Taming Demons and Transforming Nightmares: Resolving Repetitive Dreams for Children and Adults
When we recognize the patterns in our dreams and in our lives, then we have the power to shift and transform them. Welcome dreamers, Amanda, age 8, developed a fear of intruders breaking into her house. She dreams that some one will break in and kidnap or hurt her or her family members or her […]
Lucid Dreaming: Awake IN Your Dreams
In most of our dreams, our inner eye of reflection is shut and we sleep within our sleep. The exception takes place when we seem to awake within our dreams, without disturbing or ending the dream state, and learn to recognize that we are dreaming while the dream is still happening. Stephen LaBerge Welcome dreamers, […]
Dreams and Imagery: Finding the Living Core of the Dream
“Myths are public dreams, and dreams are private myths” Mythologist Joseph Campbell Welcome Dreamers, At the core of our dreams are The Images. Beautiful, frightening, sensual, intriguing, they usually represent the heart of our dreaming landscapes. Lately I’ve been learning to pay more attention to the living nature of these images. Last summer at the […]
Dreams of Honey: A Treat for the New Year
“sweet dreams are made of these…” Welcome dreamers, Did you ever have a dream that was so vivid, so sensual that you could practically taste it? That’s what Laurie’s dream of honey was like – filled with drippy sweetness, full of the senses, like in the e.e. cummings poem “…tasting, touching, smelling, hearing, seeing, breathing…” […]
Priming the Intuitive Pump: Preparing the Way for Dream Wisdom: Part 2
(photo credit to http://lakesidepottery.com/Pages/kintsugi-repairing-ceramic-with-gold-and-lacquer-better-than-new.htm) “…and we are strong at the broken places”, Ernest Hemingway Welcome dreamers, The previous post looked at synchronicities and opening channels to receive knowledge in uncanny, intuitive or non-linear ways. We continue here with a history of dream incubation and how to use this method now to ask for and […]
Preparing for Intuition: Opening Channels Through Dreams and Synchronicities Part 1: The Listening Heart
“Intuition is a leap toward wholeness from fragmentation.” Anodea Judith Welcome dreamers! Although it may seem counter-intuitive to speak of “preparing” for intuition, we actually can enhance our intuitive abilities. A good intuitive is someone who pays close attention to their inner voices and visions and to their outer surroundings. After we tune in and […]
Unpacking a Dream: From Toilets to Mindfulness
“I told my therapist I was having nightmares about nuclear explosions. He said don’t worry, it’s not the end of the world” Jay London Welcome dreamers, Understanding the meaning of our dreams can move us in surprising directions. The art of interpreting or understanding a dream has been referred to in several ways: working on […]
Dreaming: A Spiritual Experience
“I do not generally associate technology and magic, but I see that spirits use any means necessary to communicate with us in ways we can accept. They use dreams and they use Google. The combination is breathtaking. And a little humorous”. Deena Metzger Welcome dreamers, In tending to our dreams we tap into a timeless […]
Dreams of Healing: Marathon Bombing Anniversary #1
Dreaming is a healing process…a vital means by which we bind up our wounded spirits and rekindle our hopes for the future.” (Kelly Buckeley) Welcome dreamers, Last year the Boston area held the world in horrified thrall during the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon. Stories have appeared in the news media off and on […]
Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, Oh My! The Animals in our Dreams
“The animals which are our totems are mirrors to us. They reflect lessons we need to learn and abilities we can most easily develop…(they are) a medicine for healing your self and your life, and a power that can be accessed to help manifest your dreams”. Ted Andrews Welcome dreamers, Animals are one of the […]