I was working with one of my new website clients a few weeks ago. In my Sacred Website program I always start my clients off by encouraging them to visualize their ideal business, how much money they want to make, how many hours will they work each week and how it will feel to really be living their business dream.
This particular client, not unlike many of my clients, reported to me that she was having trouble imagining her ideal business. She said she was so locked into old beliefs about working hard for money that it was just impossible for her to really visualize a business that was easy, profitable and fun.
This email is NOT about business, so keep reading…
The real problem here was not related to her business. My client is suffering from a malady that afflicts many, if not most of us. She had lost touch with her imagination. The density of life had seduced her away from the realm of pure creative potential and rooted her in the linear world of “possible”.
Imagination is a natural part of our brain function. In fact, our imagination is the vehicle for our learning in our early years. Through stories and images we master basic concepts and even more advanced things like values and morals.
When we are young, our creative capacity rules our world. Have you ever had dinner with a four-year-old ballerina or Davy Crockett? Young children truly live in the imaginary realm. They aren’t just dressed up as ballerinas or wild-west heroes, they ARE what they are imagining themselves to be.
But, pretty soon on our journey of life, we get knocked down for dreaming too much or too big. How many times were you told to “get real” with your life? When did you first get the message to pare back your dreams and be…realistic?
Think about it. If someone calls you a “dreamer”, it’s not necessarily a compliment, is it?
But, if we’re not dreaming, how will we stretch and grow beyond our current reality? Take a minute and look around the room where you are reading this blog post. Everything you see started first as a thought or a dream in someone’s mind.
You’re probably reading this on a computer, right? If you are my age (or a wee bit older), if someone had told you, when you were 15 years old, that someday we would be typing messages to each other that would be delivered instantly on tiny, hand-held computers, would you have thought they were dreaming?
We can only create to the extent that our imagination allows us. And if we imagine beyond what our logical minds or our experience allows us, we are deeply conditioned to believe that what we imagine is “impossible” and therefore not possible for us to live or create.
We even have expressions such as, “I can’t even imagine…” and “impossible dreams…”
When we stop dreaming and allowing ourselves to imagine beyond our current life’s circumstances, we become like caged birds who accept that their cage is their home and natural habitat. We forget the flowers, insects, sweet fruit and sunshine. We accept our jail as reality and what we allow ourselves to experience becomes very dense and limited.
It’s no accident that when dictators and other totalitarian regimes take over a country, often the first thing they outlaw is art and any other forms of creative expression. When we shut down the imagination, we no longer dream of what it means to be free, or abundant, or joyful, or fulfilled, or powerful, or…the possibilities are only limited by your imagination…
The nature of the caged bird is to sing and dream of life beyond the cage. It is the consciousness of our dreams that create the golden templates for a new reality.
Not only for ourselves, but ultimately for the whole world.
Can you dream of a world that is limitlessly abundant, where all people have enough food, shelter, are safe and supported in fulfilling their Divine Potential in every way? Can you imagine a world of limitless possibility and abundance, an era of sustainable peace with resources that easily shared with everyone?
We can only create to the degree to which we imagine. Even that’s a bit limiting. We believe that we can’t create beyond what we can imagine. It’s an artificial boundary we’ve set for ourselves in the conscious awareness of our current reality. What if we were creative beyond even our wildest dreams?
Think about this for a minute…
What if you could imagine a reality that was unbounded by the “possible” and deeply rooted in the realm of “miracles”? What if we all held a belief that the non-linear and seemingly “impossible” was merely a daily occurrence in our reality? And that we didn’t have to know the “how” of something to make it possible? That all we had to do was imagine a potential outcome and trust that the “how” would be revealed to us in magical and amazing ways?
It could happen…
In the meantime, let’s all LARP.
For those of you who are older than 20, like me, LARP is an acronym for Live Action Role Play.
It’s a new concept for me.
Two weeks ago I picked my oldest son up from college and drove him home. On our way home, we passed a field full of tents and picnic tables. Grown men were running around with large foam rubber swords chasing each other around and having a pretty darn good time, it looked like.
As we drove by, my son yelped, “COOL…they’re LARPing!!”
“LARPing?” I asked.
“Live Action Role Playing,” he replied, rolling his eyes at me. (At what age do they stop rolling their eyes?)
I’ve thought about this LARPing thing a lot since then. I think it’s a pretty cool concept. Dress up and pretend you’re doing something fun, creative, delicious, passionate and juicy. Use your imagination and play hard with a bunch of like-minded people.
I’ve decided to LARP my imaginary life. I'm thinking this has to be a powerful way to help me remember my creative potential.
In my game, I live in an abundant world where the Universe perfectly conspires to bring me opportunities, circumstance, and synchronicities that perfectly match my abundant vibration.
Want to join me?
I have lots of room for my Divine LARPing Buddies!
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Love,
Karen
