being trapped in a nightmare & creative dreaming
"We don't allow ourselves to think about whether the one particular lifestyle we've talked ourselves into is making us happy, or whether something radically different might be more fulfilling for us. If our forward momentum is lost -- the spouse leaves, the job becomes hellish, a health crisis takes the attention and money that we'd earmarked for achieving our goal of happiness and wealth -- we feel like failures. We measure ourselves by our achievements and productivity (by how much we're doing) instead if focusing on our emotional and spiritual growth and enjoying the process of learning, discovering, and maturing.
We've been taught that thinking about our problems and examining them from every angle will help us change our habits and create more fulfilling lives, but we can get just as stuck in the nightmare by thinking too much as we do by doing too much...
...The problem is that we're focused on problems! All of our energy goes into thinking about, worrying about, and trying to fix our concerns. What we should be doing is shifting our perception to a higher level so that we can tap into our courage and imagine a world that isn't beleaguered with issues -- and actually dream it into being. When we operate from a higher level of consciousness, we stop perceiving problems and instead perceive situations that are neither good nor bad; they simply are. When we do so, we start to see that an opportunity lies in every situation if we simply look at it from a different level of awareness....
...We dream the world we'd like to live in. Our dreams stop being goals we strive for and start becoming a way of life. They cease being rooted in fears of lack and scarcity and are instead rooted in love and abundance. And while the dreams of the soul serve our own needs as individuals, they also serve those of the world. These are sacred dreams -- fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and the courage to act."
~from Courageous Dreaming by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.
We've been taught that thinking about our problems and examining them from every angle will help us change our habits and create more fulfilling lives, but we can get just as stuck in the nightmare by thinking too much as we do by doing too much...
...The problem is that we're focused on problems! All of our energy goes into thinking about, worrying about, and trying to fix our concerns. What we should be doing is shifting our perception to a higher level so that we can tap into our courage and imagine a world that isn't beleaguered with issues -- and actually dream it into being. When we operate from a higher level of consciousness, we stop perceiving problems and instead perceive situations that are neither good nor bad; they simply are. When we do so, we start to see that an opportunity lies in every situation if we simply look at it from a different level of awareness....
...We dream the world we'd like to live in. Our dreams stop being goals we strive for and start becoming a way of life. They cease being rooted in fears of lack and scarcity and are instead rooted in love and abundance. And while the dreams of the soul serve our own needs as individuals, they also serve those of the world. These are sacred dreams -- fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and the courage to act."
~from Courageous Dreaming by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.