Navigating Your Dreams

One of the greatest misunderstandings on the spiritual path is the belief that we can become disconnected from Spirit. People often say, “I feel disconnected,” or “I have lost my connection.” But from a shamanic perspective, this is not actually what is happening. You are never separate from Spirit.
You are always in relationship with the unseen forces that guide, support, and walk with you. That connection does not disappear. What changes is our awareness.

We live in a world that constantly pulls our attention outward. Our minds become busy, our thoughts become loud, and we begin to listen more to the noise of the outer world than to the quiet voice within.

You are always in a relationship with the unseen forces that guide, support, and walk with you. That connection does not disappear. What changes is our awareness.

For my friends in the Indianapolis area

One of the most important posts about the powers of the imagination and visionary attitude ever written by Active Dreaming founder, Robert Moss

The Stronger the Imagination, the Less Imaginary the Results The greatest crisis of our lives is a crisis of imagination.

Dreaming is like creating a mosaic of hundreds of stones, painted with the colors of our life, soul messages and textured feelings of an inner state of being, journeys into the light of day when the stars fade, and a map that hears the call of spirit for shamanic travel.

What always remains is the notion “Life is the Dream.”

Photo of stones and words by M. Eastwood, Stones created by Lori Lee Andrews

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A Marvelous Guide for Supporting Your Dreamwork. I write in my journal eveyday...dreams of the day and night.

Deep play with the most important book you'll ever write Your journal, kept over time, will become many things: your personal encyclopedia of symbols, your data log for experiences of supernormal phenomena like precognition, telepathy and synchronicity, your stealth writing course, a sanctuary and place of healing, a sacred space where you dialogue with y...

"WHY DREAMING IS IMPORTANT"

The Nine Powers of Dreaming

1. We solve problems in our sleep
2. Dreams coach us for future challenges and opportunities
3. Dreams hold up a magic mirror to our actions and behavior
4. Dreams show us what we need to do to stay well
5. Dreams are a secret laboratory
6. Dreams are a creative studio
7. Dreams help us to mend our divided self
8. Dreaming is a key to better relationships
9. Dreams recall us to our larger purpose

(Source: The Three Only Things: Tapping the Power of Dream, Coincidence and Imagination, Robert Moss)

Photo: M. Eastwood

Good analysts and therapists can help us to recognize parts of ourselves we have repressed and denied. The shamanic concept of soul loss reaches further. It recognizes that soul healing is also about retrieving pieces of soul that have literally gone missing and need to be located and persuaded to return and take up residence in the body where they belong.

- Robert Moss, Dreaming the Soul Back Home

Every word you speak to yourself is a seed. Every thought you return to is a seed. Most of us did not choose the first seeds we planted. They were given to us through family, culture, and old experiences, and they have been repeated for so long that they feel like truth.
🌹Change does not happen by trying to silence the mind or by forcing positive thinking. It begins with awareness.

Today, simply notice the words you use with yourself. Notice without judgment.
When you catch a harsh or limiting thought, gently pause and place a kinder word beside it.
You do not need to uproot the old seed all at once. Just begin planting something new next to it. Over time, what is nourished with love grows stronger.

May you learn to allow new words to take root. May you speak to yourself as you would to the Earth: with respect, patience, and care. And may the seeds you choose today quietly shape a more loving inner landscape.