Our dreams offer us value and enjoyment on multiple
levels.
Perhaps the greatest value of the material in our dreams
is its pragmatic nature. Our nightly dreams
come to us in service of our daily health and well-being. Like a loving parent or mentor, our dreams
offer insights into our own puzzling and sometimes confounding behavior patterns,
the intricacies of our relationships, our physical and mental health, and the
world around us.
To these ends, our dreams offer us a unique
perspective. Consider your dream’s apparent
ability to view you and your daily life from above, as though from a
helicopter. Our dreams seem to have a
360 degree view of us as well as the capacity to see us from within.
Maybe on a subconscious level we know what our
dreams tell us, but we are often too deep in the forest of daily business to
find the pathways our dreams readily see.
No doubt, the language of dreams can be perplexing,
but it can be learned. Those who take
the time are rewarded with the universal “ah ha!” of self-knowledge and an
opportunity to progress beyond a snag in their personal growth and development.
Our dreams also bring beauty in images and
sensations that simply are not available to us in our waking lives. Their contributions to the creative
accomplishments of some of the most exalted writers, artists, musicians and thinkers
of all time are well-documented. And such
dreams are available to us all.
Dreams of flying are among the most pleasurable of
all. Most of us hold memories of such
dreams for our lifetimes. These dreams
are valuable for the exhilaration alone, but can also offer the impetus for
exploring new horizons in life.
In each weekly column, we attempt to help dreamers
make the connections their dreams present while sharing methods and strategies
for working with dreams. Now, we are
offering a series of Dreamwork Workshops for our readers’ benefit and
enjoyment.
Sunday,
June 7th ~ Session 1 will offer dreamwork
basics for understanding your dreams and applying their insights to your daily
life and lifelong aspirations. Recognizing
symbols, metaphors, puns and plays on words are the building blocks we will
explore.
Sunday,
June 14th ~ Session 2 offers more advanced
strategies developed by the leaders in the dreamwork community including Projective
dreamwork by Jeremy Taylor, PhD, Co-Founder of the International Association
for the Study of Dreams and the Marin Institute for Projective Dreamwork; and Dream
Themes by Robert Gongloff, Past President of the IASD.
Sunday,
June 28th ~ Session 3 will explore the power
and beauty of dream incubation and lucid dreaming. We will present methods for ‘hatching’ a
dream that responds to a dreamer’s specific problem or question. In addition, we will offer the processes used
to induce lucid dreams and the many possibilities such dreams raise.
For details please visit Benicia Dreamwork Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Benicia-Dreamwork-Meetup/?scheduleNow=true
You may attend one, two or all three sessions. Hope to see you there!
Sweet dreams to you, Dear Dreamer!
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