What's the Dream that Helps You Cope?

Dreams that are postponed -- as so many are -- can still have a magical power in our lives.  

Some shine brightly, lending a bit of sunny hope during otherwise difficult years.  

Some keep your eyes focused on the far horizon and fuel the determination to keep learning, keep striving, keep moving forward even if progress seems painfully incremental.

Some  are the velvet cushion to land on when reality knocks you down.

What's the dream that helps you cope when life is not a fairy tale of sweetness and light?

I'm convinced that postponed dreams don't always have to be about manifesting a extraordinary accomplishments for them to play a very important role in emotional health, and personal success. This is true because not all secret dreams are about finding the treasure or living in the castle -- or the acquisition of the external trappings of happiness ever after.

On the contrary, some secret longings are about making a difference in other people's lives with the more angelic impulses in our character -- generosity, kindness, empowerment, or with the gifts of beauty, compassion, and understanding.

An as yet unmet dream can indeed help you cope with the mundane pressures of daily life.  Give yourself the chance for your dream to serve you in this way by taking 5 minutes every day for dream visualization.  You can do this:

• in the shower 
• before getting out of bed
• instead of an after work martini 
• on a noontime walk in the park
• with the kids as a bedtime routine

or any time you give your mind permission to be in coping dream mode.

I'd love to hear about how your dream helps you cope.  Go ahead and use the comment form to share.

Help Me Realize MY Secret Dream

Now that this blog is established, and the survey is collecting stories -- have you contributed yours yet?? -- I'm moving forward on the next step of my own secret dream.

I'd like to interview 3 women this month as I begin a more in depth exploration in my research that will eventually lead to a book in some form.

In just the past few days I've run into a growing number of women who are expressing a lack of fulfillment in their current lives, and a yearning for more.  This need for self-actualization has been bubbling within us for a long, long time, and it's beginning to come to the surface like never before.

No longer are we willing to settle for the life we were told we were supposed to lead.  No more do we want to keep silent about what we really think, what we really want, and what actually does give our lives a sense of meaning and purpose.

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For some of us the lost and secret dreams have been so long repressed -- as if locked away in a beautiful treasure box -- that we're struggling to see clearly their unique and sparkling features that  attracted our attention in days of long ago.

Talking about what you yearn for can serve to bring the details back into mind, where you can re-evaluate, re-envision, and re-commit, and begin to take action on them.

If you are ready to talk about the dream you used to have for your life -- or the one that's recently started pressing itself into your consciousness -- I'd like to talk with you about it.

I'm especially interested in hearing from you if you live in the Pacific Northwest, as I will be travelling throughout Washington state soon to meet with you in person.

If you feel called by your dream, if you feel pulled to this project and want to know more about possibly becoming on of the women interviewed send an email to me at SoulLifeProject@gmail.com.