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WELCOME
As I begin writing this issue of the Newsletter, the memorable date reminds me that exactly two years ago, my beloved husband Jim was diagnosed with prostate cancer. That pronouncement was staggering since Jim had just successfully completed various treatments for bladder cancer. Happily, he survived and as I look at him sitting across the room from me, he is smiling and energetic. It has been quite a rocky journey for both of us these past two years. I have often consoled myself with Dr. Albert Einstein’s saying, “In the midst of difficulty, lies opportunity.” We had many opportunities to step on and over the jagged rocks that eventually brought us to a more peaceful place. Even through the dark nights, I knew this was part of a transformative journey. Difficulties abound for everyone and there are always occasions to transcend the challenges. My main utensil in my tool box is my intuition which lets me rise above the situation to view the whole picture. My intuitive mind speaking in symbols and images has sent me the picture of an arrow which you can be used to pierce through the negativity in any situation in order to accentuate the positive.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
Intelligence highly awakened is intuition which is the only true guide in life.
Krishnamurti
This quote underscores the intention to cultivate your intuition and use this invincible guide throughout the day and night.
DR. MARCIA’S INTUITIVE WISDOM CORNER
Once someone I loved very dearly fell into a deep clinical depression. I felt helpless and inadequate to save my companion, to guide him through the dark tunnel into the light. The refrain of an old spiritual came to my mind: “You got to walk that lonesome valley by yourself.” A very dear psychologist friend would leave me E-mail messages filled with encouraging words, always painting a hopeful vision. As my companion sank deeper into despair, unable to receive my help, my psychologist friend would say, “I see that only good can come out of this acute depression.” Reversing the situation, he envisioned my companion as whole, well, and magnificently transformed –a caterpillar becoming a beautiful butterfly. Inspired by his example, I also began, in the face of my companion’s mental and physical deterioration, to affirm and believe that only good can come out of this. Perhaps my faith was more powerful than my attempts to help. A miraculous turnabout happened five months later, and the vision I had been affirming became a living reality.
In many cultures, illness or dis-ease is considered a time of learning, from which the individual emerges with greater wisdom. Illness forces us within. While I was writing a book on how successful people use intuition in decision-making, I interviewed an accomplished man who described his struggles with clinical depression. He knew that in this battle, where his life was at stake, he had to break through to something deeper than the narrow rationality he had been taught all his life, or something essential in him would die. For him, the struggle forced him to trust a deeper part of himself that was calling him into a harmonious relationship with some larger whole. In calling upon this deeper level of reality, he learned to dance with the larger forces at play beyond himself and the conventional order he had mistaken for reality itself. He lauds his intuitive self for guiding him through this soul-wrenching struggle.
It may seem like I am focusing on the negative in this newsletter and yet there is a valuable lesson. Perhaps darkness is an essential part of life, one of our changing inner seasons. It forces us to turn our perception around. I think we go down into the valley of despair in order to emerge with greater wisdom. From this perspective, every dark cloud does have its silver lining. To intuitively retrieve the lesson, or silver lining, hidden in one of your own discouraging times, I ask you to do the following exercise.
Find a time when you can be quiet for at least twenty minutes. Take several deep breaths, relax into the intuitive state, and recall a time of darkness, depression, or despair. Affirm that you are on a treasure hunt, seeking the wisdom, strength or shift — the silver lining — that came to you out of this experience. Engage in this deep introspection. What issues were you struggling with? What insights came to you? What was the turning point? What summary lesson did you learn? What positive quality or strength do you now have that you can trace to this experience? From this experience, what pearl of wisdom would you share with someone else who is going through a discouraging time?
I write this as people in our world have been assailed by natural disasters such as hurricanes and earthquakes. While you may feel “safe” at home, that energy is pervasive and impacts us even across thousands of miles. I felt incredibly drained in the days following Katrina though my family and friends were safe and sound. During those times when I felt very sad or low in energy, I would take a moment, to get still, say a prayer and send light to the stricken area. Then I was able to feel the full complement of my energy return and go back to my “work.” Try it and know you will be responding to an urgent plea from someone in the universe who needs your light.
DREAM NOTES
The dream speaks in pictures, symbols and images. Sometimes when you awaken the dream symbol will jump out and the underlying meaning is obvious. For example, you wake up and simply recall that a ship is bobbing up and down and eventually sinks. Aha! You intuitively realize that this is related to your relationship concern and clearly signals that you end this inconsistent union and become open to a more promising one.
Here’s another brief dream that was eye opening about a relationship dilemma. Carol had a serious conflict with her boyfriend that lasted two days. She invited her dreaming mind to reveal the best way to resolve it. The next night, she dreamed she was playing tug-of-war and dropped her end of the rope. Game over. Upon awakening, she knew she had to give in and apologize. Feeling peaceful about initiating action, she and her boyfriend had a loving, understanding conversation and the conflict ended.
In the first newsletter issue, I invited readers to use the “Submit a Dream” section under the DREAMWORK menu to send in dreams for comment. Thirty-year-old Brittney responded. She is originally from Mexico and moved to Canada after her marriage. She wakes up with a panic attack after having the following dream. I am at the beach and see a huge wave rising. I am worried that it is going to fall on me and pull me out to sea. I run away so I won’t drown.
If this were my dream, I would title it, “Drifting Out to Sea.” The symbol that jumps out to me is the “huge wave.” I begin to amplify and associate and come up with the following associations: inundate, menacing, water, drowning, and over the head. My intuitive hit and meaning of this dream is that Brittney is in “over her head” in the new culture with different customs, another language etc. We corresponded through E-mail and I shared my interpretation that she has an underlying fear of being inundated. In response, she realizes that the adjustment will come eventually and she won’t feel “over her head.”
Bob sent in a dream that was very puzzling to him and graphically revealed the inner struggle about making a commitment. Making a commitment to enter into marriage is painful for many people. They fear for example, taking on increased financial responsibility, not being able to socialize with old friends, and are concerned about parenting. I have found through my counseling others that people can be in denial about having this commitment phobia which is clearly revealed through a dream. Here is Bob’s dream.
Dream: I’m driving from the house that my fiancé and I have been living in towards our new house. There is rain pouring down on me while I’m driving. I make a left turn and start speeding down the 5 lane road. As I come up to a large bridge I start to feel like something is wrong. Suddenly I’m spinning around and I’m lost and dizzy as my truck comes to a stop on the other side of the bridge. I slowly get out and walk back towards the bridge and see that half of it is in shambles while the other half seems to be working as if nothing has happened to the rest of the bridge.
I apply the steps of the DreamShift technique which you can find in my PowerHunch book.
1. Dream Title: Crossing Over Safely
2. Become Centered and Receptive. For me to interpret this dream, I look at the panels on the wooden floor to become centered. Then I take several “Total Breaths” and imagine myself walking down ten steps to relax more deeply.
3. Major symbol: Bridge
4. Interpret These Symbols: The following words come up through amplification: walk over, connecting, separate, arch, and then cross over. The last really resonates to me as I realize that if this were my dream, I am safe on the other side of the bridge. I imagine myself as Bob and know this issue is emotional since rain is pouring down on me and the appearance of water in dreams is usually emotional. In the dream, he is dizzy when he gets to the other side and yet feels good that he escaped the shambles of the other side.
5. Engage the Symbol Artistically: I put music on and dance and begin to feel a complete sense of abandon. It is like I am releasing my fear of commitment.
6. Implement Your Dream Discovery. Bob realizes that setting a date for the wedding will help him cross over the bridge and still feel safe.
Here’s an exercise to help you with your relationship dreams.
EXERCISE: PROGRAM AND INTERPRET A RELATIONSHIP DREAM
Part One: Program a relationship dream. The most important part is asking the programming question correctly. You can review the “dos and don’ts of programming formulation” in chapter 1. Here are some examples:
How can I improve my relationship with my girlfriend?
How can I be more supportive of my partner?
What personality characteristics do I seek in a mate?
Part Two: Use the DreamShift to help you interpret the dream you received. For each dream, complete each of these steps.
1. Give the dream a title: Does this give you insight into the dream?
2. Become centered and receptive: What did you do to shift to the intuitive mind?
3. Identify the major symbols: Did the symbols come forward readily?
4. Interpret these symbols: How did you use the amplification
and word association to decipher the symbolism?
5. Engage the symbol artistically: Did you have fun drawing, dancing or singing?
6. Implement your dream discovery: How are the insights helping you?
*** UPCOMING TV SHOW ON DREAMS ***
A major reason that dreams are compelling my attention is that I am one of the three Dream Decoders on the groundbreaking mini-series — DREAM DECODERS — exploring the hidden meaning of dreams. The three-part series will air in its entirety Tuesdays at 8 PM (ET/PT) on the Discovery Health Network beginning November 1.
Each night, whether memorable or not, the average person has four to five dreams. But what do these dreams mean? And what do they tell us about ourselves? Discovery Health Channel unlocks the deepest secrets of the subconscious with the premiere of DREAM DECODERS. In this enlightening three-part series, three of the world’s top dream analysts—the “Dream Decoders”—help participants and viewers understand the messages of their dreams to foster greater emotional and psychological health.
DREAM DECODERS is filmed in front of a live-studio audience on a special “dream tank” set. Each episode evaluates the dreams of three or four people from different walks of life. With the help of host Steve Truitt, they share their most private, often recurring, dream or nightmare through verbal explanations and brief video re-creations. The Dream Decoders interview the dreamers about their personal experiences and current life challenges to uncover hidden clues in the depths of their psyches. The Decoders analyze these clues and offer their individual analysis to crack the dream code, giving the dreamers startling insight into their waking lives.
DREAM DECODERS promises to be one of the most controversial, entertaining, and enlightening hours of television that our waking minds could experience…leaving us with something stimulating to think, and dream about. If you have questions or comments about the show, please email Discovery Health Channel’s viewer relations department at viewer_relations@discovery.com.
Please Note: For a fuller description of DREAM DECODERS, go to the Media menu.
***DO YOU WANT TO JOIN OTHER DREAM LOVERS?***
VIRTUAL: Go to www.ASDreams.org
REAL LIFE: Plan to attend the 23rd Annual Conference of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, June 20-24,2006 at Bridgewater State College in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. For more information log on to www.ASDreams.org/2006.
JOIN: To find out how to become a member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, go to www.ASDreams.org/
GRATITUDE
Every issue I want to acknowledge one or two people who have enriched my life. I find as I open my heart to gratitude, thoughts or feelings of judgment, criticism, blame, fear or worry fade away. When you express gratitude for what you have in your life, every door and window of your being opens to love. What has been cloaked in darkness is now filled with light. And a lighter heart will readily respond to love and all the riches in the world.
I want to express my gratitude to Philip Horváth, who made me aware that my previous website was static and provided me with innumerable resources to stimulate the content for a new site. You now see the result. Philip Horváth is a co-founder of the Center for Conscious Creativity and works as an independent consultant and coach. He is the author of "Six Sigma for Your Life," a stress management program synthesizing his diverse background which includes Organizational Development and Design, Business Systems Integration, and Process Reengineering, as well as Personal Coaching, Yoga and Transformational Psychology. His passion is to bring forth transformation and transformational content, be it online or in the media. More information can be found at http://www.philiphorvath.com/ Thank you Philip for being a bright light in my life.
I also want to send my love and gratitude to Pam Coronado who extended a helping hand to me during a very dark time in my life. My husband Jim had just been diagnosed with bladder cancer and I was devastated. We prided ourselves on being very healthy people and to hear the cancer word was disorienting to say the least. Pam and I are both members of an Intuition Network discussion group online. When I sent a post about the situation, she stepped up immediately and said, “I can talk to you about this situation. My Father had a bout or two with bladder cancer and is now fine.” For the past three years she has been coaching me as I go through the valleys and peaks of my journey. My life has been enriched by Pam’s presence and I send her love and gratitude. Pam is a gifted psychic detective who has been featured on TV. Her psychic work has proven to be astonishingly accurate and helpful. If you are interested in finding out more about how to create positive change in your life and book Pam’s services, you can go to www.pamcoronado.com.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
Through a consultation, I can help you transform any problem, struggle, and even tragedy into triumph so you can live fully and radiantly. This can happen in a single session or during two or more counseling sessions.
I am available as a coach to help you bring out your true potential or essence so you can be more effective at work and in your personal affairs.
Dreamwork is my passion and during a session we can unravel the messages in your dreams.
For more details go to the Intuitive Consultation menu. You can call for clarification and to schedule an appointment at 510/526-5510.
Of course you can take me home through any of my books or audio. These materials can be viewed and purchased in the Bookstore menu. To refresh your memory, the titles of the books are:
Dr. Marcia Emery’s Intuition Workbook: An Expert’s Guide to Unlocking the Wisdom of your Subconscious Mind;
The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician
PowerHunch! Living an Intuitive Life
I can also be heard on the two audio cassette tape:
The Intuitive Healer: Accessing Your Inner Physician
LETTERS
Mitzi writes: I am very interested in learning how to become more intuitive. You mentioned keeping a diary. What exactly should you put in a diary, and is there anything else you can recommend? I find this subject so interesting. I find it so frustrating when I can’t make a decision. This is one of the reasons I want to tune into my intuition.
Dr. Marcia responds: The first step in cultivating your intuitive abilities is to listening and becoming aware. That is why I recommend recording all the impressions you might ordinarily discount or not even notice in your diary or intuitive journal. For example, if your stomach hurts before you have to make a major decision, write it down. If you suddenly have an urge to call a friend you haven’t seen for some time, write it down. The entries in your journal will make it clear that you already use intuition, even if you didn’t know it. This is your opportunity to track and validate the intuitive voice. As you review your journal entries, you will be amazed at how many times you disregarded important warnings that would have been very useful. Of course I recommend any of my books to find out more about journaling and show you how to cultivate your intuition.
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LAST WORDS
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