Dream Exploration - Mental Health and Wellness Therapy
Explore your dreams with an Experienced Dream Therapist!
Dream exploration is a pivotal tool that supports psychological and physical healing, spiritual growth, and intuition development. Committing to this process is one of the most powerful ways to heal yourself and your life!
Amazingly, we all dream every ninety minutes. Dreaming helps you learn, assists in emotional healing, improves sleep, and helps you overcome your fears and mood. Most importantly, when you recall and apply the guidance from your dreams, profound healing can occur because your soul’s wisdom is disclosed in your dreams. Exploring your dreams is one of the best ways to open psychically and tap into your innate wisdom. We are all naturally intuitive.
As an experienced dream therapist, I provide therapy and guidance regarding dream recall, interpretation, and intuition development. Dreamwork is one of several avenues that we can explore to enhance your personal growth. Do reach out to me for more information. Thanks!
Dreamwork and intuition development are essential if you are serious about personal growth. Dreams have many healing messages and guide all aspects of your life. Research also shows that dreams consolidate and improve memory and learning. Additionally, suppressed traumatic memories may surface in dreams. When this occurs, it is often because you are ready to work through these memories consciously. One of my specialties is healing trauma while supporting your dreamwork process.
If you are anxious or depressed, you may receive specific dream guidance and encouragement. You could also be admonished if you need a nudge for your growth. Or, you may have profound spiritual experiences that heal and transform your life. Dreams come in many different forms.
Also, keeping a daily dream journal, as I have done since 1980, is crucial if you are serious about spiritual growth. Once you have experience recalling and recording your dreams, you can learn advanced dreaming methods such as active imagination, creative dreaming, precognitive dreaming, lucid dreaming, and many other aspects of intuitive dreaming. For more information, see my blog, Awaken the Psyche with Dreamwork. Thanks.
Intuitive Dreaming and Precognitive Dreams
Dreamwork and intuition development are vital to your happiness, sense of meaning, and life purpose. They also help you find solutions to your problems and questions. For example, one advanced dream method of intuitive dreaming is called dream incubation. Upon entering the hypnogogic state (as we fall asleep), you may ask for guidance on any life issue.
You may also receive answers to your conscious questions or obtain information your soul determines to be more critical. It is important to learn to trust and follow your guidance.
Additionally, when you remember and record your dreams, you demonstrate to your unconscious that you value your spiritual growth. Essentially, the quality of your dreams reflects your commitment to working with them!
The wise have said nothing significant occurs in your life without being previewed in dreams. These are known as precognitive dreams. So, when you review your dream journals, you will see your recurring patterns and possible futures. As conscious beings, you can choose from the options shown in your dreams. When you work with your spiritual ideals, decision-making becomes more effortless.
Dream Exploration Leads to Spiritual Growth.
Your dreams will reflect the psycho-spiritual shifts resulting from daily spiritual practices and encourage you to follow your spiritual path. In dreams, your conscious mind accesses your subconscious and superconscious minds. The latter is also referred to as your higher self, that aspect of you that is part of the Divine.
Dreamwork and intuition development goals are the same as meditation: self-knowledge. Since dreams come from your psyche, dreamwork facilitates awareness of your true Self and the Divine. In conjunction with meditation and listening to your inner voice, dreams help you find solutions to problems, clarify your decisions, heal your soul’s issues, and much more. These are also the keys to intuition development and spiritual growth!
If you need an experienced dream guide or want to share your dreams in any session, please get in touch with me below. Thanks.
1. Take an avid interest in your dreams and your personal growth. Do this by reading dream books, sharing your dreams with your loved ones, and applying dream messages in your daily life. It would also be beneficial to take a class on dream work. Please check my website or contact me for updates on my dream work class schedule.
2. Value your dreams. Prove to your unconscious that you are committed to your spiritual growth by keeping a dream journal on the side you would typically write. Also, keep a pen and non-LED flashlight beside your journal. It is best to use journals with a ring binder to keep the pages open to the page you need.
3. Write a pre-sleep note every night. Your journal is very personal, and you can be as creative as you like. You may want to include art, poems, or drawings. It can also be used as a diary to process any feelings, as well as any personal insights or reflections. One tip is to use the four-color Bic pens. The pre-sleep note can be written in red or green, and the dreams in blue or black. That way, when you review your dreams, you can determine the difference between a dream and a conscious note.
The pre-sleep note aims to process any stressors of the day to free the psyche for important healing work and dream guidance. Otherwise, people may dream mainly about the previous day’s issues because they never did this before sleep.
More Tips to Improve Dream Recall
4. Honor your spiritual path before sleep. Examples may include practicing gratitude and reflecting on the day’s challenges and opportunities for growth. Reading inspirational literature, listening to music, or using guided imagery may also be helpful.
Meditation, prayer, and sending positive thoughts to others are especially important. Additionally, dreams will reflect not only your conscious mind’s attitudes but also your physical condition. Therefore, it is vital to stay physically healthy to have the clearest dreams.
5. Program your unconscious by saying as you fall asleep at night, “I will remember and record my dreams upon awakening.” This is also a powerful time to take flower essences (see #10) and work with affirmations and self-hypnosis.
When you recall your dreams regularly, you can start incubating them. That is, you can learn to dream about and get answers to your most profound questions and concerns. One method is to journal about your question or concern, meditate and pray, and then ask for specific dream guidance. This can be repeated as needed.
What To Do Upon Awakening
6. Be still upon awakening. It is important to lie still and recall as much of the dream as possible before writing it down. If you move too soon, the dream will fade from memory.
7. Write down anything you remember. This could be a feeling, color, song, or image. You may hear words, sentences, or more or have physical sensations. Just record any aspects of the dream that come to you.
8. Try Vitamin B6 to assist with dream recall. The active form of vitamin B6, P5P (pyridoxal-5′-phosphate), is more effective for many people than Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine). A typical dose is 30 to 50 mg at HS. Sometimes, people take it with magnesium to optimize sleep and reduce stress and anxiety.
9. Awaken without an alarm clock. It is essential to go to sleep early enough to get a full night’s sleep so that you can awaken naturally. Also, you can program your unconscious by telling yourself what time you intend to awaken. This is excellent training for more advanced dreaming, such as lucid dreaming, dream incubation, creative visualization, and any other form of auto-suggestion.
10. Take flower essences that support dreamwork and intuition development. These remedies are usually taken four times a day, including immediately before sleep to work with the hypnagogic state and upon awakening, just after the hypnopompic state. The other two doses are best taken during the day when calm. Several flower essences enhance dream recall. Please get in touch with me for a consultation so I can better assist you.
Additionally, taking flower remedies for post-traumatic stress, panic, and nightmares can be life-changing. The Five Flower Formula from FES is often very beneficial, especially if you have difficulty returning to sleep. Please get in touch with me for specific recommendations. Also, see Services, Integrative Medicine for Mental Health, and my Blog, Plant Medicine, for more information.
11. Avoid alcohol and THC. These two substances drastically disrupt your sleep and reduce the amount of REM sleep.
Embracing and Working with Nigntmares
12. Get help with night terrors and nightmares. Some people are afraid to remember their dreams because of a history of traumatic stress that may cause nightmares or night terrors. It is helpful to note the difference between nightmares and night terrors.
Nightmares are powerful messages from your soul that you may have repressed and need to understand and heal. They may also reoccur. Recurring nightmares often bring an important message to you. When you work through the related issues, the recurring nightmare will cease.
Active imagination is one tool that may help. This involves a conscious decision to relax back into the nightmare, confront the threatening figure or energies in the dream, and ask for the message to be clear. Then, you can more successfully face similar fears in your waking life.
While nightmares are common and may be viewed as valuable for your psycho-spiritual integration, night terrors are often associated with more severe post-traumatic stress and may require professional assistance.
Exploring trauma-related nightmares or night terrors with someone you trust can be very beneficial. One suggestion is to ask for dream guidance regarding finding the right person to assist you with these issues. If I am that person, please reach out to me below. Thanks.
In summary, working with your dreams will enrich your life while improving your intuition. Dreamwork is a powerful psycho-spiritual process available to everyone. Committing to remembering and recording your dreams may be one of the most personally satisfying and life-changing practices you will ever do. The next step is learning how to process them and discover their meaning.
If you want to share your dreams in any session, I look forward to hearing them and supporting you! Please see below for more information on dreamwork! I highly recommend reading my Dream Interpretation blog to learn twelve additional steps to process your dreams. Thanks!
Please see Mental Health and Wellness and Dreams and Intuition Resources, which includes a suggested bibliography.
Also, check out About Therapy with Deborah Lee
and my Blogs: Dream Therapy and Dream Interpretation.