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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: I am re-doing all of this and still in the process of figuring it out. It feels SO VULNERABLE and WEIRD to not have any answers right now, but if we always know where we're going, we can't get anywhere new.
This week I did start to write about this in my new Dream Book (!) and I have:
Being the artist + writer I want to be. Feeling really alive. Creative. Engaged. Expansive. Spacious.
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.
My dream comes in with a big hug and I start crying. My husband and I are in a rough patch this week, and my dream is reassuring me that my dreams live independent of my marriage. This can be rough, and it can even end, and I will still have me and my dreams.
PART THREE:
Last week’s focus was:To treat myself and my life as precious.
What happened in the last week?
I really did do that. When things felt hard, I gave myself space, I honoured my feelings and needs. This is treating myself as precious.
A lot of thing felt hard AND a lot of things felt good. In the New Moon intention setting call, I saw my life with a lightning bolt in the middle. My work life, my creativity, my self care - this felt so alive and expansive. My home life, the struggles we are in, felt heavy and depressing.
I love how all the good stuff existed just as firmly as the hard stuff. Like not compartmentalizing, but not letting a hard thing take over everything good.
What am I learning/How do I feel about this?
So much! When things are rough in my current relationship, I see the patterns. All the ways I've felt this way before. All the ways I've created these same patterns before. It's like - here is your next level of healing. How can you interrupt this pattern in a new way?
I remember the slogan from the spiritual centre I used to go to "change your thoughts, change your life" and that feels so ridiculously shallow compared to where I am now. Thoughts have no real power here and there are SO MANY MORE ways to create change that don't involve my ego choosing what I "should" want and how I "should" feel and then forcing my mind to go along with it in the hopes that my feelings and whole living body follow suit.
I feel full of possibility, power and magic. Hard times are transformative and I am holding onto that.
What do I need now?
Feeling full of possibility, power and magic as a practice. Meditate on it. Journal on it. Make art on it.
What does my dream need now?
I just feel it pouring into me, not asking for anything from me.
Taking all of this into account, my focus for the next week is:
Feeling full of possibility, power and magic as a practice. Meditate on it. Journal on it. Make art on it.
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