Mindfulness as a lifestyle

My philosophic objection to ADA is that, from a Buddhist perspective, nothing is as it appears to be. Therefore, focusing on what is only an appearance to your mind (ADA) is merely giving further credence to a delusion, which fosters attachment. Mindfulness, at least in the manner in which >>I<< employ the word, is an awareness of the mental continuum. The status of the "sound track of your mind" as I like to think of it. The state (moment to moment) of your thoughts and emotions strung out over time. One (ADA) is looking and focusing OUTWARDS. The other, INWARDS.

I hope this helps.

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Originally Posted by OneUp

There's so many benefits to living in constant mindfulness in not only LDing, but also waking life as well. One huge +1 that I noticed when I was in the lucid living mindset, was that it made me lucid in almost all of my dreams every single night. And that was only a few months into practicing it, I'm positive if I would've went longer with it that I would've been lucid in all of my dreams every night for sure. As of recent I've been getting back into the lucid living mindset/lifestyle, so I'll be back at that point in no time.

I'm not big on ADA though, rather, Self Awareness is the big focus for me.

Without a doubt, Lucid Living/mindfulness is the key to frequent, constant, and extremely long lucid dreams.

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Hi OneUP - what does your daily mindfulness practise consist of? How do you practise mindfulness and do you perform seated mindfullness also? thanks?

I've practiced mindfulness over 3 times so far.

The first time was definitely the strongest and lasted 2 weeks but i ended up overdoing it and stressing myself into stopping the practice. Over that time period i had 3 spontaneous LDs by the 2 week mark.

The second time, i did it for 3 weeks. I didn't keep it consistent and i slacked off a lot. No LDs recorded on that period.

I've now started my third attempt.
This time i made it a long-term goal and focused on the consistency of the practice. For all i know, it's been 6 days and 1 LD recorded. I've slacked off a bit for the past few days but i'll pick it up from now onwards. It seems like my skill at mindfulness did increase over the many times i attempted to do it, which is implied by my early LD. I'm going to stretch it out as a life-long skill of mine. However for now, i'll keep the mindfulness slight since i can't afford to stress out and burn off the consistency i built up.

So in conclusion, this has to be the key to lucid dreaming as far as i'm concerned. How successful i'll be later on, i don't know.. For now, i'll just keep it up. I can only rely on the root of this all, that is self-awareness itself.