STOP THE GLORIFICATION OF "BUSY"!

I started four blog posts last month- all left behind mid-sentence like half eaten meals that have gone cold and are now unappetizing. I will spare you those. What keeps coming to my attention is how the terrible cost of the glorification of ‘busy’ distracts us from health, happiness  and love. I hear it every day…people too busy doing nothing that matters who have no time for what does.

 

The way that we are taught to glorify being busy- which is the enemy of clarity, satisfaction and ease- is a disease.  I watched one friend who was literally dying, insist on spending her last days trying to finish a work project and pay bills rather than bask in the love of her children and friends. She refused to admit that her life was ending despite all evidence to the contrary. Such is the power of the busy mind.  I broke my heart watching that happen, and turned my awareness on the ways that I too have used being ‘busy’ as a distraction from my own happiness, my dreams and my desires. I am awake and I am taking action.

 

Fall is here. I love fall. As the weather cools I am feeling a powerful urge to purge. I’m going through every thing …and I mean every.little.thing. from the closets to the storage space, from suitcases to dresser drawers, from trinkets to jewelry boxes to old habits, ideas and shabby stories and ideas that no longer serve me.  Clutter is OUT  and Clarity is in. Everything that’s half-assed must go. The time is now & I’m ready! I am in the process of making my outer world match my inner world. I invite you to do the same.

 

Happiness is my priority.  I’m even, exploring new career options (yep, I’m thinking of a B & B, or a little organic restaurant or whatever else may call to me)   I am filled with creative drive and fired up about writing books, creating new music, and doing new workshops in new locations. (You’ll get a list very soon when the September newsletter comes out… FREE Teleclass, an on line training,  a new program in MD, and two in Florida…Wheeeee!)

 

 But am I too busy? No. I am flowing rather than scheduling, listening to my dreams, meditating, walking, working out and doing all the stuff I swore I was ‘too busy’ to do before the bricks to the head woke me.  I notice that the more I ‘flow’ with things, the more time shifts bends and folds to accommodate whatever is going on.  There's plenty of time.

 

After this past year of slowly gaining my health and losing friends and brilliant souls like Robin Williams, I am itching to strip off my old self and old stories like a snake shedding its skin, and create a new world that’s in deeper alignment with who I am, what I want to experience and where I want to go in life.  I hope you do too. Please come and  cross this bridge with me.

 

The self that lives in the Surface world that focuses on 'Busy' is only part of who  we are. We are also wild beings flickering in an infinite sea of Being free from the usual constructs of time. Busy doesn’t exist.  It’s a story of distraction used by the mind to keep us repeating the old familiar (often irritating) minutia, because the truth is, we’re afraid to let ourselves be the powerful playful shining beings that we are. We are dreamers first and foremost, we are story tellers and mystics and visionaries.  When our imagination ignites our emotions that power reaches out calling experiences to life.

 

When we stop filling up our time with mindless business- when we stop buying the story that we’re ‘too busy’  to be/do/have what our soul longs for-we transform.  Our lives transform. And the whole world becomes a little brighter.   I know you have heard these words before countless times…but I urge you shake off the consensual trance you live in, and rise…end the glorification of ‘busy’ and instead, fly boldly into your dreams.

 

DREAM SEEDS

My week in the Dream Teacher Training program with Robert Moss was like a week in the wilderness on one of those survival shows. Well, not quite that bad, but really, my idea of ‘roughing it’ is a 40 watt light bulb, so the heat, bugs, outdoor shower building, and the cane assisted long walk to the training site (a Yurt with no bathroom)  several times a day, left me exhausted. I went for five nights on just five hours’ sleep or less each night.  The physical discomfort of course added to the other-worldly quality of the training, made my dreams more vibrant and gave me the ability to be truly half in the surface world and half in the Dreaming for the entire time- and several days thereafter I might add.

 

The training itself- excellent. The people-wonderful. The food-exceptional.  There were 31 people in the training which included peeps who flew in from Romania, Dominican Republic, Australia, Canada and all across the US from NJ to Portland. The training exercises included tracking dreams, dreamwork for healing, precognitive dreaming and also waking dream-journeys into each other’s dreams and to the place between worlds to speak with the departed.  The training was a potent and rich series of experiences demonstrating how this waking world rises from The Dreaming.  

 

The Dreaming and our connection to it is not just about night dreams- it is the primary location of our consciousness- the Home of our soul, and the source of our decision making deep mind- the place where, in addition to working out the mundane events of our lives- we try on possible futures, diagnose ourselves, meet with others, visit real places, speak with the dead, and preview coming events. The Dreaming is where that 2/3 of our awareness ‘lives’ – otherwise known as our Deep Mind or Unconscious, or Subconscious.  This is where many decisions are made that we never know about in our waking life…but we DO know the way coincidence and synchronicity play across our Surface lives, bringing magic and mystery…the logic of non-linear order, to our attention. These are great road signs to follow.

 

Try this at home…incubate a dream…go to sleep with a clear intention to receive a dream about something important to you…healing, a job, your lover, a child…and whatever dream you have, even though you may not at first recognize the connection…sit with it. Be with the dream. Honor it in some way. Let your dreams- both your night dreams and your daydreams- your powerful imagination help you nurture the seeds you plant in your life.

 

No matter what we’re growing, a habit, a business, a relationship, a new story about ourselves or our lives, just like any seed that’s planted, the first thing we need to do when that little seedling sprouts, is put it in the sun, water it and tend it.  As we grow our dreams, they are both the infant and the parent. They are powerful guides and tender shoots that need attention. The thoughts we entertain and the people we surround ourselves with can nurture growth or cause that seedlings death from neglect- also known as distraction.

 

Being kind and attentive with yourself as you learn to listen to and decode your dreams…treat yourself as you would a preschooler learning to ride a bike. The right combination of  encouragement, training, repetition and willingness to push through  fear moves you forward, and can make your best dreams come true.