We all remember being in grade school and hearing the teacher call on another student or perhaps even ourselves to say something like this: Stop daydreaming! Rather than looking out the window, please pay attention to the lesson! Even though it’s important to be fully attentive to our studies, there’s something to be said about the importance and value of daydreaming and how this actually contributes to self-healing.
When I visited Switzerland in 2009, I had an opportunity to talk with Billy Meier, the world-famous UFO Contactee, about a personal difficulty in my life. Billy responded with these simple words, “Castles in the air.” I said, “I don’t understand.” He told me that I needed to spend time daydreaming and that this would heal the subconscious and help manage the difficulties in my life. Billy also went on to say that the times in his life that were the most difficult is when he wrote children’s books.
At the time, I couldn’t imagine how such a simple suggestion would be helpful. Then I found the text in his book,
Die Psyche that elaborated on Billy’s advice. Below is an unofficial translation taken from this book.
I have a sister named Yvonne, and she is an Interior Designer in the Seattle area. Yvonne is usually a very happy, up-beat person, a hard worker and very successful in her work. A few years ago, I watched her become depressed due to personal problems, the economic climate created fear in people resulting in lower sales at her work, and she talked about her own mortality in a tone of hopelessness as I’ve never seen in her before.
She asked me for advice and I sent to her the translation written below. She began doing the process of proactively daydreaming and especially whenever a negative thought entered her mind. Within 7 days, I began to feel like I was getting my sister back. Her mood became upbeat again, and she’s even beginning to increase sales at her work, in spite of the current economy. Yvonne found this simple process to be so helpful, she said she doesn’t let a day go by without setting time aside for conscious daydreaming.
The following excerpts are from the book, Die Psyche by Billy Meier.
From Childhood on, everyone has a daydream; a daydream creation existing in his fantasy of something he likes to dream or has had dreams of, which he would like to become real at some time. A daydream can be of anything one finds good, beautiful, sweet and nice. It can be a daydream, which can become a reality or simply represents a creation of fantasy for all times. A daydream is much better if it can become a reality. If you forget your daydream, than you can make up a new one, a new daydream in which one can get lost in fantasy. In order to learn neutral-positive thinking, it is simply necessary to turn to the daydream, old or new, and get lost in it with great fantasy, mainly, each time negative thoughts start to influence the thinking. When thoughts of worry or sadness begin to weigh down the normal positive thinking, to influence it and to torment it, remember to dream. It is also advisable to lose oneself in a daydream as much of the time as possible because then one is not overburdened with thoughts of sorrow and sadness.
It is permissible to let ones thoughts ride along the most fanciful ways in one’s daydreams, build gigantic castles in the air and become lost in all that gives pleasure to the senses; fortune, love, beauty, understanding and everything which gives a life to the heart and emotions. Fantasy has no limit for this, and no attempt should be made to curb it. However, be watchful and reach for the daydream immediately when even the smallest negative thought tries to break out of the subconscious.
All beginning is very difficult and so is the learning of neutral positive thinking. In the beginning it will take extreme effort to concentrate on the daydream because the negative world of thoughts constantly shoots it’s moral tainting arrows. The subconscious continually tries to push the prevailing negative thought matter into the foreground, which makes it very difficult to achieve concentration on a daydream. Nevertheless, over and over again, every thought must be directed to the daydream, until the negative forward movement of the subconscious slowly relaxes and in the end disappears entirely and leaves the upper-hand and leaves the domination to the positive thinking. Under certain circumstances this procedure can take only a few minutes, or, depending on the severity of the case, even several months. Therefore, it follows that the patient must keep practicing because, in the first place, no man is born a master of his craft, and in the second, the Spiritual strength varies from person to person.
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It cannot fail that when these golden rules are followed intensively and constantly, in a very short time first results and realizations are achieved and by then the first big step is taken toward self-healing. However, the first result should not lead to the interruption of this hard work because it must be continued for as long as it takes until the thinking has accepted the final form of the balanced positive power as absolute. This being so, the worst catastrophe will never be able to damage or even oppress a human being so built up and invigorated spiritually.
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During the first 3 days that a patient starts to think of a daydream he will experience hell. This is because the subconscious constantly nags and foams with rage and does not want the daydream to surface. But it will be better after 3 days, if one again and again reaches for the daydream with intensity. Between the third and seventh day, it is guaranteed that the first results will show up somewhere and somehow, if one carries out this teaching with intensity and endurance. With each person the results will be different because everyone thinks and feels individually. This is why it cannot be stated at the outset how and where the first results will be.
