I hate nightmares, just as I hate even previews to a scary movie. One thing I learned in hypnotherapy school is nightmares can be your FRIEND!
Even the worst nightmares when broken down and analyzed often turn out to not be a bad dream at all but an important message from your inner voice!
I learned that our inner voice speaks to us all throughout the day and that we get messages, signals, signs and notice patterns in our lives that are to guide us etc but when we don't pay attention, ignore, or chalk it up to coincidence or something that leads to us not getting the message then it comes in dreams that are symbolic in their relaying the information and if we still don't get it then it comes in nightmares.
Nightmares are not always or usually even bad like they feel and seem, it is like our inner voice is RAISING ITS VOICE at us like a concerned parent before their child runs out in traffic... HEY LISTEN TO ME NOW!
Especially if we have nightmares or dreams that are repetitive you can be SURE that is your inner voice nagging you but only because it is so important.
I have been having a LOT of horrible, violent, graphic nightmares lately.
I have been terrified, hiding to protect myself and running away a lot from danger, but I noticed when it comes to a chance to even possibly protect or save anyone else in the nightmares including strangers, I will risk my own life no matter how scared I am without hesitation.
I notice a strong correlation in real life too. I procrastinate and am afraid of so many things and choose to do things with the lowest risks etc for myself to protect me and those I love who I know need me. If someone, even a stranger needed me even if I knew it might cost me my life, I would not hesitate to help however I could, I know because I have done it more than once before.
Maybe my Inner voice is really a friendly monster in my nightmares trying to tell me what?????..... that MY LIFE and MY PURPOSE here is just as important to take risks for as I would for others? That living in hiding and sheltering myself is not really LIVING anyway and that it is better to risk life and limb if need be to the ME I was sent here to be and who knows... maybe being THAT ME... the REAL ME may alter or even save lives of others too?
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Great insight
I used to spend all my time saving others, taking care of others, doing for others. I don't regret that. I have done lots of good in the world. Now, however, I realize that I cannot continue to give and do for the world when I do not take care of myself, first. It took surviving cancer and life-threatening infections to understand this. Now that's a living nightmare. Your inner voice is shouting. You're smart enough to understand what she's saying. Please listen with your deepest heart and mind.
Now things are different. And Tools really has been been helping me stay the course, stay committed and take good care of myself.
Be well,
Kayla