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    How to Interpret Your Dreams
    How to Interpret Your Dreams
    How to Interpret Your Dreams
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    How to Interpret Your Dreams

    By Jimmy Henderson

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    This guidebook provides important information on the origin, structure and purpose of dreams, different categories of dreams, the process of dream-interpretation and how to work within one’s own dreams as a method of self-empowerment. The information is based on current research as well as many years of personal dream-work and counselling experience.

    The guide also provides a number of hypothetical case studies and interpretations so that the reader can view the techniques of interpretation in action within proper dream contexts.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMYeBook
    Release dateApr 20, 2014
    ISBN9780620606646
    How to Interpret Your Dreams
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    Jimmy Henderson

    Jimmy has an Honours degree in Philosophy (metaphysics), a post-graduate certificate in Trauma Counselling and a Master's' degree in Psychology from the University of South Africa. He is presently busy with his PHD in cognitive psychology. Jimmy has studied mind and spirit for over thirty years as a member of the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC) and is the published author of a number of books, e-books and many articles on the power of the mind, counselling and relationships. He and has spoken many times on local SA radio stations as a guest speaker on his books, as well as emotional/psychological issues, parenting and relationships. In his books and articles he combines psychological research with metaphysics and spirituality and it is this grounding that makes them unique. He is regarded as a specialist in human thinking and behaviour,having previously being an HR director and a service delivery programme-manager until his retirement. He has since worked part-time as a trauma counsellor for a large South African bank and also lectured at a local management school. He is presently also a distance (e-tutor) for the University of South Africa in psychology and has also been a volunteer Lifeline counsellor and trainer for many years. He believes that his purpose at this time is to help persons who are sincere in their striving for self-improvement and development to find their way along their particular path. In this way he also sees himself also as a teacher, having the ability to explain truth in a simple and practical way. He is available to give talks to groups in South Africa

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      How to Interpret Your Dreams - Jimmy Henderson

      Introduction

      This guidebook provides important information on the origin, structure and purpose of dreams, different categories of dreams, the process of dream-interpretation and how to work within one’s own dreams as a method of self-empowerment. The information is based on current research as well as many years of personal dream-work and counselling experience. The guide also provides a number of hypothetical case studies and interpretations so that the reader can view the techniques of interpretation in action within proper dream contexts.

      What are dreams?

      ‘The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.’

      Carl Jung

      Rosemary Thompson (1996) calls a dream a ‘personal letter to yourself’. In other words, it is a form of inner communication, and in this case the messages are coming from our subconscious minds, a level of our consciousness to which we do not normally have access.

      We normally credit our subconscious mind with the ability to regulate our involuntary bodily functions such as breathing, digestion and heartbeat. However, it also has other important mental tasks, in that it acts as a filter, without which we would be overrun with sensory information from our environment. It also stores our memories as well as other important experiences packaged in the form of subliminal images and internal messages (schemas) which all influence our later processing.

      Our subconscious is continually sending us feedback and messages, but we are normally unaware of this due to our cognitive (or rational thinking) processes, which are housed in the prefrontal lobe of the brain and are very active during the day. If we are able to slow down these thinking processes it becomes possible to be more aware of these promptings from the subconscious. These communications can appear as moments of intuition taking place during periods of mindfulness, but emerge mostly at night during sleep, when our thinking processes are naturally quiet and information can be presented to us in the form of dreams.

      Dreams also have the power to arouse our emotions. The reason for this is that the subconscious mind cannot accurately differentiate between a real and imagined experience, and even a re-enacted

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