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One of the ways we create new hardwiring in our brains is to focus continually upon the dream we want to create with as much detail and as much enthusiasm as we can muster. When we imagine the dream in great detail, it is the emotion resulting from that imagining that reinforces the new thought patterns we are creating.
Our emotions are a wonderful and accurate guide as to where our thinking is focused. If our focus is on what we don’t want we are not going to feel good. If our focus is on what we do want then we will feel great. This sounds so simple, but it is true. Think about it.
If you are focused on your bills that you aren’t sure how you are going to pay, how do you feel? If you are focused on the thought that God / Goddess / All That Is will bring to you ideas and inspiration for how to pay your bills and you are consciously looking for those ideas to come to you, how do you feel?
Of course so much of our thinking takes place at an unconscious level and we certainly can’t monitor every thought we have. Yet emotions tell us if we are on track or not.
When we are in the process of imagining our dreams, who we have to be to be living those dreams, what we would be doing, saying, how we would be acting, we fire brain cells in a certain way. The challenge is to be able to maintain that imaginary state of being when we are in the middle of our everyday lives.
Appearances, how we see things in this present moment, will deceive us into falling back into the old brain tracks. We see a bill and we think, “Oh my God, how am I going to pay this?” instead of thinking something like, “OK Universe, I am ready and willing to receive all ideas and inspiration for how this can be paid.” These automatic reactions are what we need to become aware of and the mechanism for that awareness is our emotions. We feel bad. ALARM! What do we need to change in our thinking so that we can feel good again?
The emotion that arises from imagining a dream we want to create is where we want the bulk of our focus to be. This takes time and practice. It is so often easier to fall back into the old ways of thinking. In one sense, we go through a withdrawal from our old habituated thinking, even though that thinking has not served us very well.
Patience, determination and perseverance are essential, especially in the early stages. Knowing the process helps immensely.
During the course of my own dream making I have encountered much opposition from my already hardwired thinking. This has surfaced as procrastination, distraction, wanting desperately to eat, (my particular addictive behavior), complete immobilization from fear (of many things including being rejected, ridiculed etc.).
At times this thinking has blocked me completely. I learned to consciously change my thoughts as soon as I started to feel some negative emotion, OR I started some compulsive behavior, to those that served me in the creation of my dream.
Sometimes it took a while. Eventually, since a dream is a spark of energy that does not die, the dream would surface again and I would feel its inspiration and enthusiasm and be on my way again.
The question to ask is “How do I want to feel?” And then “Who would I have to be to feel that way?” The best guide of all is in the dream that comes from the heart.
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