DREAMING
terminology, it is that part of us that is more than the human mind and knows no limitations. Of course we will use our mind too – but not yet. To encourage the dream (some might
More than you thought possible
What might happen if you gave thinking a break and instead dreamed your way to a new life?
by Fionnuala Smyth
DREAMING YOUR FUTURE Valuable as checklists and plans are, they can limit our options if we rely only on them. They come from the mind which can only offer what it knows. But what if we bypass the limits of the mind and dream? Without censorship? Of all we could be? All we could do? Who or what is having the dream? Some call it our soul, our spirit, our higher self or higher mind. Whatever the
call it inspiration or guidance) we can use mantras or meditations to keep our minds busy and stop them interrupting the dreaming state. Although we might be looking for the dream, we can also be totally unconscious of it until it presents itself to us. Sometimes the dream is so important for us that it will present and re-present until we recognise it. For example, I am unhappy at work.
Instead of consulting employment websites and limiting myself to ‘something in my field’, I sit in meditation, opening beyond my mind to greater possibilities. I see myself in front of a class of young children teaching English and I’m excited. Alternatively, happy in my job I help out at my child’s school and love the experience. I feel I want to teach English to children. I look back and see a thread of occasions when I’ve been able to explain things to people and present information and how much I’ve enjoyed those times. I recall how as a child I was always the teacher when we played ‘schools’ (and not necessarily just because I was the bossy one!). The dream was always there but in
neither case had I connected with it. It is something I would never have thought of but now I’m compelled to explore further. It has been waiting for me to see and claim it.
THE FIELD OF DREAMS How is this so? ‘May the road rise to meet you’ is a
well-known Irish blessing and a lovely image for weary walkers. It also has a deeper meaning. For the Celtic Irish ‘The Dreamtime’ is the eternal source of all creation from where everything in our material world first originates from its energetic blueprint and to where everything in our world returns. It is a place of infinite possibility, of dreams waiting to be dreamed, of paths waiting to be taken – if we will but dream. This is where we go when we
open to beyond our minds. Existing energetically, these dreams are always seeking us. They rise up before us and reach out for us. To connect with them is to give ourselves a great gift.
THE MIND’S ROLE What then of the mind? The role of the mind is to support the realisation of the dream. However, for those of us prone to self-doubt or self-criticism, if we allow our minds to seize the dream and list all possible pitfalls or deficits on our part or go into overdrive, seeking to control the outcome with endless attention to detail, we will kill off our dreams. They cannot survive in that environment. That is why we need to claim our
dreams totally (without censorship, remember) before we let our minds anywhere near them. We need to draw them into the fabric of our being. Then
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