05/04/2025
In this work, we often talk about settling the body down, overcoming resistance, and sitting with discomfort long enough to find out what’s on the other side.
When you have a dream or vision that makes you uncomfortable or fearful, there’s a strong inclination to run away – or quit. You could see this as a habitual response; another way the body tries to arouse and evoke a reaction.
Many times, when you’re in a dream state – where the body is asleep, but the mind is relaxed and awake – the door to the subconscious is wide open. Information easily flows in and out of our subconscious mind, bringing memories and experiences that tend to have high emotional charges. Why? Because that’s what’s stored in the body – when it’s been conditioned to be the mind.
If you give in to fear during these highly charged events, and react with a strong emotion, that’s a conditioned response. You’re feeding and fueling the same patterned reactions that keep you in the known past – because those emotions are a record of the past.
But when you give your energy to the fear, reaction, or entity that scares you, you never get to the point of transforming that energy into something else. Those thoughts harvest your energy, looming in your imagination and emotional reality – and interfering with your ability to move past them.
But if you can learn to sit with the discomfort and overcome it … if you can refrain from judging the experience as “good” or “bad” … a whole new world opens up for you.
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