The Quarantine Chronicles: Day 14

Hello, Dear One.

So glad you are here.

Yesterday's prompt included imagining your ideal future and expressing all of your wildest dreams.

Today we are going to be expanding on that idea and it is going to feel...fabulous!

I want you to take one of the biggest dreams that you were writing, or collaging, or discussing yesterday...

maybe the biggest one in your heart...

and I want you to start to describe how it will feel in the present tense. Yesterday, we were dreaming up specifics in regard to the circumstances, but today I want you to leave all of those out of your description. Today, we are going to focus on describing, and actually starting to feel, what your biggest dreams will feel like.

Did you ever experience that blissful anticipation that comes before Christmas, as a kid? The feeling of excitement that would build before Christmas morning is one of the best feelings from my childhood that I can remember.  

At our house, the gifts from our family were wrapped and put under the tree, but we knew which ones were from Santa because his gifts were never wrapped.

Santa's presents were put out in front of the tree on display...which is also why we were never allowed downstairs to see the tree on Christmas morning before two important things happened:

1 - Mom and Dad had to have at least one cup of coffee.

And 2 - we had to wait until they said "Merry Christmas!" before we could go from our excited jumping-in-place borderline-about to lose our ...selves...to running down the stairs to see the tree and the presents Santa had brought for us.

Looking back, the anticipation was just as fun, if not even better. And that has really been true, for a lot of my favorite moments, in life.

When I think about my wedding and all the preparation, months before, as I would get ready every morning, I'd put on my favorite song and be ushered into all the feelings of what I imagined the wedding was going to be like...I would feel the getting ready with my best friends, I would feel the dress, I would feel the walking down the aisle and the looking into his eyes, I would feel the ceremony and the celebration...and it was absolute heaven. It felt so, so good. And it's hard to say, because of course the "day of" was momentous, and incredible, and a dream come true in so many ways, but also, I was in charge of so many details, and it came (and went) so fast, I hadn't slept at all the night before and ...I don't know...it really could be that my anticipation, at times, felt just as good as the real thing!

That is just one example, but I could point to many different moments like that in my life. And I believe that we can choose to feel our dreams ahead of time. And not only that, I believe that we SHOULD!

Because...why not?

Almost everything we pursue in life is because of the feeling we believe we will have once we have achieved or received. But if the feelings are available to us at any moment, why not feel them now?

So...just for the sake of modeling what I am suggesting you do for the exercise, I will use one of my dreams. I have a lot of dreams about singing on particular stages -like say, the Sydney Opera House or at Coachella, but I find it's better to be more general rather than specific because if you are too specific it might bring up some negative feelings of resistance...for example, if I say to myself, okay, I'm going to imagine myself performing at Coachella now and inside there's a little voice that pipes up and says, "yeah, but really? Do you really think that is going to ever happen?"

Those kinds of thoughts are not going to help us create our good feelings. So you can see how specific you can get while still feeling good, but you may find, the more general you are, the better you will feel.

So ...I imagine I'm on a big stage, lots of people in the audience - I do have some specifics in mind but right now the most important thing I want to focus on -and what I want YOU to focus on - is how it feels...

Start to imagine with me...When I do this exercise, I like to start with..."It feels easy. Wow, it feels so easy. Feels so natural. It feels like it's meant to be."

And then I just spontaneously decide in that moment which things to feel and name and pay attention to which ones feel the best and maybe hang out there a little longer and repeat them or expound on the ones that feel really great.

"It feels like it's my time. My moment. It feels connected. It feels important. Significant. It feels significant. It feels magical. It feels like love overflowing. It feels like love pouring through me coming out of me through my voice and my whole body. It feels like oneness. It feels divine. It feels sacred. It feels delicious. It feels pure. It feels right. It feels captivating. It feels expansive. It feels immeasurably wonderful. It feels like I am a channel for pure love to flow through. It feels like flow. It feels like alignment. It feels like destiny. It feels like gold."

...you get the idea? ;.) I hope?

Give it a try. Speak it out verbally and feel into your dreams. You can do it in multiple areas of your life. It's a bit like practicing vicarious joy that I mentioned a couple days ago. But you can feel, right now, how amazing your ideal relationship feels, you can feel how stepping into the power of your truest self feels ....you can feel what it feels like to do anything you want...ahead of time.

And it's a bit like a prayer as well. I like to incorporate it into my prayer life, personally. I like to ask for things and then I receive them, fully, in my heart and mind.

It's a wonderful tool to practice. And even though it's not specifically an 'artistic' tool, so to speak, it is absolutely creative in amazing ways and you are creating an experience, and a whole canvas, of amazing feelings.

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a great week so far!