Rise above what holds you back

Analysis of dream submitted by Anonymous in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Dream- I stood beside a woman. I noticed three earthbound spirits which I sensed were her children. Each had a different personality. They acted to capture my attention to share messages. Each child floated above the floor. The woman did not see them. A man also appeared. The woman acted as if she did not see him. The child spirits kept their distance. The man fidgeted. I read his energy vibration as I scraped dried paint off a wall. Then, I climbed a ladder to fill in ceiling corners with a white paint roller.

Predominant Emotions- curiosity, guilt, patience, surprise, anticipation, and acceptance

Interpretation- You support what you believe in and slowly come to accept abilities you did not always acknowledge. This translates into confidence. You have an eye for detail where other people miss subtle nuances. As your senses expand, you are more than an astute physical observer. You detect energy in new forms with implications. What you choose to share and with whom is an issue of tact.

At any given moment, what you acknowledge about your perception and your life is what you are ready to accept. Your beliefs and values are constantly challenged. You shift your awareness in stages and expand how and what you see. You are also learning unsolicited advice is inappropriate.

Male and female behavioural traits clarify aspects of your human identity. You will sense personal history and unresolved feelings mirrored in relationships around you. You may also find you have insight into the lives of complete strangers. You are always in the right place at the right time.

The painter is the creator within you. You can remove what no longer suits you and paint over it with your sense of who you are now.  You climb your own ladder of success.

10 Tips to further clarify your dreams

1) Choose not to disregard your fantasies

2) Stop listening only to what other people tell you

3) Expend effort to explore your interests and talents

4) Listen to your heart

5) Focus on your strengths

6) Imagine what you would be doing if you had no limits

7) Brainstorm what drives you

8) Take time to write down your thoughts

9) Learn to dissolve your fears

10) Raise awareness of how you lie to yourself (this is the first step to shatter your own illusions)

How do you learn to experience joy?

If you wish to know joy, then you must decide joy exists and accept you deserve it. Some people have no memory of joy, do not believe they deserve joy or, believe life is not meant to be joyful. You may have your own mental blocks to dissolve or overcome.

As you evolve to believe you attract joy, then you will also discover you create it. You learn to be actively and passively joyful. You choose to be aware or not. You may notice when you create these feelings or not. If you do not choose to notice, then it does not mean joy is not within. Your mindset may not be ready to consciously accept that.

To find joy everywhere, you must be prepared to believe that joy takes many more forms than you consciously discern. You must be willing to adapt your perception and accept that joy is more or different than you thought. It is not only what you feel as a reflex or reward after certain experiences. Your current associations and conditioning prevent you from experiencing joy continually.Perpetual joy is available to every being. Part of you believes you are only meant to evoke positive feelings under limited circumstances. And yet, joy is a form of serenity of the soul that is ever-present and ever-beckoning. Joy is not something deserved or not. You are your own judge. Joy and judge exist within. It is your choice to find it, experience it or, not. Why conceal your own intrinsic self-worth, confidence, faith and trust? When people do not grasp how spiritual forces work, they convince themselves they are unable to build unconditional happiness. Who told you it’s not possible, appropriate, suitable or achievable? Ask yourself what kind of life that person leads. People often project their own fear and ignorance. If someone tells you love does not exist because they do not live it, remind yourself opinion is not truth. Regardless of your experience, you can evolve to realize every event, every choice you make, is a step toward a different understanding of joy and happiness. You choose every perception and focus of every relationship and circumstance. People with health problems or other crises can choose rediscover meaning and motivation in life or, reinforce their negative beliefs and feelings of despair. At a given moment, you decide who to listen to and what subjects will make sense. Part of you always knows and experiences joy. Part of you also deprives yourself of positive feelings for your own ends. You are invited to adopt what serves you and to disregard what does not. It is a process. Another way of viewing things is to sense every spark of joy you experience consciously is a way to dissolve what joy is not. For example, if you reflect on a situation in your life that evoked sad or negative feelings, that same situation can be viewed as a path to experiencing greater happiness. Your points of reference change. Your feelings deepen and intensify. The nature of joy expands. It touches everything and everyone. You experience joy and nothing else whenever you choose.

What prompts you to say, "I don't know?"

More often than you realize, you know what you want, how you think or why you behave as you do.  Yet, as people ask you about your dreams or plans, part of you will still reply, "I don't know."  Where did you pick this up? How can you learn to read between the lines?

You may be walking down the street and come across a shop by a vendor who is selling products or services you dream about doing yourself.  People with you might snicker as you linger or, tell you that such a plan is not the right thing for you.  Do you listen?

Then there exist times when a someone you know asks you why you did not make a certain decision, why you did not take advantage of a particular opportunity they would have wanted for themselves. If this kind of interaction prompts you to reply, " I don't know?," then what are you really saying? Why hesitate to accept what you know?

Whenever you choose to be tentative or, indecisive, then you lack self-confidence or faith in what your spirit desires.  You may place too much importance on external approval or social acceptance.  If this is the case, then you are not listening to your soul.

Think back to a situation where you sensed you knew something.  How did that feel? This is a situation when you had no desire to question your view or belief.  You had an unwavering trust in something or someone.  To utter "I don't know" can reveal you were let down or betrayed and are reluctant to trust.  You may hesitate to take a risk because doing do did not work out for your before. History does not have to repeat.

You always have the option to decide to raise your awareness and remember what you know. This will evolve as you feel more comfortable expressing what you believe to people who may not share your views.  It is okay to agree to disagree.  It is also okay change your mind and realize you know more than you thought. People will tell you what they think. You choose what to believe.  You evolve to understand why you think as you do.

Share a meaningful lesson

At any given moment, you can choose reflect back and sense experiences about your own healing that have changed how your percieve the world and yourself.  Choices you have made or not have transformed you.  You heal emotionally, spiritually, physically and in other ways.  Every thought and feeling helps.  Your awareness shapes your perspective.

Take a step to share a choice you made, how it changed you. Choose to inspire others.