Tag: metaphor
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 wall. I was trying to swim towards the shore, but I got pushed …
Category: Change work, Dreams, emotions, encouragement, healing, NLP, reflections, sports psychology, supportiveness, therapy, transformation, virtues Tags: beach dreams, big wall dreams, calm, current dreams, metaphor, metaphoric living, patience, storm dreams, swimmng dreams, tranquility, wave dreams
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 resplendent and manifest unto all the world. Baha’u’llah The thing that differentiates the …
Category: Change work, Dreams, emotions, NLP, reflections, sports psychology, therapy, virtues Tags: ego, metaphor, metaphoric living, true self
Posted on April 14, 2011 by dreamsforpeace
Achieving the Impossible: Create an Encouraging Voice Inside of You
When you were getting rid of the tyrant inside of you based on the exercise in the previous post, you probably noticed how loud and critical the tyrant sounds. A tyrannical voice is controlled by volume and so is criticism. What I found after having my Nazi dreams, was that when the tyrant was present, …
Category: Change work, Dreams, encouragement Tags: authoritarian, criticism, encouragement, hurt, metaphor, Nazis, voice
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
