Have you given up on a dream?
Most of us have some dream or other that we decided not to pursue. Did you give up on a dream?
Were you talked out of it? Maybe you yourself provided the discouragement.
There are so many reasons to give up. The education was too expensive, you’re sure you weren’t smart enough, your family were critical, your society was judgmental, the outlook for that course of action was looking grim at the time.
Maybe you were too tired after the children grew up, or your job took over your life, or you started caring for a relative. Now when you look back, you feel silly. Really? Feel silly? Says who?
Very often, dreams are abandoned as just too far a reach. So when you feel that longing for …something… you seek a bigger house, a better job, a friendlier neighborhood with more amiable people.
This sort of intention can disappoint you or even backfire. And why, when it’s so straightforward? Easy. Because it is not what you really want.
The big dreams can seem like just too much, especially if you are hoping to figure them out from your intellect. Often there is no ticket to sure success or maybe the whole notion seems foolhardy. If you yearn for a hiking tour with your bad knee, or to patent your brilliant device with a complete lack of engineering skill, your first inclination may be to drop it.
When you drop into the heart and experience the love and longing from there, you will know the dream as worthwhile, and strangely, the worth has little to do with the outcome and whether you succeed according to any set of standards.
There is something inherent in these deep longings; the things you really, really want; the dreams that scare you; something that gives them their dream quality, makes you sigh and fear facing them squarely. Love and creativity.
Your soul is called to create what it loves. It cannot explain itself. It doesn’t have to!
The bad news is that you may have talked yourself out of your desires so completely that you are quite paralyzed and unable to even take what I say seriously. “That’s not possible,” you think. And yet someone, somewhere is doing just that!
I have worked with enough clients to know that you could well agree with me, but simply scroll, click or turn the page, now.
Instead, I invite you a little further into this idea. Experience a short meditation that takes you into your heart and creativity and see what is there. It is a joyful place to visit and you will likely feel very good when you return.
I hope you will stop driving or working or scrolling and listen and enjoy the relaxation and new orientation of your own heart center, source of joy and creation. Experience what you experience.
Allow just a bit of peaceful time for your sacred human self to communicate with you about what you really want. If you make this an ongoing conversation of just a few minutes a day, you will find it easier and easier to hear your soul’s calling, to ask for guidance and to follow it to experiences that make you happy.
Close the curtains to the peanut gallery. There’s nothing to explain. What calls to you?