
(This is the "Monday post" from the daily posts, which I send out to everyone on Sunday as a general update so you can catch up with us)
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We had such rich discussion topics this month! The one that is really staying with me is about when your dream sends you information, like for a looong time, but you don't act on it or fully process it. And then when it really HITS you, it can feel so intense to see what you weren't seeing.
I think it's easy to forget how DEEP your dreams take you. Using the Creative Dream Alchemy processes can give you really rich intuitive information but ACTING on that information is a whole other process! You have to really digest and process the information before you can know what to do with it or feel ready to do those things.
This is the biggest part of the work, the PRACTICE. The part where you keep showing up and taking microscopically small steps. You take enough of those and you will hit upon these big moments when your perspective really changes and now all sorts of new things become possible.
That's why I keep sharing my daily posts from my practice, to hold space for all of the complexities of staying in the process. To be an example of how some days it all sucks, some days everything is stuck, but we can still move through it all as long as we keep showing up.
Today was actually a FANTASTIC day in my practice where I had a big breakthrough:
I have two things demanding my full attention today:
Marketing
The Book(s) Project
I meditate, going into the Field of Creative Dream Alchemy, and then invite each of them to join me there. My plan is to notice which one is bigger, and assume that the bigger one is actually more important.
Marketing is bigger, but it feels like… a fake “bigger”? Like it’s artificially puffed up.
I ask it what it’s real size it and it talks about how important money is. How I have some big expenses coming up, and I need to be practical. And how I have never been as QUIET, marketing-wise, as I have been this year and that this is WORRYING!!!! And, as much as Marketing as a Creative + Spiritual practice has helped me figure out so many things, why am I giving myself so much space to explore and process QUIETLY ON MY OWN??? Where is the urgency to get out there and be seen???
OK but you did not answer my question. It feels like nervousness about the upcoming expenses and judgement about how I am doing things right now is puffing up marketing to make it seem more important to work on.
What is actually TRUE here?
Then both of them become the same size. This feels true, and also feels like I’m not sure what to DO with it.
How do I do both when I feel I only have energy and mental clarity for one?
And then it hits me! The idea I had to beta-test not the book so much but the ideas in it. To get people working with it.
When it comes to marketing, I just need to be out there doing something related to my work. VISIBLE. I don’t need to create a strategic marketing campaign or anything.
And, by putting a rough draft out there to people who want to work with the ideas around developing a Creative Dream Practice - and then my idea is to offer to help them come up with some practices that are right-fit for them to make that easier - I would be generating more ideas for my book.
It’s something I DO do for Dream Book members, if you have something you are working with and aren’t sure how to work with it, just let me know and I will suggest practices.
I can do this for people who are not in Dream Book, it’s just that that practices would be simpler as I don’t have meditations and classes to give them. AND I am sure out of that I will come up with loads of marketing content ideas.
Yes. This feels like the idea that grows both projects at once.
What are you up to this week?
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