Greetings, my Sunny Optimist buddies,
How are you today? I hope you had a relaxing time over the last few days and have found your way to ‘be’ with family and friends. We have had lots of snow here, which has transformed our landscape and made our daily walks quite magical. The beauty is sustaining my optimism in these challenging times as I hope it does yours.
I send you my deep appreciation for this journey we share, and I hope it is supporting your wellbeing. Creating each newsletter is undoubtedly good for my wellbeing!
The Beauty of Dreaming
In this next part of our journey, you will enter the inner cave of your awareness to dream into 2021. All the preparation you have done so far is in readiness for this awesome experience. You are ready.
The inner cave is a place of stillness, spaciousness, and silence to touch into the wishes for next year that are stirring within you. In the safety and darkness of the cave, you will open a powerful dreaming space where you will sense into your wishes for 2021. I love the word wishes as it captures the intensity of connecting with our deepest heart's desire. It also reminds us of the gentleness needed to nurture our wishes into their fullness.
Anyone who thinks that gardening begins in the spring and ends in the fall is missing the best part of the whole year. For gardening begins in January with the dream.
~Josephine Nuese
The metaphor this week is to see these wishes as dreaming seeds. Like the seeds within the earth, our wishes are being nourished in readiness to awaken for the New Year. The 'dreaming seeds' hold all the possibilities and potential for your life. They are waiting for you in your inner cave.
Guidance for your Dreaming Time
Below is a recorded guided relaxation which you can use to lead you into the dreaming time. Please access this by clicking here or on the image below.
Underneath this are my suggestions on preparing for and entering your inner cave to dream. I suggest that you read the guidance through first, prepare yourself, and then play the recording.
Wishing you a powerful time. I love this dreaming time and with a smile, I say
‘Prepare to be surprised at the wishes that are revealed’.
You are a very special manifestation of creation, no one else has your dreams, and your contribution to the wellbeing of All of Life is so needed.
As always I would love to hear from you.
Ann
Preparation for your Dreaming Time
Pick a spot you love, set it up with a blanket and cushions to be comfortable,
Make sure you are warm and will not be disturbed for a while,
Have your notebook and pen by your side so you can journal when you come out of the cave.
Entering the Dreaming Cave
Turn out the lights and put on an eye mask if you wish,
Settle back into your cosy space,
Clear your mind as best you can by letting ‘distracting’ thoughts float away,
Try not to grapple with distracting thoughts; just breathe into them,
When you feel settled, feel yourself expanding, opening, and opening………….
There will be a point where you feel ready to touch into your dreaming time,
Invite insights to come to you about your wishes for 2021,
Don’t feel that you have to grasp anything, relax, and relax...
You may fall asleep, and this is fine; you will still be dreaming.
Completion
When you feel ready slowing come back,
Feel free to write in a free-flowing manner in your notebook,
Keep going until there is nothing left to write,
Don’t review your notes. Just let them ‘be’ for a while,
Have as many rounds of dreaming time during the week that you have space for,
When you are complete with this time of dreaming, you can begin to look for themes that you will craft into intentions for 2021 —more on this next week.
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I listened and tried to dream. There were admittedly so many thoughts racing all across my head blurring my thoughts so much like a blizzard. But there were spaces in between when I could hear your voice. When the chaos in my thoughts is so intense that it’s hard to take in the meaning of any word I decided I must relax. Gradually Ann I could hear the kind message and I began to dream of a sunrise. I don’t know where the sunrise could be but It seemed a hopeful thing.
I had no idea how much chaos there is in my thoughts until I stopped and tried to listen. It helped. Too often my inner thoughts confuse me to the point of not being sure how even to read a page of mindfulness explained.
But a glimmer of that sunrise came through as I listened. I am grateful as always. Life is a journey. And it need not be a journey towards the sunset but a beautiful and increasingly bright awareness of the sunrise. I hope.
Hi Ann
Well done - Perfect - Thank you for offering this.
Deep peace to you
Mark