This is the mantra I got in this week’s Dream Book journaling + alchemy kit: I have the courage to dream brighter
Use the meditation for the weekly mantras to dig in deeper to the mantra, or put your hands on your heart and take five deep slow breaths and repeat to yourself:
I have the courage to dream brighter.
Notice where this lands in your body, what thoughts and feelings get sparked.
There is no right or wrong way to react. But your actual thoughts and feelings can tell you something about what you need right now.
How it lands for me: like WHOA.
Creative Dreaming does take so much courage. I feel like... WHOA... I have been brave. I really have! Instead of looking at what I haven't yet accomplished, I suddenly feel so proud of me for all I HAVE accomplished, including all of the inner stuff that doesn't really look like anything measurable.
The world feel so dark. Dreaming BRIGHTER in response feels exhausting.
Underneath that is this knowing that dreaming brighter is the only actual option.
There is this place I want to be that I can't quite get to, or haven't yet. But this does not negate that I am actually in a really beautiful place.
As I've been sitting with this... I have the courage to dream brighter... I have felt courage and acceptance growing in me.
Acceptance that... it's not going to get easier. My next level dreams need to build from here, from where I am.
I say this to people ALL THE TIME - the path begins here, where you are right now - because there are so many ways that we WAIT to be somewhere different before doing the things we know we need to do.
And I can see ways that I have been waiting to feel ready to BE brighter before I can DREAM brighter.
I'm in a really hard place with perimenopause and I am working with my doctor but it could take a few more months for my body to adjust. I can't keep waiting to feel better, I need to dream FROM HERE.
Which means: adjusting my plans.
I think this happens a lot - with any kind of illness or difficult life situation. We want to wait for "things to calm down" before we can give it our all.
It's so much more powerful to find ways to take little steps, even if they are so small they seem invisible sometimes.
So the question it leaves me with is: what does DREAMING BRIGHTER look like from where I am? And I'm going to think about that this week.
If you want to work on this with me:
If I have the courage to dream brighter feels good and encouraging, hold it with you today. Look at problems, questions, stucks and obstacles through this lens and see what ideas it brings.
If it brings up some discomfort - that’s your stuff to work on. To do that work, in the Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership we’ve got the un-sticking station and the library of inner work practices. If you’re not sure what practice to use, you can email me, or post in our forum, let me know what’s going on and I will make some suggestions for tools you can use.
Creative Dream Incubator Coaching Membership members:
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