Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life

by Marc Ian Barasch

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New York: Riverhead/ Putnam 2000.

Dreams are invitations from the deeper parts of your mind to explore your awareness and to develop wholistic healing. Richly supported with real-life dreams, this book is an outstanding doorway into inner realms of exploration.

There are dreams, and then there are dreams. There are those simple, straightforward, recycle-the-mental-clutter dreams; get-rid-of-the-boss dreams; and get-the-girl-of-your-dreams dreams. And then there are dreams that feel bigger, more compelling. These are dreams that stop us in our tracks, tell us that we’re not who we think we are, reveal dimensions of experience beyond the everyday. They can shock us, console us, arouse us, repulse us. And they can change our lives. These are Healing Dreams.

In his new hook Healing Dreams: Exploring the Dreams That Can Transform Your Life, Marc Ian Barasch, author of The Healing Path and co-author of Remarkable Recovery, offers us a new, multidimensional method of dreamwork that can help us achieve greater wholeness and authentic living through understanding and appreciating these "larger-than-life" dreams. Going beyond Freud and Jung, Barasch takes us through the new fundamentals of dream interpretation, helping us to both understand our dreams and embrace their essential mystery.

Based on hundreds of revealing, real-life dream examples and drawing upon fifteen years of research, Barasch explores the many facets of dreamlife and what it can tell us about ourselves:

• Dreams of Personal Calling. How dreams can help you reenter the realm of your potentiality and find your meaningful, meant-to-be vocation.
• Dreaming Together. What dreams can reveal about your closest relationships: the ones we have, the ones we hope to have, and the ones we are destined for.
• The Otherworld. How dreams can offer us otherworldly visions and take us into the sacred realm.
• The Dream of the Body. How dreams can take us through an inner journey from sickness to health.
• Healing the Shadow. How dreams can help you face the darkness within and embrace your contradictions with compassion and understanding.
• Healing Time’s Wound. How dreams can collapse the boundaries between past, present, and future, and give you wings to escape your own personal limitations.
• The House of Dreams. How dreams can cross the border between your dream-life and your waking-life, allowing you to become more fluid and creative.

This review is taken from the publisher's brochure, with which I wholeheartedly agree. Read more at www.healingdreams.com

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