Internal Guidance: The Intuition of Dreams
Often, dreams can show you what you are trying to ignore, bury, and suppress. When you recognize and start to deal with hidden, shadow aspects and difficulties you are facing, your dreams usually change. Many dream analysts believe that dreams can help release unacknowledged emotions into your consciousness so that you can face a challenging issue without creating a physical ailment.
I encourage people to keep a journal of impact dreams and intuitive insights, give themselves time to understand the dreams’ meanings, acknowledge the areas they need to transform, and then take steps toward making empowering choices. In order to fully grasp what your intuition is trying to tell you, make sure you explore the shadow and the light meanings of your dreams.
Kerry’s Story: A Powerful Series of Dreams
I have a friend, Kerry, who kept dreaming that her teeth were falling out. While this dream is common, it is important to interpret it based on the person’s particular experience. In Kerry’s case, the dream mirrored her anxiety about a long-distance relationship she was having, where she was doing all the sacrificing. Each tooth she lost in her dream represented the personal cost of her compromise. In order to be with her boyfriend, she had to put her own dreams, career, and responsibilities on hold and follow him around the world. This put an incredible financial and emotional strain on her life. She also felt like she could not be completely honest with him, thus her dream was demonstrating her loss of power, stuck ness, and lack of choice.
On a physical level, teeth help you chew food and communicate. The emotional aspect of losing teeth can demonstrate feeling powerless, as well as a fear of aging and not being able to process your current experiences. Symbolically, this kind of dream shows a loss of your voice and your lack of belief in your capacity to co create your life experiences. It’s as if you are trapped in a situation and unable to move forward. Interestingly, Kerry also dreamt of being stuck in a prison that she kept trying to escape from.
Although Kerry’s intuition was clearly speaking through her dreams, demonstrating that her mind, body, and spirit felt trapped in her situation and that she was losing her strength and had to be honest with herself and her partner, she interpreted her dream to be communicating that things were getting better and that she was making positive changes. Yet from an outside perspective, she seemed to be struggling in several areas of her life, and it appeared like her soul was asking her to pay attention to what was not working in her life, be truthful, ask for support, make practical decisions, and take responsibility for her financial situation.
Through a substantial amount of self-examination and honesty, Kerry finally understood the message, shared her true feelings with her partner, made new plans for the future, felt more confident in her, and began taking care of her financial responsibilities. Thus she really did make positive changes.
Rhonda’s Story: Color Healing
Rhonda used color healing with the help of color cards and Reiki to assist her mother to heal her thyroid cancer. To begin the healing, Rhonda’s mother intuitively chose three colors that could help with her thyroid and immune system: blue, which is helpful for any throat and thyroid conditions, as well as with purifying the body, soothing nervous irritation, and clearing blocked pathways; orange, which assists in boosting your immune system and helping to dissolve painful emotions; and green, which aids in overcoming fear, releasing frustration, and revitalizing your nervous and circulatory systems.
Rhonda then placed the cards on her mother’s body and began sending healing energy to her. When she removed the cards, they had changed color and had a warm, sticky liquid on them. Her mother said she also felt like painful energy was leaving her body.
Not long after, her mother had an operation where her thyroid gland was removed. When she got her results back, they showed no cancer.
Deepak Chopra writes, “It may sound strange to think of cancer as distorted energy, but that’s just what it is. To remove that discomfort, you have to start thinking of the whole body in terms of energy. Dealing with your own energy is the most effortless way to heal yourself, because you are going directly to the source.” I have heard of countless examples of how combining intuition with color healing and energy work can help you heal. While at times healing yourself can require deep exploration of many different aspects of your mental and emotional patterns as well as your diet and lifestyle, at other times it can occur quickly and easily. It is important that you do not underestimate the power of a simple healing process done with the right intention and an open heart.
External Guidance: The Intuition of Repetitive Signs
At times, your soul will connect to Universal Intelligence and communicate to you through recurring experiences, unexplained occurrences, and sometimes instant aid. Usually this is to assist you with shifting your perspective, healing an aspect of your life, helping someone in need, providing confidence that you are on the right track, or completely changing the course of your life. The Universal Intelligence will always try to guide you on an easier path, but if you resist, you will be impelled to grow through difficulties instead of love and joy.
Repetitive signs are the way Universal Intelligence signals to you that you are supported and not alone. It also hints that there could be a bigger picture that you are not aware of when you are caught up in fear, details, and limitations.
External Guidance: Life’s “Coincidences”
Sometimes we believe that we need to move in a particular direction, which seems to be the right way to proceed, and then our goals and ideas change, and the universe assists us by adjusting our path. So the messages we receive could seem contradictory; however, there are no rules in the universe that say your path should be linear instead of creative. Life is not a business meeting, which is structured, runs on time, and has clear agendas to follow.
The more you are in tune with your body and are able to develop your intuition (or as I like to call it, “internal tuition”), the more in touch with nature and the natural flow of life you will become.
It is important to note that even when you are in tune, there will be times in your life that are chaotic – when you will have doubts and feel confused. This is usually the time for internal and external change. Change often occurs on the border between chaos and order, confusion and clarity, shadow and light, fantasy and reality, success and failure, pain and pleasure and life often challenges your flexibility, depth, and ability to adapt to these new possibilities.
Ask for Higher Help
One of the most important things we can learn is to consistently ask for higher guidance and Divine help. We do not need to wait for a crisis to seek assistance. In fact, having a daily connection and communication with the Divine realm makes your journey a lot easier, more sound, and more enjoyable.
To be truly intuitive means being able to understand and speak the language of the subtle and unseen realms. While some people are born with highly developed intuitive senses and a Divine connection, others need to take time to hone their intuitive skills.
The truth is that intuition is natural and available to all who are willing to invest the appropriate time and energy to develop it. The word intuition is derived from the Latin word intueri, the meaning of which is “to look within” or “to contemplate.” I encourage you to do both. There is much hidden treasure if you dare to look.
