"Well, I can dream can't I?"
How often do we sketch a lovely dream for ourselves, toss it up to the heavens like a beautiful pearl only to shoot it down with thoughts such as these? We shatter it into a thousand pieces before it ever has a chance of materializing!
When we dare to dream, we often attach a negative thought form to buffer our disappointment just in case it does not come true:
"I just thought of an amazing possibility for my life and I really love the idea but it’s a long shot and I doubt it will ever happen."
With statements such as these, we are applying – though unintentionally- the formula:
Dream – Dream = “Same old! Same old!”
Eventually, we end up believing there is no use bothering to dream at all because experience has confirmed as sure as apples fall down and not up, dreams never do come true. We settle into our old shoes, not even entertaining the idea of trading them in for a new pair. We halt our imagination in its tracks anytime it tries to trek through our heart in search of passions and the dreaming process comes to a stand still.
So! Where is the tragedy in all of this? It is very simple yet monumental!
DREAMS ARE THE ELIXIR OF LIFE!!!
If we are not dreaming, we are missing a very essential key to happiness!
Dreams give us strength to anchor ourselves when the storms of human experience roll in. Dreams give us hope when chaos draws our attention away from the realm of infinite possibility. Dreams are the foundation of all creation. No thing has come into our reality that was not first conjured up in the human imagination. Dreams, fueled by the passions of our hearts, ignite the soul and push back density’s grip rendering it powerless!
If you are one who has abandoned the “Art of Dreaming” all together, perhaps I have inspired you to consider taking up the habit once again?
And I say ‘again’ because we were born dreamers – each and every one of us. In fact, it is such a natural tendency of the human species that I should not be surprised if one day geneticists will marvel at the revelation of ‘Dream Genes’ wandering around in their petri dishes! The only question remaining for us all then will be: “Do our Dream Genes lay dormant for lack of exercise or are they active and well?”
The good news is that Dream Genes can be reactivated even after long periods of dormancy simply by intention! Choose to create a new dream from scratch or resurrect an old, long forgotten one. Old dreams may be hard to find for they are often buried in our hearts several layers deep in heavy heaps of this or that. But it is worth the effort! And you may find yourself pleasantly surprised when it is at last unearthed and you hear yourself exclaiming: “My Gosh! Are you still there after all this time?” Carefully extract the dream and bring it to the surface of your desires. Invite your imagination to work away at it molding it into the most exquisite vision you can conjure and then toss that pearl up to the realm of possibility!
And if you find an old reflex thought “Well, I can dream can’t I?” springing to mind,
be sure to answer back:
“YES I CAN!!!”
Wishing You Infinite Blessings
and Beautiful Dreams,
Shelley Richardson
Copyright 2011
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