I began an experiment during our Love Money course that has stayed with me. It’s called Dreaming.
Here’s the jist:
You spend a period of time (say 5 minutes) simply dreaming of a life that’s amazing. Let your imagination paint whatever picture is inspiring, joyful and free.
During that time, simply enjoy the feeling of desire.
When thoughts come to object, judge or dismiss those desires, pay them no mind. Don’t indulge thoughts about how those things will come to pass, and don’t leap into planning. Simply brush them aside like harmless flies, and keep dreaming into your desires.
That’s it. Your job is done.
I used to think exercises like this were shallow, positive thinking hokum. But there is nothing like the creative power of pure desire.
Desire, without attachment or story, feels amazing. It’s a creative act that yields a beautiful feeling.
Desiring doesn’t mean you have to act on it. It’s simply for the feeling. You can have as many desires as you like and spend as much time with them as you enjoy. Simply allowing yourself to want what you want.
Some of those desires will inspire you to action. They sow the seeds of your future creations.
Other desires are here and gone like the breeze.
You don’t even need to know which are which. Just feel and enjoy them.
My bold prediction:
As more people in our community allow themselves to enjoy their desires, without limitation or obligation, our world becomes more beautiful.
So if it were up to me – and it’s not, but I can dream – all of us would appreciate, honor and even revere our desires as the seeds of creation they are. We would enjoy our power to desire and dream, allowing it to inspire us to share the world in gorgeous ways.
Just today, at the Michael Neill event I’m attending in London, we took turns asking each other the question:
“What do you want?”
And then…
“Is that what you actually want?”
It was lovely to notice what I want, and the things I just need to get what I actually want. I luxuriated in the expansive high of indulging my desires and listening to those of others.
It was transcendent.
Desire is one of the tools we have to create a beautiful life, and it’s a crime that so many of us were taught to fear, repress and deny it.
And so, I declare a return to desire and dreaming. At least in my own little corner of the world.
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Yours in love and play,
Steph
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