Dream Journey // Traumreise

I have known Dream Journeys since my childhood where we used to listen to them on the CD player. In Germany we call them Traumreise. Often in English they are also referred to as guided imagery. However, I find the name Dream Journey much more mystical and appropriate for the journeys one undertakes.

Dream Journeys are a gentle, but powerful technique that focuses our imagination in an active way. It is a form of visualization or guided self-hypnosis. The journey can be as simple as a 5-second pause imagining an outcome of something or as complex as visualizing internal cell structures and actions. But today, I’d like to focus on the Dream Journey for relaxation, where you are guided by my voice into a calm setting you visualize inside your mind. Today we will venture into the forest.

Involving all senses

The Dream Journey involves all the senses. When we visualize a scene in front of us, we try to imagine the smell of the flowers around us, we feel the touch of the slight breeze, we hear the birds singing and the trees moving in the wind, we taste the freshness of the air on our lips and we see the forest in front of us – green and clear.

Dream Journeys are a form of guided meditations, which has the capability to deliver positive, healing and motivating messages to our subconsciousness. Through simple images, sensations, symbols and metaphors these messages are received in an altered-like state.

The benefits

» Even 10 minutes of guided imagery can reduce stress, blood pressure, cholesterol and forms of anxiety » When meditating our body heightens the short-term immune cell activity. So, it basically speeds up the healing of wounds » It lowers anxiety, pain and mental difficulties such as depression » If done regularly and in depth, it can lead to better understanding of emotions and increase our access to spirituality, intuition, creativity, abstract thinking and empathy » We can build self-awareness, self-confidence, compassion and understanding

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Your task

It is simple, you don’t need to do anything, but simply relax and listen to my voice as I guide you onto our forest walk. There is nothing you need to see a certain way, any way you experience the meditation, is right for you. Just relax into it.

Listen to this guided Dream Journey into the forest. After the journey, write down any thoughts and emotions in your journal. You can find some more guided Dream Journeys in the resources below. And don’t forget to add a short reflection in your Mindfulness Diary.

Resources: More dream journeys

» City of Hope » Ocean Escape » Spaceship to the moon » Magic Sleep Tent » The Unicorn Glade

If you can’t access the video above for the Dream Journey, here is the link: https://lunaticrafts.com/blog/new-post-2/

All Distance Learning Activities are the Intellectual Property of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Perth & Kinross Association. Distance Learning Activities must not be used, copied or shared without the written permission from the Association.