Secret Rebel Guide to Living Your Dreams in 2012

When you live your dreams you change the world.

2012 is new terrain for us all – a more heart-centred way of being; a new paradigm.  This year, more than any other, we will be guided by our Souls and feel the need to live our dreams.

So now that we are in the first month of this new year tell me, what dreams are you holding close to your heart?

Help people to heal? Save the planet? Write a novel? Travel to Hawaii? Meet your soul partner? Start a family? Learn a new language? Explore the creative side of you that got put on hold when you got a ‘proper job’ or had children? Climb a mountain? Earn your living teaching what you’re passionate about? Build an eco-house? Grow your own food? Go on retreat?

This is the year to hold your dreams close and make them come true. No matter how small your dreams may seem, they are part of a bigger dream. They are part of the consciousness of 2012. They are part of a world dream; a new way of being.

Every time you think a life-affirming, soul-enhancing thought you are adding to that energy in the world. Every time you dream and envision a different future you are adding to that energy in the world.

Every time you make choices from your Soul you change the world for the better.

“If your soul is your ultimate place in the world and you need to live from that place to be fully yourself, then the world cannot be fully itself until you become fully yourself.” Bill Plotkin

Those of us making our dreams come true now are making the shift that turns the planet on its axis. Previous generations were not afforded the luxury of living their dreams because their focus was mostly on survival.

We are living in a unique and rare moment in time.

We are the rule breakers, the dream-livers, the visionaries

The secret rebels of Soul-centred living

The trail-blazing pioneers of a new paradigm

The role models for a new future on a heart-centred planet.

When you live your dreams you feed your Soul. You light the world up with the radiance that shines out of you and make the world a brighter place.

When you plant a flag in the moon of your dreams you make it easier for other people to send up the rockets of their desires. Soon living our dreams will be the default setting for all of us – soon the vibration of the planet will be that which supports us all to live in congruence with our Soul dreams. When you live your dreams you give other people permission to do the same.

But living our dreams can be scary and it brings up all sorts of uncomfortable ‘stuff’ like doubt and lack of confidence and fear, so sometimes we ignore the dreams that call us because the emotional price of listening feels too high.

When we start to imagine living our dreams we come face-to-face with fears that we might not see otherwise.

Fear that you won’t be able to support yourself financially, fear that your dream might not look so beautiful when you show it to the world, fear about what other people will think, fear of failure. It can be a minefield but it can also be a beautiful soul initiation as you journey through those fears and manifest your dreams with all the wisdom you gained from facing your fears.

I created the Live Your Dreams Soul Blend from flower and gem essences that specifically address these fears and flood you with the vibrations of self-belief, inner knowing, confidence and determination so you can bring your dreams down to earth (Live Your Dreams Soul Blend is on special offer with 10% off until the end of January).

Flower and gem essences are one of the resources for living your dreams that I use and recommend regularly. Read on for some wonderful online resources and everyday wisdom gleaned from years of secretly rebelling against the ‘norm’ and making my dreams come true.

12 Secret Rebel Tips for Living Your Dreams in ’12

1. Give yourself permission to dream and visualise and listen to your heart. I love this free Dreaming and Visioning the Year to Come guide from Joanna Powell Colbert of the Gain Tarot which has the perfect mix of creative vision and practical actions.

2. Imagine or visualise your dreams regularly. A potent visualisation is to imagine a day in your dream life. Get centred and quiet and imagine your perfect day, dreaming up all the details. Write down every single part from getting up the morning to going to bed at night: what you do, what you eat, who you spend time with, where you go……every tiny detail.

3. Make quiet space on a regular basis for your dreams to unfold. Meditate, pray, stare at a blank wall, go for a walk on your own – anything that switches you off from noise and sensory over-stimulation and switches you on to your inner wisdom (Barefoot Breathing is perfect for this. Just saying!)

4. Follow your inner promptings to take action: it’s that gorgeous alchemical power of using your wise feminine inner knowing with your dynamic masculine ability to act that turns a dream into reality.  Without action, a dream just stays a dream floating around in the ether so when you feel inspired to do something to further your dream, just do it!

5. Dreams grow stronger when you share them with someone who loves and supports you. They’ll nurture your dreams and help them grow. This also gives you someone to check in with who can help you to see the progress you’ve made when you feel stuck so choose a friend to help you nurture your dreams and speak to them this week.

6. Fledgling dreams are fragile and can easily get broken when you tell them to people who don’t share your vision so carefully choose who you share your dreams with. If you know that your partner or your mother or your boss will shoot your dreams out of the sky don’t put yourself in the firing line by telling them just yet. There will be plenty time for that when it’s the launch party for your book/interview for new job/a month until you leave the country!

7. Find a mentor who has done similar things to what you’re wishing for and learn from them. Ask around in your local area or among your contacts or Google what you’re dreaming about. In the interests of research I just googled the most random thing I could think of that someone might be dreaming about: riding yaks bareback in Mongolia and yes, Google had links for this. However random or wild your dream might be there will be someone out there who has done it or something similar! Ask them for tips.

8. Use vibrational medicine like flower and crystal essences, crystals, homeopathy or sound healing to raise your vibration by expanding your heart and releasing your fears.  I love this May All Your Dreams Come True Meditation from Doreen Virtue.

9. Switch off from popular media that force-feeds us with fear and low expectations about life. Most TV and radio news shows and newspapers and *shudder* reality TV are low vibration so be conscious about the energy you’re choosing to feed yourself with.

10. Trust.  Hold the vision, be open to the unexpected but never stop believing. If you get setbacks or disappointments dust yourself off, glean the Soul wisdom from what’s happened and keep on believing. If you can dream it, you can do it.

11. Focus.  I first had the dream of setting up a Bach flower community garden about 6 years ago and I tried to do it at 3 different projects in Scotland before I found the perfect place after moving to England. I never abandoned the dream, I kept it close to my heart and I kept tending it and focusing on it until it was right time and right place and it happened.

12. Get inspired by people who are earning their living Soulfully and have resources which will help you to do the same like Goddess Leonie, Mark Silver and Jonathan Mead. Soak up their free resources and invest in those that really inspire you.

You’re a beautiful snowflake, completely unique.  You are the only person who has the  dreams that are inside you and the ability to make them come true.

In the words of this song: “There is a life that’s been addressed, addressed to you intended only for your eyes.”

PS One of these is an affiliate link (no it’s not the bareback yak riding one – it’s the link to Goddess Leonie) and a couple are shameless self-promotion. The rest? Simply for your edification and delight.