As a spiritualist and soul coach, I believe that dreams are
from another world or they are reflections of our subconscious. They can also
offer us healing from traumatic experiences, that traditional therapy can’t
offer.
I also believe that at night time, we leave our bodies
energetically and we have the capacity to go to other dimensions of reality in
order to obtain healing, knowledge, creativity, deep insight and understanding,
or to even send healing and help to others.
As a child, I would have very vivid dreams and I learned to
lucid dream on my own. I still have
vivid recollections of recurring nightmares, knowing that they had enough
significance in my life to capture my attention and to linger with me
throughout this lifetime. I knew I was
accessing levels of past lives and they showed me why there were unknown issues
of broken relationships with my family dynamics. I have healed layers of trauma within myself
simply through dreaming and then analyzing them.
One of the things I found so captivating about Mexico, is
that the culture is conducive to dreaming.
Sleep time is considered to be very important in the development of the
soul. The siesta is a socially accepted
norm, knowing that the body and mind needs regular rejuvenation, not just
because of the hot climate.
Indigenous Mexicans also invented one of the most profound
items – the hammock. Yes…it looks
simple, but think about it. The hammock
is made of strings, yet it still holds the human body without breaking. It is
shaped as a womb and rocks the body in a way that brings us back to the
universal rhythm. It also represents the
web of creation, through the way it is designed, which is the belief that we
are all interconnected. And it supports us in dreamtime, a time that most
Indigenous Traditions believe is the true reality and our waking life is the
illusion.
It is believed that in dreamtime, anything is possible.
Shamans teach us that the limits we believe about ourselves and our lives on
the earth plane is not how it is on the soul and spirit plane. If we can tap
into and disintegrate the illusions we tell ourselves, then we can live with
more soul and its possibilities.
Dreaming awake takes us to a whole new level of
understanding about ourselves and our view of reality. It’s the view that
dreams can actually wake us up to ourselves, if we are able to truly listen.
Now when I say this, it doesn’t mean it’s all an issue of
the mind. It’s actually very linked to
the soul. In the dream world, the soul knows itself intimately. It is our
ego-personality that we operate in that is masking our heart. With this knowledge, we are able to recognize
that our dreams are really showing us where we are split with this – that is,
where we are not being heart-centred or genuine within ourselves.
Lately, I’ve been having dreams about the inner child. They
say, this is the true place of the soul and reveals to us who we really are.
I had one disturbing yet revealing dream last night that
showed to me that I’ve been wearing a mask of the professional. It’s been
causing me a lot of suffering. And that
my truth is that I am a warm-hearted, loving person. Now it’s not to say that professionals can’t
be this way, but my culture has conditioned us to believe that success has to “look”
a certain way. It gave me incidences in
my past with jobs I’ve taken, where I’ve had to wear the suit and skirt, etc.,
which wasn’t who I really was. It’s why I would end up in a depression when I
would go into an office setting. It just
didn’t work for me. This dream speaks to
me that I have to be sure that I’m approaching my business with a full heart,
not one that is trying to be more professional than it needs to be. Because
that’s not who I am.
I will give you a bit of background to help you understand this
dream better and how relevant it is.
In my family, my mother was an artist and entrepreneur. She had to struggle to define herself this
way because she had the pressure to follow the path of a teacher or office
worker because her brothers and father were reputable and successful
professionals. She had the disadvantage
of that time of being a woman where there were limited options for her to
work. But there wasn’t much compassion
in her family for this and she was seen as the wayward outcast. My mom boldly sought out work that was
inspiring, creative and matched her spirit. But it came at a cost of feeling
misunderstood and rejected.
I followed suit, of course, and have moved on the “road less
travelled” as a seer/medium, soul coach and author.
But it still there are still twinges, as seen in my dream,
that makes me doubt myself and question if I am worthy enough because I don’t have
the Master’s degree or the permanent job or the title that shows
respectability. Of course, I know that this
credibility is very ridiculous in the roles that define us in our society and
they create a lot of ego-division and I don’t believe in them when I interact
with people. Heck, most of us aren’t professionals. And consciously, I am glad
I’m not a professional because it “keeps me real” and more connected to people.
But this dream has shown to me that one part of my ego that believes I have to
be “more than”.
Since I adjusted my life to be something that is more me, away
from offices and bureaucratic structures, I am also having dreams that are
relevant to my clients. There is a synchronicity that happens between my dream
world and waking world that can be healing and very relevant for my clients.
Sometimes I even receive a dream from a client’s loved one who has passed
on.
They say that death is a transition into the dream world, so
dreaming well and learning how to release our issues and wounded memories is so
important before we actually do pass from our bodies, because our consciousness
takes it with us to where we go next. And from my experience with my near death
experiences, I do see this to be true.
There are many dream workshops out there, and dream pillows
and dream journals that can support you with healthy dreaming. For example, my colleague, Roxana Roshon,
offers a Mexica Healing Dream Workshop that I highly recommend. It’s a great
introduction into the way to work with this sacred time.
I have also become astute at dream interpretation given my
own journey, and would be happy to do a soul reading with you in order to help
you get deeper understanding into challenging, questionable or insightful
dreams you are having. Just go to my web
site at: www.blossomingheart.ca to
book an appointment.
I am an ongoing student of all things dreams, so if you have
any resources, stories and personal experiences, I’d love to hear about them.
Here’s to all good day and night dreams,
Heather Embree
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