Tag: love
Playing with the Symbols in a Dream Part 2 Dealing with Dreams That Are Both Positive and Negative
Early this morning like 4:45 AM to be exact. I know because I woke up after the dream looked at my watch on the nightstand and debated for 15 minutes about whether I should process it then or go back to sleep. I chose to do it then. My dream started with me running on …
How to Play with a Dream to Milk More Meaning
So, let’s imagine that you are having a dream where you are being chased by a big growling bear. You are frightened beyond measure because it is about to devour you. At the moment that you are about to get pounced on, you suddenly wake up. This is from the category that I call “negative …
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 Envy: Killer of Relationships/Door to Intimacy
Before we go too far into understanding about envy, we first have to differentiate it from jealousy, because even the dictionary has it wrong (at least in my understanding). It is useful to have a clear distinction. Envy is the emotion you feel when you desire an end state, hope that it will happen, but then do not …
The Fallacy of Going for Love and Affection: Why We Should Go for Playfulness
Many of the people I get dreams from or work with in counseling sessions suffer from a kind of internal obsession, which I have had myself at times in my life, that believes that if we only have love and affection from someone, then our lives would really work and we would somehow my whole. …
How We Are Going to Achieve World Peace
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 of adulthood. So far as ye are able, ignite a candle of love …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
