Dreams

Dreams are a profound source of wisdom, healing, guidance and love. They provide direct guidance about your inner needs in resolving life issues. They are energy medicine and they provide healing balance for your soul. They also keep you on your growing edge as a spiritual being having a human adventure. They are a message from the one who has walked in your shoes, from you to you.

Here are some guidelines that you can use in unlocking the mystery of your dream language.

• Write your dream as you remember it. Keep your notebook by the bed ready for contemplation. Even pieces of dreams can be really helpful. Notice how you feel about the dream. Feel all of the feelings triggered by the dream without reservation.  Let your attention be called to various aspects in the dream. Ponder/ notice the symbols without deciding what they mean. Using a soft focus, just allow feelings to drift in.
• Make note of all the players in the dream. Mothers, fathers, siblings, friends, strangers, your boss, animals, and other prominent forces like ghosts and spirits, frogs, and bears, crows, flowers, wind that speaks, body parts. What role am I playing in the dream? How do I feel about the other players? It is natural to assume that the qualities in other players belong to “other people” and not you. Experiment with becoming all the qualities. For example if someone is kidnapping you… feel the feelings of the kidnapper. What is he/she motivated by? How does that fit in your life? Sometimes we are both sides of the equation.
• How about the setting? Open your senses more fully and describe the scenery around you. Notice details in the weather, colors, stone walls, wooden furniture, season, the way light falls upon running water, the feeling inside your body as you remember the detail.  
• State the dream in a simple sentence format (i.e. I’m alone in a dark place and I’m afraid of something outside my window). Does the theme relate to anything happening in your life in the moment or does it draw you into the past?
• Do you have any impulses to follow? Are you guided to speak with a particular person about the dream? Do you feel like doing some research about some aspect in the dream? Draw or color a particular symbol or picture from your dream. What title would you give this dream if it were a book or a play? If this dream were a dance what would it look like?

By now you might be saying how can I spend all this time on a dream? One of the most common complaints that I hear in couples therapy is, we have no time to talk. And in individual therapy, this is the only time I get to really think/feel anything about my life. The result of our modern day pace is a huge disconnect from our very spirit. The consequences are many and varied; addictions, affairs, loneliness, loss of meaning to name a few. You could go and study with a guru in India and find yourself again, or you could sit with yourself for an hour a day, relax, breathe and get to know yourself. Your spirit is waiting with open arms. Why not give it a try.   

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