New Healing Path For A Chronic Illness. Healing Can Occur In The Dream State

Tired of Living with a chronic illness? Of course you are. Tried traditional medicine or certain alternative practices and found they haven’t completed the healing? But have you tried the Doctor within?

C. G. Jung, the great Swiss psychiatrist, believed that when we sleep, we come in contact with a healing force that is not as available during waking hours.  This is quite an uncommon statement in light of modern beliefs in the restorative power of contemporary medicine. But Jung’s statement came to life when it was authenticated in one of my dream seminars. Part of the all-day dream workshop I conducted included a dream incubation and induction that prepared people to have a meaningful dream that evening on any life issue or problem that was resistant to resolution. As usual, a high percent of the participants fell asleep during the induction and several of those remembered a helping dream. (The incubation is a technique for asking a dream for an answer to a specific question, and the induction is a guided imagery with deep contemplation that brings about a problem-solving dream.)

One young lady had a foot neuropathy that had been troubling her for two years. She had tried numerous medicines and procedures, but nothing worked. The following is a transcription of her exact words concerning her healing dream during my dream seminar and its aftermath.

“Nothing was as pressing as the throbbing pain in my foot. Did I think it would work? No! But I was in so much pain I thought I would give it a try. A psychologist had told me years earlier that I couldn’t relax enough for hypnotherapy and terminated my “quit smoking” sessions. Whenever I was in a training presentation on visualization, meditation, or relaxation, I would scoff silently at these techniques because I thought they were silly and useless. I think what made the difference this time was that the dream induction took place halfway through the seminar. By that time, there was a very peaceful environment, and the material was so interesting, credible, and thought-provoking.
 
Her dream follows: I saw an image of my foot, and I could see through it like I had x-ray eyes. Suddenly, a bright light scanned and enveloped my foot, penetrating into the interior. I sensed and knew it was a healing light. When I came out of the induction, I was pain free. I think I remembered everything, and it feels great to be pain free.
 
Oh! One other thing, I did have some moments of doubt after I had my healing dream, and every time I had those doubts, the pain would return. I expressed this to a woman sitting next to me, and she said, “Keep believing and hold fast to your healing.” She was right. When the doubt went away, the pain would go away. It happened a few more times during the following weeks, but I remembered what she said and have held fast to my healing.

I checked with her nine months after this experience, and she was still pain free. The inner and outer features of this curing experience point out the dual nature of the healing route we can often take. When these two forces come together according to an individual’s needs, they can become a powerful wonder drug.

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