Growing Your Dream
So I've been wanting to write this for a while, actually ever since I got back from Florida, so I'm just going to bite the bullet and do it. I was reading Mary Mainn Morrissey's "Building Your Field Of Dreams" while I was in Florida, and I thought it was a brilliant idea to put the synopsis of the end of the chapters in my journal so I can refer back to them again and again.
Growing Your Dream
1.) Set your intention. What is the life you want to be living? Your focused intention will move through the energy field of all possibilities and draw it to the substance that will produce that crop of your life. Thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind. That's the nature of the universe. Practice telling yourself "Where I place my attention, I place my intention." Buy a "dream journal" and comit to paper the deepest longings of your heart.
2.) Test your dream with five essential questions: Do you feel passion for your dream? Does the dream align with your values? Do you need God for your dream because the dream is bigger than something that you can accomplish on your own? Will the dream bring good to you by moving you closer to your true self? And finally Will your dream bring good to others?
3.) Commit to your dream mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We find ourselves breaking commitments all the time, disappointing others as well as ourselves. For your dream to come true, you've got to stick with it, pledging yourself to a particular course of action. As you commit, you willingly take steps toward your dream, proceeding even as doubts arise, even when you do not have all the answers.
Deserving:
Building a Deeper Belief in You
1.) Focus on the good to enhance your sense of worthiness. Circumstances are bad only if you perceive them as such. Instead of panicking when life appears to throw you a curve, wait and invite God to reveal the good. Then give yourself the same benefit of the doubt. Believe in your "orignial innocence." You make mistance out of ignorance, not fom a core of evil. You are inherently good because God created you. Beginning now, stop being a victim. Decide to become a co-creator - an architect of your own life-who benefits from each step of the process.
2.) Stop dragging your own baggage. It's hard to move confidently into the life you have imagined if you're lugging deadweight. When you persist in carrying the baggage of your childhood, your shame, or your belief that you are unloveable, you have no room for greater possibilities. Let go of uncumbrances by indentifying and releasing your baggage.
3.)Practice gratitude to increase your sense of deserving. An "attitude of gratitud" enables you to construct your dream on a sold foundation of deserving. Being by spending a day giving thanks to those you've criticized. From there, build a pattern of daily gratitude. When we begin to appreciate those we once condemned or took for granted, the field around the object of our appreciation broadens, attracting to itself even greater good.
Intrusion:
A Companion Called Fear
1.) Recognize and master your own Delilahs. Fear can doll itself up in some pretty alluring disguises, and if you're not careful, you can waste all your precious dream-building energy on losing proposition. What is distracting you from your dream? So long as we allow our fear to busy our fingers or numb our minds, we don't have the energy available for building the reality of our deeper desiers. When you shut down your senses, you're less alive. By the same token, when you sharpen those sensations that let you know you're alive, you begin to master your own Delilahs.
2.) Feed your faith and starve your fear. Help your dreams grow by serving them with several helpings of loving attention each day. Should your fears shove their way to the table, refuse to serve them. At the very least, say no to a second helping. If nourished, fears tend to develop gluttonous appetities that can swallow your dreams whole.
3.)Be willing to wrong on your way to being right. The trail leading to the mountaintop is full of switchbacks. It may seem that you're covering three times the ground as you slowly ascend the mountain, but imagine how difficult your climb would be if you had to hike straight up. We are guided first in one direction and then the other for good reason. As you move vigorin the direction of your dream, remain pliable so that God may help you to your true destination.
Abundance
The Gift of Constant Circulation
1) Take the good you have and bless it. To build a greater life dream, turn your attention from "only" thinking - "I only have this or that" - and replace it with blessing. If you hold your breath too long, you become unconscious. The life-giving act of breating requires you to exhale as much as you inhale. So fill the world around you with a portion of your worth and you yourself with become replenished.
2.) Recognize that there is one source but many channels. Your source has infinte ways to bless you. If your bank account is high, you might feel prosperous. If an emergency wipes you out the next day, you may label yourself poor. Yet you have not changed. By aligning ourselves with our source, from which all channels flow, we remain prosperous, regardless of our circumstances.
3.) Circulate to accelerate. Put yourself in the practive of giving without without worrying what you'll recieve in return. Give your time, talent, and treasure. Think of tithing as training wheels. Begin with 5 or ten percent of your income, and once you establish a balanced flow, you'll be able to take off those wheels and live freely in a spirit of giving that feels as natural as riding a bike.
Illumination
Lighting the Path to Forgiveness
1,) Learn to seperate the being from the behavior. You may never forgive some terrible act perpetrated upon you, but you can learn to forgive the perpetrator. When you move beyond your outrage, you can begin to heal. Practice seeing the other person as a child of God who has forgotten his true self. You can forgive someone who has amnesia and acts out of gross confusion. As you practice forgiving the being, not necessarily the behavior, you find yourself able to direct your creative energies toward rebuilding your dream.
2.) Recognize that you don't know the whole story. The next time someone cuts you off on the freeway or cancels and dinner date, create a plausible life story for the individual. This is not to say that you excuse rude, offensive behavior. What you're doing is empowering yourself. You can see, from your greater perspective, that the petty acts of an unhappy individual do not have to damage you.
3.) Ask for help in removing the poison of resentment. Experiment with different techniques: meditation, visualization, or even an unorthodox prayer. Resentment taints our dreams' you cannhot hope to grow a healthy dram in toxic soil. Even when we tell ourselves we've forgiven, we frequently have done so halfheartedly. Forgiving is done with your entire heart. Begin each day by asking God "What should I forgive?"
Guidance
Recognizing the Voice of Inspired Though
1.) Acknowledge the inner nudge towards outer motion. The know voice of God persistently nudges us in the direction of our highest good by way of a path that often confounds the logical mind. This voice will do whatever is necessary to get your attention. It may provide you with a message as seemingly mundane as "go to the singles potluck" or it may call upon you to bungee-jump out of your current exisistence
2.) Build a relationship with the still, small voice of inspired insight. The voice for God can become as familiar and resonant as that of your best friend. You develop a friendship by spending time with your friend, and you develop a relationship with God by listening to that still, small voice. Even so, it's not always easy to distinguish the voice amid the cacophony that plays in our minds. We can quiet our minds through prayer. And we are provided clues to the voice in the form of what seems to be coincidence. Listen for the harmony in order to decipher the higher meaning.
3.) Go to the edge of the light you see. Until you take a step you remain in the dark, where nothing but th emost dire solution to any problem is visible. The light you carry may illuminate only one step at a time, but as you move forward the next step will be revealed.
Ingenuity
Building a Bigger Believing
1.) Create a partners in believing group of like-minded individuals and meet weekly to build the blueprint for your dream. Choose people who will keep the believing in you even when you cannot. Your partners will ask" Suppose the dream weren't impossible. What would be the first thing you'd do?" This will help expand your believing and keep you moving forward.
2.) Lift your thinking into the genius mind. The genius of the universe dreamed you up and carved a genius inside all of our beings. But many of us cannot identity our inner genius through all the slashes of dissapointment. Once you discover that inner genius, you move past perveiced limits into outrageous thinking, where brilliant ideas move you into your dream.
3.) Practice five steps to renew your faith. If you're trapped in a phone booth, it's hard to see further than your immediate problem. When you possess a mountaintop view, however, everything that troubles you looks so much smaller. From this higher perspective, your faith can be renewed. Jot down the five steps for renewal on a peice of paper to elevate your thinking to a higher level: God Is. I am. The truth is. Let go. Thank you, God.
Failure
Finding Meaning in the Defeated Dream
1.) Before you declare defeat, take inventory. There is a time to give up and a time to persist. When you reach a oint where you do not know the proper direction, pause and ask God for a sign. Pray, "This, or something better." Pay attention, and you will be either granted renewed vigor for your dream or redirected to an even grander vision. Check your perspective. Often, how you look at your experience determines the difference between success and failure. Retest your dream to see if it sill enlivens you with a passion and purpose that will help you grow and benefit others.
2.) Make a stand for better over bitter. Great dream-builders refuse to become embittered even in the face of tremendous loss. If you refuse bitterness and choose to become better, you will find an inner resevoir from which to draw renewed strength, and the inspiration and courage to keep going or to begin again.
3.) Use your failure to move through the levels of awareness. In the initial phase, you feel like a victim who frequently is wondering, WHY ME? As you cast off blame, you feel a new control: You are responsible for your own experience. You realize the great power you wield through your thinking and can direct that power toward a desired end. You expeirnece life from personal power, life BY ME. Deeper and more meaningful dreams are built as your release personal control and engage in co-creation with God. Here you align your will with God's and allow a higher power to work THROUGH ME.
Impact
Harvesting Your Dream
The field is ready.
The seed is good.
Your life is willing.
Plant, my friend.
Your harvest is assured
WHOOP THERE IT IS!!
Growing Your Dream
1.) Set your intention. What is the life you want to be living? Your focused intention will move through the energy field of all possibilities and draw it to the substance that will produce that crop of your life. Thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind. That's the nature of the universe. Practice telling yourself "Where I place my attention, I place my intention." Buy a "dream journal" and comit to paper the deepest longings of your heart.
2.) Test your dream with five essential questions: Do you feel passion for your dream? Does the dream align with your values? Do you need God for your dream because the dream is bigger than something that you can accomplish on your own? Will the dream bring good to you by moving you closer to your true self? And finally Will your dream bring good to others?
3.) Commit to your dream mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We find ourselves breaking commitments all the time, disappointing others as well as ourselves. For your dream to come true, you've got to stick with it, pledging yourself to a particular course of action. As you commit, you willingly take steps toward your dream, proceeding even as doubts arise, even when you do not have all the answers.
Deserving:
Building a Deeper Belief in You
1.) Focus on the good to enhance your sense of worthiness. Circumstances are bad only if you perceive them as such. Instead of panicking when life appears to throw you a curve, wait and invite God to reveal the good. Then give yourself the same benefit of the doubt. Believe in your "orignial innocence." You make mistance out of ignorance, not fom a core of evil. You are inherently good because God created you. Beginning now, stop being a victim. Decide to become a co-creator - an architect of your own life-who benefits from each step of the process.
2.) Stop dragging your own baggage. It's hard to move confidently into the life you have imagined if you're lugging deadweight. When you persist in carrying the baggage of your childhood, your shame, or your belief that you are unloveable, you have no room for greater possibilities. Let go of uncumbrances by indentifying and releasing your baggage.
3.)Practice gratitude to increase your sense of deserving. An "attitude of gratitud" enables you to construct your dream on a sold foundation of deserving. Being by spending a day giving thanks to those you've criticized. From there, build a pattern of daily gratitude. When we begin to appreciate those we once condemned or took for granted, the field around the object of our appreciation broadens, attracting to itself even greater good.
Intrusion:
A Companion Called Fear
1.) Recognize and master your own Delilahs. Fear can doll itself up in some pretty alluring disguises, and if you're not careful, you can waste all your precious dream-building energy on losing proposition. What is distracting you from your dream? So long as we allow our fear to busy our fingers or numb our minds, we don't have the energy available for building the reality of our deeper desiers. When you shut down your senses, you're less alive. By the same token, when you sharpen those sensations that let you know you're alive, you begin to master your own Delilahs.
2.) Feed your faith and starve your fear. Help your dreams grow by serving them with several helpings of loving attention each day. Should your fears shove their way to the table, refuse to serve them. At the very least, say no to a second helping. If nourished, fears tend to develop gluttonous appetities that can swallow your dreams whole.
3.)Be willing to wrong on your way to being right. The trail leading to the mountaintop is full of switchbacks. It may seem that you're covering three times the ground as you slowly ascend the mountain, but imagine how difficult your climb would be if you had to hike straight up. We are guided first in one direction and then the other for good reason. As you move vigorin the direction of your dream, remain pliable so that God may help you to your true destination.
Abundance
The Gift of Constant Circulation
1) Take the good you have and bless it. To build a greater life dream, turn your attention from "only" thinking - "I only have this or that" - and replace it with blessing. If you hold your breath too long, you become unconscious. The life-giving act of breating requires you to exhale as much as you inhale. So fill the world around you with a portion of your worth and you yourself with become replenished.
2.) Recognize that there is one source but many channels. Your source has infinte ways to bless you. If your bank account is high, you might feel prosperous. If an emergency wipes you out the next day, you may label yourself poor. Yet you have not changed. By aligning ourselves with our source, from which all channels flow, we remain prosperous, regardless of our circumstances.
3.) Circulate to accelerate. Put yourself in the practive of giving without without worrying what you'll recieve in return. Give your time, talent, and treasure. Think of tithing as training wheels. Begin with 5 or ten percent of your income, and once you establish a balanced flow, you'll be able to take off those wheels and live freely in a spirit of giving that feels as natural as riding a bike.
Illumination
Lighting the Path to Forgiveness
1,) Learn to seperate the being from the behavior. You may never forgive some terrible act perpetrated upon you, but you can learn to forgive the perpetrator. When you move beyond your outrage, you can begin to heal. Practice seeing the other person as a child of God who has forgotten his true self. You can forgive someone who has amnesia and acts out of gross confusion. As you practice forgiving the being, not necessarily the behavior, you find yourself able to direct your creative energies toward rebuilding your dream.
2.) Recognize that you don't know the whole story. The next time someone cuts you off on the freeway or cancels and dinner date, create a plausible life story for the individual. This is not to say that you excuse rude, offensive behavior. What you're doing is empowering yourself. You can see, from your greater perspective, that the petty acts of an unhappy individual do not have to damage you.
3.) Ask for help in removing the poison of resentment. Experiment with different techniques: meditation, visualization, or even an unorthodox prayer. Resentment taints our dreams' you cannhot hope to grow a healthy dram in toxic soil. Even when we tell ourselves we've forgiven, we frequently have done so halfheartedly. Forgiving is done with your entire heart. Begin each day by asking God "What should I forgive?"
Guidance
Recognizing the Voice of Inspired Though
1.) Acknowledge the inner nudge towards outer motion. The know voice of God persistently nudges us in the direction of our highest good by way of a path that often confounds the logical mind. This voice will do whatever is necessary to get your attention. It may provide you with a message as seemingly mundane as "go to the singles potluck" or it may call upon you to bungee-jump out of your current exisistence
2.) Build a relationship with the still, small voice of inspired insight. The voice for God can become as familiar and resonant as that of your best friend. You develop a friendship by spending time with your friend, and you develop a relationship with God by listening to that still, small voice. Even so, it's not always easy to distinguish the voice amid the cacophony that plays in our minds. We can quiet our minds through prayer. And we are provided clues to the voice in the form of what seems to be coincidence. Listen for the harmony in order to decipher the higher meaning.
3.) Go to the edge of the light you see. Until you take a step you remain in the dark, where nothing but th emost dire solution to any problem is visible. The light you carry may illuminate only one step at a time, but as you move forward the next step will be revealed.
Ingenuity
Building a Bigger Believing
1.) Create a partners in believing group of like-minded individuals and meet weekly to build the blueprint for your dream. Choose people who will keep the believing in you even when you cannot. Your partners will ask" Suppose the dream weren't impossible. What would be the first thing you'd do?" This will help expand your believing and keep you moving forward.
2.) Lift your thinking into the genius mind. The genius of the universe dreamed you up and carved a genius inside all of our beings. But many of us cannot identity our inner genius through all the slashes of dissapointment. Once you discover that inner genius, you move past perveiced limits into outrageous thinking, where brilliant ideas move you into your dream.
3.) Practice five steps to renew your faith. If you're trapped in a phone booth, it's hard to see further than your immediate problem. When you possess a mountaintop view, however, everything that troubles you looks so much smaller. From this higher perspective, your faith can be renewed. Jot down the five steps for renewal on a peice of paper to elevate your thinking to a higher level: God Is. I am. The truth is. Let go. Thank you, God.
Failure
Finding Meaning in the Defeated Dream
1.) Before you declare defeat, take inventory. There is a time to give up and a time to persist. When you reach a oint where you do not know the proper direction, pause and ask God for a sign. Pray, "This, or something better." Pay attention, and you will be either granted renewed vigor for your dream or redirected to an even grander vision. Check your perspective. Often, how you look at your experience determines the difference between success and failure. Retest your dream to see if it sill enlivens you with a passion and purpose that will help you grow and benefit others.
2.) Make a stand for better over bitter. Great dream-builders refuse to become embittered even in the face of tremendous loss. If you refuse bitterness and choose to become better, you will find an inner resevoir from which to draw renewed strength, and the inspiration and courage to keep going or to begin again.
3.) Use your failure to move through the levels of awareness. In the initial phase, you feel like a victim who frequently is wondering, WHY ME? As you cast off blame, you feel a new control: You are responsible for your own experience. You realize the great power you wield through your thinking and can direct that power toward a desired end. You expeirnece life from personal power, life BY ME. Deeper and more meaningful dreams are built as your release personal control and engage in co-creation with God. Here you align your will with God's and allow a higher power to work THROUGH ME.
Impact
Harvesting Your Dream
The field is ready.
The seed is good.
Your life is willing.
Plant, my friend.
Your harvest is assured
WHOOP THERE IT IS!!
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