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Healing Yourself Through the Yoga of Dreaming

By Mila Diamond
February 10, 2009

"If I could only find a way to heal my old wounds and change my bad habits!" – exclaimed a young woman at one of my classes. This young and attractive woman, let's call her Trisha, had a childhood trauma of being sexually abused by her family. She left home when she was 17 and got involved with lovers who continued to hurt her. She was smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol excessively. But at the age of 24 she made a decision that she wanted to create a better life and was exploring her options. That's when she first attended one of my classes in New York City. Like many people, Trisha suffered from nightmares, reliving her childhood horror in dreams.

Many people are intrigued by dream interpretations. While understanding the meaning of dreams is entertaining, it offers minimal, if any, healing benefit. I would like to talk to you about a mystical dimension of dreaming, and how you can use dream yoga to heal, overcome self-imposed limitations and achieve success in everything you do.

Dream yoga is an ancient art of using your etheric body. Etheric body, also called dream body, is a body of luminous, intelligent energy that every one of us has. Most people, however, are not aware of their etheric body and cannot use it in deliberate ways. On another hand, a skillful yogi or master of dream yoga can produce many etheric bodies that can act on their behalf simultaneously.

When we fall asleep, our dream body wakes up and we experience life through it. During sleep our conscious mind's defenses fall away and we become more vulnerable to our subconscious fears, as well as other people's etheric bodies. I have to mention here an important detail: while people who hurt you may no longer be in your life or even be alive, etheric bodies can stay around for a very long time. Dream yoga is a powerful mystical way to defend yourself and heal your old traumas.

I explained to my student in New York that sexual abuse, like many other abuses for that matter, has more to do with the power game than sexuality and that people who assaulted her were still attached to her energy. By intimidating her in dreams, they continued to drain her and keep her hostage. To free her energy and become whole again she needed to reclaim her power; however, it is much easier to accomplish this first in the dream plane, because dream worlds are more mutable than the physical world. Dreams are not bound by the physical limitations like time, space, order or gravity. By using dreaming we can address situations even with people who are no longer around.

I helped Trisha by using Diamond Mind Meditation and MAP (mental and psychic) reprogramming training methods. Then she practiced dream yoga by awakening in her dreams and taking control of the situations in the dreams. Gradually, she was able to face the villains in her dreams and stand her ground. Eventually, I taught her detachment and she learned to change dreams at will.

As Trisha reclaimed her power, she went back to school to study journalism. Meditation and Mental Yoga continues to be an important part of her daily life. She is excited about her career choice and newly found sense of freedom.

One of the most precious gifts of dream yoga is a realization that all dimensions of life are but a dream and that we are the master-creators of our dreams. No matter how solid our physical lives appear to be, as we learn to change the sleeping dreams we become more skillful in changing the awaken dreams as well. When we stop seeing ourselves through the eyes of our villains, be they the people who hurt us in the past, monsters created by our imagination or fears of the future, they lose control over us. By letting go and standing our ground we become free to love and accept ourselves, while creating both personal and business success in our lives.

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