Dreaming New Realities

New Year’s Eve and the world is still. Beautiful, calm and still. This is a quiet night this year. It felt necessary to be so. I cancelled plans for a party night out and instead I will be sinking into a Sound Healing with dear friends as the clock strikes midnight. It feels so right. So peaceful, so deep, so calm. Exactly how I want to welcome this New Year in. A time I have named the Year of Dreaming New Realities. Now it all makes sense. In order to dream, one needs stillness.

As I write these words and say goodbye to 2022, I am amazed how long this year has felt. It seemed to pass so quickly yet looking back it seems like it was a lifetime! Time is funny. It is everything and nothing all at the same time. When 2022 began I was beginning a new job teaching reading online. That choice sent my life on a different trajectory. It brought me into the technological world in a big way. I could see a different way of being. A way that offered more options. A way where I did not have to be a slave to work, instead I could do it from the convenience of my home, or anywhere in the world for that matter. It gave me freedom. It gave me hope. It gave me possibilities.

Now, since September, that possibility helped me to retire and say goodbye to teaching in schools. It opened me up to new ideas like blogging, graphic design and publishing. It made me see that the world is filled with potential; all that is necessary is to open and awaken to it. See things differently, break free from conditioning that says there is only one way. Be free to want less and feel more. The path is not nearly as narrow and straight as we are led to believe. There is so much out there. So many different ways to get where you want to be. The hard part is in opening your mind to dreaming what you want.

In our busy world we do, do, do. We feel guilty when we just ‘be’. We are fed a constant stream of you must do this, you need to have this, you should look like this, you are obligated to… Where is the human side to all of this? When do we find time to sit in the stillness, to be in nature, to listen to our loved ones, to find the callings of our soul? We don’t. At least not until we choose to live life differently.

Now it’s not all a bed of roses, I’m sure you’ve read my other posts. But what I do know is when you start the journey, you will find your way through to the other side. There may be a dark night of the soul (or two, or three…), but you will get there. For me it took about 4-6 weeks. That’s not too long to make a big life adjustment. For the first 3 months I was busy enjoying my newfound freedom. There was no time to feel anything except excitement and newness. But when that ran out, I came face-to-face with myself, and that was not pretty! It’s like looking in a magnified mirror at every little imperfection. But what matters is I got there. Now I look forward to the exciting task of dreaming new realities. Wow. That’s powerful. So, friends, as this year comes to a close, I hope you find time to say goodbye to 2022 and spend some time dreaming about what type of reality you would like to create for 2023. Happy New Year!