Tag: intimacy
The Hurt Code: Door Opener to Loving What You Do
For the longest time my presenting negative emotion was grief, especially after the untimely death of my daughter two years ago. Grief is such a challenging emotion to deal with, primarily because when it strikes, it takes your energy down. You feel depressed. It is no wonder that anti-depressants have been so easily prescribed by …
The Code of Jealousy: Getting Out of Extreme Protection and Guarding What You Think You Have
Jealousy is a particularly difficult negative emotion to write about for me, probably because I have mostly been on the victim side of people being jealous of me. I have more experience with trying to cope with jealous people than being jealous myself. It doesn’t come up that often for me. I will do the …
Why We Need to Stay in Our Discomfort
I am walking down Commercial Drive in East Van (Vancouver) on another cool and rainy day. Every step I take tells me to get out of my discomfort and into temporary relief. I could get some nice pastry, maybe some pizza, or a double macchiato latte topped with whipped cream. Don’t get me wrong here. …
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 can be very disconcerting to get sexually stimulated with someone you thought you …
Day 17: How to Deal With Negative Leaders
Remember how Adam and the others once dwelt together in Eden. No sooner, however, did a quarrel break out between Adam and Satan than they were, one and all, banished from the Garden, and this was meant as a warning to the human race, a means of telling humankind that dissension — even with the …
Sexual Dreams
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 …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
Dreams For Peace 