A Wealthy Donor Named Andra

Everybody has money issues. If we don’t have enough, we want more; if we have a lot we have issues about what to do with it. What do money issues look like from the perspectives of other parts of ourselves? What if we approached our money issues more like they do? What difference might it make?

What are three fundamental life issues that you are dealing with now in your life?

Increasing income

Building my work

Staying healthy

Tell me a dream you remember. It can be an old one, a repetitive dream, a nightmare, or one that you’re sure you understand.

I am on a plane. A man starts talking to me; I am having trouble hearing him because of all the background noise. I walk over and crouch by his seat. He says his name is Andra _____ (I didn’t catch the last name). I tell him that I have a sister named Andra and that I’ve never met a man with that name before. He is apparently accompanying someone named Karla, which makes me think of my long-term client by that name. As I am waking up, we are talking about money, which he seems to have plenty of. I tell him that I need 5K a month. He says that he can supply me with that, no problem.

Why do you think that you had this dream?

Dunno. I fly a lot. I consciously work at experiencing my life as one of great abundance, and it is. My life is full of extraordinary riches, yet like for most people, I am also somewhat aware of the wolf at the door. Recently we have had unexpected expensesdd. I need to make more money and am searching for ways. How to productively problem solve and not simply sink into unproductive worry is a yoga. I am now on speaking terms in a dream with a man named Andra, which is ironic, since I have a post card relationship with an actual sister of the same name.

If it were playing at a theater, what name would be on the marquee?

A Wealthy Donor Named Andra

These are the characters in the dream…

If one character had something especially important to tell you, what would it be?

Andra

Now remember how as a child you liked to pretend you were a teacher or a doctor? It’s easy and fun for you to imagine that you are this or that character in your dream and answer some questions I ask, saying the first thing that comes to your mind. If you wait too long to answer, that’s not the character answering – that’s YOU trying to figure out the right thing to say!

Anocha, would you please tell me about yourself and what you are doing?

I am a passenger on this plane, like you. I am doing a favor for a friend, Karla, and accompanying her on this plane ride.

What do you like most about yourself? What are your strengths?

I don’t have any worries, not because I’m rich, but because I live in a world of abundance.

What do you dislike most about yourself? Do you have weaknesses? What are they?

Andra, you are in this person’s life experience, correct? They created you, right?_____ (Character), what aspect of this person do you represent or most closely personify?

A part of the dreamer that lives in a world of abundance. He sees his sister Anocha as doing so. Sure, she struggles financially, but she has what she needs to support herself, help support five grand daughters, and a bunch of animals.

Andra, if you could be anywhere you wanted to be and take any form you desired, would you change? If so, how?

No.

(Continue, answering as the transformed object, if it chose to change.)

Andra, how would you score yourself 0-10, in confidence, compassion, wisdom, acceptance, peace of mind, and witnessing? Why?

Confidence: 10

Compassion: 8

Wisdom: 8

Acceptance: 10

Inner Peace: 10

Witnessing: 8

Andra, if you scored tens in all six of these qualities, would you be different? If so, how?

I don’t think so.

How would the life of the person who created you be different if he naturally scored high in all six of these qualities all the time?

He would live out of a similar context of abundance.

If you could live the life of the person who created you for him, how would you live it differently?

I would ask more people directly for what I want.

What life issues would you focus on if you were in charge of his life?

Just the above.

In what life situations would it be most beneficial for this person to imagine that they are you and act as you would?

Any time he desires more abundance.

Why do you think that you are in this person’s life?

To demonstrate that there is no shortage of what he wants; he just needs to get about the business of asking for it.

How is this person most likely to ignore what you are saying to them?

Fear of what other people will think.

What would you recommend that they do about that?

Not care.

I think this person had this dream because

He would like to feel less pressured financially.

I think this dream event happened or (some character) was in the dream because…

You met me on a plane because a plane is a place where you meet people that are out of your normal network and that can open new possibilities. Karla is a reference to the money you make already as a psychotherapist. I am connected to that field. Work on your connections to it to make more. You were talking to Claudia last night about the leak in the roof. She mentioned that she has a friend named Andreas who could help. and that he was friends with a roofer.

So mister, you seem to be a very wealthy part of myself. What’s the deal?

We dream characters don’t have any financial problems.

Yes, but you also don’t have any real money. Are you giving me false assurances?

In my world there is no absence of anything. I don’t see why my answer would have been different if you had said you needed 150K a month.

So, how do I generate 5K a month?

First, you have to believe that it is possible and realistic. You have to then take steps to get it. Asking for it in a dream is a first step.

What have you heard yourself say?

This dream is problem solving around increasing my income. It says that first I have to see my life and world as abundant and filled with possibilities to experience that abundance. Then I need to make known my needs so that I can connect with others that can help me. It is unrealistic to think that people are just going to give me money; I need to earn it, but I have to make my needs known, particularly in the areas where I have something to offer, in my areas of expertise.

Feb 15, 2010