How Do I Make My Dreams Come True? Part 1, Short Form
Where Do Our Dreams and Desires Originate?
Art is the expression of one’s Self. It surpasses the constraints of the common and stretches our souls. Most of us do not consider ourselves artists. Based on a narrow, traditional definition, we are accurate. Few people are gifted fine artists. Luckily, achieving your dreams does not depend on the fine art skills. It requires your willingness to create your life and in doing so, each of us becomes an artist. We use our thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, and actions to paint our world each day. Too few of us realize we have these tools within ourselves. We carry them with us every minute of the day. The question is whether or not you have found your inner goal-achievement tool-box and mastered the skills to construct your life with them.
Your Spirit is your unique artistic expression of your inner self to the outer world. As a spiritual being inhabiting a corporeal shell, your Spiritual Self lives here on Earth through your body and mind. It could be said that your Spirit is creatively using your physical body to live its Earthly life! At all times your Spirit is connected to your body and mind. Your Spirit exists in the non-physical world with which we cannot view directly. That world may be heaven, the collective unconscious, Tao, Higher Consciousness, or any locations of the divine you choose. It doesn’t matter what you call it or which religion you practice, converting your dreams to reality works for everyone.
We Are Energetic Beings
Consider the notion that the unseen Spiritual entity is a form of pure energy, an Energetic Being. It is the lightest form of energy, thus the concept of a Light Being. Conversely, imagine yourself as a denser (molecular solid) form of energy manifesting as a human being. To live on Earth we need to be denser (is that so gravity will work?). The densest solids are below our feet making up the Earth. The rocks and heavy metals come from the ground. Using the energy metaphor, we are all molecules of energy from top to bottom (Heaven to Earth), just in varying forms of density!
If you can imagine this, it is easier to make the leap in understanding how we express our Spirituality in everything we do. The beauty of our human form is that we have conscious control over our mind and body to guide this energy in any direction we choose! In martial arts we “borrow” energy. We work with and channel the energy toward a particular end or goal. As martial “artists” we learn to use energy creatively. If people who master “fighting skills” call themselves artists, why can’t we think of ourselves as creative goal achievers? We do the same in making our dreams come true only we use our bodies to do different things like compose, talk, build, etc. rather than kick or punch in self-defense! In the broadest sense, we are all creative. We are all artists of our lives. Give yourself credit for being more creative than you previously thought!
Visualize Your Destination
If we think of our bodies as cars and we are at the steering wheel, our mind is imagining, dreaming about where we want to go. What is our destination? The body can’t do anything until the mind crystallizes the destination. The entire process of thinking about where we want to go is a spiritual one. It’s our mental and emotional energy tapping into our chosen source of inspiration and motivation. You may call that praying, meditating, or daydreaming. Again, what you call it matters less than realizing that you already do this naturally and you’ve always been in control.
Our goals come from our Dreams and Desires. Our Dreams are created by our thoughts, feelings, mental pictures, and visualizations. Our thoughts and feelings are the initial manifestation of our spirit, our soul. Our spirit is like the wind, invisible, yet felt.
For purposes of goal-setting, it doesn’t matter which lens you wear, only that you acknowledge there is a presence greater than us which we cannot explain. We simply know and believe.
Step 1: Write It Down
The first step in setting a goal is to think, imagine, visualize, and write all of your Dreams and Desires… Try it! Download your thoughts, don’t hold back, it’s only paper!