The Hidden Treasures of Dreaming - Spirit of Ma'at

As you do this, you will be impelled to do something about what you are ''seeing.'' Forinstance, let us imagine that you have been in-formed that there is a fine-line fracturein your bone. How might you deal with it? The answer is found only through yourown inner impulses. Just as you did when you were a child, you play. You improvise.For instance, you might get the notion to fill up the crack with a ray of sunlight. Oryou might have the impulse to glue it with the white paste of a chewed radish. Findyour own images. You have received an inner image of a fine-line fracture, and yourespond by offering an image back to the image offered you.In this way, you are feeding your right brain. Through the neuronal pathways, this newmessage is transmitted to your bone. Your bone, accordingly in-formed, hastens toheal.Please, don't believe what I am saying! Instead, put it actively to the test. Words cannotin-form. Only images perceived, fully experienced, and embodied will do this. The nexttime you experience pain, use your active imagination to heal yourself.Responding to Inner In-FormationPain -- contraction -- is not the only way to access the right brain. Relaxation offersequally compelling in-formation. For instance, when you are dozing off but not quiteasleep yet, you may suddenly be flooded with novel sensations, vivid colors, lights, andstrange images or juxtaposition of images. These images (called hypnagogic) arerevealing the contours of your right brain. When you are falling asleep, with exteriorstimuli shut out or muted, the right brain surfaces like a sunken island out of the oceanof sleep oblivion.Your dreams present you with yet another unfinished puzzle to which you can add yourown pieces. For instance, you dream that you are swept away by a swollen torrent. Youwake up with a feeling of terror. But after contemplation, you recognize that your life isjust too busy, that you are out of control. In a case like this, what do you do? Call upyour therapist in a panic? Possibly. But a better way, perhaps, is just to sit down, closeyour eyes, and return into the dream. This method of dealing with your fear is faster andcheaper, and it frees you to be responsible and independent.