BODY AND IMAGINATION: HEALING BODY IMAGES THROUGH DREAM TENDING This paper explores how paying attention to one’s dreams can provide important personal revelations to help heal the body and spirit. Despite the importance given to dreams in both the Book of Mormon and the early Church, paying attention to dreams is not widely practiced or encouraged in today’s Mormonism. This session explores potential reasons this might be the case, but more important, how paying attention to one’s dreams can provide personal revelations to help heal the body and spirit. As part of this session, the speaker will give a detailed analysis of a young woman’s dream about her relationship to her body. This dream, the dreamer reveals, has continued to guide her on her spiritual and physical journey through life even twelve years later.

BARBARA BISHOP