Dreams and Guided Imagery
Gifts for Transforming Illness and Crisis
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In Dreams and Guided Imagery: Gifts for Transforming Illness and Crisis, you will learn dream appreciation and guided imagery techniques developed in the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) Cancer Project. Approaches in this book are modeled by six patients who meet each week in a cancer support community to share dreams. The characters are drawn from actual participants in ongoing dream circles—more than one hundred fifty individuals whose dreams have helped them navigate the journey through cancer.
Although the participants have given permission to share their dreams and stories, the characters in the book, their dreams, and their quotations have been altered to protect the privacy of actual people. The essence of typical dreams and the dreamers’ responses have been preserved, revealing a multifaceted, multilayered process of healing and growth witnessed through the years. We in the IASD Cancer Project hope that their stories and dreams will give you a sense of what it is like to be part of a dream circle.
We also hope that this book will inspire you to develop a dialogue with your own dreams, to enter the landscape of your own inner being, and allow the relationship to this deep realm of consciousness to help you grow and heal so that you can claim the fullness of your own creative spirit and the richness of expanded living no matter your present circumstances.
In Dreams and Guided Imagery
• You will learn about patterns of thought, emotion and behavior that promote health and wholeness and about patterns that inhibit the process of living fully.
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You will discover how dreams bring imagery and energy to help you transform
debilitating patterns into imagery and energy for healing.
• You will be shown how to breathe and relax into a deep meditative state.
• You will learn how to reenter your dreams and the dreams of others through guided imagery so that you can participate in the transformation of nightmares and waking-world conflicts.
• You will discover ways to appreciate and dialogue with symbols from both dreams and waking life.
• You will learn how to evoke “waking dreams,” guided imagery experiences that bring imagery and energies for creative living in response to conscious seeking.
You will learn how to embody the energies of healing imagery and how to integrate the energies into the healing process and all aspects of your waking life.
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About the Book
From the Cancer Project of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD) come Dream Appreciation and Guided Imagery approaches that can help anyone move into the fullness of living, no matter the circumstances.
“This important work is a vital aspect of an integrative approach to medicine which includes looking at all levels of our being and experience. In Dreams and Guided Imagery, Tallulah Lyons provides a path for readers to mine the rich fi elds of dream work in order to actively engage their unconscious inner resources. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking a tool to interact with dreams and guided imagery as a part of a life practice centered on embracing health and wholeness.”
— Matthew P. Mumber, M.D., Harbin Clinic Radiation Oncology Center, editor, Integrative Oncology: Principles and Practice.
“I know from my many years of research on dreams and from my clinical experience, that dreams are the most connective and creative parts of our minds. Dreams sometimes pick up hints about physical illness, and also emotional problems of which we are not aware in our waking lives; and dreams can help us be more in touch with ourselves. Dreams and Guided Imagery is an excellent and well-written book based on years of work with cancer patients sharing dreams in a group setting. It is full of vivid examples, as well as suggestions and instructions for the reader. I recommend it highly, not only for patients with cancer, but for anyone who wants to learn from dreams in a group setting.”
— Ernest Hartmann, M.D., fi rst Editor-in-Chief of the journal Dreaming, and author of twelve books, most recently,The Nature and Function of Dreaming, and Boundaries: A New Way to Look at the World
About the Author
Tallulah Lyons, M.Ed., is co-creator of the IASD Cancer Project. She is on the staff on two cancer wellness centers in Atlanta, GA, and is on the faculty of the Haden Institute’s Summer Dream Conference. She is the author of Dream Prayers: Dreamwork as a Spiritual Path.
Foreword writer Wendy Pannier is a past president of IASD and co-creator of the IASD Cancer Project. She is author of numerous articles about dreaming and frequently gives talks about her work with people facing crisis and disease.