The Alchemy of Your Dreams by Athena Laz

Author:Athena Laz [Laz, Athena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2021-08-30T00:00:00+00:00

EXERCISE #3: IMAGINAL RECONSTRUCTION WITH REGULAR DREAMS

This exercise is designed to help you incorporate all the seemingly emotionally dissonant notes of your dreams into a new and greater vision for your life. Before you begin this exercise choose one repetitive dream theme that you want to work with. You can deliberately choose a dream theme that relates to your future goals and emotional well-being; alternatively, you can spontaneously decide which theme to work with based on how you feel. You should do this exercise during a time and in a place where you will not be disturbed.

Once you are ready, find a comfortable seated position or lie down to begin the visualization. In your mind’s eye imagine a scenario in which the dream theme appears very prominently. You can either replay a dream that you’ve actually had or re-create one entirely. The core ingredient you need to fulfill this exercise is simply the dream theme.

Try to imagine the dream theme and experience as powerfully as you can. Only when the dream theme is highly present and palpable should you begin to actively change the visualization by imagining a positive and brilliant ending. You can make the visualization as realistic or fantastical as you want. The idea is to let the images arise organically but to steer them in the direction of your choosing.

For example, if being trapped is one of your repetitive dreams or dream themes, you would imagine a scenario in which you are trapped. You would allow yourself to feel the discomfort that being trapped brings and then you would visualize a best-case scenario happening that turns the whole dream vision around. Perhaps you are trapped in an anxiety-provoking, claustrophobia-inducing tiny space in the basement of your house. You panic, but then suddenly you remember that you’ve got a pocketknife with you! You jimmy the door lock and it clicks open. You swing the door open with the full might of your force and you are free!

Then you walk up the stairs and exit the house. As you step outside you breathe in the fresh air and feel the sunlight on your face. You see a wide-open field of blooming roses. You walk through the roses and their innate beauty clears away any lingering feeling of being overwhelmed. Then in a moment of brilliant inspiration, you decide to buy the house so that you can remodel the entire space—specifically the room that you were trapped in!

You see the house being torn down and in its place a beautiful Japanese-inspired house appears. You walk through all of the traditionally small spaces of the house (the closet, the pantry, the basement) and you realize that they are now all super-sized sun-filled rooms boasting the essence of Zen. Bliss! Without a shadow of a doubt, you now know that you cannot ever be trapped in the house because it is designed to your very liking. You are ecstatic that things turned out so well for you!

The goal of this exercise is to repair the dream in your waking life through the use of your imagination.

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