You could say there is a potential pitfall in the idea of the pursuit of happiness {grab your 'CHASE FREEDOM' card and just see if you can catch it!}. So let's flip it; just as in Boyhood the movie, when a bright young thing says, "You know, "seize the moment"... maybe what it really is in truth, is that the moment seizes you!"

Perhaps the real art of living is to recognize and re-recognize and re-re-recognize(!) that we have indeed been seized, again and again, by tender, kind, rich, sweet, and utterly awesome moments that make up the scintillating tapestry of our wondrous lives.

Love to Live by:
*I tell myself the truth about what I’m really hungry for
*I do what I choose for my own well being and happiness
*I do the things that allow me to express my vitality and joy
*It is from instilling sensations and feelings with positive images that you can create the future – no matter whether you recall or envision scenes of happiness
*The sacral chakra is located in the center of the belly, influenced by the element water and, as a result, our emotions, which when fluid and moving, keep us healthy

There comes numinous Moments in a lifespan when scintillating threads converge. This is one.

East Lancashire, England, in the North Country, nestled in the Ribble Valley, original inspiration for Tolkien's 'Shire' of Hobbit fame, stands 'The Healing Sanctuary'.

Here is the place we come, to get steeped, as a good English cup of tea, in specific healing modalities, to glean, to cross-pollinate, to step into evermore of what is possible as homo sapiens; 

"That senses number five? 'Tis but a myth! 
There are a thousand realms we draw from in a day..."
{Queen of Hearts}

This then is Theragem, home and heart of, where vision became reality some 10 years ago, as a traditional brick building was retrofitted to (non-toxic fixtures and fittings) 21st century mind-body-spirit standards.

Enter the characters of every ilk, aspiring and animated to identify what it would take to realize full human potential. 

Let the dance begin.

Come Come O Sleep
For I, bereft Without You
Cannot my allies meet
nor deeply rest about You

Come Come O Sleep
Grant me this thing sublime
Come that I blossom May
To Sleep & To Wake into Springtime.
CCR McF

What if, finding yourself 'sleepless', you were to frame it as a gift, eschewing pills to drug you out of it, choosing instead to ramp up the quality of your attention; to you attempting to reach you (richly more of you). 

What extraordinary thing is bringing you to Wakefulness in the night.. for many of us, traditionally, in the [lucid] 'wee hours'? 

Consider then, that nightmares can speak to an issue or situation you are being plagued by; often actually precipitated by your distress at something perplexing/unresolved in waking life.

New beginnings inhabit a beginning place at the edge of the world. That is why Tolkien and C.S. Lewis committed with colleagues to meet regularly/weekly to speak to their 'inklings'. Had this NOT have happened, we would not have Chronicles of Narnia in our world today, for it took for Lewis to turn and engage with an internal experience he had thereunto been frightened by/pushed away.

Stephen LaBerge, while engaged in Lucidity Dream research at Stanford, wrote an article; 'Nightmares? Lucky You!' ~ Because therein is rich custom-curriculum material crafted and assembled specifically for you and your core journey.

Listen Up!

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper" EP

"Look to where the fear lies and choose love. That is your work." Emmanuel

in·som·ni·a
Origin
early 17th century: from Latin, from insomnis ‘sleepless,’ from in- (expressing negation) +somnus ‘sleep.’