Have you taken a serious look at your closet lately? Does it need a closet makeover? Do you have to rummage through a few things before you find what you are looking for?

If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions, then you’ve got chaos in the closet and it’s time for some closet organization. It really isn’t that bad so don’t let me scare you away because there is an easy solution closet clutter.

No worries here comes closet organizers to the rescue. With so many to choose from these days, and organizers available for every item in your closet, there are no more excuses for a carefree closet.

Besides the usual clothes hangers, there are a plethora of closet organizers you can choose from to store just about every item you can think of. And they come in a myriad of colors, styles and textures to choose from like wire, wood and fabric.

Now closet organizing is really not as hard as you might think. First you must ask the question, “What am I storing?” Your answer will direct you in your decision-making when wondering what to buy on your shopping trip.

The most important rule of thumb when it comes to closet organization is to maximize every inch of space and to keep everything within easy access. Keep items organized within seasons.

If it is currently summer, keep winter items on higher shelves and summer items on lower shelves within easy reach. Items used or worn more often in front, and items used or worn less often in the back. It’s simply using common sense when it comes to closet organization. You’ve probably heard the old saying, “Clear the clutter and you clear the mind.”

First rule, keep items used or worn most often in front and less used in back. Store heavy items on the floor or lower racks. Store seasonal items on the highest rack. Remember to try and maximize every bit of space using the various closet organizers mentioned. You can organize by color, item and season.

Wont’ it be grandiose to find exactly what you’re looking for the next time you open up your closet? Think about how invigorating it will be to see everything neatly placed by style, by color, by item, by season, all organized together like army soldiers ready for duty!

You have been set free no more frustrating, stressful moments of rage what is it you say? You hate all your clothes in your closet? Well my dear, that’s a shopping spree for clothes, not closet organizers. I can help you with that too!

If you’re new to lucid dreams and O.B.E.s and you’re wondering what to do first, well here it is. Here is the big secret that I wish I had known when I first got started with lucid dreams and O.B.E.s. You’re about to find out why sleep paralysis is the holy grail for new OBEers because it’s how you can access your subconscious without having to practice using any visualizations at all.

If you’ve ever woken up in the morning and found that you couldn’t move or make a sound for a few minutes, you’ve had sleep paralysis. This used to happen to me and I had no idea why or what it was. But as it turns out, this was the trick that opened the door to frequent O.B.E.s for me after having insomnia for years.

Sleep Paralysis Is A Protection Mechanism

The question is “what is sleep paralysis and how can you use it?” Sleep paralysis is a protection mechanism your body uses when you fall asleep. If you were to dream you’re doing something very active, such as running, and you weren’t in sleep paralysis then you would move your limbs when you’re asleep and you’d wake yourself up. To prevent that from happening, your body disconnects your voluntary muscle system from your mind so that you can dream all you like without waking yourself up.

Usually Your Mind Falls Asleep, Then Your Body

Normally you’re not aware that of this happening because by the time your body shuts itself down in sleep paralysis, your mind is already asleep and unaware of what’s happening. In other words you enter a state of ‘body awake/mind asleep’ before entering ‘body asleep, mind asleep’.

Sleep Paralysis Is Actually A Lucky Break

The whole trick to lucid dreaming is to enter a subconscious focus without losing awareness. Here’s how sleep paralysis does this for you.

Sleep Paralysis Automatically Puts You In A Subconscious Focus

When you’re awake your brain is in what’s called a ‘beta’ state. Beta means your dominant electrical brain waves are oscillating at around 14 to 30 cycles per second.

When you enter sleep paralysis, your brain automatically puts itself in “dream mode” which is called a ‘theta’ state. Theta is slower than beta and is around 4 to 7 cycles per second.

Knowing this secret allows you to avoid one of the major mistakes most people make when first starting out in O.B.E.s.

Most Books Say To Do O.B.E.s In One Step… This Is A Major Mistake!

Most books on O.B.E.s say to simply induce an O.B.E in what is basically a one step process. Going directly from a waking state to an O.B.E is possible but it’s difficult so this is not what I recommend you start out with.

The Trick Is To Use Two Transitions To Success, Not Just One!

Instead, you’ll progress much faster by making it a two step process. You first use the sleep commands we’ll cover later to trick your body into falling asleep and enter sleep paralysis.

You then use exit techniques we’ll cover later to convert sleep paralysis into an O.B.E and separate from your physical body.

How Most People Discover Sleep Paralysis: By Waking Up In It!

Now, how do you do that? The way you’ll usually become aware of sleep paralysis is that you wake up in it and find you can’t move or make a sound.

Sleep paralysis often feels like there’s a heavy lead blanket on you. It’s not that there is really anything on you or that your muscles have become weaker. The feeling is because your brain has to send a stronger nerve signal than normal to get the same muscle movement. That makes it feel like you’re having to overcome some kind of resistance when you try to move.

This feeling also usually makes it feel like it’s harder to breathe but it’s actually a natural sleep process. Sleep paralysis happens every single time you fall asleep.

Is Sleep Paralysis Dangerous?

You may be wondering if sleep paralysis is dangerous and if there’s a way to break free. Sleep paralysis is not dangerous because it’s something your body does every night. Plus, here is a secret “safety release” trick you can use to free yourself from paralysis so you always have a backup plan.

How To Break Sleep Paralysis 100% Of The Time: Use Deep Breathing To Contrast Sleep Breathing

The only way your body knows for sure if your mind is awake is if you move. This is a problem when you’re in 100% sleep paralysis which is preventing you from moving. Luckily paralysis is limited to your voluntary muscle system like your arms and legs. Your breathing is semi-involuntary so you still have control over it even in deep paralysis.

If you enter sleep paralysis and decide you want break free and wake up, simply change your breathing pattern to something other than the sleep breathing pattern your body is in. The most effective way I have found to do this is to begin breathing deeply and slowly.

After 10 or 15 seconds your body will notice the change and bring you out of paralysis. Not many things are 100% reliable in lucid dreaming but this has worked for me every single time.

How To Find Out If You Have Sleep Apnea

A very few people have reported that they woke up in sleep paralysis and noticed that they weren’t breathing at all. The problem is not the paralysis itself, but that they had an existing health condition called ’sleep apnea’.

Sleep apnea basically means that you stop breathing when you’re asleep. So this is one of the side benefits of using sleep paralysis to have OBEs: you’ll find out whether or not you have sleep apnea.

Keep in mind there’s a big difference between the normal “heavy lead blanket” feeling that comes with sleep paralysis versus not breathing at all. If you find you stop breathing entirely then you may have sleep apnea and should see a doctor about it. If you only feel the heaviness sensation then everything is normal.

“Accidental” Versus “Deliberate” Sleep Paralysis

So far we’ve talked about the case where you somehow manage to wake up in sleep paralysis. However that’s basically an uncontrolled and accidental process. The question is what can you do to make it happen more consistently?

Toward Consistency: What If The Body Falls Asleep First?

The idea is to flip the sleep order around so that instead of entering “body awake, mind asleep”, you enter of “mind awake, body asleep”. When this happens you’re actually aware of the process your body goes through when it falls asleep. This is our main secret trick for doing visualization-free lucid dreams and O.B.E.s. This transition is the most important skill to learn in this part of the course.

Why? Because when you can put your body to sleep without losing consciousness at any point, you have 100% perfectly clear dream recall. This is called a “wake induced lucid dream” or WILD. It’s as easy to remember what you did in a WILD as it is to remember the last 15 minutes or so of normal waking awareness. With this method, you don’t have to think back through and hazy dream phase like you normally do with most dreams.

If You Actually Succeed… What Does It Feel Like?

So what does it feel like to actually watch your body falling asleep?

Instead of waking up in sleep paralysis and with the heavy lead blanket feeling, when you induce paralysis consciously you actually have the sensation of the heavy lead blanket being laid on your chest. It often feels like it begins at your feet, comes up over your chest and ends at your head. When that process is complete you’re in sleep paralysis.

So how to get this process to happen consistently? Here is the key. And this one fact is so important and so critical that I’m giving it a big fancy name. It’s called the “Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis”.

The Fundamental Theorem Of Sleep Paralysis

The Fundamental Theorem of Sleep Paralysis is that if you wake up and fall asleep without moving at all, sleep paralysis becomes extremely likely.

Sleep Paralysis Is Most Likely When The Body Was Recently Asleep

And when I say, without moving I mean you wake up and don’t move your eyes, don’t open your eyes, don’t scratch any itches, you don’t move at all in any way. The idea is that your body doesn’t really know for sure if your mind is actually awake or not. If you don’t give it any signals otherwise, it will assume that the mind really is still asleep and re-paralyze itself.

The Next Step: The “Stop, Drop & Roll” Sleep Commands

The foundation skill you need to develop this knowledge into a full-blown induction is to fall asleep quickly. So in the next section I’ll show you how you can make your body first ask for permission to asleep and then I’ll show you how you can tell it “yes it’s time to fall asleep”. This trick is called the “stop drop and roll” sleep command and once you have it you’ll never have a problem with insomnia again and you’ll dramatically accelerate your O.B.E progress.

In the state that the economy is presently in, employees must practice resilience in the workplace on a consistent basis. What is resilience in the workplace you may ask? Well simply stated resilience is the ability to bounce or spring back after being stretched or compressed. Resilience in the workplace is the ability of an organization and/or employee to maintain or enhance effectiveness in the midst of a high pressured, fast paced, continuously changing environment.

Obviously resilience in the workplace is something that we strive to obtain. Many things can effect the stability of it. Some factors that must be taken into consideration include employee health, workplace stress, economic conditions just to name a few.

Workplace stress has been predominantly on the rise since we have been in the midst of economic instability. People are concerned about holding their jobs as well as hoping their businesses stay afloat until the state of the economy makes a major improvement. Certain companies have even begun resilience training in the workplace to try and help their employees deal with these changing times.

Resilience training is a positive way to help promote mental and physical well being. Resilience training sessions are run so that management and employees can be more positive and solution focused. These are much more successful than traditional stress management sessions.

With resilience training, there are four major interventions that occur. The first is to determine what resilience level you presently have. With this, you focus on what’s about to occur with resilience training, and you come to terms with where you are when you start, both emotionally and mentally.

The second major intervention in this process is to develop personal resilience in how employees and management deal with stress in everyday life. There are several ways to focus on this, including with programs that can help reduce the circumference of one’s waist or that can help employees stop smoking, for example. Meeting these types of goals will help employees and management build resilience in their personal lives, and that in turn will improve their ability to be resilient in the workplace as well.

The third stage of the intervention that is meant to produce positive results is that workshops are held for both managers and employees that show them how to deal with stressful situations that arise in the workplace. Finally, the last point of this type of intervention is to offer support services that are confidential and that occur in the workplace, should management or employees need this type of help. These support services, which are confidential, can help both management and employees deal with these very stressful times.

It’s very true that many businesses and employees are dealing with uncertain times, and the resulting stress because of these uncertain times. However, resilience training programs can be undertaken such that things can be done to help fight this stress and uncertainty. No matter who you are, you can develop an attitude of resilience in the workplace. Of course, though, it’s a great help if you can be guided along in the process, and it’s a great comfort as well. This is a definite way to take a step in the right direction. Programs like these are likely to grow and improve over time so that many managers and employees can be helped, even as they remain in their jobs and in turn, keep their financial security going as well.