“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!”
--J.M. Barrie ~ Peter Pan
I'd been noticing that I have allowing my thoughts to run away with themselves and they weren't going to happy places. Here's the general idea...I'm home alone and hear a noise I don't recognize. Is there someone trying to break in the house? What would I do if they got in?...and so on and so on.
I decided that as part of living my life deliberately, I would work on being in charge of my thoughts. For example, if I heard a noise, I decided to imagine that someone was leaving a gift for our family on the doorstep (that has happened before so it wasn't far fetched).
I knew I was starting to make it a habit when I had a bad dream the other night. In my dream, I was at my church building, helping other church members clean up a huge mess. They all had to go to other parts of the building for various reasons and I was left in the room. A man walked in the room and I knew he was going to hurt me. I made the conscious decision while still dreaming to change the story. I decided that he was nice. He then looked at me and said, "You're tired. Sit on this chair and I'll clean up the mess." I've worked for a long time to get to the point where I can change my dreams. It doesn't always work but I'm trying.
I talked to a dear friend who is a Psychologist and she told me that this is part of a psychotherapy called Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). I've got some research to do :-)
1 comment:
It is! CBT is a neat therapy model. It's been helping me a lot with my anxiety disorder. :)
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