You can be distracted and unfocused and still get what you need
I wanted to share this story because it shows how we can get what we need from this work even when we're really distracted and unfocused.
I did the 20 minute version of the Dream Lab.
And I was super distracted!
I kept noticing that I wasn’t listening to myself, lol.
And I kept coming back to it.
I felt like I missed everything, in terms of getting ready to meet the soul of my dream…
And then If let like I had done it all wrong because the soul of my dream appeared as some blocky thing.
Like a wooden block?
So vague and I thought… oh I am doing everything wrong here.
But I reminded myself that I decided to give this 20 minutes, and that there is no ideal way to do this, there’s just… showing up and being in the process.
“So, sit with your blocky thing” I told myself.
The blocky thing became stairs.
A wooden staircase.
And the thing I want most right now is a few steps up from where I am living, but there is more to the staircase.
My dream wanted me to see that.
Suddenly, I felt so loved and cared for and looked out for.
And I even played around with taking it one step higher, assuming that this mean having MORE of what I want now…
But then it felt like… unsure and unknown.
Like actually dreams are not always MORE! MORE MORE! Until they collapse like late stage capitalism.
So, when I get to the step I am currently dreaming of - THEN I will have more information about what the next step looks like. It felt like… there is a lot of mystery and surprises here and I shouldn’t try to define what my “biggest dreams” can be from where I am now.
So then it felt like I was small and the stairs were big, and I could snuggle in on my stair (not the one I am living on now, the one that is my dream, a few steps up from me) and it felt like I could acclimate to being where I want to be in this gentle way.
At the end of the meditation, I felt SO MUCH GRATITUDE for the staircase as it shrunk and went into my heart.
And then it was also kind of the real life staircase in the loft, which has a big window at the top of it, facing north so it’s always a really gentle light coming through, and that gentle white light was at the top of my staircase and it felt like…
I am really going somewhere.
I don’t have to know what that destination is. I can just enjoy my trip up the staircase.
And then I felt very peaceful about my dream for the rest of the day.
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