Dreams
Dreams often play a significant role in the healing process. I encourage clients to keep a journal of their dreams and we may discuss their meaning from time to time. It is amazing how through the course of the therapy that they change for the better and the frightening ones involving demons or other scary creatures or situations disappear. Ones relating to death however are actually quite encouraging, as they often indicate the death of a part of yourself. Seeing the death of a child or even you killing a child is more likely to mean the death of a childish part of yourself and not foretelling some terrible event. Use dream interpretation books with care. It is only your mind that knows the real meaning.
Sometimes, I use hypnosis to allow you to actually go into your dreams and get you to find the hidden meaning.
Everyone has several dreams each night, most of which are forgotten the next morning. If you want to start to remember them, then one technique is to get an alarm clock or clock radio to go off every two hours, and then noting them down straight away. You will then have reams of different dreams to analyse, although others in the house might not be very appreciative of this method.
Look for symbolism in your dreams, as most often the situations do not reflect reality but some other way of looking at a situation. For example, you might dream of rushing to catch a ship and arriving only to see the ship leaving port. Look for a situation in your life where you are "missing the boat". Another dream could show you riding an elephant, which might indicate that you need to remember something, as an elephant never forgets. Another shows you washing your clothes, which might mean you need to look somewhere where you need to clean up your act, so to speak.
Scan your dreams for diagnosis and for the symbols and images needed for your healing. You will find there a direct correlation between intent and dreaming images and will be able to chart a course for healing. In our daily communication with one another, we share language symbols that we each recognise and use for fluid communication. Our dreams give us a different set of symbols that our sleeping self must share with our waking self so that communication with the body can continue beyond the dream. After a while, you will begin to see what symbols mean what in your dream world.
Once we begin to recognise and understand our own unique set of images in our sleep dreams, then we can begin to translate them in the day and use them to create active healing.
Keys to Healing with Dream Imagery:
keep a journal; record every dream.
Catalogue and study your personal dream images until you can translate them into actions you can use for your own prescription for healing.
Trust your spontaneous imagery. A woman with colon cancer dreamed about a whale covered with barnacles.
Allow your active imagination to work with the dream image. This will give the image power and energy. The woman who dreamed about the whale imagined herself cleaning the barnacles from the whale’s flesh. In her next check-up, the healing that had occurred within her body surprised the doctors. Using the dream in an active manner effectively extended her life.
Welcome dream helpers. If a guide appears - animal, human, sometimes even an object - accept the help offered and call on that specific guide when needed.
Carry your favourite images into your everyday life. Think about them when you are shopping for groceries, when you are driving the car, when you are doing your daily chores. Make healing an active part of your life.
Trust your dreams and your ability to heal. Every thought, every action, is a message to your immune system. Create positive messages based on the active healing images in your dreams.
Let your dream imagery develop into personal rituals of healing. I dreamed of a field in which I could harvest all the parts of my body. I chose each part, washed each part and reconstructed my body with everything cleansed and renewed. I used the imagery in this dream as an active healing prescription, imagining myself choosing, cleansing, and reconstructing a balanced healthy body, free from disease.
I am alive because I dream. My dreaming has led me to a new purpose - a life of sharing and giving in a positive, appropriate manner, a life of exploring every day the vibrant confirming messages of life and purpose available to all of us in our dreams. This sharing and giving belongs to all of us, and communication with our dreams can bring us together and teach us a way of healing that can be both unique to our individual experience and common in the larger universe of dream diagnosis and healing.
Dreams can be very much a part of your healing process, so don’t forget to remember them. They are your own subconscious thoughts guiding you to a better life.
Dreams often play a significant role in the healing process. I encourage clients to keep a journal of their dreams and we may discuss their meaning from time to time. It is amazing how through the course of the therapy that they change for the better and the frightening ones involving demons or other scary creatures or situations disappear. Ones relating to death however are actually quite encouraging, as they often indicate the death of a part of yourself. Seeing the death of a child or even you killing a child is more likely to mean the death of a childish part of yourself and not foretelling some terrible event. Use dream interpretation books with care. It is only your mind that knows the real meaning.
Sometimes, I use hypnosis to allow you to actually go into your dreams and get you to find the hidden meaning.
Everyone has several dreams each night, most of which are forgotten the next morning. If you want to start to remember them, then one technique is to get an alarm clock or clock radio to go off every two hours, and then noting them down straight away. You will then have reams of different dreams to analyse, although others in the house might not be very appreciative of this method.
Look for symbolism in your dreams, as most often the situations do not reflect reality but some other way of looking at a situation. For example, you might dream of rushing to catch a ship and arriving only to see the ship leaving port. Look for a situation in your life where you are "missing the boat". Another dream could show you riding an elephant, which might indicate that you need to remember something, as an elephant never forgets. Another shows you washing your clothes, which might mean you need to look somewhere where you need to clean up your act, so to speak.
Scan your dreams for diagnosis and for the symbols and images needed for your healing. You will find there a direct correlation between intent and dreaming images and will be able to chart a course for healing. In our daily communication with one another, we share language symbols that we each recognise and use for fluid communication. Our dreams give us a different set of symbols that our sleeping self must share with our waking self so that communication with the body can continue beyond the dream. After a while, you will begin to see what symbols mean what in your dream world.
Once we begin to recognise and understand our own unique set of images in our sleep dreams, then we can begin to translate them in the day and use them to create active healing.
Keys to Healing with Dream Imagery:
keep a journal; record every dream.
Catalogue and study your personal dream images until you can translate them into actions you can use for your own prescription for healing.
Trust your spontaneous imagery. A woman with colon cancer dreamed about a whale covered with barnacles.
Allow your active imagination to work with the dream image. This will give the image power and energy. The woman who dreamed about the whale imagined herself cleaning the barnacles from the whale’s flesh. In her next check-up, the healing that had occurred within her body surprised the doctors. Using the dream in an active manner effectively extended her life.
Welcome dream helpers. If a guide appears - animal, human, sometimes even an object - accept the help offered and call on that specific guide when needed.
Carry your favourite images into your everyday life. Think about them when you are shopping for groceries, when you are driving the car, when you are doing your daily chores. Make healing an active part of your life.
Trust your dreams and your ability to heal. Every thought, every action, is a message to your immune system. Create positive messages based on the active healing images in your dreams.
Let your dream imagery develop into personal rituals of healing. I dreamed of a field in which I could harvest all the parts of my body. I chose each part, washed each part and reconstructed my body with everything cleansed and renewed. I used the imagery in this dream as an active healing prescription, imagining myself choosing, cleansing, and reconstructing a balanced healthy body, free from disease.
I am alive because I dream. My dreaming has led me to a new purpose - a life of sharing and giving in a positive, appropriate manner, a life of exploring every day the vibrant confirming messages of life and purpose available to all of us in our dreams. This sharing and giving belongs to all of us, and communication with our dreams can bring us together and teach us a way of healing that can be both unique to our individual experience and common in the larger universe of dream diagnosis and healing.
Dreams can be very much a part of your healing process, so don’t forget to remember them. They are your own subconscious thoughts guiding you to a better life.