How to Follow Your Dreams
The Seven of Cups is one of my favorite tarot cards. It represents dreams flowing to us. Not just those we actively pursue but those set within our destiny with no effort or exertion required.
As children we follow these passionate impulses without fear or hesitation. The world, our parents and society slowly dismiss these destinies as fanciful and set us on more productive pursuits, thus squashing that which is most innate within our hearts.
To follow your dreams is not the stuff of legend but the very purpose of life. However, you can recapture that destiny which allows you to fulfill the illustrious nature of your true being.
AN INVITATION TO REMEMBER
How do we begin to find our dreams if they have slipped from us? While some blessed souls may have it charted out with great focus, others may find dreams to be a bit elusive slowly fading from our view. Rarely do we have parents actively championing our dreams, inserting instead their own morals and issues to help us avoid their missteps. Yes, this is done from love, but rarely from awareness.
The “why,” the logic, often obfuscates the seed of the dream. “How will I get there?” or “Who will be interested in hearing what I have to say?” shades the passion. Vulnerability, fear and doubt set in.
To recapture that which has always been with us may require creative exercises of daydreaming. What was it that excited you as child? What were the longings of the innocent heart before practicality was interjected? Passion and curiosity are the surest ways to find your abandoned dreams.
We are drawn to those things that match our destiny. Like some phantom limb, we can always feel them when we seek them. Find the whisperings and this is the key to find the dreams long forgotten. Regardless of the sensibility, seize the dream and breathe life into it. Even if this is not the ultimate path, these curiosities will bring you home.
GENTLER THAN YOU EXPECT
Expectations will likely pulverize the dream. Fearless pursuit and relentless determination are no way to chase your dreams. Inherent in the chase, is the disappointment or the exhilaration, both addictive. Chasing is not the way.
Dreams do not like to be quantified and work outside of the realm of logic. Treat it with curious devotion and the nature of dreams has its own magic which will find you. Your destiny is already set, my love.
Like the blueprint of the oak within the acorn, you are sure to succeed in those pursuits you most desire.
Feed your dreams through gentle nurturing and quiet attention. It is faith – not discipline – that will bring your dreams to you. Follow the dreams; don’t set course for them with careful planning and detailed attention, for then it becomes a task. It is the process of discovery that fills us with such joy we cannot bear to let it be forgotten.
ABUNDANCE OF BLESSINGS
Once the dream has been pinpointed, the universe quickly confirms you are on the right track by sending blessings your way. Synchronictites begin appearing that confirm your path. You find things come to you easily. It is a matter of alignment after all. When we match the frequency of our destiny and follow our dreams with loving gentleness, the world conspires to help us achieve that which has been ordained for us.
You could call this fate. But fate feels firm to me – fatal – lacking in free will and with plodded course. Destiny is the blueprint. How we arrive there is the journey of each soul and the delight of being.
The energies that find us when we follow our dreams feel good. This sense of peace, contentment and excitement are sure signs we are in alignment with our dreams. When we are in rhythm with the truth of our hearts, we cannot be but lifted by the path ahead. Even if we are unable to see the outcome, the process of creation feels too fulfilling to abandon.
Following our dreams gives us life, vitality, passion and becomes the purpose of our lives. We will feel more joyful and attract more of the same to us. Without effort, with loving attention, when we find the vibration of our destiny, and tend it well, everything unfolds just as planned. It is faith, not a detailed plan, that will feed our dreams and bring us to our destiny.
PRINCIPLE OF PRIORITY
We have many demands on us on any given day. Bills, self care, family and professional obligations at times seem to fill our to do list. If we feed these necessities only, the dreams will begin to wither. The trick is that the dream is always near, waiting patiently to be nurtured. Paying attention to that which gives us passion daily is the most certain path to following our dreams.
Like a muse, the dream is always faithful to us and expression its only purpose. To come into being is its destiny and it has chosen to become through us. Our obligation is to make it a priority. Want to write a book? Commit to writing every day even if only a sentence at a time. Want to be a great artist? Buy the canvas and have the tools at the ready when inspiration does strike.
Without our due diligence we are poor stewards for dreams. Be ready, be receptive and welcome the dream to move through you. This is the path of defiant self love which emboldens us to rise to our destiny.
FOLLOW YOUR DREAM AS AN ACT OF CREATION
No great work happens overnight. The Sistine chapel did not just appear. It took devotion, love and consistent attention to complete. We are often dissuaded from our dreams because we cannot see the veracity of its final product. We look for confirmation that we are doing it “right” when the only validation is the joy it brings.
Creation is a tricky process. Sometimes it is pulsating with life ready to burst forth from us. Other times a quiet murmur that awaits breath to come back.
SET AN ALTAR FOR YOUR DREAMS
A vision board may be one expression but I like a bit more deep ritual. In my home, I have an altar to my business and my book. Both receive attention and are tended. I thank them when the muse is loud and honor them when the dream feels far off.
Faith fills me knowing the fulfillment of my dreams is coming even when I cannot possibly see how it comes into reality. Following the dream brings such delight I have no desire to stop even if I cannot grasp how the final product will reach the world.
ALL IS ATTRACTED TO YOU
When I began this path as shaman, I could not imagine where it would lead. I only knew it was the only pursuit that brought me joy. As a child, I would become excited talking about ghosts and aliens. With each step I’ve taken to honor this dream, more reveals itself. The destiny is set and my only job is to follow the clues and remain devoted. I could not have hoped to sit here now writing about such esoteric matters, moreover, that you would even read them. And yet with each unfolding, I find there is little for me to question. It seems the only “logical” next step. Follow the dreams, breathe life into the passion and all will come to you.
The converse of this is also true. In following your dreams, the fears, doubts and challenges will arise. With courage, we face these with the same gentle loving presence and the illusions which seem to block us begin to dissolve.
Rather than feeling discouraged, see the obstacles as exactly the trigger than will help us heal and overcome the doubts deep within. When these “icky” energies arise, it is only asking to be loved, acknowledged and brought back into the fold of your total whole self.
YOUR DREAMS ARE SACRED
When you treat your dreams as a holy quest, a path of sacred devotion, interesting things begin to occur. As if by magic, everything appears for you. Destiny unfolds before you requiring no stress, no effort. This is the way and is ready to remind you of your brilliance.
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Circumstantial Beings – A Positive Force of the Human Life
Let me ask you this: How many different types of Beings exist in the Universe? What would you answer? Since I’ve given you something to think about, let me throw out another question (or idea) for you to give yourself a headache over: Circumstantial Beings and the Dimensions in which they reside.
At this point, you might be saying: What in the world are you talking about?
I am here to tell you that there are Beings that sit in what are called Circumstantial Dimensions in order to bring and afford you the opportunity to experience the circumstances in your life!
What? Let’s say you park your car in your driveway at home upon your return from work and you leave it parked there overnight. In the morning, when you go outside to get in your car to go back to work, your car won’t turn over – the battery is dead. No juice! So you wonder to yourself how could this be? You haven’t had a problem once with that battery, and there were absolutely no signs that it was going to go out.
Now, because of the circumstances around the fact that your car’s battery was dead, you also had to change your plans for that day. However, upon changing those plans, you were afforded the opportunity to experience something that you would’ve missed had you just gotten up that morning, gone out to your car and simply driven away.
The Circumstances You Need
Circumstantial Beings brought to you those circumstances that you were afforded to experience that day in your life.
Think about it. How many times does something like that happen and we get upset? We always tend to think of it as a coincidence, and most of the time we don’t really give any thought to things happening the way they do. Those unplanned instances we experience on an ongoing basis are caused by Circumstantial Beings that sit within the Circumstantial Dimensions that I’m describing.
Are You Paying Attention?
Sometimes in our daily lives, things seem to be strange or completely out of sorts, and we have no explanation for any of these things that just seem to happen. Could it be that Circumstantial Beings are affecting something in your life? Are your Circumstantial Beings trying to show you something?
Circumstantial Beings can also manipulate and play with colors and shapes due to the fact that every human’s circumstances are different. In other words, your colors and your shapes and your circumstances differ according to who you are. The fact of the matter is there are Beings in the Universe that dwell within the dimensions that deal with our circumstances. Circumstances that we put ourselves into and get ourselves out of throughout every day and every moment of our life.
There is a dimension of Beings that work very specifically in trying to set up the circumstances for requests that we, as humans, send out into the Universe. It’s a dimension of workers that the Universe directs in response to the vibrations you have sent out. This is all they do! They line up circumstances for human beings here on this earth. Yes, your own group of workers that work on circumstances made just for you. And again, they are doing this (on your behalf) at all times.
From the moment you get up in the morning and find your newspaper on your doorstep (take note that these Beings work hard to make sure that happens), to how you get to work every day, to whether your day goes smoothly, these beings are creating on your behalf. There will be other events that may also be put into place that may seem strange or coincidental, but remember, they really aren’t and are part of the alignment for the requests that we have put out to the Universe.
Recognizing the Circumstantial Beings
What is amazing is that there are more and more people on this earthly plane who are beginning to recognize these types of circumstances. As we continue to work on expanding our knowledge and understanding, we begin to see these Beings as we go throughout our day. At first it can be startling, but once you realize that there is no harm to be found, it is actually very peaceful and calming to know that the Beings are in one’s midst.
One should give way to the fear of it. It is always there, and it is that which is supposed to be there. Once again, just another Being that is in one of those dimensions that we as humans either are not aware of or seemingly take for granted. Circumstantial Beings will not communicate with you verbally. All they do is set up circumstances for you in your life. That is how they communicate.
In order to have communication with them you simply need to piece together the circumstances they have created for you.
When you look at a piece of artwork, does it speak to you? Does it make a statement to you? Are you drawn to this or that through this artwork? Those circumstances were set up for you in order to receive those feelings through that particular circumstance. Do you hear a song during the day that for some reason just seems to tear at your heartstrings or makes you feel a certain way? What (or who) do you think it was that made you feel that way? Once again, it is the Circumstantial Beings that have set this up so you can recognize it. What is it that you’ve recognized?
Become More Attune to Your Emotions
There are so many things in our lives that we take for granted, or things happen in our lives for which we don’t have an answer. Needless to say, these life events are the Circumstantial Beings hard at work, and these Beings are afforded to each of us. Once again, Circumstantial Beings communicate to you through sound, color, and movement, and whatever they do, they will stir an emotion within you—that is their communication process with you.
It helps to tune into your emotions in your heightened state of awareness. Dimensional Beings are in other areas of the Universe as well, and that is their way of communicating with one another. There is no language involved within the time and place they exist. There is only language on this earthly realm. So how else do you communicate with them?
Circumstantial Beings have been hidden throughout your existence. Once you become aware of who and what they are, then what they do and the tasks that they perform will heighten your awareness. Human beings, at points in their lives, have lacked the capacity to match the frequency that these Beings live and exist within. We have a hard time acknowledging them. But for highly tuned-in individuals, you can start to sense that these beings are there; once you start recognizing them, they will become more of the norm in your life.
Pay Attention
Pay attention to strange circumstances in your life. Those circumstances will afford you the opportunity to see and to experience many more marvelous opportunities. You will begin to recognize and see circumstances that happen that you may have been completely unaware of. Again, this is one of those awakening processes that an enlightened Being goes through in life.
How aware do you become of your life circumstances? How aware are you of the Circumstantial Beings that influence your life? Once you recognize them, and once they have become generous enough to show themselves to you, you need to acknowledge them and thank them for coming. Ask them to keep showing up and controlling the circumstances in your life.
These Circumstantial Beings are anxious to communicate with you, but they can’t do it without your permission.
Too many human beings are under the impression that a spiritual being will just come up and talk to them. Yes, this can happen, but that is only one type of Being. There are other Dimensional Beings that don’t speak. Again, they have other ways to communicate with us. Since humans are speaking beings (with language), we keep waiting for something to manifest itself to us. We often miss all the other communication that is out there! There are five other senses in the human body that we very seldom are even aware of, and those are the way these Circumstantial Beings are going to communicate with us. This is a better way of communication because it triggers emotion—the best way to convey a message.
Learn how to plug into your emotional state to recognize and see these Circumstantial Beings and what they can do for you in your daily life. Once you do, you will be amazed you were not aware of them before.
