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Living Dreams, Living Life

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Evelyn Duesbury's Living Dreams ~ Living Life is among the most user-friendly guides written to help us learn to better understand the meaning of our dreams. In reading the book, I am most impressed by Ms. Duesbury's way of communicating her knowledge; she speaks directly to us--average individuals--in a humble, yet deeply informed way. She is speaking directly, one-on-one and does not assume the posture of a lecturer or know-it-all.

Through years of vigorous and committed research, Ms. Duesbury has developed a method she calls the Personalized Method for Interpreting Dreams (PMID).
PMID suggests a six-step process for dreamwork:

!) What's Happening in Your Life?
2) What's on Your Mind?
3) What's the Connection?
4) What Did You Feel?
5) What should you do?
6) Who's in Your dream?

The method focuses primarily on our individualized, personal dreams... those which constitute the majority of our dreams.

Citing dozens of dreams, including her own, Ms. Duesbury demonstrates how working with this method has assisted many in gaining insight, healing and growth. Emphasis is placed on using this process with a current dream, preferably in light of a review of dreams recalled/recorded over several months, if not years.

The examples shared are offered in categories important in all of our lives, such as Dreams about Parents, Children, Grandparents, Psi dreams, Nightmares and more.

In the Appendices, Ms. Duesbury provides information about the research that went into developing the PMID process, the website where one can engage the PMID process online, suggested exercises that can be applied using PMID and overviews an historical perspective on the evolution of dream appreciation, acknowledging those who have contributed valuable dream interpretation models, e.g., Jung, Ullman, Gestalt, et. al.

This book is highly recommendable for anyone wishing to apply a well grounded and effective process that yields results.

Roberta Ossana, Publisher/Editor ~ Dream Network Journal
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I've always been a fan of dream dictionaries, but was never sure if the general meanings really applied to everyone. But the dream interpretation books I've read seemed like they required lots of effort to interpret my dreams the "right" way.

This book is different...surprisingly easy approach but still provides lots of in-depth instruction on how to learn your own dream language. I just finished it and am already having fun connecting symbols in my dreams with all kinds of people and things in my waking life. Some pretty amazing insights!