Have you forgotten how to dream?

The ONLY time we forget how to dream, is if we do not think our dreams can come true.

There is nothing that we can have in this life that did not start with a thought, a Dream. Our thoughts are energy, and are very powerful. Whatever you think about you create.

It is very important to Dream, to imagine what you want in your life. The sad thing is, many of you have forgotten HOW to dream. So many things have happened over the course of your life that you think have happened TO you. If you can see how you helped to create them, then you will see that you are very powerful indeed. You will realize that you have what it takes to allow yourself to dream differently.

If your Dreams have turned into Nightmares, the following steps can help turn your life around.

Forget everything that has happened up to this point
There is no sense re-hashing all that happened to get you to where you are. Acknowledge that you are where you are because in some way you created it. You got here based on decisions that you made, and actions that you did or did not take. Once you take 100% responsibility for being where you are, you can begin to look forward instead of back.
An affirmation of “I created where I am, I can create where I want to be” may help.

Stop saying you can’t change
This is your ego talking. Of course you can change. You are never too old, too sick, or too stuck. You may not be able to change people or things around you, but you can change YOU. “When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

Forget everything you have been taught
Often, our parents didn’t know how to consciously create their lives, they lived in a different dimension than we are living in now. In the past there was not the awareness that we have available to us now. They may have told us that dreaming was a bad thing, we had to “live in reality”. Things are different now, and “Reality” is whatever you want it to be. Living someone else’s “reality” can keep you very stuck.
School doesn’t teach this stuff either. Many of us learned the opposite in school. Go to school, get a job, have a family, be stuck in the cycle. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Stop making excuses
We could all come up with excuses why something won’t work. No matter what the situation, you can create an excuse for anything. If you cannot give up your excuses, you cannot allow yourself to Dream. If you are in the habit of making excuses, every time you start to dream, you will automatically, from habit, come up with an excuse why it won’t work. This will stop you before you even get started.

Stop blaming other people
Yes, it can be really hard to stay positive and look forward if you are living with someone who is very negative. BUT, you are responsible for where you are, and you and only you are responsible for who you let into your life. If you say you can’t get out of your situation, then you are making excuses. Take all of these steps together and use them to remove negative people from your life. Or remove your life from negative people. You are a powerful creator, if you can dream it, you can do it. Start imagining a life without them, instead of always thinking about your life with them.

Be willing to give up what you have
This can be the hardest one. Change is change. If you want things in your life to change, you have to change things in your life. If you are unwilling to give up your home, you cannot have a new home.
If you are unwilling to give up your relationship, you cannot have a new relationship. Sometimes you MUST give something up. Too often, you think “I worked so hard to get this, I can’t let it go now”. Unless you are 100% happy where you are, there will be something you have to give up to get what you want.
I guarantee you, that if you are stuck with trying to hang on to what you have, you will never be able to create new. All of your focus and energy will go to hanging on to what you have.
This does not always mean that you HAVE to give something up. However, you must be 100% WILLING to give it up. A closed fist cannot receive.

If you are so hell bent on hanging on to what you have, and are unwilling to let go, that is where your thoughts, and therefore your energy will go. You will continue to get even MORE of what you already have. In order to dream, you need to be able to look forward. To trust the universe will give you what you need. When your whole focus is on WHAT IS, you cannot possibly be dreaming about what COULD BE.

Stop focusing on the HOW of what will happen
You need to be able to see your dream, trust that it can/will manifest for your highest and best good, and then LET IT GO. Too often, you have a dream, and then you start to wonder “How can that happen? I’d have to win the lottery or something.” This thinking will get you nowhere. It is NOT up to you to know HOW it will happen. It is just up to you to Dream about it happening. To believe it CAN happen. You created what you have. You CAN create what you want.

Take some ACTION
This is the most important step. If you allow for the things already discussed this will be easy, you will feel inspired and your energy will flow in the direction you want to go. If you haven’t allowed yourself to do the above, it will feel down right impossible to do.
If you say “I can’t”, or “It’s not my fault”, or “I’m not giving that up” you are speaking from your ego, and there is no way to create a better situation from there.
If you say those things to yourself, you will never take any action. Why would you? After all, you have convinced yourself that ‘you can’t’.
Action doesn’t always need to be big action either. No matter where you are, spiritually, physically, emotionally, if you allow yourself to dream, where you want to be is always somewhere else. Taking action, simply means taking a step in the direction that you want to go. Even just reading this blog post over and over, and being willing to think differently can be a first step. Praying for help can be a first step. In the past I myself have prayed “help me be willing to change or see things in a new way”.
YOU WILL NOT GET FROM HERE TO THERE WITHOUT TAKING A STEP.

You cannot just meditate and affirm your way to a new life. It can help for sure, but it won’t magically create something for you if you won’t change anything or take a single step. There is not one successful person on the planet that got that way by ONLY meditating, dreaming or thinking. Every single one of them took some form of action to get them where they are.

With dreams it is important to realize that they happen over time. You are not going to just wake up one day and be living a different life if you have not allowed yourself to have a different thought first.