embrace

In the Language of Mind, an embrace is the act of extending love, acceptance, and reunion toward an aspect of yourself. Look at its form and function: to embrace is to draw something in close and hold it against you, arms wrapping it back into your own body. And since every person in a dream is a part of your own consciousness, to embrace them is to take a quality you had held at a distance and pull it back into yourself — to accept it, claim it, make it whole with you again. So when an embrace fills your dream, your subconscious is showing you a part of you that is being welcomed home rather than disowned. Examine where in your waking life you are finally making peace with some piece of who you are. Notice who you held: embracing a stranger means accepting an unfamiliar quality you didn't know was yours, while embracing someone you'd been at odds with means an inner reconciliation, two ways of being that were warring are becoming one. That is one symbol, read clean — but the figure you held, the room you stood in, the warmth or hesitation you felt are all still speaking. Your subconscious talks to you every night in this exact language; CHITTA is simply where you learn to read the rest of the sentence. Go within, or go without.