Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Observing The Mind: Healing Dream

On a recent road trip, I had an incredible dream when I was sleeping at a friend’s house in New Mexico. The dream is what I would call a “healing dream”, and I woke up feeling energized and happy.

In the dream I was sitting in a grand stand with my sister. We were watching the joyous pageantry of a festive parade. The parade consisted of all people who were dressed in light purple and cream taffeta costumes. There were flags and spirally banners in the same colors flying and confetti was coming down in sparkly flakes.

It was clearly a magnificent celebration. I watched the participants in the parade as they stopped to perform in front of the grand stand. I was surprised to see they were acting out all the highly emotionally charged events that had happened in my sister and my lives.

We were happily observing the spectacle, laughing out loud at the absurdity of the situations that were being enacted. All negative emotional charge was gone and we couldn’t stop laughing as one after another of the events were shown to us.

At some point, my sister leaned around me and pointed to a man sitting to our left a few people down. His aura was glowing so brightly it extended clear up into the sky and lit up the entire area. “Look”, my sister exclaimed, “it’s Jesus!”

Then I began to look around at the other people in the stands. Everyone was glowing in the same way. I glanced at my sister and she, too, was emanating a golden glow. I looked at myself and I was glowing, too.

We both agreed everyone was glowing, although not everyone saw or knew it. This great teacher was showing us that we are All light and love. As we turned our attention back to the parade we both basked in the truths we were experiencing.

When I woke up from this dream I was bombarded with realizations and questions. The strongest inspiration was becoming conscious of what my thoughts and perceptions had been doing to myself. Had I really allowed my thoughts to prop up negative opinions of myself by feeding them needy connections, distractions and mental and emotional despair?

I was stunned that my life had been bound by all the illusions my thinking had harbored about these emotionally charged situations. I could feel how these perceptions had dominated my life’s power and authority. These thoughts had interpreted my experiences and actually defined my reality.

I had awakened to the awareness of what it meant to own my experiences. A gigantic shift had occurred while I was sitting on the grand stand in my dream. I could feel a strong sense that now I was in the center of my life, observing and seeing it clearly. I was eager to live in the new experience of myself the shift had brought.

The dream had shown me I was ready to stop reacting to the old lies my thoughts had told me with all their judgment. I wondered what it was going to be like when I didn’t hold myself back. Would I be aware when fear and resistance tried to enslave me with old ideas, or would I laugh at them like I had in the dream?

A distinct new sense of myself had emerged. With it came a deep feeling of what my inner knowing wants for me. The person I had accepted as the “real” me and my old identity had lost its energy. An enormous trust of my spiritual intuition had replaced the old ideas of fear-based thinking, lack, and all the limitations I had placed on myself. The coping mechanisms I had used were no longer necessary.

I was delirious with the feeling that my spirit and my authentic self genuinely know me and do not judge. Just like when I was on the grand stand watching in the dream, now I had the knowing I can be neutral and just observe life with detachment. I had called my thoughts’ and perceptions’ bluff and I felt free. I felt inundated with an overpowering connection to my soul again.

Isn’t it amazing how when we stop believing the lies in our minds and observe our truth and experiences, our souls awaken and beckon forth our true selves? When we surrender our old thought forms and old emotions they simply float up into the clouds of illusion and show us how we create all our experiences. There really is a Divine Plan. We never again have to be less than we are!