Issue 101, January 2007
Change the world
©Jane Teresa Anderson, January 2007
A new year calls and it’s time to wake up on January 1st and change the world. It’s time to banish wars, hunger, poverty, discrimination, global warming and all other evils from the kingdom. Wishful thinking? Not at all. Here’s how it’s done:
S-l-o-w-l-y yet surely. Step by step. Dream by dream. Day by day, year by year, decade by decade, generation by generation, perhaps millennium by millennium, but the important thing is to begin, and to begin with yourself. Every change you make within yourself has a flow on effect in the world. But what to change, and how?
Let January be the month where you begin to change the world by transforming your dreams. Put more simply, let January be the month to love your bad dreams into good ones.
Do this by rewriting your unsettling or unresolved dreams in your journal, or visualising them your mind’s eye, changing bad storylines into good ones, making sure that all your changes come from a place of love.
Love your dream losses into founds, your deaths into births, your failures into successes, your limitations into freedoms, your lateness into smooth timeliness, your obstacles into open roads, your judgements into forgiveness, your muddy waters into crystal pools, your intruders into friends, your wicked witches into good fairies, your broken down cars into golden chariots, your tsunamis into relaxing spas, your hurts into healings, your heavy luggage into uplifting wings and your scary shadows into loving light. Love your dream wars into peace, hunger into fulfilment, poverty into wealth, discrimination into harmony, and global warming into global soothing.
When you change your dream by rewriting or visualising it from a place of love, what you are doing is positively changing the way your unconscious mind is programmed by communicating with it in its own language, the language of your dreams. Your unconscious mind may picture an obstacle on a road to symbolise the blocks you put in your way to ‘save’ yourself from success. When rewriting or visualising this dream you might choose to change this obstacle into a refreshing puff of wind that lightens, uplifts and speeds your progress along the road, quickly delivering you to a wonderful destination. Your unconscious mind responds to the changed imagery, and, in ways that will appear quite magical to you, you will notice your doubts changing, shifting, giving way to a stronger sense of purpose and ease of accomplishment.
This process of working with the symbols of your dreams to create lasting inner change that flows on to manifest desired changes in your life – the world out there – is dream alchemy. Rewriting dreams and visualisations are two examples of many types of dream alchemy practices you can do.
The key to loving your bad dreams into good ones is transformation. For example, don’t kill a wicked witch because this leaves a hole in your psyche. Everything and everyone in your dreams represents something about you and your beliefs and feelings about life, so anything you do to anyone or anything in a dream (or a dream rewrite or visualisation) you are really doing to yourself. Transform a wicked witch into a good fairy by whatever way feels good to you when you rewrite your dream. Best of all is to use love as the transforming force. When a wicked witch receives love, she can’t help but be instantly transformed into a good fairy.
Finish each dream rewrite with a bit of wisdom and a happily ever after ending. Re-read it, or replay it in your mind’s eye, over and over again, making sure you feel uplifting emotions and plenty of love throughout. Take that happily-ever-after feeling forward into your day.
Could January be any better than this? Begin it now. Change your world to change the world.
Jane Teresa Anderson
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