And Now, the Rest of the Story…
Ever wonder what, exactly, your dreams are? Are they just subconscious trash getting sorted and pushed to the ‘out bin’? Are they random firings of neurons that sometimes make disturbing or entertaining stories to keep us company through the night? Or, are they possibly something with purpose with which we can actually interact? It’s the ...
A Present Tense Life
Be Here Now. How many bumper stickers, t-shirts and blog entries have we seen this phrase appear on? It’s becoming that ubiquitous phrase that gets bandied about from in line at Starbucks (“I’m so stressed, my job is crazy, I have to get an agent and I’m behind on my Tivo..” “Everybody’s stressed, Dude, just ...
How to do a Waking Dream
In my last blog entry (Getting Unstuck, April 20), I talked about dreams being a method of seeing where we are stuck in our lives, and of getting unstuck. One way of getting unstuck is to do a waking dream. In that entry I posted a video of a Dream Group member, Angela, talking about ...
Getting Unstuck
Stuck. When I was a little kid I was terrified of getting stuck – in a too-tight jacket when the zipper jams, my finger in the crack between the car seat and the console, squeezing through a tunnel and not getting out. I once got stuck in a little crawl-space in our house and it ...
Dreams & Passover – The From What to Where.
Whoever you are, and wherever you are, you’ve probably at least once experienced being in Egypt – at least in the Jewish understanding of it. Egypt translates to The Narrows, or The Narrow Place. And tonight, with Passover, the Jews celebrate the escaping from it to get to the Promised Land. Further, we are taught ...
Images v. Symbols
Walk into any esoteric bookstore and you are likely to find a dreaming dictionary – those books that explain the dream meaning of images. These books consider the images in dreams to be symbols – where a cat always means this, and a broom means that. The lineage I teach looks at things very differently. ...
Shhhh… The Importance of Silence
The Jews are known for asking a lot of questions. In fact, it is said that Einstein’s mother didn’t ever ask her son if he learned something in school that day, but rather did he ask good questions. Asking questions is a lesson in itself – learning how to ask questions is a great practice. ...
Gratitude
Gratitude is becoming one of those ubiquitous “yoga-words” that has worked its way into the common vernacular. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It’s just that sometimes when we find ourselves using a word over and over, tossing it out in multiple situations and many times a day, it tends to lose its meaning. ...
The Power of Speaking in the Present
One of the practices of the dream work I teach is to write your dreams in present tense, and speak to them in the present tense. We also open dreams in the present tense. The reason we work with dreams in the present tense is because dreams are happening right now. To put something in ...
How to Remember Your Dreams
I work with clients teaching them how to understand the language of their night dreams, and the messages the dreams have for them. We do this through a process called dream opening. But the first step in opening dreams is to remember your dreams! I’m asked a lot how one can remember their dreams, and ...