The Hidden Treasures of Dreaming - Spirit of Ma'at

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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.
Here is how to go about it:Attending to Your DreamClose your eyes, and breathe out three times, counting from three back to one. See the"1" tall, clear, and very bright.Now, return into the dream. See yourself being swept away by a raging torrent. Whatdo you do to extricate yourself? You could, for example, relax completely -- let go,and let yourself be carried by the raging waters. Soon, you drift down to a calm,sparkling sea. Or you might hang on to a low branch and heave yourself from theroiling waters. Or you might simply decide to sink to the bottom of the torrent and restthere, becoming the water, then rising, realize that the waters have become calm.Watch what unfolds. When you feel that the movement has come to completion,breathe out and open your eyes.So you do have many options. But please remember this: When you re-enter a dream,only one of those options will surface. The dream image and that one option serve asboth your diagnosis and your healing. You find the resolution to a difficult image throughthe unfolding of your active dreaming, and in the process you in-form your body of theabatement of the physical, emotional, or mental storm. You have participated directly inyour own healing.Dialoguing With Your Right BrainWill you be satisfied with just responding to a pain or to a dream? How about dialoguingdirectly with your right brain? You know now that it needs your imput to return to healthand then to continue being healthy. Are you not tempted to find out what treasure isburied under your emotional chimney? To pull away the stones that have confined andhidden it from view? To plunge unabashedly into the space just opened up?To do so, you must act. You must ask a question, expecting the answer to reach you --not in words, but in a 3-D, surround-sound, all-encompassing experience. Your rightbrain is just like a well-cared-for child. The more you dare to ask questions of it, themore active, vital, perky, and playful it gets. Soon, it is joyously manifesting thecornucopia of its hidden world. Your crying infant who became a sad adult is suddenlyfeeling replete.By paying attention to yourself, you are being fed, enriched, moved and transformed.The old fixed configuration of loss and impoverishment is breaking up, transmuting, andflowing into the promised land of milk and honey. Abundance, richness, creativity, joy,lightness of being, love, grace, beauty -- all spring up from that inner land. To access it,just utilize this in-formation:
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