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| Posted on : 04 Apr, 2007 | Total Views : 304 |
If you have dream go for it !!!
Copyright 2006 Suzanne Falter-Barns
If you've got a dream you're intent on pursuing, chances are you're
going to bog down at some point. That's just the way dreams are. In fact,
there's a little known rule about this called the Second Rule of
Thermodynamics, which states that sooner or later everything returns to
chaos.
In other words, expect your dream to come crashing down around your
ears periodically.
Yet, no need to despair; such meltdowns are actually good for your
dream, because they force you to stop and rethink your approach if you want
to continue. That's the only way you can find the footing to continue,
and in that process, you're forced to learn and grow. This is when I
always pull out my trusty guided visualizations.
Nothing, but nothing, can turn your mind around quite as effectively as
a good guided visualization. It can create hope where there was none,
clarity in a space of confusion, and immeasurable inspiration. If you
subscribe to the same notion that I do ? that all of our ideas and
instincts around our dream are guided ? then this is where you'll find the
mother lode of such information. A good guided visualization will connect
you with deep inner truths that most of us simply can't tap into
consciously.
So basically, you, too, can be a Ghandi or a Nelson Mandela or a Thich
Nacht Hahn ? if you dig deep enough and surrender fully enough. (Those
enlightened souls have taught us that such round-the-clock access to
the spiritual goods requires one heck of a lot of meditation, not to
mention a saintly obfuscation of the ego.) In the meanwhile, the next best
thing is to turn on the guided visualizations.
By guided visualization, I mean a recording of someone leading you
through a meditation. First they relax you; then they help you imagine
yourself in a particular place, or having a certain experience. A great
guided visualization will lead you into situations where anything can
happen and anyone can show up. You simply sit back and observe as helpers
show up, insights are gained, and instructions are received.
Sometimes the path you see is a familiar one you've imagined often with
your conscious mind, and the meditation serves as a wonderful
confirmation of your plan. Yet, other times it can be strange and dark, making
no sense whatsoever. My own students have come to me with alarm when
they saw a picture of chaos, or violence and degradation. And yet, in
talking it over later, they usually recognize a deeper meaning to the
picture. Over time, if they repeat the process, they are often left with a
greater insight than they anticipated.
For instance, Rosemary was a frustrated writer who hated her daytime
job, and was given to fits of gallows humor about it. When she first did
my Discover Your Soul Purpose meditation, she uncovered a chaotic back
alley, full of lurking, menacing figures. She did the meditation
several more times and the situation only marginally improved. Yet, what
Rosemary took away from the experience was that her life was out of
balance, and filled with dark, negative energy. She quit her job, attended to
her failing health, and re-approached the meditation some months later.
Now the scene was remarkably different, a sunny courtyard in which she
could see herself as a writer for the first time.
In fact, Rosemary had not ?done the meditation wrong', as she'd been
quick to assume. ("I must be the only person who didn't do this thing
right!") Instead, her soul was giving her a direct signal that she was
tangled up in life circumstances that were obscuring her dream. The
meditation, for all of its supposed lack of clarity, had really been clear as
a bell.
The only real way to interpret the images we get in these
visualizations is to check in with our gut. There may be age-old gypsy wisdom that
water means good luck, or that a duck is an omen of impending death ?
but I say that's all poppycock. The only person who knows what your
visualization means is you; your gut is the only thing that should ever
guide your interpretation. What is it telling you about what you saw --
that you need balance, like the confused Rosemary? Or that you need
courage? Could it be that you simply don't want to admit that what you saw is
actually true?
Often we get images of ourselves leading such a life of power and
abundance that we can barely stand it. It brings tears to our eyes as we
acknowledge that we really can do that thing we sorely wish to begin. In
that instant, we see how small and constrained we've allowed ourselves
to become; yet, we also see how much impact we could have, if only we
could choose the right path.
Above all, guided visualizations give us permission to dream. They
allow us to see ourselves graphically living a different life, feeling the
feelings, smelling the smells, and owning the power. We see a higher,
truer aspect of ourselves, and in that instant, understand how
unstoppable we really can be.
This is the biggest reason I rely on guided visualizations in my work ?
because they take you beyond the sugary platitudes about ?going for it'
and ?reaching for the stars'. Instead, they deliver you smack into your
dream for a moment, so you can see the impact and importance of what
you're here to do.
Once you really know the true rightness of what that feels like, down
deep in your gut, nothing can keep from making that vision a reality.
Even if the images you see are more fleeting or obscure, they will leave
you brushed with truth. This is the wisdom that lurks in our bones;
wisdom we can access simply by taking the time to turn on a visualization.
Sanjay Tiwari
www.SuperShaadi.com - Working for your better half.
New Delhi, India
