Academic Convenience 7A - Loosening the Roots

The writer of academic convenience 7A commented on the potentially troublesome nature of secrets.To be more precise, she suggested that keeping pain hidden can perpetuate the feeling.She advocated some analysis of the problem (trimming thorns and loosening roots), and then suggested exposing troubles to openness, to light, air, sun, rain, and dew.The openness can provide a new perspective on pain or wounds, and can lessen feelings of isolation.

Convenience 7A

Another method of replacing the pain is trimming the thorns on each side of the wound, loosening the roots.

A few days in the sun will help

Do not neglect the direction action of the light, air, rain, and dew.

 

Academic Convenience 1 - The First Work

The text reflects an academic mind and practice.It speaks of composition, narrative, editing (sharpen well), and research (preparing the ground).It is also a process for dream work. It is best, for many people, to prepare for the work, and to consider their dream histories before beginning.

Academic Convenience 1 - First Work

Compose an ordinary narrative and sharpen well.

Preparing the ground is necessary.

 

Academic Convenience 12 - Using Others as Examples

Convenience 12 hints at the importance of inspirational examples in dream work.Sometimes, if we cannot find a dream or enough dream energy on our own, using someone else as an example or model can be just the impetus that we need to find our own motivation and inspiration.This does not mean generating an exact copy.It does mean gathering inspiration and ideas and carrying those energies into acts of creating. 

Convenience 12

Lay the pattern on the space

and trace

Academic Convenience 16 - Embodiment

Convenience 16 emphasizes the idea that it's not enough to embrace change mentally or intellectually.The writer encourages change through the eyes and ears, and suggests that this physical embracing of change can lead to change becoming embodied.The visual and auditory embrace helps create change as memory, and, therefore, as something more likely to become permanent. 

Convenience 16

Embodiment of Thought

This writer feels that appealing

to auditory and visual memory is a must

these illustrate meaning

 

Academic Convenience 5 - Stretch the body and mind

Convenience 5 speaks to the holistic and complex nature of each person. The condition of the mind and body can affect how easily the heart softens and accepts change.I personally love this convenience for its emphasis on the whole person.I was taught that it also stresses the idea that there are multiple points of introduction for change, including the body, mind, and spirit.

Convenience 5

Stretch the body and mind.

This allows to heart to open to receive the change more easily.

 

Academic Convenience 35 - Open Doors and Community

This convenience invites the traveler, seeker, practitioner, and/or wanderer into something new.It encourages noticing the open doorway that might lead to adventure and a sense of community among like-minded souls.

Convenience 35

From time unknown

open doorways invite the wanderer

into Community

Academic Convenience 23 - Re-form and Recompose

This convenience highlights the importance of reshaping and/or reframing some bad or inadequate experiences.I was taught that this convenience does not mean that all experiences are accepted without question or without action.Reshaping an experience might mean using it as an impetus toward change. It might also mean examining the experience to discover its lessons.The lesson might be change, or it may be acceptance. It might be both.Use discernment.The effects may ripple further than we would ever imagine.

Convenience 23

Re-form and recompose the objectionable

The stakes extend beyond a considerable distance.

 

Academic Convenience 25 One Aim is Best

Convenience 25

This version of this Convenience encourages focus.Because it is a Convenience, the unwritten subtext is obvious: having focus will allow healing to be accomplished much more easily. 

Convenience 25

Many have about sixteen aims

One is best

Academic Convenience 48 - Safe to Share

Convenience 48

This Convenience states that it is safe to share our dreams.Implicit in this Convenience, because it is a Convenience, is the idea that all dreams are not too expensive and are not too valuable; there are plenty of dreams to go around.Also implicit is the suggestion that sharing dreams may be helpful because other people may be able to help a person realize a dream. 

Convenience 48

One great trouble is the thinking that DREAMS are too expensive and valuable to be shared

It is safe to share

 

Academic Convenience 9 - Desire is Free

This Convenience suggests that desire [to change] is a necessary component for actuating change.The writer also reminds us that desire is free.I, and other Convenience scholars, believe that the image of the woman was included to illustrate freedom and simplicity.The woman is outside, in nature, and her countenance appears peaceful. Feeding her chicks is a simple task.Some scholars have dissented, saying that feeding chicks can be an onerous daily task, and that her expression is less peaceful than resigned.Make your own assessment. 

Convenience 9

Another good device is free: desire

Academic Convenience 22 Movable Gate

Convenience 22

This convenience writer speaks to the differences among practitioners and clients, highlighting the idea that just one way will not be appropriate for all.She also emphasizes the important of a curiosity that might lead an individual to investigate options.The writer suggests that a gate, perhaps as a representative for all openings, is movable.She encourages the reader to not assume that the openings are fixed, but rather to discover other potential gateways to a destination.

Academic Convenience 19 - Take but Little Luggage

This convenience advises the client to leave behind emotional and mental baggage, and asks the client to remember that the baggage must be identified.As much as many of us might wish to magically lose our [mental and emotional] baggage, that magic rarely appears, and a practitioner can find it difficult to effect change if the client is too invested in the past.The practitioner can often help the client drop the baggage, but the client must become willing to abandon the unneeded luggage.

Convenience 19

Take care to hold but little baggage

Remember that baggage must be identified

Some people save themselves trouble by dropping baggage in the "left-luggage" station

Academic Convenience 14 - Herb of Grace

The writer of this version of Convenience 14 was clearly familiar with Harry Houdini's publication, The Conjurers' Monthly Magazine.As many of you may already recognize, this writer has used phrases from the book review page of the September, 1906, Volume I.The fact that the writer has used a 1906 source for part of the writing suggests that this version was composed near the start of the 20th century.This writer also clearly favors the herb of grace over any hints of magic. Herb of grace refers to rue, a common garden herb that is said to protect against witches.A little bit of research reveals more of Houdini's commentary and his claims about the origins of the phrase hocus pocus (commentary found in the same volume referenced above):So, here again, we have a clever Conveniences writer who intertwines and juxtaposes meaning: hocus pocus, grace, protection against witches, rue, and (by inference) consecration.This writer also uses the more formal format of a brief essay which is written on a heavier linen paper and is decorated with a border.