Release the guilt

Analysis of dream submitted by Anonymous in Canada.

Dream: I was in a second floor of dank prison with a soundproof door and walls. The window had bars to a colorless, dirt courtyard. A dark man in my room squeezed through the bars to escape into fresh air. I felt this person was guilty of a crime, but I resisted calling the guards playing poker next door. Part of me wanted him to escape. I sensed the guards would not hear me call. I got the attention of a hot, black prostitute wearing red in the yard. She got the attention of the guards next door. They came and set me free. I was puzzled.

Steps:  (1) Reflect on details highlighted by your senses
            (2) Identify what content stands out
            (3) Notice the landscape, color and associated feelings

Interpretation: You are smarter than you think. The mind can seem like a mental prison. The very nature of ego is to instill guilt. This is bestowed on you as a child., the idea you are separate, unique and different. Your suffering depends on judging. You come to feel guilty for inclinations toward love, sexuality or anything you want that is natural. You are taught certain thoughts or behaviours are unacceptable in the external world.  Your nurtured action is to instill guilt (fear of not being loved) in children and other people.

This dream echoes you punish the self unnecessarily. Regardless of what you may have done or considered, it calls for unconditional love.  In truth, there is no such thing as guilt.  You only experience guilt because you think you are separate from what you want.  The fear of not being loved is unfounded.  You are love incarnate in a body that forgets its own being.

Notice your dream captors are gambling. The mind is leveraging some kind of wager.  Who are you playing against? Consider perceived adversaries. You may fear imagined consequences. Ask yourself to reflect on your understanding of 'risk.' Are your worried about losing identity, tarnishing reputation, changing values, principles or beliefs? You have risen to new levels of self-knowledge but do not yet feel comfortable with what you sense about your core urges and unexpected creative or other freedom.

Colors evoke intense emotions and certain ones stand out. Trust your intution about your own associations with color. Black is often viewed as negative, evil or a reflection of depression. Your conscious self urges you to eliminate dark thoughts. Red can represent things like love and passion, sexuality and life force. Reflect on the themes of resistance and surrender, where and to whom? You are the judge and jury.

Hold that thought!

Human beings have a tendency to hang onto what they no longer need. Its a process to figure out what is worth keeping, what is holding you down, back or just obscuring what you really are. How do you know whether to hold that thought?

1) What are you holding back? From yourself? Others?

2) When do you cling to ideas, promises or visions?

3) How does releasing the mind, body and spirit help you?

4) Which experiences or dreams inspire possibilities?

5) What happens as you feel waves rush through you?

6) Where is consciousness is all of this? How is it shifting?

7) Why are you gaining insight into resistance and surrender?

3 Tips for a reality check

The significance of events presents itself, yet people do not always grasp it. The universe shifts to resend its messages. Consider 5 tips for a reality check;

1. Stop Resisting. A series of events unfold to teach how you resist being and accepting where you are. Follow intuition.

Whenever something apparently negative happens, deeper lessons resonate. You are not only drawn to kindred spirits with similar energy and interests, but also human beings who benefit from your help. Experience invites you to re-evaluate what matters and what does not. The subconscious presents knowledge. What are you choosing to receive? Ignore? or reject?

2. Notice delusion. The sources of perceived problems are somewhere other than where you consciously choose to look.

Take notice what you are allowing. Initial reactions may include blaming sources outside yourself for your current conditions or, abdicating responsibility. This is all illusion. As you review how each creature you encounter treats you, review your own reactions and what they say about your fears and phobias. Physical existence offers means to rid oneself of bad habits.

3. Reclaim inner power. Patterns draw attention to your core state of awareness, what remains misplaced and attached. 

Thoughts of purpose ground you. To sense no purpose even offers insight into meaningful states and lessons.  When the ego mind is given too much control, it distracts you from accessing superconscious levels of knowledge.   You gradually access what concerns you at a given moment. As you dissolve resentment, you discard compulsive thinking and forgive. 

5 Ways to surrender to flow of life

Many people will assume surrender means giving up something good, that is, sacrificing what they think they want. Yet, true surrender is something quite different. It is the key to balance, integrity and reconnecting with who you are. It is possible to evolve to sense surrender as precisely what you are.  That is;

1) Without resistance.  Your core harbors no negativity, no anger, no grudges, no frustration and no misunderstanding about self or the physical world.  Resistance is in mind alone.

2) Accepting of what is.  Your core reveals you need not change people.  This part of you is tolerant, grateful, understanding, able to reframe limitations as inner deceit. Further, focusing on now releases the illusion of suffering.

3) Yielding to natural energy flow. Your innate state does not judge or express emotional negativity. To detach from everything, cease to label or judge.  Embrace what is.  Take it in. Relate positive action and feelings without hesitation.

4) Offering relief.  Your core is untouched by fluctuating conditions, mindsets, reactions, obstacles and disruptive individuals.  Physiology, biochemistry, biology and unseen elements of mind- spirit, all adapt to changing external events.  Discomfort is its own lifeblood. The core is oblivious.

5) Inner Knowing. The universal insight of consciousness reveals you realize what is required of you.  Part of you recognizes events unfold without reason for dismay and dissatisfaction. The order of things is based on being alert and present. Your human being is changing vibrational frequency.  

"The creative process is a process of surrender, not control." -Julia Cameron