Dream Wisdom

Illustrated text urges the reader to nurture his or her dreams and work to make them a reality.

During times of crisis and trauma, as well as transition—beginning or ending a relationship, facing illness, changing jobs, leaving home, dealing with loss —dreams can be a valuable resource for problem solving. Make smart decisions during these critical times with the practical and engaging insight of DREAM WISDOM. This handbook shows you how to use your dreams—and nightmares—as a guide to understanding your unconscious feelings and needs and includes tools for learning dream recall, an explanation of common dream symbols, and more than 140 actual turning-point dreams, all analyized to reveal their hidden meaning. DREAM WISDOM will enhance your ability to interpret your inner feelins and resolve major challenges, turning the difficult passages of life into opportunitites for growth and success.• Analyzes dreams about relationships, expectant mothers, separation and divorce, work, grief and healing, and midlife.• Includes instructions for creating a dream journal, incubating problem-solving dreams, and setting up dream groups.• An accessible means of tapping into an often-unexplored part of the mind.Reviews“Innovative and beautifully researched. Alan Siegel is a refreshing and articulate advocate of psychotherapeutic dream analysis” —San Francisco Chronicle“This book CAN change your life if you focus on your dreams as turning points.” — Association for Humanistic Psychology Perspective“Excellent . . . This is a book that can be confidently recommended to anyone wanting to draw on the wisdom of their dreams” —The California Psychologist“A uniquely positive look at dreams through the lifespan.”— Robert van de Castle Professor Emeritus University of Virginia and author of Our Dreaming Mind

Discover how the hidden messages in your dreams can change your life. A renowned expert on the subject of dreams, Jeremy Taylor has studied dreams and has worked with thousands of people both individually and in dream groups for more than forty years. His discoveries show us how dreams can be the keys to gaining insight into our past and our conflicts, as well as excursions into the fantastic realm of creative inspiration. An expanded and updated edition of his classic guide to understanding your dreams—Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill—The Wisdom of Your Dreams provides readers with specific, hands-on techniques to help them remember and interpret their dreams, establish a dream group, and learn the universal symbolism of dreaming. Full of case histories and featuring a revised introduction by the author and a new chapter about dreams as clues to the evolution of consciousness, this is a life- changing and potentially world-changing work.

Guidance for everyday living through the wisdom of our dreams through the expansion of consciousness, acquire deeper and higher knowledge of oneself and understanding the language of symbol. Be spiritually guided and awakened.

Discover how the hidden messages in your dreams can change your life. A renowned expert on the subject of dreams, Jeremy Taylor has studied dreams and has worked with thousands of people both individually and in dream groups for more than forty years. His discoveries show us how dreams can be the keys to gaining insight into our past and our conflicts, as well as excursions into the fantastic realm of creative inspiration. An expanded and updated edition of his classic guide to understanding your dreams—Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill—The Wisdom of Your Dreams provides readers with specific, hands-on techniques to help them remember and interpret their dreams, establish a dream group, and learn the universal symbolism of dreaming. Full of case histories and featuring a revised introduction by the author and a new chapter about dreams as clues to the evolution of consciousness, this is a life- changing and potentially world-changing work.

In times of inner turmoil or when you simply need some extra guidance and support Peacock Dreaming: The Wisdom of Flowershelps you develop, nurture, and trust your intuition, steering you toward the discovery of new insights and greater awareness on this journey through life. Prefaced by the story of the antics of the authors pair of peacocks, and the dream that led to the books eventual birth, it contains 42 beautifully-captured photographs of flowers and plants from the South Island of New Zealand. Each image invites you to meditate on its own unique attributes and discover the learnings and insights that arise from your intuition and subconscious. While each image is accompanied by inspirational writing, youre invited to explore and interpret for yourself. Heres the opportunity to look within, and develop your intuition, as you take your own very personal journey intoThe Wisdom of Flowers.

Explore the psychological function and meaning of dreams, and unlock their power for self-improvement. Have you ever dreamt you were being chased? Or that your teeth were falling out? Does fire, water or lost love recur in your dreams? With expert advice and guidance, find out how to decode and interpret your dreams to reveal how the images, stories and emotions you experience in sleep are deeply connected to your waking life. Explore psychotherapeutic interpretations of key dream images and themes, and discover how to work with your dreams to address issues and imbalances in your life, as well as improve your psychological well-being. Use your dreams to identify and overcome obstacles, realize latent talent, get to the root of how you really feel about the people in your life and much more. Find out how, when, and why we dream, how to keep a dream journal, the significance of nightmares and recurring dreams, and the secrets of lucid dreaming. Bursting with expert insight and with beautiful illustrations throughout, Dreams will open your eyes to this ancient practice of self-help, and reveal the gateway to self-discovery.

This fascinating and accessible book offers a comprehensive overview of dream interpretation theory and modern dream science, presenting an argument for dreamwork as a means to better understand emotional challenges and achieve personal growth. Bridging the gap between cognitive-behavioral therapies, psychoanalysis and depth psychology, the book explores topics like lucid dreams, end-of-life dreams, cross-cultural dream analysis and Freudian and Jungian models of dream interpretation. The authors offer a new model for better understanding dreams based on symbol formation, narrative structure and current neurophysiology, with the aim of reinvigorating the way we value dreams and their importance to individuals and society. The Wisdom of Dreams can be of great interest to analysts and therapists, including psychiatrists, psychologists, sleep researchers, social workers and counselors, as well as anyone interested in working with their dreams for greater personal clarity and self-understanding.