Dream Work

Popular belief is that dreams could be useful, provided we could interpret and understand them correctly. Our materialistic, modern cultures place very little value on dreams. We are taught from an early age to forget them. Perhaps the reason why we don't respect our dreams is because we don't understand their meaning, nor their function, so we assume they have neither. Many people believe that they do not dream, but research has shown that every person dreams every night. Of course, we may not always remember.

Every ancient culture valued dreaming as a time to gather useful intelligence concerning current events. They believed that certain information was only available during dream time, and by considering this information, they made decisions based on a much deeper source of knowledge and understanding than their conscious observations could yield. Indigenous people all over the world regarded dreaming in the same way as modern people now regard cell phones: a direct connection with the real world.

Why did we forget?

Our modern cultures dismiss placing value in dreams as primitive, and yet our lives are fraught with stress and psychosomatic illness. But we are not taught to see any connection between stress, illness, and dreaming, we are taught to go to the doctor, and expect a cure by injection, pills, or surgery. And how is that working for us?

Dreams may be frustrating, wonderful, confusing, scary, blissfully peaceful, or sometimes just boring, but if we could interpret and understand them correctly, we would be receiving communication from the part of ourselves which holds the keys to our behaviour, our beliefs, our fears, our attractions, our entire personality.

"The subconscious mind is responsible for 88% of our behaviour. Shouldn't we be in the least bit curious to know what's going on in there?"

John Kappas

The dream work aspect of NBSR is mandatory. Literally, "Dream Work" involves discussing, interpreting, and understanding a certain dream before hypnosis. Then, using the message that your dream has brought to you from your subconscious mind, integrating the meaning into your present understanding during the hypnosis section of the treatment. This process is called reverse dreaming.

For example: An individual has a fear of water. She has a dream of swimming care free, and playing in a pool with her family in a holiday destination. The interpretation is that she is overcoming her fear, so Andrew applies reverse dreaming in hypnosis by rehearsing her feeling of safety and having fun in the pool, feeling like she's on holiday, and that she can not feel any of her former fear of water.

NBSR dream work has the following additional benefits:

• Full understanding of the functions and applications of dreaming, based on research from case studies at HMI and Andrew's significant personal experience
  
  
• Advice and assistance on what to do if you are dreaming of someone who has crossed over
  
  
• Eliminating nightmares
  
  
• Yours to take home easy-to-use method for training and extending your dream memory (includes work sheet)
  
  
• Yours to take home 7 step method for interpreting and understanding your dreams, (includes work sheet)
  
  
• Training and exercises for lucid dreaming and conscious astral travel (advanced)
  
  

Andrew began his dream work at the age of 14, and lucid dreaming at 16. His experience in this realm is quite astonishing. His interpretations are refreshingly sensible, and his methods are straightforward and effective. To find out more about Andrew, click here for the NBSR website and his full biography

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