Make My Dreams Reality

I have a dream of a world where people are an integral part of nature and we show our love and respect with our actions every day; a world where people have a growing awareness of how to change our habits to care for the earth, and a growing and expanding love, to shift us all towards life.

I read the phrase "transformative eco-justice" on a webpage a few months ago, and it has been hanging in my heart: My dream is to live that transformation, and teach about it. 

Agenda:

1. Read "How to Manifest"

2. Write an invocation

3. Starting

1. Read "How to Manifest":

I'm reading a book called "How to Manifest", by Laura Chung; it's a 40 day program to "Make Your Dreams a Reality". 

Manifestation is such a fad word, so I like to just use CREATE. I have one big dream that I'm making slow progress on -- to Teach Medicine Art --  and I hope to use this book to kick me into action.

Day 5 - A Daily Spiritual Practice: "Daily devotion is a time when you set an intention to quiet your mind and to notice and be aware of your inner world and the energy around you." This is when I can access my intuition for guidance. (I'm not sure what it is that guides me, but that's as good a way to describe it as the next.) Spiritual practice puts me in the right space to embrace who I need to be in order to manifest my dreams.

She talks about the importance of daily spiritual rituals as a good way to break out of old habits and create new ones that better support our evolution. The two she suggests are an invocation, and an offering to Mother Earth.

Day 6 - Signs and Synchronicities: Here she loses me. Even though I'm a mystic, and I believe that God talks directly to me, and I'm quite able to use signs and divination tools to spark my intuition, I'm also pretty skeptical of people who create elaborate stories to explain coincidences in their lives, or put a lot of significance in numerology.

I teach caution when discerning your path forward. Check with others you trust before following the urges of your intuition. She does say, "...there is a time to act and a time to rest". Take the time to be sure you got the message right before you act.

Day 7 - Start Where You Are:  Today I'll think about the process for making my dream real, which starts with believing it can be real. I will meditate and journal on my dream and my intention to move forward, towards opportunities that will help me create it, towards love and unity. 

2. Write an invocation:

An invocation is a poetic way to call on someone (God, the Universe, my Inner Guide) for assistance. Invocations are like a prayer or a blessing, and can be as long or short as needed.

I wanted to write an invocation that I'll actually use, so not too long or too 'woo woo'. 

I am of nature: air, fire, earth, water, plant and animal.

I thank all that sustains me and seek to be in unity.

I plan to use this invocation whenever I'm outside. When I'm alone in my garden, I use gestures to remind me of my connection: air (big breath), sun (stretch up), then touching earth, water, plants, and my own animal self.

3. Starting:

I've been wondering what it is that's holding me back from just offering to teach about Medicine Art and transformative eco-justice, and I've decided it's the same old two things that always hold me back:

-I don't believe I'm expert enough in the field.

-I'm afraid people might belittle me.

I can take care of the first by studying my heart out - I'm good at that; I'll learn the science, and reinforce it with the art and folklore that I'm already strong in.

The second I just need to turn over to God. I know I'm a fierce, strong person and can handle people being petty.