Trigger your wounds so you can heal

Engaging in relationships triggers wounds.  That's right.  You invite people into your life to help you confront aspects of yourself that you have been avoiding, ignoring or disempowering. People we encounter behave in ways we need to experience, tell us what we need to hear, whether or not this enables us to feel good at the beginning.

Relationship choices are conscious or unconscious efforts to awaken our dormant compassion and fearlessness. Every person you meet prompts you to rethink why you have become convinced you feel hurt or defeated.  You can choose to believe the presence of each person confirms your distorted beliefs about yourself or, you can interact to get to the bottom of your guilt, shame, distrust, and inner wounds.

Each of us lives an earthly reality that is partly distorted. This helps explain why it can seem difficult to uncover our true feelings, and get to identify our authentic dreams. It takes courage to be willing to turn inside and grow, to face your fears and make conscious changes.  This is precisely how you break down walls of pride.

1) Recognize new relationships open old wounds. Events in your present stem back to instances when you felt powerless, helpless, undervalued or chose to sense negative reinforcement. As you seek greater self-understanding, you may discover you're in denial, but only until you deduce pain is an illusion and you had forgotten about the healing power of self-love. Push yourself to change your perception.

2) Move to act from greater compassion. Realize your soul can alter the nature and direction of your future relationships. To date, you may have adopted behavior to compensate for anxiety that is groundless and unfounded. Determine what would prompt you to change how you react to what happens.  You create and project it all. 

3) Resolve past relationships. Pain may alienate you from people from your past. You may not yet have let go completely or moved on.Unresolved feelings explain why people avoid risks, intimacy or fear commitment. Why bury issues you exist to resolve? What do you hide from? Choose to get in touch with your inner self. Explore why you struggle to bond with others, why you may repress hostility or disharmony. Learn to heal destructive vulnerability.  This is part of the process of self-growth.

Turn inward to open your heart

The soul is aware of but unaffected by what you eat and drink. The physical body requires nourishment Soul does not. What you ingest from the physical world reveals whether you are in touch with who you are or whether you are disconnected from well-being. Notice the significance of your behaviors.

To listen closely to the compassionate inner self, its necessary to recognize and rise above negative feelings. They are symptoms of your misunderstandings and unfounded beliefs, ironically created to sidetrack you from the dreams that drive your soul. Your mind concocts a vision based on its insecurity and invites you to focus on the past and future.  Balance is forever present.

When you experience anger, frustration, self-doubt or other negativity, its an opportunity to be aware of the power emotion can exert over you.  Choosing not to open yourself up to self-growth invites more intense suffering, and avoids accepting the truth of who you are.  Why might you hold yourself back?

1) False "I am unworthy" beliefs. This belief system arises when a person becomes convinced he or she is unloved or unlovable. If you don't believe you deserve love, or have never tasted love and appreciation, you may intuit rejection, assume things are wrong with you. One misunderstanding breeds another to hide resentment you need to work through in order to heal your soul and explore your true potential.

2) Dependence on external approval. If you are convinced you require external approval to accept who you are, then you buy into the illusion of inadequacy. For some reason, you hinder your ability to love and receive yourself unconditionally. Your ego distorts or rationalizes what you feel is missing, when nothing is. Ego directs your attention to incorrect reasons for feeling what you think isn't good enough. This false belief distracts how you feel alienated from your own illusions. Your perception perpetuates an artifical reality. You need to learn to let go.

3) Dominated by fears & phobias. Self-criticism may be your way of protecting your psyche.  You may justify not doing things you feel drawn to do because you're in conflict with yourself.  Recognize your fears prevent you from being fully engaged in life.  You can learn to perceive your current situation is an opportunity to heal old wounds.  Its time to discern the nature of these past wounds, explore reasons why you have them, and be willing to take steps to release yourself from their grasp.

Prophetic wake-up call?

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by D.T. of Trollhatten, Sweden.

Dream: I was racing my speed bike with a sense of freedom. Scenery was familiar. As I arrived at the centre of an intersection, the oncoming traffic light went green. A car raced forward and hit me head on. My face was red with blood.  I stiffened on impact and don't recall the driver showing any remorse. An ambulance took take me to hospital.  Miraculously, I left with only minor injuries yet, lost my bike. I awoke relieved. Not long after this, in real life, I experienced that very same scenario. Nonetheless, I didn't see what was coming and wonder about an innate gift?

Predomiant Emotions: fearlessness, pride, denial, remorse, suffering and deja-vu.

Interpretation: Each of us has innate psychic abilities and the potential to heighten awareness and skills.  When you had this dream, you may have been psychically "tuned-in" to events that have since transpired.  Dreams can be like a wake-up call to do things, but only if you're "in-sync" with the message at the time.  Another way to think about it is you were both sensing future events and also making them happen by thinking as you did.  If passing deja-vu leads you to experience a sense of more regular prophetic vision, this could be a sign of new psychic awakening. Trust your vibes.

On another level, this dream raises specific themes. You may experience a real-life sense of loss, denial, precarious states of well-being, and longing for reasons other than those revealed. Each part of your dream offers a piece of a puzzle which formulates a resolution.

Imagine you are the object of focus. How do you perceive your physical appearance? What does the color red symbolize to you? Anger? All-consuming passion? Pain? Embarassment? What are your feelings on control, 'crashing' and traditional or alternative healing? Key views are revealed. Do you drive yourself too hard in undesirable directions? Each person and object shows aspects of your personality.

A red face suggests you may be over-exerting yourself unnecessarily. Maybe its time to ease off?  Its possible you're getting 'carried away' or permitting yourself to be guided by unhealthy emotions.  Maybe you need to put the brakes on and shift gears in some area of your life.  Each element of the dream exists for a purpose.  What are you made of? Resilient material?  You may feel a bit flat, like your tires after the accident, but you're giving yourself a chance to shape up.  Life doesn't have to hurtle out of control.  Rethink priorities. Reduce your pressure on the accelerator.

Transmute negative energy & emotion

How many people do you know who don't yet recognize their inner power to lighten negative energy and emotional burdens? This is Lightwork, an innate ability of all human beings. Yet, not everyone takes time to learn to apply themselves. You only begin to notice and think about new things as you evolve to feel mentally ready. How would you know if you are? Which signs would you discern? What could you do next?

1) You sense some kind of discomfort. You only begin to consider possible change if something bothers you as you perceive yourself where you are. You notice imbalance or desequilibrium. You have ability to follow the thread back in time to reflect and determine triggers for your change of heart. Once you identify the Source, you identify the direction you wish to follow to feel more comfortable.

2) You begin to question who you are . You are becoming more attuned to how you think, your underlying motives and external influences.  You realize many facets exist to your being and you desire to reframe purpose and meaning in existence.  This will involve taking steps to better understand emotions, how and why you generate them in patterns based on your past.  You discover inner courage to do it.

3) You begin to review your path. Whatever you focus energy on no longer makes sense. Its is no longer as satisfying as before. You feel meant for other things and begin to research options. You may also make connections between life lessons, and isolate transferable skills you have gained to help orient your quest.  You begin to assert maybe a new job, career or relationship isn't the answer.  Maybe its time to rethink the basis for your beliefs and perspectives?

4) You become curious about the occult.   The occult simply means hidden from everyday or common beliefs and perception. You begin to believe there is more to life than meets the eye, more than you have been taught, more than you have experienced, more than you have come to assume.  This compels you to seek teachers to assist you to expand on what you think you know about the body, soul and external world.  How, where and when is up to you.

Transmutation means to change into another nature, substance, form, or condition. We all have the potential to gain insight into the peaceful and uplifting side of human nature, to discern ways of encouraging others and ourselves to open the heart, mind and soul. To become aware that you control and eliminate your own limits enables you to access boundless joy.  The process of learning to tap into your inner power is accessible from the point you arrive on that vibrational energy.

"I tried that once and it didn't work!"

You may perceive yourself as the kind of person who is overly-sensitive, too easily discouraged and quickly gives up on yourself before you give yourself a real chance. You may forget, but you didn’t always think this way. Something happened to shatter your self-confidence. Right now is the perfect time for a crash course in the benefits of risk-taking.  Choose to remove the foggy glasses to perceive differently.

1) Discern your innate patterns. As an infant, when you were learning to walk, chances are, you didn’t perfect this skill right away. Infants instinctively exert effort to pick themselves up, after each fall. Since you likely walk upright these days, or at least have experience doing so, you weren’t completely discouraged after your first attempt at walking. You can reflect on other instances where you weren’t easily discouraged. Take when you learned to ride a bike, when you learned a sport or another physical skill. You can train your mind to tap into thought patterns that developed your sense of discipline, patience, focus and a growing appreciation for moment-to-moment experience.

2) Uncover causes of inhibited temperament. Differences in temperament influence different thought patterns in each of us. There is a period in the past when most people feel less inhibited than they feel now. Something happens to trigger that mental change. It has been suggested that preconscious activity in the brain triggers the onset of emotions and only though life experience can each of us become more aware of how they influence our behavior. Harmony and equilibrium can be reviewed throughout your lifetime. What you sense would enable you to achieve these states would evolve (or not) with you.

3) Rethink your perception. Six prominent issues tend to adversely affect people’s risk-taking; ignorance, attachment/ fear, anger, pride, misunderstanding and self-doubt. Each feeling or sensation can be broken down into different parts which help to explain why your mind permits it to form and intensify to control you. As you learn to work backwards, you can realize that each one is linked to something you believe exists when you actually fool yourself. Each one is a clever illusion constructed by your ego which has as its purpose to prevent you from proving who you really are and what you can do. How long will you continue to buy into this irony? You can be your own worst enemy yet, you can also evolve your mind to be your own best friend.