Have you ever dreamed of an animal? Animals are great as symbols because they are fairly easy to interpret. Here is what you do. Say you are dreaming about a dog, and the dog bites you. This is a negative dream so… Read More
The purpose of the next few posts is help people understand how you can use negative emotions as powerful vehicles for change. The idea of a negative emotion is not to run away from it but to use it as a way… Read More
This is where I spent the first three years of my university education. It is called the Air Force Academy. Its purpose is to train young men and women to become officers in the U.S. Air Force. When I was a young… Read More
In part one of dealing with worry I was trying to show that when you are confident with your internal gifts and act out of them, then positive things begin to show up all around. What happens when worry gets the better… Read More
Healing or Development Change is always basically the same process of changing negative energy to positive energy, but where you start from to do the change process depends upon how dysfunctional you are in your overall life. You will have to find… Read More
“Act in accordance with the counsels of the Lord: that is, rise up in such wise, and with such qualities, as to endow the body of this world with a living soul, and to bring this young child, humanity, to the stage… Read More
Secret #1: Everyone of us has darkness, that is, we all have weaknesses and fears and vulnerabilities that make us do things that are not so positive. You cannot expect perfection from others, because it does not exist. As obvious as this… Read More
If you are feeling hopeless or in despair or know someone who he is, this post may give you some guidance about how to proceed. It is not by any means complete, but a place to start. Taking an honest look at… Read More
The medical model in the Western world, of a necessity, developed itself into something of a subtraction equation. It says that if you have something like cholera or the plague and you get rid of it (subtract it), then everything will be… Read More
In the previous post about what kind of physical activity you can do when dealing with trauma I introduced the concepts of low intensity and high intensity exercise emphasizing the importance of low intensity work when you are in first working with… Read More
In the work I do with DreamsforPeace hardly a day passes when I don’t receive a message that goes something like this. “Dear Richard, Last night I had the most disturbing nightmare…” The first impulse when we have intense feelings of fear… Read More
I have a lot of natural calmness. I think it was just one of those gifts that was placed in me when at the moment of my conception. I don’t think it has a lot to do with genetics or environment. It… Read More
Almost every week I receive a dream on the “free dream interpretation” page of this blog where someone is sleeping with their ex and then wondering what that is all about since they don’t have a relationship with that person anymore. It… Read More
When a dream is frightening like a nightmare, it isn’t as bad as you may think. We need vampires and zombies and monsters. They give us valuable insight into our own process and help to head is in the right direction in… Read More
Most of the dreams that people send me have a lot to do with fear. When you get to the core of someone’s inner work, there is always a fear that that has to be faced. It is part of the human… Read More
It seems to me, without actually having done the calculation, that most of our dream life (about 95%) deals with troubles with our relational lives. I am sure that that is because 95% of our troubles in life are relational ones. How… Read More
I recently had these two dreams sent to me and thought about how important they are for so many people. I had a very vivid dream. I had no option but to pass through a path to get to the other side…. Read More
I dreamed I was in a house which was being invaded by bears the size of Sasquatch. Someone told me to not worry they know what they are doing, and they had some sort of trick to get them out, but it… Read More
The big difficulty with getting out of blame and taking responsibility for moving your life forward is that there are a lot of people out there that are truly worthy of an immense amount of blame. When you have been a victim… Read More
Every year when I go to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, my son-in-laws and I do some kind of boys day out where we hike or mountain bike. This year we climbed the Chief in Squamish which is just north of Vancouver. … Read More
Hi… last night I had an odd dream. I am a male, but in this dream I had big breasts and a vagina. I was naked and i started to play with my self and it felt really good… what could this… Read More
“Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday.” Baha’u’llah The question of inner work is always singular. How do I get out of the stuck state that I am currently in? There is large body… Read More
Many times I receive dreams from people that appear as though they could happen in real life just as they happen in the dream world. For instance, what do you do if your happily married, but you are having sex with someone… Read More
“Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all humankind… Read More
In the 1970s when I first began to run consistently on the roads of the Midwest in America, the Boston Marathon was the Eden of the running world. In those days 1000 people in a race was a huge number. Today the… Read More
The way I teach dream work requires that at some point people identify the origins in their lives when negative experiences happened which caused the ego to go into a survivor/protector mode. The theory of working with the ego is that because… Read More
Today I received this dream after the post from yesterday. This morning I had a dream I as swimming along a beach trying to get to a distant goal along the beach. About 100 yards out from the beach was a huge… Read More
O MY SERVANT! Thou art even as a finely tempered sword concealed in the darkness of its sheath and its value hidden from the artificer’s knowledge. Wherefore come forth from the sheath of self and desire that thy worth may be made… Read More
O Thou our Provider! Send down Thine aid, that each one gathered here may become a lighted candle, each one a centre of attraction, each one a summoner to Thy heavenly realms, till at last we make this nether world the mirror… Read More
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a Baha'i and currently lives in Vancouver, BC. Read more...
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Posted on May 30, 2019 by dreamsforpeace
Animal Dreams 1: Dogs
Have you ever dreamed of an animal? Animals are great as symbols because they are fairly easy to interpret. Here is what you do. Say you are dreaming about a dog, and the dog bites you. This is a negative dream so… Read More
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Posted on April 27, 2018 by dreamsforpeace
How to Use Negative Emotions to Your Advantage: Part 1 Fear
The purpose of the next few posts is help people understand how you can use negative emotions as powerful vehicles for change. The idea of a negative emotion is not to run away from it but to use it as a way… Read More
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Posted on October 6, 2017 by dreamsforpeace
My Recurring Dream of the Air Force Academy and Why People Think the Current President is Correct
This is where I spent the first three years of my university education. It is called the Air Force Academy. Its purpose is to train young men and women to become officers in the U.S. Air Force. When I was a young… Read More
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Posted on June 28, 2017 by dreamsforpeace
Dealing with Worry Part 2: How to Not Allow Worry to Take You Over the Edge to the Dark Side
In part one of dealing with worry I was trying to show that when you are confident with your internal gifts and act out of them, then positive things begin to show up all around. What happens when worry gets the better… Read More
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Posted on March 31, 2017 by dreamsforpeace
Healing or Development: Finding Out What Stage You are in Makes a Huge Difference on How to Act
Healing or Development Change is always basically the same process of changing negative energy to positive energy, but where you start from to do the change process depends upon how dysfunctional you are in your overall life. You will have to find… Read More
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Posted on March 7, 2017 by dreamsforpeace
Giving Out Honey When You Receive Poison
“Act in accordance with the counsels of the Lord: that is, rise up in such wise, and with such qualities, as to endow the body of this world with a living soul, and to bring this young child, humanity, to the stage… Read More
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Posted on June 11, 2016 by dreamsforpeace
The 5 Secrets of Dealing with Dark Energy
Secret #1: Everyone of us has darkness, that is, we all have weaknesses and fears and vulnerabilities that make us do things that are not so positive. You cannot expect perfection from others, because it does not exist. As obvious as this… Read More
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Posted on May 20, 2016 by dreamsforpeace
Turning Around Hopeless Situations
If you are feeling hopeless or in despair or know someone who he is, this post may give you some guidance about how to proceed. It is not by any means complete, but a place to start. Taking an honest look at… Read More
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Posted on April 11, 2016 by dreamsforpeace
The Mathematics of Developing Your True Self/Getting Over the Subtraction Model with a Little Addition
The medical model in the Western world, of a necessity, developed itself into something of a subtraction equation. It says that if you have something like cholera or the plague and you get rid of it (subtract it), then everything will be… Read More
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Posted on March 19, 2016 by dreamsforpeace
Using Your Dreams to Monitor the Intensity of Your Physical Activity
In the previous post about what kind of physical activity you can do when dealing with trauma I introduced the concepts of low intensity and high intensity exercise emphasizing the importance of low intensity work when you are in first working with… Read More
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Posted on February 15, 2016 by dreamsforpeace
Fear is Your Best Friend When It Comes to Transformation
In the work I do with DreamsforPeace hardly a day passes when I don’t receive a message that goes something like this. “Dear Richard, Last night I had the most disturbing nightmare…” The first impulse when we have intense feelings of fear… Read More
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Posted on December 6, 2015 by dreamsforpeace
Releasing Enthusiasm Part 2: Getting Over the Fear of Other People’s Anger
I have a lot of natural calmness. I think it was just one of those gifts that was placed in me when at the moment of my conception. I don’t think it has a lot to do with genetics or environment. It… Read More
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Posted on October 12, 2015 by dreamsforpeace
Dreams about your Ex
Almost every week I receive a dream on the “free dream interpretation” page of this blog where someone is sleeping with their ex and then wondering what that is all about since they don’t have a relationship with that person anymore. It… Read More
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Posted on May 11, 2014 by dreamsforpeace
Dreams of Vampires, Walking Dead: Why We Need Them in Our Dreams
When a dream is frightening like a nightmare, it isn’t as bad as you may think. We need vampires and zombies and monsters. They give us valuable insight into our own process and help to head is in the right direction in… Read More
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Posted on April 6, 2014 by dreamsforpeace
Embracing Fear
Most of the dreams that people send me have a lot to do with fear. When you get to the core of someone’s inner work, there is always a fear that that has to be faced. It is part of the human… Read More
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Posted on March 9, 2014 by dreamsforpeace
Relationships are Tricky Things in Dreams: Be Careful
It seems to me, without actually having done the calculation, that most of our dream life (about 95%) deals with troubles with our relational lives. I am sure that that is because 95% of our troubles in life are relational ones. How… Read More
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Posted on October 15, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Lions and Boundaries in Dreams
I recently had these two dreams sent to me and thought about how important they are for so many people. I had a very vivid dream. I had no option but to pass through a path to get to the other side…. Read More
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Posted on September 16, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Bear Dreams: Getting to Your Empowerment
I dreamed I was in a house which was being invaded by bears the size of Sasquatch. Someone told me to not worry they know what they are doing, and they had some sort of trick to get them out, but it… Read More
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Posted on August 31, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Finally Getting Out of Blame and Into Responsibility
The big difficulty with getting out of blame and taking responsibility for moving your life forward is that there are a lot of people out there that are truly worthy of an immense amount of blame. When you have been a victim… Read More
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Posted on August 11, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dreamwork in the Body
Every year when I go to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, my son-in-laws and I do some kind of boys day out where we hike or mountain bike. This year we climbed the Chief in Squamish which is just north of Vancouver. … Read More
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Posted on June 15, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dream Work 8: What You Are in a Dream is NOT the Same as What You Are in the World
Hi… last night I had an odd dream. I am a male, but in this dream I had big breasts and a vagina. I was naked and i started to play with my self and it felt really good… what could this… Read More
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Posted on June 8, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dream Work 7: Living Life As If It Were Already the Future Your True Self Wants
“Let each morn be better than its eve and each morrow richer than its yesterday.” Baha’u’llah The question of inner work is always singular. How do I get out of the stuck state that I am currently in? There is large body… Read More
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Posted on May 5, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dream Work 6: Using Self-Discipline in Dream Analysis
Many times I receive dreams from people that appear as though they could happen in real life just as they happen in the dream world. For instance, what do you do if your happily married, but you are having sex with someone… Read More
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Posted on April 28, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dream Work 5: Making Your Enemies into Friends
“Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help. Let them see no one as their enemy, or as wishing them ill, but think of all humankind… Read More
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Posted on April 27, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dreamwork 5: Podcast
Recently I did a podcast on Dream Work that you can hear by clicking the link below. It is also on the blogroll on this blog. http://rabble.ca/podcasts/shows/living-on-purpose/2013/04/202-dreams-peace
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Posted on April 16, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
The Horror of Boston
In the 1970s when I first began to run consistently on the roads of the Midwest in America, the Boston Marathon was the Eden of the running world. In those days 1000 people in a race was a huge number. Today the… Read More
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Posted on April 14, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dreamwork 4: Taking Responsibility/Leaving Blame Behind
The way I teach dream work requires that at some point people identify the origins in their lives when negative experiences happened which caused the ego to go into a survivor/protector mode. The theory of working with the ego is that because… Read More
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Posted on April 5, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dreamwork 3: When Your Metaphor Hits Resistance
Today I received this dream after the post from yesterday. This morning I had a dream I as swimming along a beach trying to get to a distant goal along the beach. About 100 yards out from the beach was a huge… Read More
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Posted on April 4, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Dreamwork 2: Life is a Metaphor
O MY SERVANT! Thou art even as a finely tempered sword concealed in the darkness of its sheath and its value hidden from the artificer’s knowledge. Wherefore come forth from the sheath of self and desire that thy worth may be made… Read More
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Posted on March 23, 2013 by dreamsforpeace
Day 19: Why the Future World is So Unrecognizable to Us
O Thou our Provider! Send down Thine aid, that each one gathered here may become a lighted candle, each one a centre of attraction, each one a summoner to Thy heavenly realms, till at last we make this nether world the mirror… Read More
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