Q: I've been having a lot of bad dreams at night. When I wake up, I'm really frightened, and it can take hours to get myself back into balance and to sleep again. Can you suggest anything? A: Your dreams could be all sorts of things: balancing past actions, working through unconscious or subconscious fears or blocks, etc., particularly when the Traveler Consciousness is working with you. Whatever they are, don't give them a lot of power. If you wake up after a bad dream, just go to work with yourself. Chant your tone or the HU or the Ani-Hu. Surround yourself with the Light. Ask for the Traveler to help you release the dream experience. Keep some water by your bed and drink a little of it to help break the intensity of the dream experience and to help you come back into the body. There is also a tone of "E" that you can chant which will help to bring you back into the physical focus. You just say, "eeeeeeeeee" - a long, drawn out sound. You start the sound low, and imagine it down around your feet. Then you take it up as high as you can, and imagine it up at the top of the head. Then drop it back down as low as you can, back down to the feet. That will help to bring you back solidly into the physical level in a balanced way. Exercise can also break the unbalanced feeling from "bad dreams," so you might do whatever sort of exercise works for you. Doing a few sit-ups, dancing to a little music, or walking around are a few possibilities. Just do something to get the body energy moving and to help shift your focus.

Come into the process of understanding and maintain your calm by consciously, directly holding, not letting flights of fancy take you where they will. Come back to this moment, continually, and you'll find that tensions disappear, distractions disappear, and you'll start coming into the calmness of right now.

As soon as you realize that there is an answer to every problem, it becomes easier to find the answer. Sometimes the answer is to do nothing, to hold steady, to make the decision not to move. A lot of times people get caught up in the need for action. They say, "I have to do something about this!" If asked why, they might say, "Because I just have to!" And that's not necessarily a good answer. You might ask, "What if you do this?" They say, "That won't work." "Okay, what if you do this?" They say, "That won't work either." So you say, "What if you just hold still?" Maybe they're a little more receptive to that idea now. So they hold still, and that stillness allows the solution to come into their mind. They see their direction and are on their way. Then they say, "Thank God I didn't do anything rash. It's a good thing I didn't make up my mind impetuously."

The best approach is simply to live in the now, do the best you can with present abilities and talents and let your actions speak for themselves. That takes understanding. That takes awareness. It also takes love and respect for self. With it comes freedom, a sense of self-worth and an inner security and serenity that is worth everything.