There will be several different postings here. Some will be health tips, excerpts from my own writings, Integral Deep Listening interviews, and answers to frequent questions. If you have a question, you can either leave it in a comment or e-mail your question to me. Email address Adrianne@adriannespeacefulhealing.com
The first of the core qualities I am
going to discuss is confidence. Just what is confidence?
Dictionary.com
defines it as:
full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a
person or thing: We have every confidence in their ability to
succeed.
belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities; self-confidence;self-reliance; assurance: His lack of confidence defeated him.
While this is a good place to start it
doesn't quit measure up to being a core quality. I would add being
fearless as part of that definition. Truly knowing yourself and your
abilities, and being able and willing to push beyond the boundaries.
There are parts of our subconscious
that are full of confidence. That part of us knows that we can handle
any life issue that comes our way. That part is more than willing to
share their strength in confidence if we would allow it. As we grow
more confident in ourselves, we see the world and our life issues in
different light.
When I was first diagnosed with cancer
I was afraid, in disbelief, and in denial. Tapping into the parts of
me that are confident I was able to overcome the fear and make the
decisions necessary for my treatment. The more I allowed myself to
feel confident in my decisions the better I felt about what was going
on with my treatment.
We all have the six core qualities that
I will be discussing in more detail in following blogs. In each
situation that we face those qualities come into play, and they may
be at different levels depending on how we feel about the given
situation.
Integral Deep Listening explores how
our subconscious perceives itself according to these six qualities.
It also explores how we would act differently if we scored high in
all these areas. It also helps us discover new ways of resolving
current life issues. Please see my post for an in depth explanation
of IDL: What
is Dream Yoga?.
The six core qualities that I will
explain over the next postings are:
confidence
compassion
wisdom
acceptance
inner peace
witnessing
Integral Deep Listening works well for
everyone, it even works while undergoing chemotherapy and the chemo
fog that comes with it.
While the Marine Corps saying "Pain is weakness leaving the body" is fine for those that are training hard, it doesn't work for the rest of us. Pain does have a purpose, it lets us know when we have over exerted ourselves. Most of the time taking it easy will alleviate the pain, or maybe a pain medication is what we want.
When there is a new pain, or an increase in a chronic pain, please see a medical professional. Let them find the cause of the pain, and make their recommendations. Then when they have done everything they can do to relieve the pain and the cause of the pain, and there is still pain, do something different to manage the pain you have.
Our bodies are good at reducing the pain we feel on mild pain. Through the use of hypnosis the subconscious can stimulate that ability to reduce pain that is at a higher level. The subconscious is set to regulate the bodies functions, the heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, and other things that we don't think about. It keeps our bodies working while we are asleep and awake. It will stick to what is happening and has been happening. Hypnotherapy gives it something new to do.
While it would be tempting to completely reduce the pain to nothing, it does serve a purpose. The pain reminds us not to over exert ourselves. It does not need to be an incapacitating pain. With the pain at a lower level we are still reminded not to exert ourselves. With hypnotherapy to guide the subconscious to reduce the pain, and using self hypnosis is an effective way to manage pain without the side effects of pain medications.
Pain may be necessary during illness to keep us from causing ourselves more damage, yet it does not need to be extreme. Hypnotherapy is a very gentle way to manage the pain. Pain medication has it's place and still needs the supervision of a doctor to decrease it's use. Even though hypnotherapy is very effective, there may be times that the use of pain medications may be necessary. Integrating your health care gives you more choices, and with more choices comes empowerment.
The previous three posts are examples of Dream Yoga/IDL interviews. There is a lot we can learn from our subconscious mind when we learn how it communicates with us. When we learn to listen to the small, quiet voice of our subconscious we then act in our own best interest and the best interest of those around us.
Our conscious and subconscious mind is like an ice burg. The part that is above the water is like the conscious mind, it's only ten percent of the whole. It's the ten percent that we think of as being in charge; it's the part that makes active decisions on what to do. The other ninety percent that is our subconscious, it's the part that regulates our bodies functions, walking, eating, everything that we do without thinking about it. Our subconscious also is where different aspects of ourselves are. These different aspects of ourselves see the life issues and other problems that we face every day differently than our conscious mind does.
Through the interview process we talk to a different aspect of ourselves that has insight on the life issue, problem, or physical symptom that we are experiencing. When we listen to what we have to say we gain strength, and are able to resolve issues that we thought we impossible. Our minds and bodies are wonderful at keeping us healthy both physically and mentally as long as we listen to them. Dream Yoga/IDL is a very interactive way to explore and listen to our own inner knowledge.
What follows is an interview in Integral Deep Listening.It shows how our subconscious mind is sending messages to us, this is a great way to find out what it is trying to tell us. Not only can dreams be interviewed, also physical symptoms, and life issues themselves.
Interviewing a Dream
What are three fundamental life issues that you are dealing with now in your life?
1) Rejection
2) Graduation
3) Business
Tell me a dream you remember. It can be an old one, a repetitive dream, a nightmare, or one that you sure you understand.
A) My husband and I are shopping in Mexico. In a shop I find a wooden butterfly, it has iridescent, shiny colors. Unfortunately we can’t afford to buy it. A few years later we are at a gas station that is run by the son of the woman who had made the butterfly. The son has a beautiful blue, sparkly blanket that his mother had made. We go outside next to the gas station to take a picture of the blanket, the son, and me. His mother made the blanket for him to give to me if I ever found him; the son didn’t want to give it to me though. His father told him that is what his mother wanted. He gave the blanket to me.
Why do you think that you had this dream?
A) Not to wait to have the beautiful things in life.
If it were playing at a theater, what name would be on the marquee?
A) Butterfly Dreams
These are the characters in the dream…
A) My husband, me, the wooden butterfly, the son, his father, the mother, the blanket, the gas station, camera
If one character had something especially important to tell you, which would it be?
A) The wooden butterfly
Now remember how as a child you liked to pretend you were a teacher or a doctor? It’s easy and fun for you to imagine that you are the _____ and answer some questions I ask, saying the first thing that comes to your mind. If you wait too long to answer, that’s not the character answering - that’s YOU trying to figure out the right thing to say!
(Now proceed to interview the character using the steps of the Interviewing process, starting with the question,
“Would you please tell me what you look like and what you are doing?
A) I am made of wooden slats that are beautifully painted with iridescent and shiny paints in a large variety of colors. Because I’m made of slats I can move quite easily.
What do you like most about yourself in this experience? What are your strengths?
A) That I can move easily and that I am very colorful. That I can move when I need to.
What do you dislike most about yourself? Do you have weaknesses? What are they?
A) That she didn’t pick me up when she had the chance. No weaknesses.
(Character), what aspect of this person do you represent or most closely personify?
A) Her inner beauty and outer strength.
(Character), you are in this person’s dream or life experience, correct? They created you, right?
A) Yes, yes
(Character,) if you could be anywhere you wanted to be and take any form you desired, would you change? If so, how?
A) no
(Continue, answering as the transformed object, if it chose to change.)
(Character), how would you score yourself 0-10, in
Confidence, A) 10
Compassion, A) 10
Wisdom, A) 10
Acceptance, A) 10
Peace of mind, A) 10
and witnessing? A) 10
(And why?)
(Character,) if you scored tens in all six of these qualities, would you be different? If so, how?
A) I have already scored 10 in all of them because I have been a part of hr from the beginning.
How would this person’s life be different if he/she naturally scored high in all six of these qualities all the time?
A) She would have more confidence in every part of her life. She would see her own beauty shining out for all to see.
If you could live this person’s waking life for him/her, how would you live it differently?
A) I wouldn’t be afraid to do anything/ I would be out there where everyone could see me.
If you could live this person’s waking life for him/her today, would you handle his/her three life issues differently? If so, how?
A) Those would not be issues for me. Everyone who meets me would be able to see that I only want to be of service to them when they are ready for my help.
What three life issues would you focus on if you were in charge of his/her life?
A) Putting into practice what she has learned, becoming wiser because of it.
In what life situations would it be most beneficial for this person to imagine that they are you and act as you would?
A) Whenever she is talking to people, whether in person, on the phone, or on the internet.
Why do you think that you are in this person’s life experience (or dream)?
A) She has forgotten how beautiful she truly is.
How is this person most likely to ignore what you are saying to them?
A) Because she doesn’t see her own inner beauty
(Dreamer,) what have you heard yourself say?
A) That I am beautiful, that those who meet me will know that I want to be of service and will ask when they are ready, and to quit sweating the small stuff.
(Dreamer,) if this experience were a wake-up call from your soul, what do you think it would be saying to you?
A) To quite worrying about what life will bring me
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