When you go to most self-help or business sections of a bookstore, you will find that when they talk about setting goals and planning for the future that it is important to be specific, measurable, realistic, etc.. because the brain works best when it has clarity about a target and then goes for it. This …
The first key to being able to overcome fear is to have a friendly, rather than antagonistic relationship with it. Fear is a universal negative emotion that we all face. It comes in a lot of varieties. We all have fear. It is part of being human. I think that perhaps future generations will have …
What is dream work? Dream work is the process of using your dreams to make the changes in your life that you have always wanted to make, but could never quite figure out how to do it. It requires believing that dreams are a form of communication delivered to you with perfect messages, that they …
Sexual dreams are very interesting because when people have them they often wake up with the physical sensations as if they actually had sex. Probably there is no other category of dreams that require the virtue of self-discipline and mental focus to get through to the message that the dream is actually portraying than sexual …
Why do you run out of gas in a dream? Automobiles in our dreams are symbols of getting from one place to another in our lives. For example, suppose you are the type of person who plans out what you want to accomplish for a day or a week or a month. You sit down …
Not long ago I was writing a report on a 7 year old boy in his attitude toward sport. After I wrote the report I started thinking that he just might represent the sort of problems that a great many leaders in the world have. This boy is excellent on the climbing wall in that …
Last night I dreamt that I was in the house of a former colleague who had committed suicide a few years ago. There were a number of people in the living room so I started engaging them in series of sad stories about my life of the bad things that people had done to me …
About a week ago I was at the UNHCR building in Kuala Lumpur working with a group of English translators from Myanmar on the subject of dreams. My wife had invited me to the class because she teaches them higher level English a couple of times a week. As in most of my dream meetings …
I don’t remember my dreams. In all of the dream meetings that I have done in the past 15 years this is the statement I hear the most often. How can I remember my dreams better? Why don’t I remember my dreams? I don’t dream. Here are some things that might help. 1. Dreams are …
Last night we had one of our monthly gatherings in our own home. This one was about how to keep on your own path to accomplish a goal with lots of action. It was actually the 4th in a series taken from Baha’u’llah’s book, The Four Valleys. So to start the meeting we read the …
I recently received this really cool dream. This dream explains a great deal of our everyday problems in life. “I was in an open area surrounded by tall buildings. In the dream I kept seeing the devil. He had two-faces put together in a very wide face. I wasn’t scared of him. I just went …
Sometimes I have a really bad attitude. At the beginning of this school year in August was one of those times. I just didn’t want to be there. The school moved me from one position to the other in what I would consider a non-transparent way. I moved from what was primarily administrative and events …
Early this week Debby and I spent 3 days among the aboriginal people of Malaysia, the Orang Asli. In Malay the word orang means people and asli which original. An orangutan literally translated means a person of the forest. Many of the Orang Asli live in an area known as the Cameron Highlands which is …
My Short History of Abandonment Up and until 1997 I never had an employer who deliberately abandoned me. Mind you I have had a lot of moments of incompetence as probably most people do, but no one ever asked me to leave my job. Then, when I felt I was getting really great results in …
I am sitting in front of my TV doing something I thought I would never do, watching a reality exclusion-based tv show. I am not an American Idol fan. I have never watched it. And this is not the show I am watching. It is the Biggest Loser Season 8. There is one person on …
In almost every dream meeting that I have facilitated, I have always gotten the same recurring question. “Why can’t I remember my dreams?” I have answered this question in multiple ways which all have some validity to them. Forgetting your dreams has a lot of to do with attention. We know from research on memory …
A couple of nights ago I had two dreams related to the effects on me of other people’s jealousy. In the first dream someone who was part of my past had been accused of a murder and the clues of the murder were left in the food lying around. Not long after that in the …
Dost thou reckon thyself only a puny form When within thee the universe is folded? The Seven Valleys and Four Valleys. Baha’u’llah Last night in my dream I was at a beach somewhere it seems like California. I went into the water and before me were these huge waves of the crushing type so I …
The other night I was in the city of Puchong doing a meeting on Dreams with a group of about 10 people. One of the women there had lost her husband to cancer a few months back. As I was speaking to her about her dreams and about her self, it was just so apparent …
So here I am in the middle of someone else’s living room with a group of people I have never met before except for one or two. I am in a country that is thousands of kilometers away from my country of birth They have been invited by the host to a presentation on “Becoming …
“So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love in every meeting, and with tenderness rejoice and cheer ye every heart. Care for the stranger as for one of your own; show to alien souls the same loving kindness ye bestow upon your faithful friends.” Abdu’l Baha (Baha’i Writings) So in my …
The National Geographic Channel as well as Animal Planet have a few shows featuring a wonderful adventurer photographer (what a great job) named Austin Stevens. He had a whole series of shows on tracking down and photographing the 10 most deadly snakes in the world and then reframing the experience for us so that we …
Yesterday was an extremely trying day for me in the development of detachment. I mean here I was going along fine and making great progress in my mind with the virtue. I actually could begin to see myself doing stuff. And then I went to this horrible meeting where it was all about a couple …
So there I am last night on the golf course playing a round of golf. That is all I remember. Sometime later I am with Michael Moore, the documentary maker, Farenheit 911, Sicko, etc.. Both dreams are a mixture of positive and negative so it lets me that whatever the issue is inside, I have …
Recently I was doing marriage counseling with a couple who had been separated for a few months, had gotten back together and now were looking for some ways to preserve their marriage. I have to admit that I was really reluctant to see them as a couple, which is a practice I normally don’t do …
The other day I had a pretty scary thought. Am I going to reach the end of my career just doing tasks that other people assign measuring myself on how well I did what they asked? So I decided to find an alternative, which is to live in the land of virtues. I learned this …
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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