The Promise Of The Dream

So many of our dreams bring images that can feel challenging and difficult. They show us the places and ways we have been deeply hurt, places we are stuck, where we have lost connection to our true self…our soul self. Working with these images is not easy but in our willingness to feel into them they can bring healing.

There are also many dreams where the image can feel expansive, inclusive and  immediately healing. These images carry the promise of the dream…an in the moment remembering and even a recognition of our soul self…a return of that which we thought was lost to us forever…our warm heart…our forever young and vibrant soul…our capacity to feel everything…to be in relationship with ourselves, each other and the divine.

When these images reveal themselves they feel as does the coming of Spring…something that has been waiting for us under a layer of cold...and we can take them in with all our senses because these dream images are also images of who we truly are...our forever freshness and newness...our tender vulnerability and exquisite beauty.

We feel life coming back up through the earth and up through our bodies…dream images such as…

“ a beautiful bridge with pretty trees with white flowers running down their trunk…lacy pale pink blossoms”“

“I look outside at a pretty courtyard; it feels like a spring day after a rain”

“we’re now walking through a field with all these people and all these bright wildflowers and a big fragrant tree…”

“Sitting on the edge of the dirt, breathing the cool, spring air…I’m on the edge of something”

Along with difficult images our dreams are also like this...wanting us to know that there is something fresh, fragrant and new within each of us...wanting and waiting to emerge like fragile spring buds. They may make their appearance tentatively and timidly...and they carry a relentless desire and ability to come forth and be manifested in the world.

Mary Jo Heyen, M.Ed., was an author, founding member and certified practitioner of Natural Dreamwork until her death in 2022. She had a diverse private practice working with dream clients of all ages and backgrounds. Her practice included her volunteer work with the dreams and visions of those in hospice, their families and grief groups, honoring the gift of their dreams at this most important threshold.