5 Ways Dreamwork benefits Mental Health

For many, dreams represent unsolved mysteries. From ancient civilizations to modern times, dreams have been interpreted as messages from something beyond us, premonitions of things to come, or even symbolic of our deep fears and desires. Dream interpretation can offer new perspectives into the nature of the mind, obstacles that present but the credibility very much relates to what you decide. I can be helpful to  practice or explore dreamwork with a psychotherapist.  This said, dream analysis and interpretation can have huge benefits for your mental health. Explore five ways dreamwork benefits mental health:

1. Improved Self-Awareness

Dream analysis can help you gain a deeper insight into yourself and your emotions. When we dream, our subconscious mind speaks to us through symbols and metaphors. This is the language of soul. By exploring these symbols, giving them context in our own lives, theis helps us understand their possible meanings.  We can gain insights into our thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. This new self-awareness can help us identify and begin to address underlying issues that may be affecting our mental health.

2. Reduced Anxiety

Anxiety is a widespread mental health condition that impacts millions. Research has shown that dream analysis can help reduce anxiety symptoms by providing a safe space to explore and express emotions. Dreams can be a source of comfort, creativity, and inspiration. By brainstorming possible hidden messages, we can gain a sense of control over our life and reduce anxiety and worries.

3. Enhanced Creativity

Dreams can be a source of inspiration for artists, writers, and musicians. Many of the world's most famous works of art and literature have been inspired by dreams. By analyzing your dreams, you can tap into your subconscious mind and unlock your creativity. Dream analysis can help you identify recurring themes and symbols that may inspire your creative endeavours.

4. Improved Sleep Quality

Sleep is essential for our physical and mental health. Unfortunately, many people struggle with sleep disorders that can affect their quality of life. Dream analysis can help improve sleep quality by addressing underlying issues that may be causing sleep disturbances. By identifying and addressing these issues, you can enjoy a more restful and restorative sleep.

5. Increased Spiritual Awareness

Dreams have long been associated with spirituality and the afterlife. Many spiritual traditions view dreams as a way to communicate with the divine. By interpreting your dreams, you can gain a deeper understanding of your spiritual beliefs and practices. Dream analysis can help you identify spiritual themes and symbols that may be relevant to your life.

Dream analysis can have significant benefits for your mental health. By improving self-awareness, reducing anxiety, enhancing creativity, improving sleep quality, and increasing spiritual awareness, dream analysis can help you lead a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Allow the metamorphosis to occur

Notice the stages we go through of hanging on and letting go and the underlying reasons for our own resistance. As we outgrow who we thought ourselves to be, it can be scary to let go of adopted objects, labels, jobs, people, habits, your home, ego identity, even feelings, stories and boxes of stuff that are not yours. Live lighter, differently. Nature's creatures invite us to tune into signs and signals within ourselves and listen to the heart, moment-to-moment. Symbols are the language of the unconscious mind and appear to us through dreams, synchronicity, observations & life experiences. All of Nature invites us to rediscover the feelings of aliveness and fearlessness. Let go of control. Surrender to unfolding changes. Getting excited about change is allowing a metamorphosis to occur.

Fast track a new way of Being

Notice what happens as we tune into the Source power that has designed the cosmos. When mind is totally present, we receive information from the external world, from within and from wider superconsciousness. Insights stemming from these levels of consciousness are often forgetten in the modern, disconnected world. Those who experience altered states realize far more exists to us than the monkey mind, physical body or conditioned, limited views of realty. Imagine you could navigate life in a much more graceful and grounded manner, a life than can be of service to the planet in a conscious and expanded way. The more multi-level, multi-sensory and multi-dimensional intelligence we access and apply to the apparent external problems, the easier it is to surf through. The nature of problems we face are virtually impossible to solve from the level of ordinary consciousness. Ego consciousness is a developed state based on projections and belief systems, fears, desires and culture. The ego prevents expansion because it blocks information it resists or does not want to know. Most people in ego consciousness choose subconsciously not to develop intelligence beyond the level which allows them to fit into society. The aspects we cannot make sense of or problems that seem beyond us can in fact be easily solved if we are willing to recieve and decode all the information that is available to us. From the moment one recognizes that one is an inhabitant of the cosmos which is made of vibrational information, humans are no longer helpless in a situation that seems beyond their control. HUmans take responsibility for their role in creating everything and reclaim power to alter perception and reality. Consciousness is often limited to the study of neuroscience while what is overlooked is this supertool is accessible to all to deepen understanding of the Self. Modern yoga exists for us to recognize consciousness is the energetic basis of reality. If we simply find ways to relate to our peers, we stay in the darkness of our own fear of greatness. We must be willing to transcend language, imagery and models through which we are taught to live. A higher level of symbolic understanding requires deep self-acceptance, letting go of what we outgrow and seeing everything based on vibrational frequency. We are developing a psychic technology within that allows us to access, download and integrate information that enables us to solve issues created by our own low-level mind. We also created the Matrix to awaken and catapult out.

3 Signs you close in on what matters

(Image credit: NASA Space Telescope)

At least part of you is looking for signs of a shift or change in your life.  Consider three signs you get closer to what matters: 

1. You realize limitations of ordinary language

Myths and symbols exist to reach mans's higher centres which  function in higher states of consciousness.  The intent is to transmit ideas inaccessible to the intellect and to transmit them in such a way that they cannot be misinterpreted or modified from their divine blueprint. The more often sacred geometry and sounds are felt, the more you sense shifts occurring within.  True understanding is only realized when the vibration, frequency of myths, symbols registers in the appropriate centre and activates paths of bio-circuitry.  

2. You are drawn to spiritual places and travel journeys

Myths are originally created for higher feeling centres and symbols for higher thinking centres. Crop circle tours as well as trips to ancient monoliths, archtectural sites and energetic vortices are gaining in popularity. People are growing more conscious and aware of their own dormant and awakening energy centres which are mirror reflections of the earth awakening and reactivating her own energy centres. Ayahuasca journeys are one example described as a spiritual reset button to cleanse the body and soul. Notice where you have been, what you are drawn to and what sort of travel you are already doing inside yourself. Astral travel and Near Death Experiences (NDEs) are other kinds of spiritual journeys that offer clues to the puzzle.

3. It hits everything is a sythesis to be unpacked  

At some stage, it hits that what matters is contained in every book, film, encounter, relationship, dream and experience. Its simply up to each of us to grow conscious of the lesson or teaching we are offering ourselves. The meaning of a symbol and the revelation of its essence can only be given and understood by a person who knows (and can this decode energetically) what it means.  This echos why you can watch a film muliple times and experience different ah-ha moments and the same happens with reading and re-reading books.  You only get out of each expeirence the energetic information that aligns with your level of consciousness. Each human being is thus an initiate in The Mystery School of Life.