Dreams and life

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Hi Avtar,

A good rule of thumb regarding dreamwork, if you want to work with them,

is if the same or similar dream keeps coming back or if a dream so rocked

your night that you can't get thru your day without parts of appearing

during waking moments, than you have some fertile material to work with.

This I got from the Gestalt work I did years ago.

Regarding the dream life of a yoga master, I think what Yogiji is saying

has to do with how the subconscious rising into the conscious mind came

create so much commotion and actual tragedy. There was a story of a woman

having thrown all three of her children from a building in Boston many years

ago. She had dreamed that there was a fire and the only to save her children

was to throw them from the window. The fear of flames were completely real

to her! She obviously didn't have a foundation from which to experience her

fear and get through it with neutrality.

It is best to look at these issues within a set time everyday. Make a deal

with the subconscious. Where any and every little whatever can come up and

be felt or a least acknowledged and honored. Our subconscious will certainly

keep it's appointment with us. Through the ages, Saints and Sages have

chosen the time when dreams are most active to be meditative. This is the

time of highest creativity.

Without a dicipline it can be like a hall of mirrors. I say do your

steady yoga/meditation practice and if dreams happen, they happen. Learn

what you can from them. Play! Make art! Say something you never before to

another human being.

Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's books said to try to imagine seeing your

own hands in your dreams. I guess at that point you draw power from your

dreams and can bring that into your life. Yogiji says to arise each morning

by holding the hands over the eyes, then open the eyes and allow your vision

to adjust to the point where you can see the lines in your hands before

uncovering your eyes.

There are more than a few considerations no matter how you look at this.

Sat Nam,

Dharam

 

 

>Avtar Kaur <avtarkaur

>Kundaliniyoga

>Kundaliniyoga

>Re: Dreams

>Sun, 17 Mar 2002 21:42:12 -0600

>

>I cannot comment on YB's interpetation of dreams, but I can say that in

>my own case dreams have been a major source of guidance in the last

>thirteen years. I find that if I open myself to accepting the message,

>the correct interpetation comes to me whether it is something I want ot

>hear or not. My experience has been that the symbolism can be quite

>personal - it can mean something very specific to me while another person

>would see it in a different light. I don't know that any of this is

>useful to Sukhmani, but I can tell you that the Sufis see dreams as very

>significant, and some some investigation of their dreamwork may prove

>useful.

>

>Love and blessings,

>Avtar K.

>

 

 

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