Life is so strange. I had a bizarre dream and I was so perplexed why I would see what I saw, because I had not thought about any such thing recently. I was sharing the dream with my mother and she started laughing loudly. “What’s so funny?” I asked, a little irritated and a little curious.

“This is exactly what I was thinking about all day, yesterday!” 

Ooooooh dear 😄 This isn’t the first time it has happened though. 

Did you know that when your ‘basket’ is relatively clear, you ‘process’ things for the ones you love, and for the collective? When your mind is not crowded with things, you will often dream about the things your cook was thinking of, when he made your food. You’ll dream about the things the person who slept on your bed before you was thinking of, if you’e in a hotel. 

It is so interesting, and also so important, to be ‘intimate with your mind’, as Jacqueline puts it, so that you are able to distinguish between what are your own thoughts, and what are not. You have to process them in either case, but it makes life easier to know.

UPDATE: Actually you know what, it works vice versa too. I was speaking with a student and I realise. Every time I am at a meditation retreat, several people who are close to me energetically undergo a lot of powerful cleansing as well. Happens every time! Now I’ve made it a habit to warn people before I go hahaha, but looks like I have to widen that circle. More people than I imagined, get the benefit! Like Jacqueline says, you never progress for yourself, you always progress for the collective.