Where Do We REALLY Go When We Sleep? | My Home

Together, we explore a fascinating spiritual perspective on sleep, the soul, our spiritual home, and the connection between our physical and spiritual selves.

Dr. Adler shares her perspective on the silver cord, the energetic connection believed in some spiritual traditions to remain with us while we sleep, and how children may naturally sense or understand aspects of the unseen world that adults have learned to question.

We also explore how parents and grandparents can create space for children to talk about their dreams, intuitive experiences, spiritual awareness, and inner knowing—without immediately defining those experiences for them.

In Episode Three of the Nourishing the Soul Podcast Series, Teresa Shantz continues her conversation with Dr. Sandra Adler, author of Me and My Universe: A Spiritual Encyclopedia for Children, as they explore Book Three: My Home.

Together, they look at home from a spiritual perspective and explore how parents, grandparents, teachers, and caregivers can help children understand belonging, connection, their spiritual self, and their place within the larger universe

Rather than telling children what they should believe, this conversation encourages adults to become curious about what children already feel, sense, see, and know.

What happens when we ask a child questions—and then truly listen to the answers?

My Home offers another opportunity to create meaningful conversations with children while encouraging them to trust their own inner awareness.

✨ Because perhaps home isn’t only somewhere we live. It can also be something we carry within us.

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TNT Spiritworks (00:00)
Where is our true home? Welcome back to Nourishing the Soul, our special podcast series exploring me and my universe, a spiritual encyclopedia for children by Dr. Sandra Adler. So far, we've explored my body and the real me. Today we're taking the next step into episode three: My Home, where Dr. Sondra Adler invites us to expand the idea of home beyond the house we live in and explore our connection to the earth.

The universe and the spiritual world around us. And perhaps most importantly, how can we encourage children to explore these bigger questions without giving them the answers? Simply creating the space for them to wonder, share, and trust what they already know. Whether you're a parent, grandparent, teacher, or simply someone who loves children, this episode may give you a whole new perspective on the meaning of home. Let's dive into episode three, my home.

What makes someone, especially a child, feel safe? This is our third episode with Dr. Sandra Adler. Welcome, Sandra.

I'm (00:10.127)
I'm so happy to be here.

TNT Spiritworks (00:13.09)
Well, I'm happy because you're gonna share some of the third volume of my home. So I'd love for you to share that with us.

I'm (00:22.041)
Would you like me to read a couple l pages from the book?

TNT Spiritworks (00:25.93)
Absolutely.

I'm (00:27.626)
Okay, well home is my universe and don't think me odd. Some call it the cosmos, the all and God. But my physical home is right here where I am in my body that I try to keep out of a jam. My spiritual home is the all near and far.

And I can go anywhere without needing a car. Each night I go home, strange as it may seem, to my spiritual home. I call my dream. I live in two worlds at the same time. A soul with a body truly is fine.

TNT Spiritworks (01:29.484)
And so we are going to dive a bit into dreams and those two worlds. So I'd love for you to share some thoughts on that.

I'm (01:39.296)
Well, we live in two worlds at one time. Our physical world is the physical body, our spiritual world is our spirit or our soul part. And when we go to sleep at night, we go out into the universe or into our spiritual life, our spiritual home. And how we get there is through a silver curve.

Cord. And it's a strange concept, a silver cord, but it's in the Bible, and I know for sure that we have a silver cord because I actually saw one with my own physical eyes. I was listening to a lecturer, and I saw this silver column behind his head. And I was just like, my god, that's the silver cord.

So what happens to us when we go to sleep at night, that silver cord is like spiritual elastic. It's attached to the back of our head at where our pineal gland is. And we go out and it stretches, stretches, stretches, and we go out and we have all these experiences. And these experiences are our regrouping of what we learned about ourselves that day. And oftentimes they're symbolic.

Mostly symbolic and for instance a dog represents loyalty and so on and so forth. But some people have prophetic dreams, and prophetic dreams are dreams about the future, things that are going to happen, things that come true. So there's spiritual there's symbolic dreams and prophetic dreams. So we're out there having our dreams and then we come back into our body and wake up.

Sometimes you jerk when you wake up. And that's when you come in too fast. And so whoops. I lost my thought there. can can he cut all this out? Okay.

TNT Spiritworks (03:46.911)
No.

TNT Spiritworks (04:00.983)
Mm-hmm.

TNT Spiritworks (04:07.064)
So understanding that about the cord and about the dreams, you know, I'm really excited because these books not only showcase for, you know, for the children, but a lot of times these very simple spiritual truths even adults don't know. And so being able to bring those into this realm and especially these, you know, these this episodes, the series that we're doing, I think it will really help.

people feel secure and even hearing some of the things about like the cord. And I I want to really also dive a little bit more into the cord regarding death. Because, you know, we talked recently on one of the the other episodes about, you know, passing on and how it's just a part of what we're, you know, through with our purpose, moving into the next realm w as a soul. But sometime and that cord is something that we work with. So I'd love for you to share a bit about the cord in that sense.

I'm (05:04.423)
Thank you so much for helping me remember what I was going to say. so when we're out there with the spiritual elastic and we pop back into our body, so when we're done with what we've come to do, when we've completed our life purpose, what we do is we snap the silver cord. So there's no more spiritual energy going to the physical body. So the body gin just

starts to disintegrate and goes back to dust and the s soul goes back keeps out there stays out there in the universe and because we have free will the soul makes a new plan for what it's gonna do next.

TNT Spiritworks (05:53.677)
And so understanding these things as adults and and being able to relate it to children when they're telling stories to, you know, to us and listening to what they're saying is so important. And I want to share a little bit about, because we're talking about my home and feeling secure in that home. And I know that the first seven years is really a very pivotal time for all of us. And how do we, you know, what what do we experience those first seven years and how

Does that make us for the next of you know the rest of our life? And I have a little story where I I watched a little video of my grandson. He was down in actually in Tampa in your area at the beach. And my daughter filmed him walking on the sand and then he stopped. And he was, I could tell he was like, What where what am I walking on? And you could see his little wobbly body. And it was, it just gave me that feeling that you know, he just is exploring. He doesn't know how.

What is secure yet in his world? So I think it's so important, these books are so important, Sandra, to understand about especially my home, my home, my body and my my home, how do I work with it and the security that children can begin feeling with the secu with, you know, parents backing them.

I'm (07:09.067)
Exactly. And mostly people focus on the physical body is is the home for the soul. And these books are to help realize that we live in two worlds at one time and the spiritual life is is even more important because eventually everybody loses their body. Everybody. It's just everything passes on when it's done. But

The soul part never dies. So, what we learn while we're here in the body, and the service we provide to others while we're here in the body, that goes with us. That's called evolution of the soul. And so that is so important that we focus on both homes, the physical home and the spiritual home. and I want

TNT Spiritworks (08:05.016)
And that's what's so great. Yeah. And that's what's so great about these books is that they're focusing on all of that. Right. I like to always say D, all the above, to understand what is my home.

I'm (08:15.703)
And I wanted to share a key for parents, teachers, grandparents, because kids often have nightmares and they have nightmares because they think there's a boogeyman under the bed or in the closet, or they've had a bad experience or they've been punished, or something's bad's happened to them, and they think about that when they're in bed at night and they have a hard time going to sleep, and when they go to sleep they have nightmares and so the secret

That I have found for me for never having nightmares is to say loving positive things to myself when I go to bed at night. And one of the things I always say is, I love you. I love you. I love you. And it's so important for the child to s learn to love himself and to say, I love you, and I love you, mommy, I love you, Daddy, I love everybody, I love myself especially, and then to think.

Of all the great things they did that day, when they said hi to somebody or help somebody, and to think of positive things, because whatever they're thinking about when they go to sleep, that's the kind of dream they're gonna have. So if they wanna have a positive dream, they've gotta start thinking positive thoughts. So that's my key.

TNT Spiritworks (09:33.354)
Mmm, that is such a good one be and for us adults too, because I know the old phrase of don't go to bed mad. Right?

I'm (09:39.669)
Yeah. Definitely don't because you're gonna have a nightmare.

TNT Spiritworks (09:45.068)
Right. So clear the clear the slate and help those kids learn how to clear the slate early in their in their life so they can have those good dreams and, you know, have that rest that we all need so much.

TNT Spiritworks (09:59.18)
So that is the third book, My Home. It is book three of Me and My Universe, a Spiritual Encyclopedia for Children Exploring My Home. And if you're interested in getting that book or the first two or the next ones after that, check out the link below. You can get your books on Amazon.com. And also remember that love creates home, not walls. Children carry peace wherever they go when they feel secure.

And for the next episode, what happens when life feels out of balance? Wait to see.