Cleaning up the sh*t

“I was cooking for everyone, serving them, clearing away piles of dirty dishes, and even, at the end of the dream, picking up some faeces after someone crapped in a cupboard. I was walking around carrying this faeces – this sh*t – with nowhere to put it,” said David, a client who found his dream interpretation so insightful that he offered it for the blog to help others.

“Would you say,” I asked, “that you’ve been feeling like you’ve been catering to other people’s needs, handling other people’s sh*t?”

“Yes,” David replied, “especially with my business, and what really frustrates me is I’m not getting time to do what I want to do.”

Now, we could have left the interpretation there, and David could have thought of ways to take on less of other people’s sh*t, and free himself to do more of what he wanted to do, but we all know it doesn’t work like that, don’t we? Unless we understand why we act in the way we do, we’re unlikely to change.

This is where the brave delve deeper.

Step one is relating a dream to how you’re feeling about your waking life. David did this.

Notice I didn’t say, “Step one is relating a dream to what’s happening in your waking life.” I said, ” … how you’re feeling about your waking life.”

Dreams reveal how you see life, rather than how it is.

Here we go, here’s the powerful delve deeper step:

Step two is to see everyone and everything in a dream as reflecting something about yourself. So it’s David’s own sh*t (stuff, beliefs) that’s stopping him from doing what he wants to do.

We were able to go through David’s dream and identify his unconscious beliefs and feelings that were holding him back. We added some alchemy and – hey, presto! Suddenly David has room for doing his own thing, as if by magic, and his business relationships have become so much easier now that he’s dealt with his own sh*t.

“The people I work with had seemed so complicated, so demanding, but now I see I was too blinded by my own sh*t, by my own view of what needed to be done, instead of meeting their actual needs, which were really quite simple all along,” David mused.

When you sort out your inner world, your outer world reflects the change. Change begins within. When you interpret your dreams, look at every symbol as informing you about your own sh*t. That’s where you strike gold.

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