Developing Spiritual Gifts with 5th Chakra Energy

When we cultivate the different chakras, we nourish, fortify, clear, and balance that chakra energy so it can be available for us to have spiritual experiences. The energy of the 5th chakra can be used to help us receive and interpret complex VISUAL messages. These messages often are significant and meaningful dreams during sleep time, but over time and with more practice, these visual communications can expand to become waking dreams and even visions.

Because the spiritual gift development process with 5th chakra energy usually begins with "sleep-time dreams", if you want to develop the spiritual gift of learning to receive and interpret VISUAL spiritual messages, we first need to train our mind to be open to receive these types of messages. Next, we train our mind's to remember the dream message. Then we need to learn how to interpret the dream message.

Dream Training

1. Before you go to sleep, tell yourself you are open to receive communication through your dreams.
2. Tell your mind you want to remember your dreams. This will alert your mind to pay attention and to bring back images, feelings, impressions, and details. Over time, your ability to bring back details of your dreams will improve.
3. Next, when you are starting to wake up, there are moments when you are "in between" sleep and being awake. Use this time to initiate your thoughts to start the recall process. Much of the recall can become engaged in this "in between" time between sleep and wakefulness.
4. Another helpful process is to record your dream as well as your feelings about the dream. Eventually you will start to remember more and more details from your dream.

After you start to receive and remember your dreams, you then need to determine which dreams are messages, and which dreams are just dreams. Dream messages that are considered messages are called REAL dreams or SIGNIFICANT dreams. You can tell a significant/real dream from your everyday type of dream, because it is STRONG, it LINGERS and it FEELS different. It is "sticky". It stays with you. These are different from your everyday type of dream which seems to be fleeting and difficult to recall. The message dreams are clearer and sharper. These are the ones that are messages from either your Higher Self or your Spiritual Guide. 

​Interpreting the Dream and Interpreting the Message (or Insight)
Once you have a real/significant dream, you next need to interpret it.  Here is the process to help you interpret your dream.: 

1. Established an overview of the dream
2. Interpret the overview
3. After interpretation of the overview, then gain the insight and meaning of the dream

In the dream interpretation process, first seek an overview of the entire dream. How do you obtain an overview? You recall the dream in detail. Do not suppose answers during the overview process. Ask questions about the details and seek what may be important or contradictions or unusual or normal events. In other words, what stands out in the dream? (Because a dream is your own, you will have the advantage in its interpretation).
 
Interpretation is what the dream images represent. Interpretation is taking the images and translating them into a message. Sometimes the process can feel like the game of charades - taking images and clues and then piecing them together.
 
Insight is the lesson or the teaching to be learned. The insight can come from the mind or the Higher Self. Generally it is the subconscious trying to inform the conscious. Dreams that seem to standout vividly and have a tremendous impact are generally from your Higher Self.
 
In the interpretation process, maintain an open mind. Once you have thought about an interpretation and have decided that it is not complete, you must be willing to disregard that interpretation. As you explore interpretations to dreams, permit your mind to wander and explore other completely unrelated possibilities.

Waking Dreams
Once you become proficient in receiving messages through dreams in the sleeping state, you may start to have waking dreams where you care presented flashes of images during resting as well as moving meditations. This skill can then progress to experiencing seeing visual messages while awake, or even visions.  

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