What the heck is a dream journal?
Well it is a log book that you keep beside your bed to write down your dreams. Why so close? Because dreams start to unravel almost as soon as we awake. Don't move too much. Reach over, grab your journal and a pen and quickly get as much of it down on paper as you can before the tender tendrils become white whisps and vanish into the air. There is much to learn. Dreams are your own personal maps, your own way to find the gifts on their way to you every moment.
I have started one of my own, mostly to invite my dreams back. In Sedona after a lot of beautiful healing work and meditation, I had my first dream in three years. It was short but sweet. In the dream, the facilitator of the retreat was standing before all of us in a small softly lit room. She had a large round platter and on it were the largest most beautiful golden pears I had ever seen. She was offering one to each of us. And then, I woke up. Being a Google freak, I immediately searched the meaning and the golden pear was about the Divine Feminine. She was giving us the gift of the Divine Feminine.
What the heck does that mean? Divine Feminine? Well, for me it is not just about women. It is that yin energy that we all carry. It is the forgotten part of our selves, the undervalued piece of intuition, primal knowing, listening not to the external world but the internal one.
Dreams are that place in between where we can go to access that intuition and that knowing. But you have to remember them first! So join me on this journey and lets see where it leads us. You will notice that once you record them, there will be patterns. Dreams on their own don't always make a lot of sense but you will see the messages in the patterns. Don't rely so much on dream books for interpretation but look to your own feelings to sort out the meanings. Most times we know very well what symbols mean to us, look to your gut instinct and if you are still stuck then Google. It will get easier with practice.
The amazing thing is how much information is coming through if we only pay attention.
I realize in my own journey how much I had dampened my own intuition. I am a bit of a lightening rod for other people's emotions. As a young person I couldn't figure out how to shut all that stuff off. I was very affected by it. Over the years as we all do I got good at insulating myself from all of that, but the down side was that not only did it block out all of their stuff, it blocked out my intuition too. Over the course of PB, I learned how to dismantle that insulation and reconnect with my intuitive self. This process has become so much more powerful integrating yoga, meditation and the dream journal. I am amazed at how consistent the messages are from all these sources, how very many patterns there are and how clear the meaning becomes when you can integrate all three.
The first entry in my dream journal is more like a prayer. "Please return my dreams to me. I am ready and I am open. I am listening. I am listening."
I know now that the whole time I wasn't dreaming I was really going to somewhere safe to be with someone I trust my life with. To share my journey and share my truth. That conversation is ongoing but silent and one of the most important components of my life. An armchair conversation, souls touching, remembering. Even when silent, what truth is found within the heart cannot be unheard. My heart is open and I am content to wait in this space and trust the mystery. I am becoming. It came to me in a dream. A beautiful dream.
Start your dream journal and let us put our feet firmly upon the path.
In love and light,
Kathryn
Well it is a log book that you keep beside your bed to write down your dreams. Why so close? Because dreams start to unravel almost as soon as we awake. Don't move too much. Reach over, grab your journal and a pen and quickly get as much of it down on paper as you can before the tender tendrils become white whisps and vanish into the air. There is much to learn. Dreams are your own personal maps, your own way to find the gifts on their way to you every moment.
I have started one of my own, mostly to invite my dreams back. In Sedona after a lot of beautiful healing work and meditation, I had my first dream in three years. It was short but sweet. In the dream, the facilitator of the retreat was standing before all of us in a small softly lit room. She had a large round platter and on it were the largest most beautiful golden pears I had ever seen. She was offering one to each of us. And then, I woke up. Being a Google freak, I immediately searched the meaning and the golden pear was about the Divine Feminine. She was giving us the gift of the Divine Feminine.
What the heck does that mean? Divine Feminine? Well, for me it is not just about women. It is that yin energy that we all carry. It is the forgotten part of our selves, the undervalued piece of intuition, primal knowing, listening not to the external world but the internal one.
Dreams are that place in between where we can go to access that intuition and that knowing. But you have to remember them first! So join me on this journey and lets see where it leads us. You will notice that once you record them, there will be patterns. Dreams on their own don't always make a lot of sense but you will see the messages in the patterns. Don't rely so much on dream books for interpretation but look to your own feelings to sort out the meanings. Most times we know very well what symbols mean to us, look to your gut instinct and if you are still stuck then Google. It will get easier with practice.
The amazing thing is how much information is coming through if we only pay attention.
I realize in my own journey how much I had dampened my own intuition. I am a bit of a lightening rod for other people's emotions. As a young person I couldn't figure out how to shut all that stuff off. I was very affected by it. Over the years as we all do I got good at insulating myself from all of that, but the down side was that not only did it block out all of their stuff, it blocked out my intuition too. Over the course of PB, I learned how to dismantle that insulation and reconnect with my intuitive self. This process has become so much more powerful integrating yoga, meditation and the dream journal. I am amazed at how consistent the messages are from all these sources, how very many patterns there are and how clear the meaning becomes when you can integrate all three.
The first entry in my dream journal is more like a prayer. "Please return my dreams to me. I am ready and I am open. I am listening. I am listening."
I know now that the whole time I wasn't dreaming I was really going to somewhere safe to be with someone I trust my life with. To share my journey and share my truth. That conversation is ongoing but silent and one of the most important components of my life. An armchair conversation, souls touching, remembering. Even when silent, what truth is found within the heart cannot be unheard. My heart is open and I am content to wait in this space and trust the mystery. I am becoming. It came to me in a dream. A beautiful dream.
Start your dream journal and let us put our feet firmly upon the path.
In love and light,
Kathryn
I just need to start dreaming again!
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