously. But that inflated sense of self also comes with the necessary confidence to go out into the world and make a change. I wonder how close humbleness and low self esteem are related - do either even do anybody any good.

  • @zacksymes
    @zacksymes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    If we are more asleep here in waking reality, which I understand and agree with, then stepping down consciousness [to dreaming levels] is a misnomer - we are stepping “up” our consciousness. And I think that semantics game matters here; matters a lot actually.

  • @zacksymes
    @zacksymes 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Good dreams are heaven, bad dreams are hell, no dreams are purgatory. We die when we sleep and that’s literal - not faith based woo woo. A judgmental world with no time, no pain, and no physics. The universal and cross religious consensus for mechanics of the afterlife - overarching each religious tradition

  • @kent.bassett
    @kent.bassett 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is so great! 0:00 intro 8:17 is where the resolutions are stated to facilitate lucid dreams

  • @seamlessyorkshiredales
    @seamlessyorkshiredales 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I would be super interested see what books you have in your library.

  • @seamlessyorkshiredales
    @seamlessyorkshiredales 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m really happy to have discovered your work. Such interesting topics and well presented. Thanks 😃👍

  • @markmuzeroll2928
    @markmuzeroll2928 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dear Andrew, Thank you so much for your Dream Yoga book. I have a question regarding a recurring experience that I have. I have experimented off and on for many years the idea of leaving the body. I sometimes visualize and try to feel my self rolling like a log as to role out of the body. Which was something I learned about from Robert Monroes tapes 25 some odd years ago. It seams that when the experience comes, I’m not rolling out of the physical body but its as if I’m dreaming then from that dream body I set my self to the task of lying down and rolling out of that body then from there I feel my self leave this dream body and with Varying lucidity I continue with the experience.. I would greatly appreciate any advice or words of wisdom regarding this. Thank you, Mark

  • @davidtodd8308
    @davidtodd8308 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    One proper dose of ketamine will get you there in minutes.

  • @desertportal353
    @desertportal353 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video - and dukkha is the deep and correct sense that something is very wrong. We assign the ideas that we ourselves (all of our selves) and the conditions for them are somehow wrong or not worthy somehow. The mistake of course is that mind tricks us into thinking that one or all of these selves actually exist.

  • @libertaddepercepcion1111
    @libertaddepercepcion1111 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey! I have heard your name while researching about lucid dreaming, but this is the first time I actually watch one of your videos. What a beautiful character you seem to have! Beautiful light, thanks for your work!

  • @peachy9976
    @peachy9976 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The Greek god family tree was mixed up but the jist is similar. Nxy and Erebus (night and darkness) had twins Hypnos and Thanatos (Sleep and peaceful death) . Hypnos and Pasithea (relaxation) have the oneiroi (dreams) Morpheus, Phobetor and Phantasos. They're personifications of different kinds of dreams.

  • @MikeTooleK9S
    @MikeTooleK9S 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I spent 10 years preparing to turn my dreams into an art machine, awake, in this world. my diamond dogs are waiting for my glorious arrival. all you freaking people are on notice. get gud. the internet is on your doorstep. i am a blighthouse. if you can't conjure your dreams as multimedia, you're merely messin around, like xbox

  • @seamlessyorkshiredales
    @seamlessyorkshiredales 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks Andrew!

  • @darylwayne611
    @darylwayne611 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    It was an extreme pleasure listening to your presentation! You are very knowledgeable and it shows, and your enthusiasm brought it to life! Thank you very much!!

  • @333-u9o
    @333-u9o 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I discovered your videos today and I am hooked! It's a pleasure listening to you! I can't wait to suck in more information from your channel. I also adore your goofiness 🙃 Much love and gratitude from Germany.