Joseph Dillard I Can Interpret My Dreams Yes, you can, and you will most likely be embarrassingly wrong. This is because “you” did not create your dream. Until you listen to the parts of yourself that did, you will probably be mostly projecting your own meanings and biases onto your dreams and pronouncing those to be what … Read more
From Transformational Dreamwork Joseph Dillard What are four basic approaches to understanding dreams and how can we use them to work with our own dreams more effectively? A. Narrative Analysis – Understanding the mind as revealed through dream interpretation. Since Joseph interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh, it has been assumed that waking awareness can accurately … Read more
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), the most validated form of psychotherapy in the early 21st century, demonstrates that irrational thoughts create feelings of depression and anxiety while rational thoughts create feelings of confidence and trust that lead to accomplishment and improved relationships. I have used CBT as part of a program for self-transformation with clients and … Read more
You can use your breath to change your life. However you are stuck in your everyday world, your breath is there to teach you how to get unstuck. For whatever problem you have, your breath can help you with it. Your breath is a microcosm of your day and your life. The following description will … Read more
Awareness is the substrate of all experience. If you want to change something, you must first become aware of it. You cannot change something that you are not aware of. However, things that you are not aware of can and do change you, and that can be a problem. Awareness is value neutral. Simply by … Read more
This short text will not tell you when or how often to meditate. It will not tell you how to sit, whether to have your eyes open or closed, whether you need a quiet space, whether to use your breath, the wall, a flame, a picture, or an inner image or color as a centering … Read more
Choegyal Namkhai Norbu, author of Dream Yoga and the Practice of Natural Light, Revised (2002) was born in 1938 in Derghe, in Eastern Tibet and was recognised at birth as the reincarnation of a noted exponent of the Dzogchen tradition. Notwithstanding his youth, he was already well known by the end of the 1950s as … Read more
Under all conditions during the day, hold to the concept that all things are of the substance of dreams and that you must realize their true nature. Evans-Wentz, trans.,The Yoga of the Dream State, The Yoga of the Six Doctrines • Visualize and meditate on the Tibetan syllable “ah,” in the center of your body. … Read more
The initial aim of Tibetan Dream Yoga is to awaken while dreaming. The next aim is to master the state by exercising complete control over it by: • Flying and shape shifting into other creatures • Meeting with other sentient beings • Visiting different places, planes and lokas (worlds) Once one has learned to control … Read more
“According to Dam-tsik-dor-jay, a Mongolian from Kalka, when the [tantric] view of the Great Perfection is taught, it also is divided into two categories, objective and subjective. The former can be understood in the vocabulary of the New Translation Schools [Kagyud, Sakya, & Gelug], just explained, as the objective clear light, that is to say, … Read more