Dreamwork: Healing the subconscious mind
The past few weeks I've been experimenting with intentional dreaming and this deep dive into dreamwork has been the most transformative reality shifting healing work I've done to date. It started a few weeks back when me and two friends began a group chat named dreamwork where we would share our dreams, decode them and set powerful intentions.
The first night of this dreamwork I meditated and did a scripting exercise describing the healing experience I wanted to cultivate in my dreams. I wrote about being at a 30-day healing retreat in Sedona, Arizona where I ate nothing but fruits and vegetables that were nourishing to my body, I did lots of reiki healing, lots of meditations and healing ceremonies. I envisioned what it would be like to stare out into the desert mountains, stars at night, to be near campfires, receive massages, do yoga as the sun raised and eat organic fruits and veggies for 30 days. I envisioned deep cellular transformative healing. Now of course this is not what I dreamed of but for the next few days I dreamed of different experiences, people and subconscious beliefs that was being released. I would dream of an unpleasant experience similar to the those I've experienced in my conscious state, but my response would be different… mostly I would be observing. Similar to EMDR therapy where you replay traumatic experiences to reprocess from a regulated emotional state… this is what was happening in my dreams, I was reprocessing experiences that have left an emotional impression on me, my thought patterns and subconscious beliefs.
After about a week of these dreams, I started experiencing cold like symptoms… similar to detox symptoms; runny nose, coughing up phlegm and slight achiness. It didn’t dawn on me until later that it's possible I'm experiencing body releases from the subconscious releases I had been having while dreaming. It's been about a month since starting that original intention… and I am now on day 13 of a 30-day parasite cleanse (I'll be writing about that in another post). So, one can draw the connection to a 30-day retreat for deep cellular healing to a parasite cleanse as well.
This experience has opened me up to the infinite possibilities of healing through the dreamscape… and just how much our conscious mind blocks us from the real true felt healing we are all looking to embody. I have been on my healing journey for quite some time now and I have done a tremendous amount of healing through different therapies but nothing quite as profound and as easeful as simply sleeping lol. The aspect of my journey that has been a real struggle has been embodiment, which is true for a lot of us. I believe, this is how we end up on the hamster wheel of continuous healing and it can sometimes become an addiction… yes, we can become addicted to healing even when we’ve done enough healing to thrive instead, we self-sabotage and create experiences that we then need to heal from. Now I don’t believe healing is linear and its one stop shop but I do believe we have time periods of integrating it into our mind, body and reality. Dreamwork has been transformative for me in learning to embody the healing by simply programming my mind to do things that are healthy for me vs self-sabotaging my own growth. I'm excited to continue in this journey and to continue to explore what else I can create simply through dreaming.
