The Emotional Path

The uniqueness of the human emotional system gives the emotional body enormous power. Because we are capable of assigning meaning, definition, dimension to our life by

The Dreamer's Emotion

The dreamer has a special relationship to emotion. First, she knows that the emotional climate with which she enters the dream greatly influences the content and power of the dreaming. It becomes imperative to serious dreamers that as often as possible emotional energy be clean and clear when going to bed. The only way for Truth to come through is for the emotional body to be clean and available. If a dreamer has an emotional bias, the message of the dream will be altered by that bias.

Second, the dreamer knows herself to be a voyager, an explorer into the great realm of possibility. She knows that when she moves into that realm, she will attract that which resonates with her beingness. She knows that to be fully available to the power of that adventure, she must be free to experience what comes. Emotional crippling holds the night traveler in energetic configurations which limit the experience and the ability to move.

Finally, dreaming requires energy. So does investment in emotions. If the dreamer has a percentage of her personal energy committed to the emotional dynamics of her waking life, she simply does not have that energy available to her multi-dimensional life.

Emotional Memory

Every experience you have in your life gets interpreted through your emotional body. Some experiences attach themselves to you: you send an emotional fiber into the memory of that experience to keep it alive. Whether it's a fond memory, a memory of abuse or victimization, or a relatively indifferent memory, the act of keeping it emotionally alive in your system saps your energy. It also guarantees repetition. Pretty soon you'll have so many emotional fibers holding history in place that when another circumstance comes your way that you identify as similar to one you've already had, you'll define it, label it, tuck it away and not even allow that opportunity to express itself.

Dreaming requires a clean emotional body. We do not clean our emotional body to "forget" our history. We clean it to be fully available to the present.

The emotional path of the dreamer involves living in the Gratitude Principle at all times, and allowing the emotional energy of any waking or sleeping circumstance to enhance and define experience. Living in the Gratitude Principle means one continually expresses thanks for every moment of life, and lets it flow through the body without attachment. If you are in Gratitude, emotion never imprisons you or limits your expression.