Working With the Dreaming Body

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Summary: great stuff
Review: Dr. Mindell is one of most insightful, innovative, and interesting figures to come from the Jungian community. His understanding of what he calls the Dreaming Body and Process Work addresses, from a unified standpoint, all areas of human experience: dreams, physical symptoms, illnesses, relationship issues, perceptions of reality, the senses, life, death, existence, and you name it. It is difficult to describe Mindell's healing approach in conventional terms because his dreambody work is not therapeutic, as in corrective, but allows for the individuation process to happen freely and naturally. Mindell points to a development of awareness of perception through all channels of experience. Among many other interesting things, he says, "The central message of this book is that the spirit of your body, the dreambody, is a multi-channeled signaller which seeks your attention through your dreams, body symptoms and relationship problems. Moreover, the dreambody is influenced by the world around you and, paradoxically, your dreambody is also the body of the world. Healing now becomes a very comprehensive task, and the term itself can be substituted for integrating dreams, and integrating the projections and problems of the world around you." Anyone who has an interest in psychology, dreams, and body work can only benefit by delving into this, and the other books of Mindell.