Every day I start my day and end my day thinking of one thing to be grateful for. Even if it’s just saying, thank you for not having any bad dreams tonight, or thanks for a peaceful night.
Restless nights. Pain. Insomnia. Dreams flying by like an ever-swirling kaleidoscope are more than familiar to me.
It may seem a little thing to be grateful for in the grand scheme of things but sleep is one of the most important recuperating forces for our minds and bodies. So it is one of the most obvious things to be grateful for.
The older I get the better I am at guiding my dream world. But there is a larger program out there in the Universe that works like a healing factory. It includes dreams that offload our cluttered feelings so even a nightmare can unlock more feelings than a single therapy session. However, it needs a consistent abundance mindset to steer the mind towards lighter topics in between.
I wish more therapists would use the dream world as an additional toolkit. After all, it is already customized to each one of us specifically.
Dream, and let dream.
Gratitude is the joy of friends. Great post my friend.
Thank you so much, Larry! It has been tested of late :). That’s the way life works, right – if it was easy there would be less growth, we need to earn our proof points. But each night, before going to my never-ending dream world, I thank all the shadows to light. There’s always a chance some of them will accept and have just been waiting for the invitation. 🙂
Thank you, Larry! So true – life would be very empty without friends! A good company goes a long way to make life joyful – and bearable even in greater challenges.
Gratitude in just waking up in the morning to start a new day, and giving thanks to God for so many things is enough for this soul.
Thank you, so happy to hear Gratitude resonates well with you 🙂 – the value of ‘thank-you’ to human beings and souls is so vital.
Getting enough sleep is critically important
Many things can happen if you don’t with none of them being good. Sometimes dreams may not be applicable in therapy.
Thank you for always engaging, Joel. Absolutely – I value sleep as restoration in the highest degree. My intent was to higlight that therapists would do well to integrate sleep and dreaming knowledge into their know-how and tools – not to imply people should not seek the different methods of healing.