In my last article I spoke about the benefits we receive if we take heed to the insight we get from our dreams. After receiving many comments from our readers, I have come to the conclusion that the amount of people who are able to actually see their dreams at night is far less that the amount of people who do.
I am quite saddened by this fact because I have personally been able to have great help and insight on many occasions from my dreams and I feel it is something which everyone has the power to do, so why not?
In order to develop your ability to dream you need to have patience, perseverance and an open mind, or else you will always be putting limitation on what you are doing. As I said before in a previous article all psychic ability is based purely upon trust. Trust in yourself, in what you are doing and trust in the fact that you know what you are doing is for the purest of intention in order to help you progress with a new awareness of your experiences in life.
I would like to share some knowledge of a tool I have come to know and trust which helps me to see more clearly my dreams and the messages I am receiving in them. I actually received the message to use this tool in a dream and I never doubted its power since then. The tool I would like to suggest that you should try is the 'Smokey Quartz' crystal. I saw a vision in my dream where I was simply standing in my room with a Smokey Quartz crystal held up in both of my hands and just knew it was being suggested to me that I explore the possibility of its help in my life.
Funnily enough, I did actually already own this crystal but I had disregarded using it! I am particular about what crystals I use at specific times and I had put this one to the side, feeling that I had no real need to use it at all! Ever since that dream I allowed myself to develop a relationship with that crystal by holding it in my hand whilst meditating and sleeping with it under my pillow and basically just having it in my surrounding and allowing its energy to merge with my own energies. Some of you who are not familiar with crystals might think this sounds a bit weird, but I do totally adore crystals and I feel blessed to have them in my life.
All crystals all have their own individual power and wisdom contained within them and I have come to learn since welcoming them into my life is that the more you cultivate a relationship with them which is again based on trust, the more they will provide you with exactly the right energy you need at the time they come into your life. It is funny because the more you believe in the power of crystals, the more often you will see then occurring in your life just when you need them!
My advice to you at this point is that you first build the desire in your mind that you want to develop your ability to receive guidance in your dreams. Then imaging yourself having just the right crystal you need to help you to ground the wisdom you have already contained within your own subconscious and at a soul level. This is the great property which the Smokey Quartz has which will help you to begin dreaming and having dreams with real purpose as oppose to just seeing the information you have swimming around in your consciousness at night when you sleep.
Smokey Quartz is a very powerful grounding crystal. Not grounding in the sense of physical, earthly grounding which keeps us rooted to the earth and focused in our day to day activities. This stone assists in the grounding of wisdom and awareness we have contained at a higher level of our being by allowing it to manifest in the lower levels of our consciousness. Our dreams play the important role in the sense that we have to be able to see and become aware of our higher-selves consciously. Our dreams play the role of being the medium which provides the doorway we need to pass through to the abundance of higher information we store at the higher levels of our being. It is really quite simple when you think about it.
In order to incorporate the use of the crystal to work with your dreams, what you must now do is build your relationship with the stone in the ways as I explained I did above. Then in order to have it begin working with you with your dreams simply put it under your pillow at night after holding it in your hand for a few minutes and asking it for its help and I have no doubt that it will!
The Smokey Quartz has many other properties which can of course be of benefit to you in your life, but I will be honest and tell you that I have not used this stone to assist me in any aspect of my growth other than learning to have more powerful dreams. So I have no personal experience of its goodness, well none that I am consciously aware of anyway! Some brief details I can give you about the Smokey Quartz is that the crystals colour can be anything from light smokey grey to a darker grey or even blackish. The stone is associated to the astrological signs of Capricorn and Sagittarius and vibrates to the numbers 2 and 8. The energy of this crystal is predominantly masculine in its vibration and provides great protection to its user by surrounding you with a barrier of energy. This is important especially in your dream state when it is very important that you protect yourself, especially when you are attempting to work in such sensitive areas.
If you are interested to learn about it there is an abundance of information out there, you only have to look and I am sure you will find what you need! There are many crystals of all sorts which can assist you in other areas of working with your dreams and of course, healing and in many other areas of your life. However, the Smokey Quartz is the one which I advise you use in the beginning in order to get you started.
I wish you luck with your work on yourself and I hope that from using tools such as this one helps you to realize that not all aspects of personal growth work is so trying and difficult! Although there is an aspect of hard work involved in any kind of personal growth, if you look at it with from a positive perspective, you will soon see that it can also be a fun experience, and this is what we should all be are all aiming for. That is to realize that life is supposed to be a fun and happy experience, not only to experience difficulties, pain and suffering!
I will leave you with that until next time!
Love and Peace!
