Have you listened to the latest Sleep Doctor video???
highly reccomend it!
Long story short:
Tenzin told him at a retreat to add an additional 90min of ‘Sleep’ to his night shedule, and the results were Magic!!!
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I have started doing this, also inspired in him… and it’s a great practice 
my LDs have doubled… well, more than tripled actually! I think Tummo practice also helped. This simple self-love and relaxing “technique” is delightful.
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I don’t want to jinx anything, but…I’ve started simply affirming to myself “I fall asleep quickly and easily,” and stopped reinforcing the “i-world” in relation to myself, and am sleeping so much better, and while maintaining good-great recall.
For those tougher moments when my ego/waking mind spins up and out of control, I just repeat to myself “deeper…deeper…” and also feel the “stillness, silence, spaciousness” more and more deeply, and bring my energy down out of my head into my throat and heart chakras and reside there a bit, connecting to them, then let go and go deeper…deeper…and I’m out like a light :).
I give myself plenty of time. I have no alarms, and no “must wake up by” times many days. I’ve stopped getting up in those times when my mind wants to get up and hit the dopamine-generation-machine (computer), that’s also a TWR lesson: don’t get up, stay in bed, and keep relaxing deeper and deeper…
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I have some sort of inner resistance to starting and maintaining tummo practice. Maybe I have an unconscious fear that it will take a lot of time and yield no results… but not doing it makes this a self-fulfilling prophecy… it is part of “the will to fail” I think (as discussed in the book “Wake up and Live!” by Dorothea Brande: she posits that most people are drawn to time-wasting activities because of the fear of even entertaining the possibility of failure if they act to pursue their goals, so her remedy is “to act as if failure were impossible”).
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at the moment my mantra in between states after three sleep cycles is “Why am I such a radiant bright light, open to living my full potential?” along with the Kubera Mudra.
love this expression 
perfect.
YES 
or perhaps Tummo is not for you. in my case, it was a calling. and when life aligned to provide the training with the Rinpoche I took refuge with in 2013, and provided all the resources to do it, I totally felt the connection to it. I feel I will do it for the rest of my life, everyday.
I do think that you need to be experienced in the spiritual path to do it. here’s what I can identify:
- you need to be flexible;
- you need to know your rhythm and honor it in every step of the way;
- you need to accept that when there are no conditions to do the whole sequence, you can just do the 9 breaths and it’s ok;
- you need to have faith, because the prayers are indeed powerful when you truly believe them;
- you need to master yourself for keeping the spaciousness for this piece of heaven to be present everyday in your life;
- you need to close your door so that no one disturbs you and/or educate people in your home to respect your space and not interfering when you are in your practice;
- you need to be very loving to yourself and ground that love so that is can also go to others in a kind way and they can understand and respect your practice;
- you need to go to the toilet sometimes in between exercises and it’s ok! hihihi
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Grand Slam advice my Friend, thank you so much for this Wisdom!
After having trouble falling back to sleep last night I tested this technique out. Doing the mantra, placing awareness in throat, and opening to the Awareness & “stillness, silence, spaciousness”.
As I was doing it, it reminded me of when I was first learning meditation from a sexy 'amatauer 'teaching yoga Nidra (with a Heart of gold). She finalized the practice by telling people to rest their inner gaze on the 3rd eye. But my intuition felt much more peace resting Awareness on the heart beat in my chest. It wasnt until about 5 years later that I learned this technique had ancient origins (maybe I had learned it in a past life(s)!?!?!?)
Long story short, your post reminded me of that fond memory. And as I was practicing putting the awareness in the throat like you said, I had a insight flash to help this process:
Find the pulse internally in the jugular of the throat, feel it, and once you have a strong somatic sense there, rest in awareness, or do the lotus visualization.
Connecting to that pulse I think then makes it easier to drop into the heart and feel the more sublte beats there, and then rest in Awareness there.
Had my 2nd LD of the year. I think you and Beloved @BlessingsDeers helped facilitate this.
Thank you
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yuhuuuuuuuuuu! I think the whole Ncc also helped… 
I indeed had a feeling you would dream lucid tonight!
wanna share it?
congrats!
most probably!
SO beautiful. you know, many intuition experts say that one of the source of intuitive insights comes indeed from past lives it makes all sense to me taking in consideration that one part of intuition is also based on an organic filter of all past events. This part of intuition needs to be balanced with others because, as you know, when it’s based on the past or on learned impressions, it migth fail many times.
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Wow! So great! I’m glad it worked out for you! One just has to fiddle with all these different approaches until you find one that really deeply resonates. I know some like @Steve_Gleason says that the throat doesn’t do much for him, but the heart does. Everyone has their “key energy” centers. Both the throat and the heart work for me.
In the past I’d had difficulty placing my seat of awareness in the chakras outside of the head. What I do to help “find” the place is that I imagine my dream hand reaching inside my body and grabbing hold of the central channel at the chakra location, then placing my awareness at my hand, and imagine that my head is “above me” higher up the central channel. This visualization has helped me to remain with and merge with the chakras more reliably.
More about SSS:
Stillness is the stillness of the physical body
Silence is the silence of speech and thoughts
Spaciousness is that expansive sense both in your head and in your heart.
Sometimes I begin my relaxation for sleep by telling my mind, “Shhhhh!!!” to start out with.
And just feel that stillness deeper and deeper in the body, even if you think you’re relaxed, you can always let go of more effort and tension.
The spaciousness helps me to escape that “I’m locked into my head” feeling when I can’t fall asleep.
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Yes and both are time tested. The heart is more subtitle and difficult to find a pulse than the throat, so I prefer starting in the throat, then moving awareness the Heart after by body settles.
Thank you for this, great advice!
I did a similar meditation of working with Awareness outside the body, but to the sides and back on Sunday. Small Synch.
LOVE this! And this:
Brilliant. I have tried a few times to observe the falling asleep process, and try to get accustomed to the different subtle physiological shifts that take place. Changes in breathing, Changes in temperature, changes in heart beat, etc. Almost like a video game, each new ‘Level;’ of relaxation has different traits.
Amen Beloved Sister, so much good energy and great teachers here. 
I think there is some deep wisdom in these words. It also might explain Buddha’s Mom’s white elephant dream, and some of the special physical attributes::
"What the Buddha added was the teaching that each of these marks is the result of ethical action in the past. For instance, the wheel-mark on the foot comes from having “lived for the happiness of many, a dispeller of fright and terror, provider of lawful protection and shelter, and supplying all necessities.” "
https://www.nantien.org.au/en/buddhism/knowledge-buddhism/32-marks-buddha
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read it somewhere!.. awesome!
uau! amazing!
yes.
yes. in my case, I listen to the beat of my heart… and let it induce me into sleep.
yes. this is the key for me.
excellent and interesting source of information. thank you for sharing Beloved.
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Thank you for this my Heart
If the mind drifts away into thought, I found it helpful to add 3 REALLY Deep and REALLY Slow breaths into the equation.
Also might help if you are trying to break into a deeper level of relaxation
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yes. learned in several Alpha Ultra Mind training that this, combined with three images, is the gate to enter the Alpha State
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[16]Magical Induction Methods for Lucid Dreaming
@Dream_Hacker
Have you seen this video?
HIGHLY recommend it!
They give a small shout out to TWR
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I haven’t! Thanks for the ping!
p.s. I had a REALLY great night of dreaming last night, including a very long and vivid dream with lots of DC interaction, interesting things to see, a short bit of controlled flying (non-lucid but I knew I had to exert my will in order to correct my faulty take-off and to continue gaining altitude), a waking where I reached for the recall and solidified the memories, did a session of MILD, then I was able to fall asleep again woohoo and had 2 more dreaming periods (slightly worse recall but still nice), including one scene where I juuuuust about managed lucidity (a very slight “wait a minute…!?”) moment that I just couldn’t grab on to. But fun nonetheless. Yay :).
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The Comics or Washington?
If the former, I too had an anomalous dream being given superpowers to jump a few stories high onto buildings fire escapes. I got the powers from someone pouring a small liquid into my ear…[symbol for Spiritual teachings???]
No pressure but I think they will soon become members only videos, so might be good to watch sooner rather than later.
This is a victory worth celebrating
Also I think this is a big win, and a sign that things are heating up.
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3 Pills
"Stillness of Body.
Silence of Speech.
Spaciousness of Mind."
Master TWR
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"Working with dream practices, we develop presence and positive qualities.
We become flexible in life as we become aware of the dreamlike nature of our waking life.
Then we can change ordinary life into experiences of compassion and beauty, incorporating everything into the path.
It is when our conventional selves dissolve in clear awareness that we move beyond hope, fear, and meaning, beyond the discriminations of positive and negative, beyond trying.
Even beyond practice.
The unconventional Truth is beyond healing and the need for healing.
When we abide in pure awarenes, negativities no longer rule us.
"
(p 151)
-Master Tenzin Wagnal Rinpoche
Beloveds,
@BlessingsDeers
@Bianca_Aga
@Dream_Hacker
@_Barry
@Mayra
@fenwizard
@Kalabasis
@sky
@Athernium
@YelienaT
[Bibliomancy from Sunday 3.23.25]
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Thank you so much for this.
Beautiful quote.
In abiding in pure awareness, we trust.
One and only refuge.
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The Power of Dreams: Understanding the Pathway to Awakening
2025, Conversations Live, Dream Yoga, Science & Spirituality, Video Archive
Feb 3, 2025
Join Ed O’Malley, Ph.D., Danny Lewin, Ph.D., and Geshe Tenzin Wangyal for an insightful exploration of dreams in Tibetan Buddhism and Bön. This live online dialog will uncover the spiritual and psychological significance of dreams, introducing practical techniques for lucid dreaming and dream journaling. Participants will gain valuable insights into how dream work can support emotional resilience and self-awareness, offering a unique perspective on the pathway to awakening.
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“The daily life of the mind determines the quality of our lives and the quality of our dreams. Change the way you experience your waking life, and you change the experience of dream; the “you” that lives the dreams of waking life is the same “you” that lives the dreams of sleep. If you spend the day distracted, reacting to events and people from unconscious conditioning, then you are likely to do the same in dreams. If you are present and lucid when awake, you will eventually find that lucidity in dreams. It works in the other direction too; change the way you are in dreams, and you change your waking life.”
-Master Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Chapter 12
The Four Foundational Practices
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