Discern the truth in your dreams

Everybody fears something in this world. The good news is that you can get a handle on it and reframe your life with renewed strength. All fear can be traced to the level of the unconscious mind and the guilt you create from making undesirable choices. Dreams help you gain insight into how and why you can improve yourself. What matters isn't what you learn, but what you actually do with what you learn.

Consider the idea that you're connected to everyone and everything. If your unconscious mind knows this, then why is it you choose to judge and condemn others while awake or asleep? Mistreating others simply means we think we deserve this kind of treatment ourselves. How we behave is like projecting a message about ourselves so that we can heighten our own awareness. What will you do about it?

You may be surprised to realize improving yourself requires learning to discern and break repeated cycles. The way you will experience and feel about yourself isn't determined by how other people perceive and think about you. So, seeking approval isn't the way to go. In actuality, the way you will experience life and feel about yourself is determined by how you choose to perceive and think about others. As you criticize or reject, you only really reject you. Emotions are clues to heal your soul.

Self-improvement then, is all about deciding you'll forgive yourself for reacting with anything other than forgiveness. The kind of truth you need to learn can be heard in your dreams, but what you need to do to evolve isn't a dream. Your sleeping and waking dreams take different forms, but the content and what they aim to teach is the same. Open your mind. Opportunities to grow lie outside your comfort zone.

Success just beyond your scope

Success begins as a decision inside you. It may be time to re-evaluate the rules that guide your life. A sense of success grows from your awareness of inner energy and potential. Where you think you are or what you have done to reach this moment doesn't mean you have tapped into thoughts and feelings that truly sustain you. You become what you think about. How you live today results from your vision, your old desires. Do they work for you? How would you like to expand on the life you know?

Now, you only live in a physical body. You have a job and interact with people in different ways based on what you imagine you will do. You choose how you wish to see yourself and how you will experience your life. Stop there. You are the architect, the draftsperson and designer, the choreographer and scriptwriter. Ever heard the phrase, "all the word's a stage?" Well, you're up there in the light. It's your show. Success unfolds like a choose-your-own adventure. After all, "It's your life!

In a nutshell, everything about the life you lead, the roles you perform, reflect your unconscious view of success. If you sense failure, or mistakes, they may also represent levels of experience and success.  New kinds of success are always around the corner for you.  You build on what yuou think you know.  As you evolve in your skin, your choices of roles and initiatives change. Your sense of success can evolve with you if you make decisions that are compatible with your sense of self.

On another level, you can sense your mind dictates the vibrations which determine what your physical body does and will do. These vibrations influence what you choose to perceive, what you see and don't see.  This translates into your grasp of available opportunities, the kinds of people who enter your life and show you ideas and options beyond your original scope of success. Nothing is beyond your reach so long as you desire, ask, visualize and act.  As they say, "the world is your oyster!"

The more you realize that success is connected to your source of bliss, the more you will find you add value to this world. Imagine what you will do from this day forward! What will you do? How will you seize and make the most of each moment?

4 Ways to access power beyond your pain-body

Do you dream of eliminating pain? According to Eckhart Tolle, the ego-mind seeks to deny the Now and to escape from it. Consider a large part of pain you sense you experience is unnecessary. That's right. Somewhere, deep inside yourself, you decide whether or not to create pain. What if you discovered how to pinpoint the true underlying causes? Would you instinctively turn pain off like a fawcett?

1) At level of thought, resistence takes form in judgment. This implies any pain you think you feel is really a manifestation of some form of non-acceptance. The intensity of your suffering depends on to what degree you resist being what you are. How strongly you resist depends on how strongly you identify with your ego view of the world. Which hidden reasons help you to explain why you resist what is?

2) At the level of emotion, imbalance is prompted by negativity. Emotional pain may be viewed as the cause of physical pain and physical disease.  This means resentment, hatred, self-pity, guilt, anger, depression, jealousy, stress, any doubt or irritation, are all forms of pain. Every pleasure or emotional boost has within it seeds of pain in its polar opposite. Balance and deconditioning are always choices.

3) At the level of time continuum, perceived pain is fragmented. Pain is clearly reinforced by the energy you give it. Each moment you speak about it measures it, adding fuel to the fire and thus, strengthens its life. You create pain in present and combine memories from pain experienced in the past that continue to live in your mind and body. Until you access the power beyond your sense of a pain-body, the residue of pain created and experienced in past merges with and guides the present.

4) At the level of space continuum, you can regain control. As you sense the pain-body as an energy field temporarily lodged in your inner space, you will realize it is a kind of trapped life energy that ceases to flow. So long as you identify with the past, you reinforce a belief that the past is more powerful than the present. Its like believing what already happened is responsible for who you are now, for emotional pain and your inability to be true to yourself. That is the opposite of the truth. Take charge of your inner space whenever you choose.Why not let bygones be bygones?

Granted, it may shock you to realize the power of presence. Yet, from the moment you grasp presence, you break free of attachment. Just as fighting darkness brings more of the same, attempts to fight presumed physical reasons for pain intensify conflict and invite more pain. However, to learn to step back and understand the underlying causes is to accept it as part of the moment, end pain and to move on.

5 Steps to experience more than one place at once

If you ever desired to be in two places at once, you may imagine possibilities of time travel or, at least hope to expand from simply having one foot in your bedroom and another in your bathroom. This post isn't suggesting you fragment your physical body, or spread cremated ashes in different countries. You may be unaware you could already be situated in multiple locations, and not just figuratively, between a rock and a hard place! I'm not implying that you must have a clone either. Consider these steps to identify and move beyond your pre-conditioned judgment:

1) Rethink the basis for your belief in physical boundaries. From childhood, you are taught through images, sounds and stories. Kids grow to intuit and model how other people react. Thus, as you approach contact with concrete or hard objects, you may expect solidity, tense up or even anticipate pain before impact. You unconsciously ground the present in your past when your view of the past actually conditions your mind to expect rather than to experience things for yourself.  What happens as you realize that you dreamed 'a sense of the physical' all up?

2) Seek beyond assumptions of physics. Scientists give power to laws they construct. They publish papers and people repeat and discuss scientific trends.  This reinforces previously held beliefs.  They will tell you particles can't behave a certain way because that's assumed. Yet, you can decide ideas won't limit your thinking. Notably, some lab experiments have shown one particle can be seen in two places at once and can move faster than the speed of light, as was once believed impossible.  Imagine leaving your physical body in bed and floating another part to school? 

3) Grasp the impact of perception. Getting accurate impressions relies on being attuned to your inner self. This means evolving to understand your frames of reference in time and space. Yet, many people choose to believe in laws that are created and imposed. Underneath it all, you aren't limited except for limits you place on yourself. You nurture faith in evidence you sense to be worthy, while your beliefs are grounded in how you see what projects through your personality outside yourself. Ask yourself how much of your beliefs about yourself, your function and potential, stem from only you.  What if you began to comprehend differently and really see?

4) Recognize how you distinguish mind from matter. From the moment you sense distinctions between physical body, mind and soul, you may wonder whether each separates or whether they're completely detachable with their own destinies. If consciousness is timeless itself, it is only an astute observer of what happens in time, in which it plays no part. This would mean it sees itself as separate from the physical body that takes action to make stuff happen.  Consciousness is entirely impersonal. Its up to you to discern your body-mind connections.

5) Explore lucid dreaming. This is the act of becoming aware while dreaming. You may float up from your physical body and look down to sense a level of separateness or temporary disconnect. Some people don't realize having a lucid dream is different from controlling a dream. Being able to freely control a dream does not directly follow becoming lucid. You may have a lucid dream without sensing you exert any control. Learning to control your dream is simply proceeding to the next level, by moving to exert your will upon your surroundings. People also evolve to be lucid during daydreams, which is also like being in more than one place at once.

Re-interpret the alarm

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

Dream : I awoke in hospital and struggled to breathe. I was told I had been admitted to the casualty floor. Suddenly, my heart beat faster and faster. I also began to hyperventilate. I signaled with the red buzzer above my hand and an unsympathetic nurse approached my bed. She threatened to bring the whole trauma team in to jump on me, and even to break some ribs and injure me to get my heart going again if it stopped. Her face convinced me she was completely serious. I became afraid.

Predominant feelings : fear, stress, anxiety, imbalance, panic

Interpretation : Recognize that your feelings are combinations of natural and conditioned response to what you think is happening around you.  You project everything and choose what you perceive.  Nightmares enable your unconscious to draw attention to issues you ignore or avoid. Dream images you create reframe the sources of your distress and present them in ways that urge you to deal with them.

Since you perceive yourself to be a casualty, you recognize you feel drained. The next question would be, ‘because of what?’ Ask yourself logically when you may worry for no reason and why. Is this a harmless stunt you pull for attention? Holding up your hand is a silent protest. You sound your internal alarm as reason to stop. Why threaten yourself with violence? Heed warnings.  Listen to your vibrations.  

The healthcare setting reflects a strong inner need for healing and possible change of patterns. It should be no shock you seek to improve your physical and mental well-being. In fact, you may have traumatized yourself at soul-level. You signal you’re through with holding yourself back. Your impulse is to get into the flow of the life you would prefer to lead. If you seek domestic bliss and peace, maybe you refuse to believe what you desire is right in front of you. Since you awaken in an unfamiliar bed, this symbolizes the consequence of past decisions. As the saying goes, “you made your bed, now lie in it!” Alternatively, why not change beds and your mindset?

Nurses tend to represent compassion, so the lack reflects what you're missing. Take heart. You may need to show more compassion in a situation or to someone and think less of yourself. As the result, more compassion will be channelled your way. Ribs represent the actions you can take to support and strengthen a sense of stability.  Time to get proactive.  The sooner you get to it, the less painful it will be.