The Waves is a newsletter reporting on the explorations of the Sea Life
community. Sea Life, the main web forum at Dreampeace, aims to bring
together a circle of dreamers from around the globe, collaborating in
dreaming adventures, and 'dreaming with and for the earth itself'
Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/
This moon, we'll be looking at the vast topic of Dream Healing; reporting
on our own experiences, and looking at some of the potential benefits it
could bring to the health of our communities.
Tell your doctor about a dream offering advice for a problem you're
experiencing, and the most many of us will receive is a chuckle and a
strange smile. And that's only if you can build up the courage to speak of
it in the first place! Modern medicine hardly acknowledges the healing
power of dreams, never mind encouraging the awareness and application of
them.
Dreams can provide us with timely health checks, precautions to take to
maintain our health, and advice as to suitable medicine and treatment. They
are even capable of healing deeper soul wounds that may be responsible for
the physical symptoms of disease. We see the above attitude expressed in
the healing practises of many cultures around the world; from tribal
shamanic practitioners to the hundreds of Asklepian dream healing
sanctuaries in use around the Mediterranean in centuries past.
Prior to attempting our own healing dream journeys, a number of dreamers of
my acquaintance had blessed me with the details of their own experiences.
Kathy, a member of the World Dreams Peace Bridge, is one such person.
Kathy's story acted as a powerful affirmation of one of the many
possibilities of Dream Healing.
Kathy's daughter suffered from carnitine deficiency; A side effect of an
anti-eleptic drug, it destroyed all her muscles and all but killed her.
By good luck, Kathy found a doctor who knew what was wrong. As soon as her
daughter was diagnosed, she was given carnitine and all the life
threatening aspects stopped (eg. She no longer fell into comas). However,
she could not grow her muscles back. The doctor had gone overseas, and
there was nobody else in their home city who was an expert on this
metabolic problem.
One night, Kathy had a very clear dream. In it, she saw a medical script
for creatine. She had to trace over the doctor's name on the script. It was
the same doctor who had diagnosed carnitine deficiency.
Having had similar experiences before, Kathy was quick to act on the advice
of her dream. The next day Kathy's daughter started creatine as well, and
her muscles started to grow. When the doctor returned six months later, he
mentioned to her daughter to take creatine. She said she already was! He
wanted to know how she knew, as the research had only just come out about
the link between carnitine and creatine!
Kathy's story clearly highlights the potential of dreams as a source of
accurate and medicinal advice. True - It was a pretty simple dream, but it
did give her the information she needed. It also seems important to
remember that Kathy had enough faith in her dreams to actually make a
decision based on what she was shown. Who knows how many people have
similar dreams, and simply never feel comfortable enough to tell them to
anyone.
I believe, we need to get the value of these type of dreams out in the
open, especially within the medical community. This way individuals can
begin to freely confer with doctors about the details of their dreams,
without feeling embarassed about it. Given her feelings on dreaming, I'm
sure Kathy would agree:
"I think we can get advice anytime we want. In general when I want to learn
something about how to relate better to those around me or situations in
which I am, I always ask my dreams. I think of it as giving myself
permission to shift in this area.
ALWAYS I learn."
MEKENZIE'S DREAM GUIDANCE FOR HYPOGLYCEMIA
We were just beginning our own dream healing project at the forum, when
MeKenzie, a wonderfully skilled dreamer from within my own Dream Team,
received some unexpected advice.
MeKenzie had been diagnosed a couple of months previously, with
hypoglycemia - low sugar blood. As a result she often suffers from severe
headaches and anxiety attacks.
In her lucid dream, she emerged into an underwater world, a kind of
training center for dreamers. At the first level, for example, she saw an
elderly man teaching the kids "how to do karate with THE FORCE". Eager to
move on, she gradually progressed to the most advanced level, before
finally settling down to "reach a different level for lunch":
"I look around, aware that I'm hypoglycemic so I can't eat certain food. I
hear a voice telepathically that says something like, ~You don't have to
worry. These foods are offered to show you what you can eat in your life
without having to give up your sweet tastebud~. I look up in amazement.
There is a chef looking at me and he says, "Yep. That's right! Go ahead! We
personally made them just for you!" I smile and blush. I eat strawberries
with sugar-free whipped cream, most tasty vegetable cake/soup, etc. I feel
very special!"
This dream didn't offer a cure to her disease, but it did give her a sense
of greater freedom and a knowing that perhaps things weren't so bad. Given
the proven link between the health of the mind and body, stress-relieving
advice such as this is certainly important. Inspired, she later decided to
seek further guidance by incubating a dream on the topic:
"My mom and I go back to the hospital for the follow-up check for my blood.
The nurse comes in, to check my blood pressure. She tells me to sit in the
front of a big screen. I wonder why they need a big monitor for checking my
blood pressure, but I say nothing about it. My nurse tells me to wait here
and that my doctor will come in soon.
My doctor comes in and he pumps in the air to test my blood pressure. All
of a sudden, the screen turns on, showing me everything about my blood.
Sugar, red cells count, white cells count, t-cells count, chemicals, etc.
There are a lot of things I don't even know exist in my blood like t-cells
and their function. You can say that I have learnt a lot from this
experience!
At the upper-left corner of the huge screen, the computer is making an
estimated diagnosis of my illness/cause. It shows a lot of "scientific"
words before it makes its final decision. I don't actually remember it, but
I am making an educated guess with the letters that I do remember, "Clà
v/fà sis"
My doctor, wearing a concerned face, says "You have a 'puddle' blood. You
are at the edge of everything. You can easily be hypoglycemic, or out of
'balance'. You can be diabetic as well. Your blood has taken a heavy toll
and is still taking a heavy toll." I'm shocked, realizing that I get sick
quite easily and can become very sick if I am not careful.
"Oh, and a diet will help - but it will not cure your condition", he adds
before he departs the room. I wonder what he meant by this and I get an
impression that I will have to learn how to live with my condition and that
it is caused by my DNA."
MeKenzie's dream read very much like an account of a visit to an ordinary
doctor. In fact, I was initally quite confused! I couldn't help asking
myself if this were really just a dream.
MeKenzie was impressed that the dream seemed to have uncovered information
about her body, of which she was previously unaware. Not only was the
material clearly presented, but it was also free! What a wonderful
advantage for any student, or low income earner.
MeKenzie would like to hear from others who are coming to terms with this
illness. Perhaps some of you know what she was diagnosed with in her dream?
Email: dm7@dm7.net
REIKI HEALING DREAMS
While offering a variety of goals to meet in our dreaming adventures, our
main choice for the healing project, was an attempt to meet a master
skilled in the healing art of Reiki.
It seems appropriate to draw on the knowledge of the homepage of 'Reiki the
World', a website co-ordinating an event in mid-June in which Reiki healers
worldwide, will join forces to direct healing energies into the world
itself.
Link:
http://www.reikitheworld.com/
"Reiki is a system of healing using the natural energies of the world. It
is often termed spiritual healing but draws its traditions from thousands
of years of medical practices from Asia and India. Reiki is not a power
within the practitioner but a power that he or she draws on and uses.
You may often hear reference to the physical, emotional or spiritual. One
cannot exist without the other. A physical trauma will often trigger either
an intense emotional response or a higher need for spiritual awareness. A
need to follow a spiritual path will often result in a release of emotional
negativity. An emotional issue will often result in a physical ailment. For
every physical manifestation, there is usually an underlying emotional
cause. The beauty of Reiki is that it works on all of these levels
simultaneously, bringing a sense of balance between them.
There are many aspects of our lives that Reiki can assist with. It will
work away at the cause of Illness, will effectively reduce stress, will
help you to develop a positive attitude as well as balancing energy and
chakras, increases energy levels. It will also enhance personal growth, and
help to expand creativity. Reiki heals the Body, Mind and Spirit."
In my lucid dream, I found myself in the kitchen of my house. Moving into a
stance for meditation, I noticed that my arms felt a little uncomfortable.
Wondering if this was a reaction to using the keyboard so often, at first,
I decided to try healing myself:
"I start applying energy from my right hand to the left arm, singing the
energy across. However, this has a strange effect. My arm becomes more
transparent, I can see a somewhat unhealthy looking red energy beginning to
outline the skin. I become worried, that firstly the area doesn't really
need this type of healing, and in any case being so experienced, and
focusing my own energy on myself, could make it worse. I try allowing the
universal energy around me to flow into my right hand, and I see a higher
density white-patchwork frame of light, forming around it. This light seems
pure, and I know it can be used for healing."
This part of the dream stressed the importance of using energetic healing
techniques in the right way, before applying them. It was also at this
point, that I remembered my goal to try and 'Meet a Reiki Master'. I
decided to find him in a neighbouring room. I was so surprised to find him
there.
"He looks like some type of higher being. His face, is more like a light
golden oval mask. His face has an ancient feeling to it, and a unique
energy all of it's own. He wears peasant like clothing - a red skirt as I
remember. I can't see his arms. His appearance is a strange combination of
cartoon character and mystical influences.
He's a funny character, and initially we seem to dance with one another,
mimicing each other's movements forwards and back. This is probably
initiated by me, but it seems this is his way of understanding my own
energy.
Some time after this, I begin to fade in my lucidity. It seems as though
I'm about to drop out of the dream, but instead I find my mind drawn into
his energetic field. I see green wave-like patterns, and feel myself and
him as these patterns. I feel that I have to follow and become one with
these patterns of trance, in order to increase my understanding of myself
and of what it is he is doing here.
I return from this, finding myself back in my dreaming body. He explains to
me that we are in a sense universal reflections of each other, and of the
importance of the previous process. I'm quite impressed by what he's done,
but am eager to continue. I kind of casually stroll around him, "Mmm.
reflections, hey. Yeh, I understand that".
Now that's settled, he asks me who it is I want to heal. I think I go into
trance again, because a moment later a thought pops into my head. For some
reason I decide that my sister will benefit from it. I get the sense that
this is a good decision, as she's going through her final-year of school,
and that this will help give her direction.
Immediately, my sister appears before me. He stands close to her, and he
tells me there is some kind of parasite? at the back of her head. I see a
harpoon-like band of energy, reach from him into this energy center. I'm
stunned. I know him to be applying the healing energy through this, but he
seems to think there is not much time. It's as though there's some
distraction in surface reality, and that we need luck on our side.
'Hmm..', I think, remembering how important one's will is in affecting
situations like this. I hold myself in an inner knowing that this will work
out. Meanwhile, he continues the healing. While working with him, I feel
surrounded by a magnificent aura. Suddenly, after a significant period of
time, something changes. "You've done it! You've done it!" he shouts in
jubilation. He's almost jumping up in the air. It's an incredible sight!
Suprised that I haven't woken up, and absolutely amazed by witnessing the
event, I run up to him, giving this crazy character a big hug. "What's your
name", I ask excitedly. "Ducky Johnson", he replies. I smile, and then wake
up."
Waking from the dream, I was truly astounded by the beauty of the event. It
gave me a lot of faith in the true power of Reiki. I genuinely believed the
experience was real - that the Reiki Master was actually channelling the
Reiki through to my sister's energy body, from within the Dreamtime.
Having said this, it is a difficult thing to validate the success of the
healing. Upon hearing the story, my sister wasn't sure about the nature of
the experience, but was genuinely appreciative that I would think of
helping her.
To the skeptic, this story may not have much power, but that is surely why
it would be beneficial to see the integration of these healing practises in
an experimental setting. Perhaps, in the future we will begin to see
experienced lucid dreamers practising Reiki on patients from afar. If the
patients were to remain unaware of this influence, we could begin to study
their health in order to see if these practises were indeed succesful.
MeKenzie's experience demonstrates a case, in which this type of healing
could be especially helpful:
In her lucid dream, MeKenzie found herself flying over a freeway. Deciding
to expect a building with Reiki masters inside, she came to a tall building
with a temple-like appearance.
"I enter the building and an elderly woman introduces me to two patients -
one with cancer (brain tumor) and another one that just generally needs
some healing. I tell her about my intention and that I wish to learn level
one healing. She looks at me like a weirdo as if she wants to say, "You
ALREADY know how!"
But instead, she changes the topic and talks about the importance of
herbals and that people on the earth fail to recognize the simple
medications without any unwanted side effects like it is with man-made
medications.
Another gentleman comes and tells me that I need to help them to heal the
same two patients the elderly woman introduced me to. Apparently, I have
"unconditionally" and "special" healing energy.
He places his right hand on my head and places his left hand on the cancer
patient while that elderly woman places her right hand on his shoulder and
her left hand on other patient. "Focus your energy and we will do the rest.
Do not worry," the male Reiki master says. I nod and then start to focus on
my energy. All of a sudden, I experience a rush of energies through me. I
start to cry, knowing that I am now directing the energy from the endless
universe.
I look up and see their hands glowing in bright golden light. I can feel
each individual energy and tell its origin, it is the weirdest encounter I
ever had with the energies. I feel overwhelmed and the Reiki masters seem
to know that I will wake up soon, so they say, "Until we meet again."
I am still channeling the energies even though I am not focusing on
channeling them - as if they are on the automatic switch. I wake up,
buzzing with the energies and I soon realize that I have two favorite's
now: my "special" energy and the "water" energy.
MeKenzie's story impressed upon me, the sheer intensity of the experience.
The dream seems to have uncovered through first-hand experience, awareness
of the healing powers which so obviously belong to her. Not only this, but
it demonstrates an area in which spiritual healing practises are
particularly important; Illnesses and diseases for which we no medical
cure. Stressing, once again the value of further study in this area.
Hopefully this story, will inspire other dreamers to seek out similar
experiences.
CONCLUSION: THE IMPORTANCE OF DREAM HEALING
Knowledge of the use of dreams as a source of healing guidance and
medicinal advice is especially valuable to our culture. Some of us are at
first reluctant or embarrassed to see a doctor - perhaps due to concerns
about privacy or the fees involved. Yet by listening to the sought-after or
at times spontaneous advice of our dreams, we can open ourselves to an
alternative source of wisdom within.
Once more of us begin to learn to place our trust in these dreams, we will
begin to see a society in which their powers are solidly integrated into
medicinal practise. For now, let's hope that our doctors take our dreams a
little more seriously, the next time we visit.
If you're ever feeling concerned about your health, try asking your dreams
for assistance - through the practise of dream incubation! Remember, it's
free!
Stay tuned next moon for the results of our research from our 'Star Trek to
Sirius'. In the meantime dreamers are invited to contact Nick (Explora),
with their experiences of healing in dreams.
Email: explora@dreamofpeace.net
RESOURCES
Dreampeace: Dreaming Our Way to 2012
The Dreampeace community, explores the role of dreams in bringing about a
more peaceful and harmonious lifestyle to this planet, and is dedicated to
bringing the vast potential of dreaming into our culture.
Link: http://www.dreamofpeace.net/
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