The Dream Lab is a "next level" practice after intention setting and visualizing. It's so good to set clear intention and visualize them happening... but that's not really a way of WORKING WITH your dream. That's just broadcasting it.

The Dream Lab alchemy meditation brings you into a place where you WORK WITH your dream, which helps you understand what you need to do to make this happen.... Which is almost never what you think you need to do.

So, when the Dream Lab meditation surprises you - that's good! Even though it can also feel confusing and disorienting.

My strange experience in the Dream Lab:

My dream didn’t really show up in the meditation. 

So I think about the specifics of my dream, and what my life will look like when I have it.

Then this kind of crabby voice says:

"That’s not your DREAM, that’s just what you deserve to have."

Oh! Because I have less than I deserve and I am dreaming of… what I do deserve? Like my dreams are just setting things right?

"Yeah, most people have less than they deserve of what they really deserve but then too much of all those other stuff that isn’t relevant. Everything is topsy turvy."

Yeah, everything is topsy turvy, that’s for sure.

But… if I don’t have what I deserve, then doesn’t it make sense to dream of it?

This voice pushes me down, gently, to lay down.

"I want you to understand what you are worth."

I feel it’s hand on my chest, almost like it is sending me this knowing of what I am worth.

I turn off the recording at this point. I want to see where this voice takes me.

I sit with it for a while but nothing else happens.It’s like this sense of worthiness is being poured into me, and some new energy deep in my belly awakens. Like a determination that I deserve this.

I didn’t go back to the end of the meditation, I wanted to do my best to hold onto the sensation for the rest of the day.

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I just really want to stress that the path is not linear. BEING WITH and TENDING TO whatever comes up in the meditations IS the work. We don't know we are building the path until after it's done and we can look back and see it.

If you haven't done the Dream Lab in a while... make a plan to do it this week!

 

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