Hello, beautiful dreamers,
You are constantly dreaming reality. Dreaming is not restricted to the domains of the pillow. Reality is a dream you are creating. Sleep-dream takes place in a different dimension, where you use only your Astral Body and your disembodied consciousness. But Dreaming reality is an every day thing that we all do every minute. Most people are not aware that they are dreaming their situations because they believe that their circumstance is an objective, unchangeable, solid fact. Most people believe that reality is happening to them.
The shaman knows differently. You are happening to reality. You are at least co-creating, if not entirely creating your reality. You and God, or Universal Consciousness.
Well, not entirely. I forgot to mention the one thing that steals your capacity to dream reality.
So many of us are trapped in a reality we were born and conditioned to! This is the reality we inherited. It is made of the beliefs, attitudes and perceptions of our elders, family, culture and times. I call it the Domestication Trance. It is a reality dreamed by others, an illusion into which you have been brought up. Imagine it as a cage into which you were born. You are so used to its bars and limits that you are not aware of them. You believe you are walking around free, because you cannot see those limits created by others.
If you have not taken time to reflect on your beliefs, reactions and perceptions and to change the habits that trap you into habitual reactions, then chances are that YOU are not dreaming your reality to be what you want and need. Instead you are dreaming your reality to be what OTHERS taught you it had to be or could only be. You are trapped in others' limitations. Your Eyes have been Stolen. You are seeing reality with others' eyes.
This borrowed dream called "reality" is what stands between the dream of your Soul, your fullest potential, and you as you are living now. It is simply an illusion. The Hindu sages call it "Maya."
Here is a Healing image to awaken from that borrowed dream and become a free dreamer.
If you feel that you keep bumping into a wall that recreates the same relationships, situations or behavioral patterns over and over, sit down with one such pattern. Close your eyes and feel its emotional borders. What is the mood, feeling or attitude that permeates you when you connect to that situation or pattern?
Imagine that this mood is a dress you've been wearing, a hand-me-down dress that you want to discard because it doesn't suit you. Inhale slowly and deeply. As you exhale, step out of it and let it fall down to the floor. Do these slowly three times.
Now choose another mood or feeling.
Feel and see yourself with this new mood. See its color and texture, and how you feel in it. Associate this mood with the pattern or situation. Breathe fully and deeply three times, receiving the new dress in each inhalation and letting it become part of you in each exhalation.
How does the new "dress" change the way you see and react to this old situation?
Track the changes for a week on your Journal. As you use your new "dress" in the old situation, how does it change? How do others' reactions change in response to your new "dress"?
I invite you to post your discoveries here.
I love to know how this exercise worked for you.
I leave you with this beautiful meditation:
"The distance between you and your dream
is an illusion fabricated by your disbelief."
Maria Mar (c)2007
Light and Love,
Maria Mar
The Dream Alchemist
