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DREAM ISSUE: This dream will enable you to better understand someone else's anxiety difficulties. This understanding should help you to help them change a behavior, or, if this seems impossible, to help you to accept that behavior as part of who they are. The behavior chosen should be one that has been a long standing (whether conscious or unconscious) barrier to intimacy between you and this other person.
This issue, in it's broadest sense, is one with which you are intimately familiar. You probably even have a routine manner of dealing with it, but given your dream's renewed interest in the issue, you are probably in a much different place in your life and should be able to find an even more adaptive solution. The dream we are discussing is quite functional ... that is to say that it will be a great aid to you in working on the above mentioned issue. Here is a suggestion for how to start focusing on this issue:
SUGGESTED EXERCISE: Was the dream setting familiar or unfamiliar? Associate to this keeping in mind that familiar settings may reflect periods of stability in our life while unfamiliar settings may reflect periods of change (both positive and negative). Is the dream problem at hand familiar or unfamiliar?
Working through the above exercise (which will involve experiencing a wide range of associations) should lead to the recognition that you have much to feel proud of these days. Enjoy this healthy sense of self esteem. Work hard to integrate both the positive AND the negative thoughts you experience into adaptive insight.
You have been working to solve the problem at hand with thought and feeling. You have applied each almost equivalently. While this ability adorns your overall personality (it stresses your individuality when relating with others) it is usually better to accent the mind in the strategy for this type of problem. Use feelings only if you are not successful for some time.
The ease with which intellectual energy should be available to you for work on this dream issue my surprise you! Maybe you should start a little notebook for yourself as a place to keep your ideas about this issue as they come to you. This might be a significant help.