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On Fridays I do my Dream Status Report which is a series of prompts I use every week to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path. You can do them with me (Dream Book members: come post yours in the forum!)!

I know doing the same prompts every week can be annoying sometimes but this is magically clarifying. The repetition helps you go deeper into the process and makes it easier to LEARN from your process as you go, and the apply those learnings right away.

Here are the prompts:

PART ONE: (sometimes these can stay the same for months at time, sometimes they change often)

My dream is:  

I want it because: 

When I have it I will feel:

PART TWO:

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

PART THREE:

My goal/wish/intention for this New Moon is:

Last week’s focus was:

What happened in the last week?

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

What do I need now?

What does my dream need now?

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

My Dream Status Report for this week:

PART ONE: 

My dream is: Being the artist + writer I want to be. For a while now a lot has been shifting around how much/what kind of art I want to make and working on creating more nourishing/robust/lively local creative community. And right now I am in this liminal space after separating from my husband, so my dreams for this fall and winter are to really BE IN this space, and call in: quiet, calm, healing, space for all the feelings, serious self care, and lots of art projects. And I am also dreaming of having more structure and focus in my work life. Feeling clear about HOW I want to do things (I already know WHAT I want to do)

I want it because: Divorce is a new beginning. Of course there are a lot of uncomfortable feelings being stirred up but there are also all these new possibilities and I want to explore them, I want to explore who I can be next.

When I have it I will feel: Right now, because everything feels unsettled and uncertain, I'd love to feel a sense of stability.

My new moon intention: Healing and expansion.

PART TWO: 

Invite your dream in (using the Dream Lab practice) to help you with the rest of the prompts.

My dream just feels so far away this morning. My heart feels sad. My dream is vague.

Then I feel a can don my shoulder and my dream says "lay down" and I'm like "No I'm sitting with my laptop doing this, I know these prompts are going to help me, I want to do this" and my dream insists that this is the way to do that, so I lay down.

As soon as I do, my dream becomes a dome of healing light, protecting me.

And it says "You are doing all of your worse habits right now, and that's understandable - you need to make some good habits more IRRESISTIBLE."

PART THREE:

Last week’s focus was: Focus on self care. Work on creating the lists/structure/organization that make it easier to also do the things I want to do.

What happened in the last week? 

I am SO grateful for these weekly check ins. This feels so clarifying and supportive.

This wasn't a great week. I was really working on creating the structure I feel I need, and it's like I failed at every turn.

In hindsight, I can look back and see where I was focusing too much on the outer aspects and not enough on the inner. So all this trying and failing has me starting with a new idea: to create structure around showing up for my creative dream practice. What would make this easier?

Because I am scrolling too much and it's not good for me. But it's like my mind is desperate to avoid all the stress. And the work I want to do take so much presence and focus - that feels challenging and so I just avoid.

In the dome of healing I saw that I should start a new embroidery project. Have a thing I can sit down and work on, and be in that creative space instead of scrolling.

What am I learning/How do I feel about this?

I'm frustrated that everything is moving more slowly than I want it to.

I'm frustrated with my own body and mind for needing what they need instead of being where I want them to be.

What do I need now?

To be patience with myself. Ugh.

What does my dream need now?

For me to BE in the healing cocoon.

Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:

So before answering this I went back into the meditation with the healing dome. I ended up falling asleep for 20 minutes and woke up feeling SO MUCH BETTER.

My focus for the next week is to work on making my creative dream practice IRRESISTIBLE.

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