Rethink the value of astral dreams

For some reason, you may sense a desire to probe the depths of your soul.  You might be searching for answers and have been told the answers you seek lie within. Where does this lead you? You may be exploring the astral plane and not even realize it yet.

Many people don't yet realize dreams are an extremely valuable tool to raise self-awareness.  As you self-examine, you also develop and strengthen extra-sensory perception.   You may underestimate your gifts and the path can follow to clarify and shape these priceless treasures. These questions are offered to help guide yourjourney:

1) What's the connection?  Since some dreams are actually messages conveyed from other dimensions, learning to recall your dreams is actually developing your ability to recognize and listen to messages from  dimensions other than the physical dimension where you are.  The dream messages you receive may seem to be from people you know or strangers.  Each one is significant for what it is and teaches you there is more to life than what you think you already know.

2) How do you heighten your sensitivities?  This is a process.  The ability to discern messages that don't reach you through your conventional 5 senses is highly-dependent on your ability to introspect and sense what goes on inside your mind.  To learn to decipher dream symbols is useful, practical training for heightening your sensitivities.  The more repressed emotions in your dreams, the more blocked the bridge is between your conscious and subconscious mind.  Until you choose to learn to discern and work through your repressed emotions, you postpone unconditional love and self-acceptance and prevent your progress on other levels.

3) Why seek to balance your mind-body-spirit?  Only a well-balanced mind-body and spirit will enable a person to make effective use of extra-sensory abilities. Your underlying motivation for building innate skills determines whether and how they evolve.  If you genuinely seek to increase spiritual awareness and desire support to repair your soul and to assist others, these kinds of motivations will propel you forward. Yet, if you simply seek to bolster and inflate an unbalanced ego, you'll go nowhere fast.

James Van Praagh & 4 Ways to prepare to be more receptive

James Van Praagh is a mental medium who interacts with 'the Other Side' in ways that may inspire human beings to communicate more effectively as they are.  His life work connecting the Spirit realm with our own encourages us to prepare to be more receptive for different kinds of communication throughout our lives.

In your own life, you may expect clear directives, familiar words and behaviors.  You may overlook subtle messages and reactions that urge you to listen to your intuition, or another side to a situation.  We each have opportunities to review experiences and rethink how we respond.  Learn to accept things are not always what you initially think.

1) Focus on external messages.  If you're deadset on joining a particular business, organisation or furthering a relationship, and things seem to go wrong, you may be missing important messages.  When you make repeated, incorrect turns,feel misdirected, like the world is against you or, frequently arrive at locked doors, you may ignore repeated signs that your intentions or pending decisions aren't in your best interest.  Why do some people seem to be so disconnected from their true selves that it seems even being hit over the head wouldn't enlighten them? Remind yourself accidents don't exist.

2) Be ready for revelations.  Human beings communicate in different ways.  Even before someone finishes a sentence, you may have already formulated or even started to blurt out your answer. Remind yourself that what might sound insignificant to you in passing may be very important to the person expressing a view.  As you listen with your soul, revelations you experience can touch on all of your senses and will always bring you back to focus on your core self.

3) Align your personality with your emotions.  As you evolve to get-to-know yourself better, you will discern when the tone of voice and words you choose are 'on the same plane.'  That is, if you sense you're a kind person and you hear yourself raising your voice to a commanding tone, or you're typically very demonstrative and then suddenly find yourself unemotional or indifferent, this is an invitation to explore inside yourself.  Noting subtle differences enables you to explore feelings you hide that require your attention.

4) Spirit won't always answer vital questions. Some people will consult mediums in search of answers.  You may have already done this or contemplate doing so yourself.  Whatever information you do or don't receive, it becomes apparent that you have to continue with your process of living and this means learning to make some challenging decisions about who you are and how to express yourself. Your own progressive decisions enable you to expand your personal strength and inner power.

Poised for change

Analysis of the week on dream submitted by P.S. of Torquay, Australia.

Dream:  During my dream, my male friend and I approached two young jockeys.  They were in the saddle of their race horses in the middle of a race.  Yet, these horses we focused on weren't winning.  Curiously, these jockeys and the race were in slow motion. I decided to take control.  My friend reluctantly followed.  We ran up to the jockeys, I pushed them off their horses.  We struggled to push the horses to the finish line.  We beat all the other horses.  I yelled at my friend for being slow, yet I felt guilty.

In reality, my friend and I had bet on two horses that didn't place in that particular race.  We were angry and disappointed about our choices as well as the small financial loss.  I admit, I'm also rather negative in my thinking and somewhat critical in my comments to this friend and other people. Both my friend and I are aged in our 60s. I often feel sad that the good life is "passing me by."

Predominant Emotions: Aggression, pride, hostility, fear, selfishness and vulnerability.

Interpretation: You need to recognize and pin down the shadows of your inner demons that take shape in dreams. As you do, emotions that scare you in waking life lose power and no longer scare you. Shadows may be interpreted as dark sides of your personality. Yet, they also have positive qualities that merit attention. The shadow symbolizes unknown or little-known attributes and qualities of the ego. Rest assured, this doesn't describe all of your unconscious personality. It invites you to recognize all of your parts.

When a person first becomes aware of their intentions to vent negative feelings, that person may consciously feel humbled and ashamed. The result is you may resist or avoid identifying the negative sides to your personality and condemn traits in other people that you repress in yourself. Whenever you refuse to acknowledge feelings and the underlying reasons why you have them, this evokes more discomfort in yourself.

Negative feelings don't have to seem like your inner demons. Remind yourself the darker side of your personality only lashes out when it is ignored or misunderstood. The forms it takes in dreams represent the qualities you believe you dislike in others, and yet, these are also qualities you resist accepting in yourself. When you stop pushing away the truth, that is, what you sense deep inside, you begin to realize you have potential to evolve into a more integrated whole.

You may brainstorm meanings of dream symbols. The key is to uncover and acknowledge repressed feelings and explore meanings of their root causes. After all, you run your own race, at your own pace. If you're in a hurry to get somewhere new and aren't happy where you stand, you will only truly feel "back in the saddle" when you're poised and ready for change. As you're more honest with your feelings, self-love will invite other love.

Expand your perspective

Each day offers new opportunities to learn more about the power of positive thinking in your own life. You may underestimate what it can do to support you in reaching new goals.  You can do more than simply observe changes in yourself.  You can become an active participant and act to transform your visions and hopes into your new reality. 

As you decide to acknowledge the power you exert in this moment, you will experience a rush of positive energy.  What does this mean?  It means you begin to make the connection between believing in yourself and realizing you are expanding your vison of what is possible. How you think determines what you experience.  Make the connection. 

Imagine how your life will unfold as you grasp you can create and release limits your own limits.  Decide to unleash different kinds of perspectives.  Consider the benefits of taking the following steps:

1) Prepare your mind.   Learn to quiet your mind.  It makes sense to re-evaluate what you think would be good for you at this time in your life.  Whatever you have done before suited who you used to be, but it may no longer be relevant to how you see yourself.  Preparing mentally for positive change is like getting ready to expect and experience it.

2) Release control of damaging thoughts.  From the moment you choose to let go of the limits you define and perceive, the boundaries you set, and the restrictions you assume about what is and isn't possible, you begin to build a new perspective.   As you let go of worries and concerns, your view of potential expands.

3) Surround yourself with positive mentors.  Choose relationships that uplift your spirit.  Encourage yourself to challenge what you think you know.  Seek people who are more experienced or knowledgable than you are in areas of your interests.  Your sense of self evolves based on the energy vibrations, attitudes and behaviors in your midst.

Shed light on your ignorance

What are your most bizarre or agonizing beliefs and why do you color them this way? Why choose to project certain emotions with certain images? How does it shape your illusions?

Illusions may be seen as mental blocks you create when you decide not to deal with your emotional discomfort or its underlying causes. You have an incredible ability to condition your mind to believe anything, and your choices always offer ongoing chances to learn. 

Whenever you generate negative emotions, your vibration is slow and dense and life you choose to experience is on that wavelength. You draw discomfort and pain toward you or people who seem to evoke it.  This is your unconscious request. Vibes reverberrate. You convince yourself of doubt and fear when you only really invent them.  You may feel disheartened by aspects of your existence, and yet, you create it all by refusing to confront patterns you don't want to see. When people choose not to be accountable for what they think and feel about themselves, life seems to speed up and they age quicker. They justify reasons for anxiety. They forget how to detach from what they don't want. They often need to take responsibility for some part of their life.

Yet, whenever you generate positive, uplifting thoughts, your energy vibration speeds up. You project exciting experiences to reinforce how you wish to feel.  If you love yourself unconditionally despite perceived faults, you will invite people into your life who value you in similar ways.  You make choices that reinforce your beliefs. You can believe you are healed from an illness and discover how truth feels in achieving inner balance. You can believe you achieve your greatest hopes and channel energy to realize them.

In the blink of an eye, you have already willed energy to transform into situations and people with specific personalities. You don't always foresee results of your actions, but you live them.  Conditions are opportunities to evolve how you think and feel.

Energy forces surround you and never die. They take on new forms based on your thoughts and emotions. How you think determines how light or heavy your soul feels and whether you're ready to learn and change on some level.

You have to be emotionally aware to sense connections in body, mind and spirit. How your physical body and mind process your reality, directly reflects where you want to go and how you perceive experience in this world.  Some people believe existing in a human shell is itself an illusion. That shell doesn't have to die before you discern your truth.