Ocean Meditation: Exploring Dreams, Oracle cards and Heartful Subconscious
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Exploring the Depths of Awareness
In this final episode of our heartfulness series, we’re diving below the surface of mindfulness into the rich, uncharted waters of the subconscious. While mindfulness often focuses on our conscious, waking mind, heartfulness invites us to explore the deeper layers of our being — the parts of us that dwell in dreams, intuition, and quiet knowing.
💡 What We Discuss in This Episode:
How mindfulness works with the thinking mind, while heartfulness taps into the subconscious.
Why Albert Einstein’s wisdom—“You cannot solve a problem with the same mind that created it”—is a call to explore beyond conscious thought.
The subconscious as a vast glacier: what lies beneath the surface is so much more expansive than what we can see.
Practical ways to work with dreams to access your subconscious and deepen your self-awareness:
Setting a dream intention before sleep.
Dream work practices like journaling, drawing, or asemic writing.
Dream queries: engaging with symbols or characters from your dreams to uncover their teachings.
Dream associations: noticing and connecting elements of your dreams to waking life.
Oracle collage: using cards or imagery to weave meaning and insights from your subconscious.
🎧 What You’ll Experience:
A dreamy, ocean-inspired soundscape featuring dawn on the east side of Maui near the dormant volcano Haleakala as recorded by nature field recordist Nick McMahan.
A grounding ocean-based meditation to “sink beneath the iceberg,” expanding your awareness into the depths of your subconscious.
Tips for welcoming daydreams and staying awake to the dreams that emerge in your meditation practice.
Slip on your headphones, drift into the dreamy soundscape, and let’s explore the heartful depths together. 🌟
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Thank you to Nick McMahan for today’s episode including narration, nature field recordings, video and sound design, and editing; and thank you to Brianna Nielsen for production and editing support. Find them at:
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