Using Your Dreams for Soul Work

<p>After I had my daughter, Maia, I found it really challenging to meditate. It just felt like there weren’t enough hours in the day to do all the things I wanted to do, like spending time on personal growth and spiritual practice.</p><p> </p><p>Then, I remembered all these Tibetan Buddhist stories of teachers receiving dharma talks in their dreams, and I knew that the Tibetan traditions of dream yoga in particular has been practiced and cultivated over centuries. It can be a powerful tool for awakening.</p><p> </p><p>My solution? To try dream yoga! (Leave it to me to not just sleep lol!).</p><p> </p><p>We spend a third of our life sleeping, and in many cultures throughout the world, this part of our lives holds a state of consciousness that can help us with personal insight and spiritual growth. We dream for hours during our sleep too - at least 2 hours on average. </p><p> </p><p>It’s a fertile place for practice … but hard to learn. I won’t dive into Tibetan dream yoga practices here, but let’s start this journey together by talking about dreamwork in general, and how we can use our dreams to help us on our path, starting tonight!</p><p> </p><p>When we use dreams for Soul work, we operate on the premise that every dream is an opportunity to develop our relationship to soul - to who we are beneath our surface personalities and routine habits.</p><p> </p><p>Dreams are one of the main ways our Soul speaks to and guides us. So we can approach them with gentleness, reverence, and an open mind, which is essential to powerful dreamwork.</p><p> </p><p>Dreamwork can also interact in complex and synergistic ways with other pathways to the soul. This is why it’s only one of the many tools we play with on the Adventure Mastermind. For example, dreams can add energy to ceremony, or inform next steps to take after an altered states journey. </p><p> </p><p>In general, there are 3 types of dreams. While not all of them necessarily offer a deep level of Soul guidance, they are fruitful places to explore.</p><p> </p><p>One type