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it’s sunday – which means it’s creating dreams come true day. creating dreams come true is a free ongoing e-course and creative community to support you in living your dreams. if you are new, please feel free to join right in. the more creative dreamers the better!
this week we’re going to look at our dreams from a new perspective, because a new perspective can offer new insights and ideas. we’ve been doing a lot with our dreams! growing, working, opening, allowing, transforming. sometimes, living so closely with our dreams, we kind of lose perspective on them. stepping back and looking from a new direction helps us open up new possibilities.
we’re also going to get a little bit silly with this because too much seriousness can kill a dream.
creative dream assignment: fill in the blanks
if my dream was an animal, it would be a ___________________ and it would need _______________________.
if my dream was a colour, it would be ______________________ and its favourite colour would be ___________________.
if my dream was a {real or made-up} holiday, it would be ___________________ and we would celebrate by ____________________.
if my dream was a car it would be a ___________________ and i would drive it to _____________________.
and in honour of my new business partner tree, if my dream was a tree, it would be a ________________ and if i could plant it anywhere, i would plant it __________________.
bonus question: what insights, ideas and inspiration did you glean about your dream from this assignment?
creative dream check-in:
join us the comments below and let us know where your dreams are growing and flowing and where they’re stuck. also share any questions or ideas about this week’s assignment, or just say hello and cheer your fellow dreamers on.
everyone’s dreams grow more fully and beautifully when we grow them together in creative community.
last week’s assignment was to relax into your dream. how was that for you?
between relaxing into my dream and soaking up the magic of the healing circles i had an amazing week of shifting deeper into myself, and into my dream. in the healing circles, we’ve done getting unstuck and then believing in ourselves. this combination has created huge and profound inner shifts in me. getting at some of those deep dark blocks and dissolving them. turning my doubts into knowing that i am ready. knowing that i can do it.
a deep and quiet knowing.
this is such a beautiful way to live with my dream and i am so grateful to be where i am. last week i shared that i was having a problem staying in gratitude. but last week i was still in the getting unstuck part of the healing circles and doing a lot of important shadow work. this week i’m soaking up the benefits.
i’m looking forward to your updates…
ps – this thursday, oct 28 is the last day to join the healing circles.
what would happen if everything you wanted was open and available for you?
what would happen if you believed in yourself, fully and completely?
what kind of creative dream fire could you ignite, if you were given a spark of positive energy?
you can find out in the healing circles.
I love the fill in the blanks form! Fun stuff.
My dreams are moving along :) I had my first Lion’s Share Circle yesterday and it was lovely! The turn out was smaller than I had originally hoped for…but it was definitely quality. Afterward I was thinking about how I’d like to proceed with them in the future. I would Love it if I could make them a sort of open house type thing…say on the first or last Saturday of every month. I just don’t feel like the location of my apartment is appropriate for that. BUT…I want to be able to do them at home! So will have to think about this…this also reaffirms how much I want to leave NYC!
As for Scotland…plans keep moving along beautifully…lots of good stuff coming to me without me seeking them out. Very exciting. Couldn’t be happier about that…
Still struggling a bit with all the sharing/competition stuff…trying to remain open and not worry that someone will usurp my dreams… (having my friend join me in Scotland is a real test with all that. Even though I’m excited to have her along! So confusing).
I’m on holiday this week and I really have to think over : what are my main dreams ?
What do I want to focus on ? Maybe I’ll do the exercise from the beginnin again. (from january 2010)
I have many many passions, above all writing and writing workshops, but too many projects and I really have to make one priority, to gain in clarity about what I want, so that I achieve something. I have to find a global direction or a compass. After that and only after I could think about my dreams from new perspective.
It’s really hard for me because my mood disorder makes me enthusiastic one day and really low the other day. I think being a teacher with some freetime gives me the financial security and the opportunity to create something beside. I have to find out if I’m so tired because of my job or because of my disease. It’s quite possible that changing job would’nt make me happier, so I have to adapt better to my job and my disease, and be creative beside…
lee ann YAH you did it! that is so awesome. maybe instead of looking at the sharing/competition stuff it would be helpful to focus on developing a deeper sense of ownership of your dreams? you are obviously making a lot of progress with it, it’s just one small part of you being afraid someone can take your dream. so what would have to happen for you to feel so solid in your dream that you wouldn’t feel like anyone could take it?
scylliane you totally can do that. you could also just try this new perspective exercise with “living my dreams” in a general sense. you know that you want to have more energy and more creativity flowing – that can be a big dream in itself, without any of the details. sometimes we don’t need to sort out the details, we can be better of just focusing on what we really want – to live happy lives, and the details work themselves out in ways that we couldn’t have done ourselves. but whatever you do, i am sending you lots of creative energy this week.