|
ACCELERATING
YOUR SPIRITUAL GROWTH
By Dr.
Jane Mountrose
To
me, accessing your inner wisdom is the very best thing you can do for
yourself. Taking the journey through life without your inner guidance is
like taking a trip into uncharted territory without a roadmap and your
unique spiritual path is definitely uncharted territory. Having a roadmap in
hand accelerates your development exponentially and it is the most exciting
experience imaginable.
If
you are just getting started with this type of inner exploration, it may
help to realize that you will receive information at the level of vibration
you are on.
Morning
is a perfect time. When
you first wake up, your rational mind probably hasn’t kicked in yet and
taken control of your consciousness, so you are in a relaxed state that is
conducive to accessing inner guidance. You will want to stay in this place,
not allow yourself to start thinking about everything you have to do.
If
you connect with a place in yourself where you feel whole and complete,
where all is one, you will access information from this level. This is what
Soul Centering (see main article) does for me. You can also focus on
recalling a time when you felt connected with the oneness of all-that-is to
recreate that state.
With
a little practice, you should be able to feel connected quickly. This
approach has worked for hundreds (plus) of people my husband Phillip and I
have worked with personally and it does transform lives.
MY "WAKE-UP" PROCESS
When
I wake up in the morning, while lying in bed, I immediately go through
whatever I can recall of my dreams to have the dream snipits clear in my
mind. Then I get up and immediately get out my journal. As I prepare my
morning cup of green tea, I write everything down, then I go into my
“sacred space.”
I
think it really helps if you can have even a small sacred space where you go
to connect with the divine. It reinforces the state. We have a little alcove
and I sit there with my tea and journal and “connect” using the Soul
Centering Process mentioned earlier. I have always found it best to sit up
straight, as the energy runs most freely this way. If you measure the energy
flow through the body with a pendulum or dowsing rods, you can easily verify
that having straight posture when sitting or standing makes a huge
difference.
Once
I’m settled and connected, I start writing whatever my guidance has to
say. Usually they start by talking about the dream, but not always. They can
surprise me with thoughts for other people or suggestions on diet, thoughts
on politics or my spiritual path, or who knows what. I just write until they
stop, then ask questions, which I write out in the journal.
I
have a close friend who prefers to use a computer, rather than a journal.
It’s worth experimenting with different approaches and using whatever is
most comfortable.
_________________
SPIRITUAL
DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE
Accessing your
higher wisdom is a skill that develops with practice, just like driving a
car or learning to cook. You have to devote some time to it, but having a
roadmap of your journey is the most valuable thing you could possibly
obtain.
If time is an
issue, as it is with most people these days, this is particularly important
for you. Has it ever occurred to you that there are forces in our society
that want to see us so busy that we don't have time to question what is
happening around us or think about what we really want to do with our lives?
The suggested
exercise is to examine how well your time is being spent with relation to
the most important aspect of your life: your spiritual development. How much
time do you devote to accessing your higher guidance, discovering your true
purpose, and living a joyful soul-based life?
If you make
time for Soul Centering (see main article) and make it a daily practice, you
life will be forever transformed for the better.
|
YOUR
DREAMS: THE MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGES YOU NEED RIGHT NOW
By Dr.
Jane Mountrose
Co-Founder and Senior Minister of Holistic Healing
I
have been accessing my inner wisdom and interpreting my dreams since the
early 1990’s and I now find it to be one of the most important aspects
of my spiritual development. My path first directed me to a process we
call Soul Centering, which involves relaxing, clearing the mind, then
connecting with the soul’s energy in the heart and filling the whole
body and field with this higher frequency of energy. You can follow this
by visualizing the light of your higher self above you and bringing this
energy down, which raises your vibrations further. With a bit of practice,
you can use this simple technique to connect with your higher wisdom,
which is the part of you that can also provide quick and easy
interpretations of your dreams. You can find a version of this process on
our website at www.gettingthru.org/sn0599.htm.
MY
JOURNEY
WITH
INTERPRETING DREAMS
When
I started doing this process, I wasn’t thinking of interpreting dreams.
My goal was to connect with my own source of guidance, which definitely
happened. I started by making this connection, then, from this peaceful
place, asking questions about my spiritual growth, the universe, etc. To
bypass my rational mind, I would write the responses, without analyzing
the information flowing out onto the paper. In fact, my guidance
wouldn’t give me enough words (and still won’t) to make sense of the
message until I started writing. So I would start with a few words, like
“The first thing …” and write out the message, with the conscious
intent of not interpreting it or adding to it.
I
was amazed with the results. This process completely changed my life. I
became so excited to get up in the morning and do my Soul Centering that I
would be up at 4 or 5am. My whole life changed. Then I somehow started
using this guidance to get information about my dreams, again writing out
the message without evaluating it until it was done. I discovered that I
could interpret dreams in a matter of minutes, where the books I had read
recommended long, drawn out processes that could take weeks, with a lot of
rational mind analysis that interrupts the flow from the unconscious and
probably provides distorted results.
Having
learned about subpersonalities and different methods of hypnotherapy, I
realized that everything and everyone in the dreams referred to parts of
me, and I started including conversations with the different things in the
dreams to find out what they were there for. For example, if I dreamed
that my car had a flat tire, I would talk with the flat tire and ask it
what the problem was, again writing out the response without evaluating
it. You can ask a winding road what it represents or what the heavy
backpack you are carrying represents or what a dark figure that is
following you represents. You can talk with anything or anyone in the
dream. If you relax with it, they will all respond and you can explore all
of the details.
At
some point, I also learned that I could play out a dream, if the part I
could recall didn’t seem complete. In my relaxed, soul-centered state, I
just go back into the scene and let it play out, like day-dreaming. Then I
ask my guidance what it is about.
YOUR
MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGES
From
my experience, accessing your inner guidance and interpreting your dreams
are two of the most amazing things you can do to progress on your path.
David Wilcock (www.divinecosmos.com)
says that your dreams provide the most important message you need right
now. If this is true, which I believe it is, I wouldn’t want to miss
these messages for anything.
I
analyze my dreams daily and I am continually amazed with the messages I
receive, even when I can only remember what I call a small “snipit.”
It doesn’t seem to matter, because the bigger picture develops by doing
the process of communicating with my guidance. This morning, for example,
when I woke up and wrote out the snipits I could recall, I noticed in
retrospect that I wrote a full five pages of guidance from what I thought
was not enough of a dream to amount to anything .
I
also noticed that I can ask questions in the evening when I retire and
receive responses in my dreams. Or if my husband Phillip and I are
involved in a project of some kind, my guidance provides detailed
information to guide us. It just flows out effortlessly and reveals
amazing things.
I
find the key is to relax and open to the message without analysis. I also
find that approaching the dream with childlike wonder can help for people
who have a hard time getting started. Don’t’ take it seriously; this
may be the problem.
As
a note,
dreams are so full of imagery, I sometimes return to a dream a second time
if I am still wondering about some details I missed the first time.
"THE
FALSE PROPHET" -- AN EXAMPLE
I
have found it profoundly interesting that old characters from years or
even decades ago come back again and again in my dreams. You may have had
the same experience. Don't you wonder why this happens? It is because you
haven't gotten the message yet.
For
the last thirty years, I dreamed about a spiritual teacher I had in the
1970’s. In my dreams, I recognized him to represent the “false
prophet,” who unwaveringly took away power from those who would allow
him to, the lesson being that you have to claim your power and move on.
Nonetheless, I continued to have these dreams until a couple of weeks ago.
In the dreams, I wouldn’t be a total follower, but I would hang around
the group. The dreams evolved somewhat and I seemed to be learning from
them, but something was holding onto me and I wasn’t getting the whole
message.
After
all these years, I finally recognized what a blessing he had been in my
life. In the 80’s, I finally started to ask myself: if he could access
higher guidance, why couldn’t I? And, perceiving missing pieces in his
version of reality, why couldn’t I discover more myself? These questions
released me from his control, and set me out on a magical journey to find
what I perceived to be the missing pieces of the puzzle and to access my
own source of wisdom.
Synchronously,
I was guided to exactly what I was seeking and the journey has been
amazing. I don’t know when I would have learned this lesson if he had
not been there actively seeking to take my power and wisdom from me. I
guess it’s an example of how all of the people in our lives play
positive roles, regardless of external appearances.
THE
MESSAGES UNDERLYING THE EVENTS OF OUR LIVES
We all have experiences
like this and wonder what the underlying message is. As in this example,
it may take years, decades, or possibly even lifetimes, for us to fully
integrate the lessons, but we can accelerate the process by connecting
with our guidance.
You can also find our
more about Drs. Phillip and Jane Mountrose's approach to dream interpretation
and Soul Centering in their book Getting
Thru to Your Soul, at gettingthru.org.
YOU CAN HELP AWAKENINGS
TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD BY SHARING
THIS NEWSLETTER WITH OTHERS.
|
SOME FOOD
FOR THOUGHT
Dreams
are illustrations ... from the book your soul is writing about you.
- Marsha Norman
Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.
- Edgar Cayce
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of
hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo,
Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert
Einstein."
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
_________________
MIRACLE
REFRAME NOW ONLINE!
Want to experience a miracle?
CLICK
HERE to view a short video of Phillip and Jane
Mountrose's easy-to-do Miracle Reframe Process™, using EFT or NLP. _________________
AWAKENINGS' MISSION
Awakenings was created to share a higher experience of reality, reaching beyond
limitation to wholeness. It provides an opportunity for likeminded
individuals to collectively create a tangible presence for those
seeking to rise above fear and limitation to create a world that resonates
with the higher energies of joy, love, and peace.
CLICK HERE to find out more about
Awakenings Institute.
_________________
AWAKENINGS' NEWSLETTER
This newsletter provides a forum to connect members and
interested individuals around the globe, to facilitate healing, to progress on
the spiritual journey, and to realize our collective dream of creating a
better world.
CLICK HERE to subscribe.
_________________
MEMBERSHIP
CLICK HERE to find out how you can become an official
member of Awakenings new worldwide Master Spirit Community, where you can
learn about your true purpose, create the life of your dreams, and help to
make the world a better place.
_________________
UNIVERSITY DEGREE PROGRAMS
CLICK HERE to learn about earning a doctorate,
masters, or bachelor's degree in a spiritual/holistic subject.
_________________
UPCOMING EVENTS
CLICK HERE to go to gettingthru.org for a complete
listing of seminars and courses available with Phillip and Jane Mountrose.
_________________
REALIZE
YOUR
DIVINE PURPOSE
AS A MINISTER OF HOLISTIC HEALING WITH AWAKENINGS INSTITUTE.
CLICK
HERE to find out more about becoming an ordained minister,
to
take action toward realizing your dream of serving others.
_________________
Watch for some
changes...
AWAKENINGS
AUDIO NEWSLETTERS COMING SOON!
If there is
a topic that is of interest to you, e-mail Jane Mountrose with your
suggestions to joy@gettingthru.org.
|