It took me a while to settle in, but I lay down and my cat curled up on my chest, and we got into the Dream Lab (20 minute version).
This is one of the gifts of showing up somewhat consistently: Because I do this particular meditation regularly, the music really helps shift my nervous system. I went from over-stimulated to feeling settled in my body and my mind softened within the first few minutes. I felt present.
It won’t happen this way every time! But I am so grateful when it does.
And then, while I was in the field of Creative Dream Alchemy part of the meditation, before I even brought in the soul of my dream, I started getting GENIUS IDEAS.
Three times I had to stop the meditation to take notes.
And then when I got to the part where I was meeting with my dream: WHOA.
I did this meditation yesterday, too, and it was very much connected to today's meditation.
Yesterday my dream was a water sprinkler and it was sprinkling VERY VERY VERY small, like there was hardly any water running through it. It took me a while to even understand what it was. Then in time I started to see the field/garden around it.
I felt very worried that the water wasn’t flowing fast enough and the sprinkler couldn’t get to all the parts of the garden. I was thinking of all the plants that could be thriving if the water could get to them.
My dream asked me to notice was WAS working:
The garden well planted and tended to.
The sprinkler is set up!
The water is flowing!!! Stop judging the AMOUNT of flow and notice that FLOW EXISTS!!!!
EVERYTHING. IS. WORKING.
Still, I wanted to look at all the ways this garden could thrive if I could only figure out how to turn the water on full blast.
This is how we are with our dreams, a lot of the time. And this is a natural way to see things as a creative person because we are VISIONARIES so we see what’s possible.
We need to practice seeing and appreciating the work that’s already been done and the steps we’ve already taken. This was all once just a vision, too!
This is also how we are with our dreams because our culture encourages it. FASTER. BIGGER. MORE. We don’t always notice the ways the buzz around us impacts our perspective on the world.
OK but back to what's happening in the meditation today.
Today my the soul of dream shows up as a garden that feels like the same garden from yesterday… but everything is GROWING. FAST.
And I remember how (in real life, not the meditation) the herbs I have growing outside on my patio have been growing so fast lately that when I was watering them this morning I wondered if I should look up how to best store them. Because I put them on my meals every day and I've been so grateful that they've been growing fast enough that I can do this... but now they are growing faster than I can eat them so do I need new recipes that use more herbs or should I freeze or dry them?
This is how my dream garden is growing.
My dream is like: you’re doing the work! You’re tending and watering and things are GROWING. It’s summer. They are REALLY growing. You are doing it.
And in the meditation I just felt so peaceful and trusting and happy watching these plants grow.
So I went from overstimulated and anxious and really headed for a bad day to feeling peaceful, trusting and happy... AND with three new ideas to explore.
This is the power of this work.
This is the power of showing up and practicing no matter what.
I know it's hard to do these days!
I am here to help!
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