Some time ago I recorded a guided meditation, titled Hopes and Dreams, and I published it on the popular meditation app Insight Timer, where quite a few of my other tracks, as produced over the years, are also playing. I am also busy loading new ones that I simply never had the time to share. Thinking back to when it all started, I realise now that the great passion I have for leading people in guided meditation, was more of a destiny that I stumbled upon, than an actual hope or dream that came true. I have to admit that I have not actually listened to the track Hopes and Dreams for a number of years. But the other day another cell phone meditation app start up asked me to donate some of my tracks to their new platform, and I decided to listen to them before actually loading them. Since I produced these tracks over the first part of the past decade, I cannot recall the content of the various tracks or how I structured them. So it was a bit of a surprise to find myself immersed in my own meditation production, rediscovering the journey I had designed for other minds so long ago, despite the fact that I had to listen to my own voice.
After that rather long introduction, here is the point: In that meditation I remembered how important it is to dream. Shamans and Aborigines take the dream world very seriously. To them, reality is something we dream into existence. In fact, they teach that it is expected of us to do so – it is simply how this wondrous universe works, as designed by its Creator. I cannot recall why I decided way back to produce a track named Hopes and Dreams, but I can tell you that since that time, I have certainly learned the value of dreams. I have come to look at them like rosebuds. The energy seems similar. Something beautiful that is coming into existence. As long as you keep dreaming, the dream will take root in reality, and draw strength from the space you give it. And suddenly, one day, there it is! Your dream – manifested.
I know that my best dreams were born in moments of dispair. I am pretty sure Cinderella also had some sort of dream in her mind to protect her sanity from the dreary task of scrubbing floors. I am not convinced that she dreamed up a pumpkin coach, but she would have had the general gist of the story in her mind, before it happened. I am sure of it. But jokes aside, I suspect that the Creator gave us the ability to dream our way out of all kinds of trouble. When you lose the ability to dream, the world goes dark around you, as there is nothing to light up your imagination. And without imagination, how will you know where you would like to be, who you would like to be, and how you might get there?
You see, no one dreams up a nightmare. What they fear takes the form of a nightmare, yes, but they do not conjure up a happy future in the form of a nightmare; they conjure up something to take them to a better place, or to change the space they occupy. Dreams are always beautiful, just like rosebuds. Dreams can get us out of the doldrums – similar to the fake it till you make it scenario. When you are busy building a dream, you are also expressing what it is that you would like to enter into your world. Clever people teaching manifestation techniques have long ago mastered the different ways of getting your dreams to tumble into your reality, and you have probably also read or heard some of these theories. The big problem preventing a population of master manifesters from coming into existence, seems to be that people’s thoughts overrun their focused intention on what they want.
So here is what I think: if you struggle to get something that you would like to have, and you feel as if there are no open doors to walk through, ask yourself, ‘What would I like to appear magically to make my world a better place, and how would that benefit those around me?’ For one thing, you might be less grumpy, or be better company and easier to be around, if your dreams came true. The next logical step would then be to start building a picture in your mind about what you want. Yet, many do not go that route. They turn away, believing that dreams never come true anyway, and then of course, they don’t. If you allow your own thoughts and distracted thinking to prevent you from dreaming your heart’s desires into reality, than that is on you. You are the only one who can stop your thoughts in their destructive tracks, and begin dreaming. If you don’t, you might find yourself waking up in the nightmare of other people’s dreams becoming your reality.
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