Inner consciousness

What if there was a part of you that was connected to all things?

What if there was a part of you that was trying to guide you toward the things that you want most in life?

What if it was trying to communicate with you all the time- sometimes screaming at you? Through your dreams. Through coincidences. Through your experiences. Through the people that you are meeting.

What if it was drawing to you experiences to help you learn about and resolve the things that keep you from having what you want?

What if it was putting awesome opportunities in front of you and constantly trying to get you to see possibilities?

What is it was trying to show you how beautiful you are? And how precious life is?

And all you had to do was care enough (about your life) to pay attention and listen.

Call it your inner consciousness- or (depending on your spiritual beliefs) call it your soul, Christ Consciousness, Spirit, Buddha Nature, unconscious, spirit guide, Holy Spirit, intuition, Atman, inner voice, essential nature, higher self, or part of you that knows.

Whatever you call that part of you…  If it was desperately trying to get through to you, would you allow it to reach you? And would you allow yourself to be guided?

6 week class Series: Communication with Self- Understanding Dreams, Symbols and Coincidence

What are your dreams trying to tell you? The part of you that knows what is best for you is trying to communicate with your conscious mind all the time. It does this through dreams, metaphors, and coincidence and uses the language of symbolism.

This class series will show how to interpret your dreams and experiences to get guidance from the ultimate teacher- yourself.

Michael Hoffman is a transformational speaker and psychotherapist who has specialized in interpreting dreams and symbols for the past 25 years.

Classes are Wednesday nights, 7:00 to 8:30pm, September 29, 2010 through November 3, 2010 at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Spokane, 4340 West Fort George Wright Drive, Spokane, WA. This class is free. It is designed so people can retake it and still get value. Child-care may be provided with advanced registration.

For more information call 509-850-7694 or email: info@michaehoffman.info.

So come find out what you are trying to say to yourself.

Breathe into your fear

When we are afraid of something, we push our energy out. Therefore, we are not able to allow the energy of the experience in- so we can understand what is really going on. We make assumptions about what is going on. These assumptions are contrived. We make up stories about how things are or how they are going to be and tell them to ourselves. One somewhat overused acronym calls FEAR- False Evidence Appearing Real.

On the contrary, when we allow the energy of the experience in- all of our resources are available to us. We can feel what is going on. Our instincts,  intuition, and experience become available to us. I call these things our “resource pool”.

So when you feel fear, breathe into it. When you are afraid, you stop breathing. By breathing into the experience, you embrace it.  You are open and receptive to it. You believe in your survivability enough to risk. I visualize it as breathing in while embracing with outstretched arms and moving toward.

Embracing the fear allows the energy of the experience in. Instantaneously, all of your resources all available to you. You understand what is going on. You see things as they are. You do not have to make assumptions about them. Solutions come out of nowhere. You see your fears to be the illusions that they really are.

The symbolism of dream interpretation illustrates this extremely well. A common dream has a monster (your fear) chasing you around. You turn and embrace it and it runs into a harmless or even beautiful thing. Embracing it “takes the teeth out” of your fear.

I recommend breathing into and embracing as a practice for approaching any experience. Access your resources. And if you feel yourself not breathing or scared… breathe into it. The monster in front of you is not real.