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On Fridays I do these "Dream Status Report" prompts to help me have more clarity, momentum and groundedness on my path.

There are journaling sheets for doing this! These are available for everyone, not just membership members. Download them here.

Last week's report told me to: check in more often.

This week I checked in OFTEN with myself, my dreams and my projects. It was a busy week, and first I looked at what I could maybe cancel or postpone, but I wanted to do it all, so I decided to move more slowly and keep checking in about what I need.

Like - accepting that this is a busy week, how do I take the best possible care of myself in that?

And I am really proud of how I did with it. I finished a busy week without feeling depleted! That feels like a real accomplishment.

How do I feel about this/What am I learning: I think I am remembering how some parts of the creative process have always been overwhelming to me. But then the next time I forget, and feel like "something is wrong" when it feels overwhelming. At the same time, the world is overwhelming so you really do need to sit with things, and check in with things, to even know which overwhelm is which and how to take care of them.

It ALWAYS comes down to validating my experience and feelings in the moment while connecting with my deeper truth about how to move towards where I want to be. The actual definition of Creative Dream Alchemy.

What do I need now: Stay patient. Keep moving slowly.

Oh! That's another thing I am learning - how much my pace has slowed BUT this doesn't mean necessarily that outer work progress has slowed. Which is so trippy!!!

But my ways of moving fast, in the past, would also mean re-doing and re-visiting, learning as I go (I am not judging my past self it's just that I had a different process when I had more energy). So in a way I took a more winding road to get to completion. Now I am moving more slowly but this gives me time to process as I go.

I guess it's a classic turtle vs the hare story.

What does my dream need now (using the Dream Lab alchemy process): My dream show up as a sensation of deepening into my body and feeling calm and expansive. I feel like it wants me to relax into it, and play with it as in "not always WORKING ON it"

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

Looking more carefully over last week's Dream Status Report, and this week's experience - I see myself learning from my own process in real time. Last week I noticed that this would be a busy week with Outer Work and that I tend to over-work when I focus on Outer Work, get depleted and also get out of alignment so everything takes MORE work and MORE time.

I didn't do that this week! What I wrote above, about working slower but more effectively - this is exactly what I was trying to do! I forgot that I had written about it but I still got the lesson and implemented!

More please 🙂

My focus for next week is to go DEEPER into the Dream Work while still having a big list of Outer Work tasks to get done.

(There is no Co-Working/Co-Dreaming call today since we just had the November New Moon call this week. If you haven't seen it yet, catch the replay here)

 

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