Heather

Thank you Beth - I worked it out that classes would start around 3am. If I were retired or unemployed, I would get up for a class. But as I work full time as a teacher, I really wouldn't be giving my best in my job if I were to do that.

Thank you.

I don't think that working on healing will (or needs to) ever stop as long as we're living and having new experiences. At the time of my breakdown, I was suffering the affects of trying to keep going with traumatic experiences dragging me back into them. A doctor diagnosed me with post traumatic stress disorder, but the treatment for that was to go back to those harsh experiences and deal with them. What I had to deal with was a lot to do with working out what was my will and what belonged to somebody else. What I read here about recapitulation seems very similar in regards to energy. I still have some relatively minor clearing to do, but it was something that was sticking, and I believe I needed to read what I have done here about recapitulation to get to this part of it. Sadly I can't do the classes due to the time difference in my country, but I do what I can.

I don't suffer nightmares to the extent that you do, but there are a few things that I have found helped over the years, if you want to try them. Recalling the content of the nightmare in the daytime with your objective mind, and if you understand where those nightmares might come from, working on talking, writing or breathing through those events so that they are not hidden from your waking life. Another method that has worked for me, is to change the nightmare to give you a positive resolution of what is happening. That doesn't have to be during the nightmare, it can be done when you wake from the nightmare - so for example, if something is chasing you, picture yourself getting angry with it or flying up into the air away from it, watching getting smaller below you - or if something is broken, picture yourself being able to mend it and put it back together with your mind - whatever feels right for you. It's not a quick method, but when I did this as a child, I eventually remembered that I could change what was happening during the dream. I hope that things will change for you soon.

thank you ralph, it's interesting.

Thank you for the welcome. It is quite an unrelated question, but Ralph, I am curious what your picture is?

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I'm unsure about where my journey is going at the moment. I don't call myself a shaman, because I haven't followed a tradition of shamanism. I have heard people speak about shamanism in terms of other cultures (often ancient or tribal cultures), but that feels like I'm learning about something outside of me, when really I would like to further my understanding of what I experience... or what's in me. What draws me to shamanism is that the journeys I have experienced through my dream world over the years have shown me the way and provided healing. I also feel connected with nature, I'm not afraid to talk to the trees (if no one is looking ) The past 8/9 years have been really tough, and I reached my bottom line about 5 years ago - but I've done a lot of self work (and conventional psychological therapy) and I feel like I'm in a new place and it's a good place, but I don't really know this new person and I don't really understand where I'm going at the moment. So forgive me if I'm in the wrong place, I'm a little lost