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What is your subconscious trying to tell you? One good way to find out is through your dreams. When we sleep, our subconscious doesn't need to battle with our conscious mind. Our emotional side is not challenged by our logic, so it's easy for our subconscious to break through barriers. But it isn't always easy to understand what it is trying to tell us. The subconscious relays messages in the form of dream symbols, or sometimes even bizarre dreams in which we are participants or observers. Think of a dream as a private movie screening of a film in which you play the leading role, or perhaps just sit in the front row of the theater. Dreaming is one of the best ways for the subconscious ...
In the holistic world of the mind-body-spirit connection, we still tend to focus on the body in our healing practice. Body work, yoga, herbs, and even crystals are physical therapies. They require action. If we don't work with them, we don't receive the benefits. Action is an important part of the healing process, but there is a whole other aspect of healing that goes on beneath the surface. Healing can occur in the seemingly unconscious parts of our life—in our dream life. Dreams are magical things. They give us glimpses, usually unbidden, into our past, present, and future. They reflect our hopes, desires, and fears. They reveal mysteries, give lessons, and grant us messages from ...
In a dark corner of a crowded night club, Trinity presses Neo against the wall and whispers, "It's the question that drives us." The Matrix, the movie from which this scene was taken, has become a classic. It has a dream-like quality, demanding us to question: What is reality? The point Trinity makes is what educators and great thinkers have known and valued through the ages: While the answer may impart knowledge, it is the question that leads us to understanding. Over the years, I have found my nighttime dream experiences present more questions than they do answers. Perhaps their purpose has always been to lead me to understanding—about my life and about what drives me. Questions ...
I have found it is helpful to have a consistent approach to dreams. Perhaps my dream mind also found it helpful, because the more I worked with my dreams in a specific way, the more information I seemed to get. I feel that the waking ego, the dreaming ego, and the unconscious mind learn to work together to provide images and information that can be understood, and that this work leads to a more satisfying life. Dream working involves using your dreams for some practical outcome. In psychoanalysis, dreams are used to explore the unconscious regions of the mind. The intention is to discover the causes of mental distress or illness and resolve them. In analytical psychology, the unconscious ...
