Dreams and The Book of Law

I'm starting off today with the Tag I was given by Inmatez Wife: Seven songs I'm into followed by seven people I will Tag....

1. Broken by Scott Stapp
2. Changes by 3 Doors Down
3. Making Love by Amos Lee
4. Do Right Woman, Do Right Man by Aretha Franklin
5. One Last Breath by Creed
6. What If I Stumble by DC Talk
7. How To Save A Life by The Fray

Seven bloggers to tag........Anna; Tab; Judith; Shannon; Cantellya; Grace; Kenny.......

Dreaming is the main function of the mind, and the mind dreams twenty-four hours a day. It dreams when the brain is awake, and it also dreams when the brain is asleep. The difference is that when the brain is a awake, there is a material frame that makes us perceive things in a linear way. When we go to sleep we do not have the frame, and the dream has the tendency to change constantly.....

Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on that which we want to perceive. We can perceive millions of things simultaneously, but using our attention, we can hold whatever we want to perceive in the foreground of our mind...

By using our attention we learned a whole reality, a whole dream. We learned how to behave in society: What to believe and what not to believe; what is acceptable and what is not acceptable; what is good and what is God; what is beautiful and what is ugly; what is right and what is wrong...

As children, we didn't have the opportunity to choose our beliefs, but we agreed with the information that was passed to us from the dream of the planet via other humans. The only way to store information is by agreement. The outside dream may hook our attention, but if we don't agree, we don't store that information. As soon as we agree, we bekieve it, and this is called faith. To have faith is to believe unconditionally.....

We punish ourselves when we don't follow the rules according to our belief system...

The belief system is like a Book of Law that rules our mind. Without question, whatever is in the Book of Law, is our truth. We base all of our judgments according to the Book of Law, even if these judgements go against our inner nature....

Whatever goes against the book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called FEAR. Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison...

Even if the Book of Law is wrong, it makes you feel safe...

Taken from The 4 Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz p 1-11