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According to Ghandi, happiness occurs when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in perfect harmony.  Using our dreams to gain inspiration and clarify; is one way to integrate the past with the present.  A long period of infancy, childhood, and youth must precede intellectual, moral, and physical maturity. To mature intellectually and spiritually, we must learn to reframe the realities we experienced in youth to heal.

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According to Carl Jung, in Psychology of the Unconscious,  the state of infantile thinking in the child's psychic life, as well as in dreams, is nothing but a re-echo of the prehistoric and ancient.   We each begin our career as a human at precisely the same point at which a caveman starts. Our dreams unlock the story of mankind.

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Healing childhood painful events, through the Toltec healing art of Recapitulation Breath Work can help us integrate the painful events of our lives with the reality of the present.  You can read more about Recapitulation Breath Work in Group Journal 21. 

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Here is a book by Carl Jung on childhood re-imagined:

http://www.developmentalpsychologyarena.com/books/Childhood-Re-imagined-isbn9780415384964