Hang what out to dry?

Analysis of dream submitted by K. of Sydney, Australia.

Dream- I dreamed my long, left hand fingernails were being polished with red tomatoes. The experience evoked my astonishment and slight discomfort.  I awoke with my left hand hanging out the side of my bed and I heard myself say, "I need to hang my nails out to dry." Curiously, my fingernails were natural and untouched by polish of any sort.

Predomiant Emotions- confusion, surprise, hyper-sensitivity, disbelief, and intrigue.

Interpretation- Uplifting emotions (i.e., relief or joy), may trigger pleasant memories or visions. Yet, your sense of the future induces impatience. This suggests you postpone some envisaged experience in hopes that 'stretching things out' will bring self-growth.

Less upbeat reactions (i.e., disgust or fear), may trigger unpleasant events and induce the illusion of anxiety. This draws attention to your sense of self in the time-space continuum. You seem to prefer to perform painful actions earlier than pleasurable ones.

When it comes to expressing how you really feel, do you believe you come across, "hard as nails?" You may just be selective about to whom you reveal you true emotional colors. Fingers gently remind you you're attuned to your sensuality. Yet, blood-redness also drips to slowly unveil unconditional self-love or a sexual passion you sense within. For whom?

Tomatoes suggest you are health-conscious and willing to 'go to certain lengths' to take care of yourself. You're in the process of polishing your self-image and re-defining that to which you aspire. You sense to achieve balance, health and well-being isn't all glamour.

'Left' may stir feelings of rejection, awkwardness or 'not fitting in.' Do you fear or doubt your abilities? What of potential? You may simply have left your old self behind.  You're prepared to let go of the past and move ahead differently. Go ahead, abandon old, out-dated beliefs and self-views. Hang them out-to-dry. They'll evaporate like magic-poof!

Redefine the boundaries of your imagination

Some people assume that without feelings of guilt, inner discipline would lose meaning and purpose.  Its easy to forget early conditioning structures later learning.  Little do you realize that such structure creates boundaries and frameworks for your imagination.  Is it a shock to your system to realize you create according to your belief patterns?

Why is it you automatically compare your sense of reality to views of other people?  What is it that compels you to align your thoughts with their expectations and beliefs? When do you resist this practice?  How do you feel as you shift the limits of your imagination?

Recognize beliefs aren't right or wrong.  They're just beliefs.  In all likelihood, some of your own remain unexamined.  You may wish to leave it.  You may decide a different approach is desirable. Ideas that nurture your imagination also frame the limits of your self-image, potential, and wider views of the world.  Where and how are you mind-limiting?

When you're ready, you choose to be aware of the contents of your conscious mind and conflicting beliefs.  Ready or not, you live the life you imagine.  Rediscover your infinite boundaries.  Your imagination begins and ends precisely where you choose.

7 Truths of your sacred journey

In The Secrets Of the Light: Spiritual Strategies to Empower Your Life, Dannion Brinkley encourages each of us to regularly stop what we're doing and affirm certain truths. 

Let it be said he died and come back to this world three times.  He returned from a place that influences our dreams in more ways than we realize.  He believes recognizing these truths will enable us to consciously stabilize the energy within and around us.

In the process of reflecting on these truths, you will begin to recognize certain blessings you may not have noticed.  This will enable you to manifest strategies for health and well-being, and expand on your experiences.  What are your own views and gut feelings?

1) What are we? Dannion believes we are great, powerful and mighty spiritual beings of Light living in a pysical world with dignity, direction and purpose.

2) Why are we here? We choose to come here as a 'force of one' in order to make changes for the betterment of humanity, knowing we can each make a real difference.

3) Who influences our existence? We were chosen to come here.  This means that a great, Divine, and infinitely loving Force trusts and believs we will achieve the goal we were sent to accomplish.

4) What do we have? We all possess an abundance of gifts and talents.  One vital aspect of living this life is to discover and develop the wisest of these talents in order to prodce the greatest possible potential for good.

5) Why do we choose to live now? We choose to be alive at this time, a this place an at this point in history.  Never before have we had such a glorious opportunity to display our individual power and presence.

6) Is there anything beyond us? There was a world that we existed in before we came into this one.  It was beautiful.  It was safe.  It was all-embracing.  The foundation of that world is that we are loved, cherished and considered precious.

7) Do we really understand life and consciousness? There is a world that exists after this one.  In fact, it is the same world we left to come here.  What we leave in this world is the uniqueness of our Divine Mak.  And what we take with us into the next world is the understanding of how and why this Divine mark was our unique destiny. 

Transcend your core wounds

Each of us has our own understanding of why we exist and at least some idea of what we're meant to do.  You may have many unanswered questions.  All activity has more than one underlying purpose.  How often do you choose to sift beneath what you ordinarily see? What is it you are consciously or unconsciously choosing not to know? At what cost?

Every moment, we encounter situations and are faced with choices.  How we react or don't relates to those things we acknowledge and deal with and also to those things we would prefer not to discern or pay attention to at all.  Everything has significance.  Are you ready to face reasons for pain? What will you bring to the surface and dissolve?

To evolve to transcend your core wounds implies you evolve to the point where you recognize discomfort and become willing to explore deeper reasons for superficial reactions. Why is it that you repeatedly find yourself in similar circumstances? Could you be missing an importnat lesson? The universe will bring you a different set of circumstances to enable you to learn what you missed.  If you pass a test, you move on.

In cases where you don't choose to take charge of your life, then the universe reacts to that as well. In cases where you choose to harbour guilt, negativity, fear of rejecion, persecution or other mental anguish, the universe will ensure that you receive more situations where you could reinforce what you don't want or, learn to work through it. 

It makes sense to examine where you are on your journey.  Consider recent events in your life, your attitude and how you feel.  Do emotions control you? Are your choices to your emotional and spiritual advantage? If not, then what will you do about that?  When?

Is duality really a figment of your imagination?

http://symbolic-meanings.com/ has started a thread on duality and tagged this blog.  What does duality mean to you?  How does your sense of awareness orient itself?

Some people get wrapped up in the idea of separation from the original Source, that is, where they came from.  This belief suggests that separation from Higher Forces is what leads you to come up with concepts like positive and negative, good and bad, and other oppositions.   Can you readily explain why you feel torn between feeling open and closed?

If you take the stance that you create veils of illusion of reality, then you may also believe life is about learning to remove those veils.  Let's say you create layers of them, as the result of external conditioning.  In order to work through what makes sense, you discard veils and replace them, then remove others. When will you reach your core?

Sorting through ideas about duality brings you face-to-face with your ego, conscious and subconscious.  They may each be sending you different messages.    You discover you choose between love and fear. Which part of your perceived reality will you believe?