The Art of Dreaming

During our early years of life, dreams were fantastic, color-filled, and mythical. As we move our way through schooling, work, and relentless obligations, our capacity to dream not only fades, so does our ability to achieve a deep restorative rest.

Continuous sleep disturbance can ultimately result in an increase in our stress response (sympathetic nervous system), produce undesirable metabolic alterations, and encourage other proinflammatory physiological cascades. As our year's tick onwards, memory performance declines, mood disorders may arise, and somatic pains become a normal factor of life.

When did it become so difficult? To simply lay down and let go? Somewhere between the 4th coffee and 51st email is my guess...

We arise in the morning and prepare ourselves for the day. That is a given. We wholly understand the duties of our progressive society, and so to prepare - shower, make-up, choose a nice outfit, and race-off out the door.

How about the evening? Perhaps the nighttime is the part of the day that we squeeze the last part of work out. Stare at our screen with our eyes wired, lay down, and imagine monologuing rhetoric to our work colleagues over a discussion that happened that day, and then wonder why the sleep genie hasnt arrived!

The good news is - The less you do, the easier it will be to move back into a deep slumber.

Some simple changes throughout the day to have a significant impact on our nervous system and circadian rhythm may include...

Try one less coffee.

One less sweet treat

A little less screen time

breathing deeper

Nice candles instead of lights.

Once you have regained your birthright, of deep sleep, not only will your days be more energetic and your mood more stable, you will also be able to regain your capacity to dream.

Dreaming is a place to integrate our thoughts, and also a place of great inspiration.

Every tradition around the world had its dreaming practices and knew the importance and significance of the naturally occurring event.

My deep study and practice into dreaming began around 2005 and i have been intently studying dreams, for free nightly, ever since. If you would like to book a session with me to discuss dreams that you have had, how to improve capacity to dream, to learn traditional practices for increasing awareness in dreams as practiced by the Tibetan and Toltec cultures, or to simply regain a great rhythm of deep slumber, then feel free to contact me on our bookings page.