Dream A Little Dream With Me

Shaman teach that our reality is actually a dream world we create. For me however , 2014 started more like a bad dream.  My husband became ill, so our new year was spent in and out of medical clinics and hospitals.  Switching my priorities from writing to caring was done without a moment’s hesitation, but   eight weeks into the program I could see that  my bad dream had the tinge of a nightmare; it was time for me to step in and create a new dream. 

My first step was to make a list of the changes I wanted to see. Change is happening all around; it’s impossible to stop. It seems somewhat like a runaway horse; it cannot be stopped as easily as it can be made to change its direction. In this case that meant choosing what I wanted over what was happening. What had happened to my husband’s health was out of my hands. All I can do now is a bit of physical therapy along with making fresh soups and juices so that his body has the highest nutrition for healing.  The things we can work with are today things.  We agreed that the house needed to be sold. As much as we love living two blocks from the beach in our quiet Spanish barrio, my husband’s recent heart problem is compounded by a deteriorating hip socket. Residing in a house with the main living area on the second floor was no longer acceptable. We needed to simplify and downsize. 

     

Next, I needed to reassess my writing goals. My intention from last year was to write four books over the next couple of years. Yet I also have my blog posts and magazine articles. I completed two manuscripts last year, but realistically one book is a more attainable goal for this year.

Keeping a balanced mind, while striving to achieve, means making my personal daily practices a greater priority. That was going to be hard; my nature is to nurture. This is obvious by the number of spoiled pets, lush plants and friends that fill our yard at any given time.  However, relationships are about giving and we can only give what we have. For me to stay balanced and healthy I was going to need to make sure I set aside time to do the things that feed my spirit: meditation, yoga, and gardening. It is a bit like stocking your pantry before a hard storm.

Once a mental plan was clear, my mind just naturally started forming pictures. I remembered a house design I had seen with large red bougainvillea growing over a wall.  Then the fun part began. I started looking for pictures that I could tape or glue to a poster board. This would create a Vision Board. The images work to remind the mind of the new dream being created. The final touch that brings a dream into reality is writing positive affirmations that support the dream. In my case, “I eat healthy meals.” or “I practice yoga near the red bougainvillea of my new home.” These help keep the dream moving forward into our reality.  

Understand the process? What changes will you make?  

  

Seeing and Believing

As a naturopath and meta-physician, I tend to look at the world less conventionally than those who only follow the accepted sciences. For example a small baby’s eyes  do not often hold a direct gaze; they ‘float.’ The scientific explanation is that the bridge of the baby’s nose is still soft so the eye muscles are not tight.  My belief is there are fields of energy, unseen by us, that they are following.

Those who study subtle energy or metaphysics understand that there is a greater degree of reality invisible to the average human than is accepted knowledge. In the etheric, or unseen, there are colored electromagnetic fields that surround, encompass and spiral out from the body; these are most often referred to as auras and there are separate colors for the physical, the mental and emotional aspects of our being.  
 

Child training in industrial cultures generally retards the ability to see these fields. Instead infants are  taught to focus only on apparent tangibles. Parents begin encouraging their babies to draw their focus in and look at Mommy, see the toy, or baby, or other things. By the ages of 5-7 years, the message often given is that seeing outside the lines is unacceptable.  Confining beliefs solely around a tangible reality can become a threat to physical well-being; the physical can become corrupted or weakened by unexpected change.

One of my steps in helping clients heal from chronic conditions or enacting the Universal Law of Attraction, involves seeing beyond present circumstances. Our eyes pick up only light and image, our mind determines what that image (or reality) is. The physical plane and the etheric field are dance partners; one always follows the other. When the etheric partner leads, the dance moves smoothly toward the reality that you see in your mind. The dance is free form and choreographed by our beliefs. People from cultures whose realities balance the physical and spiritual know that everything in the physical plane is changeable within the mind of the believer. Just as in the story of The Chemical Marriage by Manly P. Hall, old realities must be destroyed before a new and pristine one can be created. It is only a matter of ‘seeing’ things differently.

Training the mind to become the quiet creator of new beliefs comes from meditation. Letting go of old thinking, then writing down or posting pictures of a new desired reality begins the process of mental change. Giving the mind permission to be open, and for the eyes to expand their perception to full peripheral vision, encourages the mind to expand to a greater picture. The life we desire to live is invariably outside the perceived lines.