Dreams – those bizarre bits of jumbled pictures that come to us when we sleep. Are they merely mental flashbacks of our day’s activities or could they be more? Could they contain information – valuable information – that is helpful to us for solving problems and gaining guidance? I believe the answer to that question is an unequivocal "Yes!" It has been my experience as a therapist and spiritual coach that dreams provide a valuable mental resource for helping people to understand the inner urgings that are trying to help them grow. I have found that dreams, my own, as well as those of my clients, contain messages – messages from our inner selves to our outer selves. In addition, when we begin to consciously work with our dreams, they become a more active and direct link to our inner wisdom. I have found that dreams provide an easy and accurate way to monitor what I call the personal transformation process of individuals.

Personal Transformation

There is an innate drive within each of that moves us forward on a personal and spiritual path. The process of personal and spiritual transformation starts with individual growth and proceeds toward growth that engages our souls and encourages us to become what is called in esoteric terms "soul-infused". This means that we become less driven by our personality and ego needs and more guided by our soul qualities. This process has also been called "The Hero’s Journey" or "The Self-Actualization Process." It begins with a "call" or "urge" to action, where the process is set in motion. At this time, we begin to look at our lives and wonder if there is not something more. This marks the initial "challenge to grow" that our soul initiates within us.

I recall my own challenge to grow. It was marked by a constant and confusing "nagging" by my subconscious mind, that I needed to "do something," but I did not know what. At that same time, I began to have the first of my transformational dreams. They were reoccurring dreams, the kind where your subconscious mind is ceaseless in its efforts to get a message through to you. I dreamed often during this period of my "plants in the basement". The dream was focused around concerns that I was not sufficiently attending to my plants, and therefore they might shrivel and die. I would dream of frantically running down the basement stairs, expecting to see only dead, dried, brown leaves. But instead, time after time, I was greeted by healthy, green plants. I came to realize later that the dream had come to encourage me not to forget that I needed to "attend to" my old emotional issues, which lay buried deep in my subconscious mind, but if I did this, things would turn out fine...

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© Copyright Rita Milios. This article was originally published at our website, SoulfulLiving.com, in July 2001, as part of Soulful Living's "Dreams" Issue.

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