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I'm asked a lot what the daily practices of this work are
and reversing is one of the most important of the daily practices.
It's so important, that my teacher's teacher, Collette, said
that if someone reversed every single day and not skipping a single day for seven years,
they would become enlightened.
That's really important. So here's how you reverse.
You reverse at night, right before you go to sleep.
So after you get in bed, before falling asleep, you just begin to see your day backwards
and it might go something like this, "I turned out the lamp, before that I
brushed my teeth, before that I put on my pajamas, before that I came upstairs."
And so on and so forth, as you go back through your day.
As you go back through your day you might find that you see somewhere that
you've had a conflict with someone or a little disagreement or something.
Just simply watch it. Watch it from this new perspective of going backwards through it.
Do it without judgment, you'll learn something and then move all the way back through
and continue going after you've seen this time.
Now you'll probably fall asleep very early on in the reversing. That's okay.
You might only make it to “I brushed my teeth.” That's okay,
because what you've done is you've started a movement of going in a different direction.
So during our day we go forward.
We go forward as fast as we can usually and our brains become habituated to going forward.
Dreaming moves backwards, up, down, left, right and that's part of the power of dreaming,
is it moves in all these different ways to give us all these different perspectives.
By reversing not only do you learn to adopt a new perspective of your daily life,
but you also set in motion that different movement that sets you up to be a great dreamer.