I have been
very aware of my dreams the last few years. Like many
people, I keep having certain dreams over and over. I have
always wondered about this. I figured it was my inner being,
higher self, God, whatever, trying to tell me something, but
I could never figure out what it was –– until last night.
The dream goes something like this:
I am struggling
against a superior opponent. Usually this is a physical
contest. I am under the physical control and power of
someone who just seems to know my every thought, and who
knows that I am no match for him. In my dream last night my
opponent had hold of my wrists and was forcing me to do his
bidding. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get away,
for he was just too strong. Then came the inevitable
humiliating orders and subjugation to the will of this
person.
After I awoke
from this dream, as is my habit, I began to think about the
dream. I concentrated on two things: the overall feeling I
experienced during the dream, and the actual content of it.
The feeling was
one of helplessness. I desperately wanted to smash this
fellow, but I knew deep down that it was impossible. The
content was the same old I-have-to-do-what-someone-else-says
scenario. This dream has always been a mystery to me because
I have arranged my life so that I am my own boss. I have
been self-employed for many years and answer to no one. So
why does this dream constantly recur, a dream where I am
completely under the influence of another?
It is my habit
when I awake from a dream I am not happy about, to attempt
to re-dream it. I think about how I would really have wanted
to act, and how I really would have liked the outcome to be.
My overwhelming
impulse was to re-dream it by kicking the crap out of this
guy. When I re–dreamed it this way, I wound up feeling
crappy. Either I was still unable to overcome my opponent,
no matter how strong I got, or, I turned into the same sort
of person he was –– a bully who delighted in inflicting
pain. Now sometimes that's not a bad feeling. Sometimes you
can get a feeling of real power by overcoming an opponent.
There are many warriors and sports-minded people who get
great satisfaction from this, but for me, there was
something missing. I felt better about winning than losing,
but it still didn't feel right.
So I decided to
do an about-face. Instead of beating up my opponent, I
decided to dream being somewhere that I really liked. When
I did this, I found myself in a beautiful valley with woods,
a stream, and grass all around. I felt wonderful! But then I
realized something: all I did was run away from my problem.
I never really handled it. I felt like a coward. Now I was
in a real dilemma. I asked myself, “Is it better to run away
from something or to face it head on?” I was always taught
that you can't run away from your problems, that they will
eventually catch up to you. Then, all of a sudden, I
received this communication. I don't know where it came
from, but it felt like I received full clarity about the
whole thing.
Do you know how
in dreams you can be somewhere, then think a thought and be
in a totally different environment? Sometimes the two scenes
have no relation to each other. You're just immediately
somewhere else and you have no idea how you got there. The
first part of the communication was this:
Thinking
thoughts and receiving instant manifestations of those
thoughts is the way the universe works when you are not
incarnated in a body. In the physical universe, there is
always a time-lag between what you think, and when you get
it. That's a good thing, because if every human being were
to enjoy instant manifestation of thought, most of us would
never live past the age of 5 or 6! We're just too negative.
Think of parents worrying about their children. If every one
of the thoughts of those concerned parents manifested
instantly, we would all be in trouble.
The second part
of this communication was: Even if you successfully handle
a problem, you are still stuck in the vibrational range of
that problem, so it is likely to occur again! For instance,
I was told that the reason I didn't feel really good about
kicking the crap out of my tormentor, is because my
attention to him placed me in his vibrational range of
thought and feeling. So even though I won and it felt good
to win, that good feeling wasn't going to last.
Mixed in with
this communication was another idea: "running away" simply
means vibrating in a new place. By thinking new thoughts and
finding a different feeling place, my vibration and my
opponent's vibration were completely dissimilar. Therefore,
by the laws of the universe, we could not be in the same
place. That's how I wound up in that valley.
You couldn't
find two places more different! When this hit me I really
got it. Whether you are avoiding your problem or you are
completely handling your problem, you are still in the same
place as the problem! Your attention to the problem keeps
you in the vibrational range of the problem.
Now that was
something for me to grasp, for it means that that there is
no difference whatsoever in avoiding problems or solving
them!
Running away is
considered a cowardly act, and it can be, if it is done from
a place of fear. But if you simply change your thoughts and
feelings about something, the universal property of 'like
attracts like' will operate to place you in a different
environment. In your dreams this happens instantaneously; in
the physical universe, there is a time lag. But the
principle is the same.
People
instinctively understand that any situation that manifests
for them is as a result of their own creation, or invitation
of it. Those who deny personal responsibility, in other
words, are just kidding themselves. Universal principles
enforce it! Therefore, to ignore or run away from a life
situation is pointless. For that reason, I think, cowardice
has taken on a pejorative meaning, and judgment of character
has been attached to it. But it all comes down to an
understanding of universal principles. What I understood
from this communication is that if two beings are not
compatible vibrationally, they cannot exist in the same
place. That is a very powerful principle to understand, for
it means that you can change your situation for the better
at any time.
For example,
say you have an irritating co-worker who always seems to
come around and ask stupid questions. You first told him
politely that you didn't appreciate this, then one day you
really got in his face about it. But nothing seems to
change. You have a problem. Instead of trying to solve the
problem, change your vibrational offering. Instead of
letting this person bother you, don't play his game. Think
of some way to change the way you normally think and feel
about this person. If you can do this, your vibration will
shift, and you and he will no longer be in the same place.
He won't come around anymore, or you will hear one day that
he got transferred to another division of the company.
Whatever the case, you and he will no longer be a matched
pair energetically, and so he will go away. Or, you will
find yourself moving into another area where there are
people and situations more to your liking. Remember, the
only reason he is hanging around you, is because you and he
are a vibrational match. So if you can change your own
thoughts and feelings with regard to him, you and he won't
connect anymore. He'll be out of your range. (Solving
problems with violence only works if the person you’re
trying to smash doesn’t like violence. Then he’ll go away.
Otherwise, he or she eagerly takes up the challenge and
you’ve got a real war on your hands).
What makes this
process so powerful is that the results for you have no
dependency whatsoever on the other person, even though the
problem is seemingly with the other guy! That tells us that
life really isn't about anything outside ourselves.
Everything that happens to us, is created by us.
The universe is
great at matching up people and situations. It's almost like
magic, but really it's just simple physics –– like attracts
like.
I realized from
all this that if I want something, I need to focus
exclusively on that. For example, I always check to see if I
am getting too 'airy fairy' in my creative process. It's one
thing to dream and envision, but it is also important to
stay grounded. So I like to check back to my 'real life' to
see if I am too far off base. Then I realized that doing
this only sticks me back in my 'real life.' I am visualizing
something different from my real life because I want to
transcend my real life! So complete focus on my desires and
my visualizing is the best way for me to get there. There is
no such thing for me anymore as 'pie in the sky.' Pie in the
sky is just holding my thoughts and feelings in a place that
feels better to me.
So I am
forgetting about all of my problems. I'm just not going
there anymore. It doesn't mean I stop going to work and
paying the bills. It does mean that I consciously direct my
thoughts to match my desires. I consciously try to put
myself in my ideal life. I have found that this is a very
effective way to keep myself feeling good as I move through
my day; and I have noticed, little by little, my life
changing in the direction I want it to go.
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