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Bring it on!

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

When a dream shows you a wonderful, uplifting, positive symbol, you can use it to spin a little dream alchemy to accelerate the manifestation of excellent outcomes into your life.

There are many tips throughout this blog describing how to transform a negative aspect of a dream into a positive one by visualising the change over and over again. For example, if you dreamed of a little bird, trapped and unable to fly high, and related your dream to feeling trapped in your career, you can visualise the little bird freed from its trap, flying free and high. What this visualisation does is communicate with your unconscious mind, using its own symbolic language, to change those unconscious beliefs that have been stopping you from flying high in your career.

Now, imagine something happens at work to give you a glimpse of what it would be like to fly high in your career, to feel free instead of trapped.

But remember, what dreams do is process your experiences of the last 24-48 hours to update your view of the world and your place in it. In this way, they are the blueprint of your future, as the future is most likely to turn out according to your beliefs and experiences.

Now, imagine something happens at work to give you a glimpse of what it would be like to fly high in your career, to feel free instead of trapped. Your dream might process this experience resulting in a dream of a resplendent bird flying high, up and far away from where it had been trapped. Such a dream would suggest your beliefs are changing, that you are beginning to see that there is nothing holding you back from flying high.

Your dream might show a bird flying high to reflect this feeling.

That being so, how long are you going to wait for this belief to fully form? This is where the dream alchemy practice comes in. By simply visualising this positive part of the dream – the resplendent bird flying high, up and far away from where it had been trapped – and making sure you add uplifting feelings of joy, freedom, and ease to the visualisation, you can consolidate your new belief and accelerate its manifestation in your life.

What will you manifest in this example? A sudden insight that the trap was all of your own making, an opportunity to fly high and, possibly, some synchronicities in the shape of resplendent birds and high flying symbols peppering your days awesomely.

[Extract from 101 Dream Interpretation Tips, Jane Teresa Anderson]

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It can’t be that hard

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

The alchemists of old spent years working out how to transform base metal into pure gold. I, of the modern dream alchemist variety, spent four weeks working out how to transform a ripped, mouldy lampshade into something beautiful enough to stand in the corner of my friend’s room and shine a golden light. Now, this may be something you know how to do, but all I had was a vision and the feeling, once I got the lampshade frame home, that I had taken on a task way beyond my capability.

It was a standard lamp, but not your average standard shape. It was vintage, 1920’s I guess, a dome shape with scalloped edges and a fringe.

“You choose the fabric and fringe,” I told my friend, “and I’ll recover it for you. It can’t be that hard!”

I should watch the words I speak. “It can’t be that hard,” instantly impresses the word ‘hard’. Either I knew it would be hard, or it became hard because I spoke the word.

And then there were those other words, “I’ll recover it for you!” Perhaps I should have watched those too, I thought, as the challenge lay in pieces before me, seemingly impossible. I could have said, “I’ll get it recovered for you.”

My vision was simple: the old fabric had been applied in two halves, so all I had to do was cut two halves, stretch them over the frame, join them up, and sew on a fringe. I soon discovered the fabric didn’t give that way, and the old fabric had been glued, not sewn. Glue, for a complete beginner in the lampshade covering arts, was not a good plan. I needed to be able to undo my mistakes.

I Googled how to cover a lampshade this shape: not a good idea.

I cut smaller templates that failed, I Googled how to cover a lampshade and learned that for this particular shape it was best to get a professional to do the job. I contemplated giving up, sending it to a professional or just buying a replacement, but a strange thing happened.

Each time I contemplated giving up (and there were many), a solution presented itself. Sometimes the solution was instantaneous, and what had just seemed impossible was suddenly fixed. Sometimes the solution appeared as soon as I opened my eyes in the morning, presented by a puzzle-solving dream.

The process seemed familiar, as I leap-frogged through the work, alternately making progress, meeting a seemingly impossible bit, contemplating giving up, receiving magical solution, carrying out the next step. It took me back to several times in my life when I felt overwhelmed by challenges far bigger than covering a lampshade, times when I felt like giving up, times when solutions suddenly appeared. I realised all those past challenges rewarded me with personal and spiritual insight. Looking back, I see they opened doors and led to places that would otherwise have remained closed to me.

The more I thought about this, the more I realised that in those past challenges and in the making of this lampshade, I didn’t actually give up. I let go. I released the old way (or vision) and opened to seeing a new way. I surrendered.

And when you surrender, miracles happen.

I contemplated giving up, but a strange thing happened.

Even little miracles, like finally, over the Easter weekend, finishing the lampshade and delivering it to my friend.

As the alchemists of old knew, it’s not about whether base metal can be turned into gold (given the present state of technology, it can’t), it’s about what you learn about yourself – personally and spiritually – along the way. It’s the old, ‘the journey is more important than the destination’ thing. Life is such a journey.

My challenge had been infinitely smaller and entirely due to my complete novice status, but it presented me with a perfect reminder of the value of surrender and trust.

It may be my first and last lampshade recovering exercise, and I’m sure my big mouth will present me with further challenges from time to time. I hope, next time, that I say, “it’s easy” rather than “it can’t be that hard”, but if I forget to choose my words, I will remember to surrender to life’s alchemy to hold up a lamp to light my way.

What have life’s big and little challenges taught you?

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Dream vibrations and the LOA

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 3 Comments

I am often asked about the Law of Attraction, and whether nightmares and dreams with negative vibes attract negative people and events into our lives. It’s a good question. So, let’s explore:

Books about the Law of Attraction have enjoyed waves of popularity since the early 1900s

Books about the Law of Attraction have enjoyed waves of popularity since the early 1900s, with a recent resurgence in the early 1990s and a deluge of interest since 2000. Rhonda Byrne’s ‘The Secret’ DVD and book, published in 2006, repackaged the Law of Attraction in a way that inspired millions of people to start making the LOA – as it is now commonly known – help them achieve their goals. So, what is the LOA, exactly?

According to the LOA, you receive according to the vibe you give out. Like vibes attract like vibes. If your focus on money is all positive you attract plenty of it into your life, whereas if your focus on money is negative (for example, if you focus on debt or lack of money), then you attract debt or lack into your life. According to the law, whatever you focus on, you get more of the same.

The LOA is working all the time, whether you believe in it or not. I know this to be true. The secret everyone is searching for is how to become an active participant in the process – how to create and maintain the vibe that brings you what you want.

Imagine you know that secret, and you put all your waking hours into maintaining the vibe that will bring you what you want, and then you go to sleep and have a dream …

Imagine you know that secret, and you put all your waking hours into maintaining the vibe that will bring you what you want, and then you go to sleep and have a dream brimming with negative emotions, perhaps grief, anger or loss of confidence. Does the negative vibe of your dream beam out into the universe and undo all that daytime work?

Here’s where the magic of working with your dreams comes in. If you really want the LOA to work for you, then pay attention to your dreams. First up, there are a few basics you need to know:

1. Remember that dreams are symbolic, not literal. So if you dream that someone you know dies, your dream is NOT predicting that person’s death. The dream is symbolic and it is about something that is ending (dying off) in your life. Dreams of death are very common, and many people are frightened to mention them because they fear that putting the dream into words, or paying it attention, will cause it to happen. Please be assured that this is not the way it works. In fact, not talking about a worrying dream increases your waking life anxiety – and this affects your vibe. It’s better to talk about a worrying dream, interpret it, understand more about yourself as a result, and move on, free of any negative vibe. In this example, once you understand what is coming to an end in your life, you can decide to bring it back to life or to let it go and move on to something better. Interpretation brings you self understanding and choice.

2. The emotions you feel in your dreams are emotions that belong to you. Sometimes they’re emotions you’re aware of; most often they’re unconscious emotions that you’ve buried long ago, or emotions you’ve repressed because you can’t acknowledge them in your waking life.

3. In the same way, the beliefs, limitations and blocks you encounter in your dreams are your own unconscious beliefs, limitations and blocks.

4. So, when you interpret a dream, you discover your unconscious emotions, beliefs, limitations and blocks.

Whether you’re awake or asleep, your unconscious mind continuously sends out its vibe.

Now here’s the most important thing to understand. Whether you’re awake or asleep, your unconscious mind continuously sends out its vibe. And your unconscious mind is far more powerful than your conscious mind.

For example, you might choose to focus on sending out a positive vibe about money all day. You spend all day doing this, feeling totally positive and good about it. As far as you are aware, you have absolutely no block to having vast amounts of money in your life. However, your unconscious mind may have a different agenda. You may have unconscious doubts, limiting beliefs and blocks about having so much money. Because your unconscious mind is stronger than your conscious mind, it wins in the battle of the vibes. You don’t see the results you wanted and you declare the LOA to be a crock. But it isn’t! The LOA is working for you perfectly. Your overall vibe, dictated by your unconscious mind, is attracting according to the law. You are receiving according to the vibe you are giving out.

The real secret to getting the Law of Attraction to bring you what you consciously want is to get your unconscious mind on side.

If you want the LOA to work for you, pay attention to your dreams.

So rather than ask if a worrying dream is sending out a negative vibe, attracting negative things to you, celebrate the fact that being able to remember your dream is the first step to identifying a negative vibe that your unconscious mind is sending out while you are awake, a negative vibe of which you are oblivious, a negative vibe that is attracting negative stuff to you.

You dream every night, and a dream has a vibe whether or not your remember it. Learning to remember your dreams and interpret them is an empowering step to take if you’re serious about attracting what you want into your life.

Dream interpretation identifies your unconscious beliefs, so you can easily pick the ones that are working against your conscious wishes. The next question is, how do you change those unconscious beliefs to align them to your conscious wishes?

This is done through the process of dream alchemy. These are simple exercises such as visualisations and affirmations that reprogram your unconscious beliefs. Here’s an example:

You dream you are driving a car but you can’t see ahead clearly because the windscreen is dark. This is a common dream indicating that you are unclear about your vision for your future. This lack of clarity is the work of an unconscious block sabotaging your vision. To apply dream alchemy when you wake up, visualise yourself back in the dream only this time the windscreen is exceptionally clear and you can see your way. Visualise yourself driving well, and add in all the positive emotions you associate with achieving your goal. Doing the dream alchemy practice – the visualisation – undoes the block and reprograms the associated unconscious belief in alignment with your conscious intention. (Do a dream alchemy visualisation 20 times a day for a week, ten times a day for the second week and twice a day for the next month.)

So tune into your dreams to tune those unconscious negative vibes that you are beaming out 24/7 into positive vibes that ensure that the Law of Attraction fulfils your conscious desires.

[Copyright Jane Teresa Anderson, April 2009. First published in longer version as a Dream Sight article.]

[You can listen to this article in episode 33 The Dream Show.]

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Charlie’s bone

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

A dog, Charlie, sees a meaty bone tantalisingly just out of reach.

A dog, Charlie, sees a meaty bone tantalisingly just out of reach, on the grass, on the other side of a high wire fence. The aroma twitches his nose, moistens his mouth, and fixes his eyes to the tasty prize. The only problem is the fence between where he is now and where he wants to be. It’s too high to jump, too solid to squeeze through. What’s the solution?

Hours pass, and Charlie sits in his garden, totally focussed on the bone. You could say he spent the morning visualising gnawing the bone, imagining how it would taste, how happy he’d be. That’s true. But he was also focussed on that dratted fence, occasionally trying to burrow beneath it, lunge at it, poke his nose through it, each time feeling nothing but its unrelenting resistance barring his way to where he wanted to be.

What’s the tasty bone you’ve been visualising in your life recently? What’s the fence? Have you been spending as much time and energy visualising the fence as visualising the bone? Which do you think will manifest, getting the bone or strengthening the resistance of the fence?

Do you find yourself analysing the analogy, picking holes in it?

Does this little story resonate with your heart (does it feel right, does it deliver an Aha?), or do you find your head analysing the analogy, picking holes in it?

Legends, myths, fairy tales and parables are lovingly passed through generations because they offer insights and solutions from the safety zone of a story.

The story does not judge the listener or tell them what to do. If the listener resonates with the story, inner shifts begin. If she doesn’t, it isn’t the right story for her current predicament.

An analogy works best if it’s not too close to home, or even not close to species. Think Disney, Pixar, movies featuring animals, fables. Why is this?

You’re not a dog. You probably gag at the thought of eating a raw bone. Yet maybe you resonated at some level with my simple little story about Charlie.

An analogy works best if it’s not too close to home, or even not close to species.

In fact, the story may have a deeper impact on you than a realistic story featuring someone like you in your exact predicament. The more the details resemble your life, the harder it is for you to see solutions because you start to lock into the way you see your life, with all your familiar fences, obstacles and problems included. Your blind spots engage. Comfort zone prevails. But when the story takes you away from the life you know and gets you to look through the eyes of, say, a dog, you are suspended from your attachment to your own situation for long enough to see new possibilities.

I might have told a different Charlie analogy. How about the one where Charlie focuses so intently on the fence that he realises it is nothing but a myriad atoms floating in space, giving the impression of solidity, so he just walks through it?

Or how about the one where Charlie’s frustration with the fence makes him bark louder than ever before so that a passing stranger hears his cry for help and tosses him the bone?

Analogies are full of holes. Mere atoms of storytelling breath suspended in voids big enough to step through. But isn’t that the point? Aren’t analogies simply vehicles to transport you to the next … ah, anyone spot an analogy coming?

Dreams can be seen as analogies.

Dreams can be seen as analogies. Dreams reflect the last 24-48 hours of your conscious and unconscious experiences, compare these to your past experiences, update your personal worldview, and project forward, based on this blueprint of your expectations. The resulting dream, encompassing all this stuff, is mostly a production of your creative right brain. Left brain logic doesn’t get a look in. Approach a dream as an analogy of your current mindset, and you’re well on the way to accurate interpretation.

For example, you dream of being lost, unable to find your way: where, in the last two days, did you feel lost at some level, emotionally, intellectually, spiritually? Or you dream of being bogged down in mud: where, in the last two days, did you feel, at some level, bogged down? Or you dream of seeing a tasty reward, out of reach on the other side of a tall fence: where, in the last two days, did you feel blocked from attaining something rewarding?

When you interpret a dream, identifying the analogy is a good starting point. It helps you to relate your dream to the waking life situation it applies to.

Then you can bring in all the interpretation tools you’ve learned from me along the way (through my articles, books, podcasts and so on) to interpret the details, uncover how your mindset is affecting your life experience, and flesh out (oh, that bone again) personal meaning.

Just as analogies can be full of holes, dreams – being analogies – can reveal the holes in the way you look at your life.

Just as analogies can be full of holes, dreams – being analogies – can reveal the holes in the way you look at your life. And just as analogies can inspire insights and solutions to problems, dreams – being analogies – can do this too.

And just as the best legends, myths, fairy tales and Disney productions are analogies whipped up into spellbinding stories, you can whip your dreams up into spellbinding dream alchemy practices. Simply write an inspirational dream as a children’s story, or rewrite a dream that reveals a personal limitation as a children’s story with a happy ending.

If you resonated with Charlie, spin some magic right now by writing a one page children’s story about how Charlie finally got his bone.

[Copyright Jane Teresa Anderson, May 2010. First published as a Dream Sight article.]

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Reading your unconscious mind

Posted on April 21, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

How to shift the elephant in the room. What? You can’t see the elephant?

Does your unconscious mind give you away? Just how much can other people read behind the scenes of what you say and do, how you respond to life, who or what you spend time with or focus on, who or what you attract into your life, the state of your health, the things that trouble and frustrate you?

Your unconscious mind is far more powerful than your conscious mind, so when there is a conflict between the two, your unconscious mind wins. When things don’t turn out the way you planned, your unconscious mind is the likely culprit. Programmed from childhood or from past experiences to ‘protect’ you, your unconscious mind can keep you locked into a false comfort zone, preventing you from moving forward.

In my work as a dream interpreter and alchemist I have had the privilege of working deeply with countless people, uncovering their unconscious beliefs by examining their dreams and helping them transform these beliefs through alchemy exercises. A spin off, during all these years, is that I have fine tuned the art of reading my regular clients’ unconscious minds by observing their non-dream lives: what they say and do, how they respond to life, who or what they spend their time with or focus on and so on.

Another way to read your unconscious mind is to notice a recurring situation or feeling in your waking life, and ask yourself specific questions about it. Here’s an example from my book, The Compass. In this example, you may have noticed a recurring feeling in your life of being weighed down, drained of energy.

CLARITY

What feels too ponderous to do?

What aspect would you prefer to avoid?

Imagine making the effort to do that thing you would prefer to avoid. How does it make you feel? What is the most challenging thing to overcome? What fears come up? When was the last time you made a big effort with something, or someone, along these lines? What was the result? How did you feel? Does your reticence to make an effort now stem from this? Are you ready to let the past go, and energise your future?

ALCHEMY PRACTICE

Ask the right questions, whisper the right words, and the elephant will move

Imagine a heavy, ponderous elephant sitting down, refusing to move. He may be too tired. He may not feel like moving. He may wonder what the whole point is: why bother moving? He may fear putting in all the effort it takes to move only to end up in a similar situation. Imagine climbing a tree nearby and looking ahead, seeing a wonderful future for the elephant just around the corner. Imagine taking a photograph of that place, and scrambling back down the tree to show the elephant. Imagine the elephant’s surprise. Imagine the elephant making the effort to get up, and then finding his feet lightened by the knowledge of what he is walking towards. Watch him reach his destination.

Re-run this scenario many times a day. You’ll soon find yourself making the effort, and it will be much easier than you think.

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Episode 37 The Dream Show: Change the world

Posted on January 1, 2010 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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A new podcast every Friday. Listen here or subscribe on iTunes.

Today’s podcast episode, released the first day of a grand new decade, is dedicated to changing the world, one dream at a time, and showing you how to do this.

This is especially for you if you’re ready to greet a new decade by getting serious about understanding your life by looking into your dreams.

People often ask, “Why don’t our dreams spell out what we need to know in a language we can understand?” When you hear the story of Dolores’s dream in this podcast, you’ll see the light.

You can listen here (Episode 37) or subscribe to the whole series – a new free episode every week – at iTunes.

Enjoy and share!

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Time out

Posted on December 8, 2009 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

The ‘time out’ bench

Looking for insight? Read your waking life!

Just as you can interpret a dream, you can interpret your waking life. After all, it’s YOUR waking life: you’re the one creating it and responding to it, so it is a unique reflection of everything you are.

Your waking life is a perfect manifestation of your conscious and, more powerfully, your unconscious mind.

But just as it can be difficult to distance yourself enough from your own dreams to interpret them (you’re too close to your own issues), so it can be difficult to distance yourself enough from a troublesome waking life event to interpret it.

Yesterday afternoon provided a perfect example:

Michael and I are in transit this week, on the road with the absolute basics we require for everyday living and working. In theory it’s pretty easy for a dream analyst and a ghostwriter/photorestorer to work on the move. We just load laptops, pcs, monitors, scanners, podcasting equipment, and loads of other basic paraphernalia into two cars and off we go.

Like I said, easy.

Wireless mobile broadband thingy

Oh, and don’t forget the wireless mobile broadband thingy that connects us to the internet wherever we go. Without that, we’re stuffed.

So there we were, yesterday morning, internet streaming, three computers humming away happily.

Until we hit the wall.

“My brain’s falling over,” said Michael, getting up from his chair. I knew how he felt. We’d spent several days packing, organising, sorting, planning – all the while working full time – to get to this point, and our energies were flagging.

At that exact moment, our internet connection dropped to snail’s pace. It was on, off, on, fast, slow, intermittent, timing out, dead. In short, very frustrating!

Michael started to troubleshoot. I won’t bore you with the details, but he tested everything and finally decided that our provider, Optus, must have been experiencing problems.

We took time out. Went outside and sat on a garden bench in the beautiful, balmy, Brisbane late afternoon. Ate a sumptuous salad. Felt re-energised.

Michael was strangely quiet when we returned to our makeshift desks. And the internet was speeding along happily.

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Um, rebooted the wireless mobile broadband thingy. I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before.”

Yes, it just needed a simple reboot, as did our tired brains which were timing out, failing to connect, just as our internet was timing out, failing to connect. Time out in the garden was enough to reboot our energy and to nudge Michael into realising that all he needed to do to fix our internet was reboot it.

“Looking back,” said Michael, “it began to fail when it fell off the shelf when I got up from the table.”

“You mean,” I laughed, “at the exact moment you said, ‘My brain’s falling over’?”

How powerfully we manifest this waking life. How perfectly it reflects our every thought.

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Episode 34 The Dream Show: How a plane dream changed James’ life

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Jane Teresa Anderson • 0 Comments

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Plane dreams: what do they mean?

Episode 34 of our free weekly podcast, The Dream Show, is now up.

Can a dream interpretation change your life?

On today’s podcast show, James, whose dream was interpreted in Episode 11, returns to the show to share the story of what happened next.

He’s celebrating big time, as you’ll hear, and he’s also reveling in the amazing synchronicities that have manifested along the way. That’s the power of dream alchemy!

James’ dream was about an airplane. The plane was breaking up, mid-flight, but then morphed into a more innovative futuristic model. How did this dream relate to James’ life, and how did he take action on the insights he gained from having his dream interpreted? And how has his life changed as a result? Listen in to find out!

Following my chat with James, I take a deeper look at other kinds of plane dreams and what they can mean. You’ll pick up plenty of dream interpretation tips from this podcast.

Listen here (episode 34).

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