The Power of Dreaming

 “Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.” Sigmund Freud.

 If we do not pay attention to our dreams we throw away the opportunity to gain a wealth of knowledge and to access greater universal wisdom.
 I personally have been writing my dreams down for many years. I bought a home and a car based on dreams that I had.
 Dreams are truly insightful and a direct connection to a higher consciousness.
 If you want to enhance your intuitive powers you can simply do so by following those whispers in the night.
 There were times when I wrote down the dream in the morning and that evening I would have an enlightened moment of intense clarity of what that dream meant.
 Some of the biggest decisions of my life were highly influenced by my dreams.
 You miss an enormous opportunity  by not paying attention to your dreams.

Don't throw away the golden key.
Follow those whispers in the night.

 

 

The Stairs Metaphor in Hypnosis

One of the most widely used and accepted metaphors to induce and deepen Trance State is a stairway.

A stairway is a powerful internal symbol. 

As you are given the suggestion to mentally descend down a staircase by your hypnotherapist  what naturally happens is that your subconscious reaches down into deeper and deeper feelings of relaxation and openness. 

Trance-State is nothing miraculous.  We slide in and out of trance daily.

A mundane chore such as doing the dishes can induce Trance.

The purpose of the hypnotherapist is to merely be a guide to your own natural ability for self hypnosis.  Some say that all hypnosis is really self- hypnosis. 

The guide uses his or her gently lulling voice and your own powers of imagination to take you to an inner place where you can effect changes for your benefit. The stairway metaphor is a soothing and wonderful way to accomplish this.

More on this theme in other articles. 

Thank you to my loving sister, a professional photographer, at:

https://www.lwebbshots.com/

for this gorgeous fall photo of a stairway. 

Addiction to Adrenaline and its withdrawal. How can I adjust my energy to this new calming?

Things are changing now and a new calming is near at hand.

Whether we have become aware of it or not, we have all been in a state of trauma. To some this may be extreme trauma.

Losing jobs, staying at home, fear of the unknown, fear of illness. (contracting Covid) and the unearthing of deeper inner issues triggered by this stress.

My trigger has been the heat of this summer.

 We had just experienced the longest, hottest consecutive days of over 100 degrees in the desert where I now live.

 For aprox 150 days I had been in extreme survival mode.

It is cooling now, finally, and I've had to ask myself why I'm feeling more tired than ever?

The answer came to me. I am experiencing adrenaline withdrawal. 

How can I go through this process in the best way?

How can I adjust to a new calming energy?

As stated before one very powerful tool in hypnosis is asking the question how.

The unconscious mind will always respond to a "How?" by subliminally seeking the answers.

I'm sitting outdoors, with my bare feet on the earth and writing this article.  I feel the grounding of the earth and the healing that journaling provides.  I also know that deep diaphragmatic breathing is helpful. 

Knowledge is power and knowing where this feeling of unease is coming from is of ultimate use to me.

Taking the higher Road or Path.

What "taking the higher road" means to me.

Be it a road, a path, a shift in my thoughts, a surge of energy, taking the higher path is changing the direction of my own inner dialogue. 

Paths could represent  neural pathways.

 In simple terms, we create pathways in our brains by our habit of thought. These roads lead to a higher or lower place on the vibrational scale. For example the well known expression "Everything happens for a reason." can help change the pathways  of a negative thought.

This expression can Open a Doorway to the possibility that whatever occurs in your life,  that may not at first seem positive, may have a higher purpose. 

There are many such uplifting expressions.Here is one by Dr. Suess:

“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.”

Healing ourselves changes our World.

You will stop attracting certain people in your life when you heal the parts of you that once needed them.

This is a very deep statement that resonates personally with me.

About 2 months ago I had the experience of attracting some very negative people into my life. I prayed all kinds of prayers, did all kinds of visualizations,worked as hard as I could. I used hypnosis to fortify my life force so that their toxic effects on me would not affect my health.

Nothing changed. 

It was then that a good friend took me aside and suggested that I may want to look inside for the cause of this.

And so I did.

I realized that this was a pattern, a reoccurring pattern, that I now had the opportunity to change.

Delving deeply and honestly I came up with the parts of myself that needed healing. This was the beginning of a breakthrough and has since lightened my life immensely. 

More on this topic in other blogs.

Its always an inside job.

Free Download of Self-Love Affirmations .

I feel absolutely Wonderful about who I am.

What are anchors in hypnosis and how can we use them to better our lives?

 September 4th, 2020

I have had some significant dreams lately but first I’d like to talk about anchors.

An anchor is neurological link to a desired state. The anchor is used to bring this trance-state or subconscious state  into our conscious, waking state. The anchor allows you to go back and capture that state of being again and again.

For example: If, at the moment you are feeling empowered, clear and strong, you can make a gesture of a closed fist, you can connect or link this closed fist with the feeling of empowerment and induce this feeling again. The more you repeat the anchor the more it's anchored!

You can also repeat a phrase to yourself to connect to that feeling and be your anchor. 

“I am strong and powerful, I am safe.” 

One could then induce this feeling again by creating the gesture or saying the phrase to oneself.

A key point would be not to do this if you are far away from the feeling of being empowered, clear and strong, i.e. you are in a state of anxiety or fear. The reason being is that you may unwittingly create an anchor for an undesired feeling.

The timing of the anchor and the emotion you are experiencing are very important.

An anchor can also be used to remember something.

I had a dream last night that clearly illustrated this:

It was a dream of abundance. I dreamt my mom and my brother went on a huge shopping trip and  came back with a truck, like a moving van, full of food and all kinds of wonderful things. This truck was packed, truly and wonderfully flowing and abundant. I saw a shiny new bicycle in the truck but it was caught in a fan, so I needed to turn off the fan to untangle my bike. As I was turning off the fan in my dream I woke up. 

As is my morning ritual, I have a fan right next to my bed and I turn it off every single morning. As I performed this simple and engraved task the whole dream came flooding back to me and I knew the fan in the dream was an anchor so that I would remember this dream.

One idea, or feeling, attracts other ideas or feelings of the same vibration, as in the law of attraction, and I found myself deeply reflecting on how much my mom, my parents, have given me even long after their passing.

I made a gratitude list then and there of how “follow the money” worked in this regards. It was something like this:

I inherited a substantial amount of money from my parents passing, later I invested in the stock market with my help of my other brother, and then at the right time I bought a home on the sea in Spain.

My book about that time:

https://www.bbbergjazz.com/shop

I then sold my beloved home on the sea and got enough money to buy my camper van, which I lived in for a while and when that became too small I still had enough left to buy the trailer home I presently live in. When I sell this home I’ll have the money again from that!

This is precisely why remembering my dream was so important to me, to muster up this gratitude and appreciation for my parents still taking care of me.

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