Get Comfortable With Your Dreams

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in uncommon hours.”

Henry David Thoreau

Something that I have been noticing during my seminars is how uncomfortable people are with talking about their dreams--especially OUT LOUD. Individuals are generally willing to share their dreams with me privately, but, then, only in a circumscribed manner; and I find virtually no one willing to go out on a limb and say out loud, in front of a group, what it is they want for themselves. But without being comfortable and open with our dreams, how can we expect to manifest them in our lives?

The Law of Attraction runs contrary to keeping our dreams under wraps or compromising them in any way. The Law of Attraction rests on the idea that whatever we focus our thoughts on expands. If you are focused on how rotten your life is, then that is what expands around you; likewise, if you are focused on how beautiful your life will be when your dreams are realized, then that’s what will expand in your life! So...how can we manifest our dreams if we aren’t comfortable thinking or talking about them?

Our culture seems to dictate that being open and unabashed about what we want for ourselves is taboo, as if we were too demanding or expecting too large a slice of the pie for the universe (or, at least, the people in it) to handle. We are taught to be self-deprecating and to deny ourselves the perfectly natural impulse of talking about our dreams. And yet, if we deny ourselves our dreams, we deny ourselves the ability to act on them!

It is important to get comfortable with our dreams--thinking about them, talking openly about them, and planning for them to show up in our life.

Forward Movement:

Make a personal commitment with yourself to get comfortable expressing your dreams. Write them down and post them in conspicuous places in your home and office. Get used to yourself AND others seeing them hang there out in the open.

Make friends with your dreams, relax into them, allow them a loving, active presence in your life. Review your dreams every morning when you arise and again at night before you retire. Keep them fresh in your mind, until in their absence they are missed.

Get comfortable telling others openly about what you want for yourself. Start with close friends or family members and tell them in frank, clear terms what you want. You will probably be pleasantly surprised at their responses! I will bet that they welcome whatever it is that you tell them--and don’t be surprised if they want to help you realize your dreams. Once you are comfortable discussing your dreams with close friends and family members, expand to others in your life. Continue doing this until it becomes quite natural for you to express your dreams openly and unabashedly to whomever you spend time with.

Remember, what you focus your thoughts on expands. If you suppress, compromise, or otherwise diminish the value of your dreams, you literally will cut off their lifeline!

For further reading: You’ll See It When You Believe It, The Way to Your Personal Transformation, by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer.