The hand of God hands me a piece of gum and asks me to keep chewing on it… but the chewing doesn’t have to be a drag… [Dream Status Report]

I am doing my Dream Status Report for this week to check in with myself and my dreams and what I need and what my dreams need, for the coming week. I try to do this on Sundays, and write about it, to remind you to also take a few minutes to check in with yourself and your dreams.

*this practice works well with the Weekly Planning Sheet and Creative Genius Planning Sessions. If you want more progress and momentum with your dreams, you likely need to plan differently!

I did sit down to do this on Sunday - but then I got a headache!

I realized that while I did have time to do it, I didn't have the mental and emotional capacity and that in the future, on weekends with a holiday or some kind of event happening in my life... it may be good to look at doing this on Saturday or Friday. Because it feels nice to start Monday with this done as it brings a different kind of clarity.

But, here I am still showing up in the ways that I CAN show up and doing this on Monday morning.

I am switching up some of the medications I've been on and bracing myself for this to go badly but so far... I just feel a bit better. So that's a win!

One thing I keep reminding myself is that it DOES NOT matter how any particular step goes, it matters that you keep taking steps.

What is really BLOWING ME AWAY right now is how good it feels to dream about STRUCTURE.

Artists need a lot of freedom! But we also need the kind of structure that feels like SUPPORT. Like a vine that can't climb a wall on it's own but with the right trellis it can reach the top of the roof by mid summer.

The weekly dream status reports and planning, and the monthly intention settings are forms of structure. But a lot of dreams need more specific forms of structure too - like the exact type of trellis that works both for the wall and the type of vine of you have.

And some of the things I've been struggling with lately really are [impacts of not having enough structure] and I have been wanting things that are [results of having the right structure] ... without seeing that working on CREATING THE RIGHT STRUCTURE was the solution.

This is totally common and even expected when we understand and remember that the process is NOT supposed to be linear.

So I am really enjoying doing the Structure Habits Routines class and re-reading everyone's comments in there. We all have such different ways of seeing this, and different needs, and it's just so inspiring to see all the different ways of approaching it.

I am still working on the first set of prompts! Each time I come back to it I have more clarity about how I would like all of this to work.

On to this week's Dream Status Report.

I did the 20 minute Dream Lab meditation to start. In the meditation I was really struck by the sensation of HOW MUCH the whole universe wants to help me make my dream real. And then when I invited the soul of my dream in... it was the hand of God handing me a piece of gum.

What? lol

It was violet gum, which tasted amazing and as I chewed I was like... oh yeah. You have to keep chewing on it!

But also.. as I chewed... this delightful violet fragrance was coming out of my mouth and surrounding me.

I don't have to keep chewing on it in a way that is annoying or difficult, the chewing can be fun and even kind of magical.

So that is excellent advice and the ideal way to go into this reflection process with the Dream Status Report prompts and then use what I learn there to map out my priorities for this week.

Happy dreaming/reflecting/planning to you!

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