Daily Message 2.16.12

Motivational Quote of the Day

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."

— Wayne Dyer: is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer

Abraham-Hicks Publications

You're really not wanting to limit beliefs because belief is just perspective, and the more beliefs or the more perspectives or the more attitudes, the bigger the vibrational kitchen from which you can make your pie. Just get so good at directing your Energy that the belief doesn't dominate.
--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, September 13th, 1997 # 351

Our Love,
Jerry and Esther

From Astrology.com

Daily Feng Shui Tip

The birthstone most associated with the month of February is the mystical purple amethyst. According to Feng Shui, the amethyst is always associated with heightened intuition. It is also associated with the brain, wealth, peace, protection and spirituality. In fact, the Chinese believe that wearing amethyst during a big night out can help you stay sober, or at least avoid a hangover. This gem is used throughout Asia to fight an array of addictions, including drinking, smoking and illegal substances. Putting it under the pillow is said stop bad dreams. Carrying a piece of amethyst is also believed to help heighten your spiritual awareness while also strengthening your invocations by putting extra power behind your prayers. Feng Shui says you should tie a piece of amethyst to the bed in order to ensure that your partner remains forever faithful. Simply take nine or eighteen inches or red ribbon, string or yarn and tie it around the base of the crystal. Then tie it to the foot o f the bed on the side your loved one sleeps on. Looks like the mystical and magical amethyst has quite a lot to offer when it comes to tying one on!

Daily Dream Decoder

Animals

Animals in dreams can take on almost any conceivable character or symbolic role. From some of the earliest recorded human dreams, animals have revealed much about the meaning of a particular dream. This includes dreams of personal insight or circumstances, and also dreams of revelatory content. Animals can befriend us, talk with us, chase us, eat us, or just be there in the dream to either comfort or bother us.

Animals often appear in dreams for very personal reasons, and have to do with your own experiences with them.

How you experience an animal in both waking and sleeping is central to its meaning. This includes both how the animal actually behaves in your dream, and your waking stereotypical attitude about the animal. This is important because the two may be juxtaposed.

Consider a dog. Dogs are often considered to be loyal and friendly. However, many people have a deeply rooted fear of dog s. Dogs also have stereotypes that are opposites (for example, man's best friend versus call off the dogs). People with a deeply held fear of dogs may experience a dog dream that validates the fear one night and contradicts it another time.

What the animal is doing is also central to how the dream is interpreted. Are you being chased by animals? Eaten by animals? Talking with animals?

Farm animals are not too unusual in dreams. However, they seem to be less common than they were in more agricultural times. Grazing farm animals generally reflect a sense of being provided for adequately. In early dream history, grazing animals were taken as a sign that prosperity and calm were coming to, or prevalent in, a land.

Killing animals is a more unusual dream theme that divides into two general areas: killing by necessity, and killing arbitrarily. Killing out of necessity could be a hunter-provider archetype dream or a survival dream. These dreams often reflect a sense of responsibility for the other characters in the dream or of a need to prove oneself. Dreams of killing animals arbitrarily may reflect either wish-fulfillment, anger projection, or frustration with a social taboo.

Wish-fulfillment and anger projection have much to do with how you perceive the animal you are killing.

Does this animal have any representation for you among persons in general or do you characterize a specific person as an animal when speaking of them?

The social taboo of arbitrarily wounding or killing animals has become a criterion for evaluating antisocial behavior in people. Consequently, it is not surprising that in dreams this would be a sign of taboo frustration. Again, what the animal represents may be of significance to you.

Starving animals hold significance in agricultural societies and Native American spirituality. These animals often reflect a concern or foreboding about the adequacy of needs being met the future. In the past, starving animals were a reflection or anticipation of famine periods. Starving animals may also be metaphors for relationship transactions in which you participate.

Common animals' stereotypical perceptions that may appear in dreams as metaphors for yourself or others (listed as good-bad): Cat: quiet, independent-aloof, disengaged
Cow: provider, gentle-easily intimidated
Dog: loyal, friendly-consumptive, aggressive
Horse: hardworking, useful-strong-willed, independent
Mouse: quiet; diminutive-unable to assert power
Ox: hardworking-dumb
Pig: clean, smart-gluttonous, dirty
Rabbit: fast, gentle, fertile-timid

See bear, birds, cats, dogs, elephant, fish, fox, oxen, rats, wolf

Daily Wish

Swallow herring at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve while making a wish.
(Scandinavia)

Swallow a grape at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve while making a wish.

Eat a grape for each chime of the clock at midnight on New Year's Eve, while making the same silent wish 12 times.
(Portugal and Spain)