Daydreams
What do your daydreams say about you?
I daydream quite a bit. I have an active imagination and often find myself drifting into other realities. I imagine the future. Sometimes I imagine the past. Sometimes I imagine entirely fictional scenarios for my own amusement. Mostly what I daydream about is focused on positive outcomes, things I desire for myself or for the collective. But it wasn’t always this way...
Perhaps you’ve heard of using daydreaming as a manifestation tool. Aka visualization. You visualize what you want while simultaneously feeling the desired feelings of what it would be like to be experiencing that reality as if it were happening now. This practice has been coming up a lot in my personal life recently and it’s made me realize something I hadn’t put words to until now. That in order to really visualize and 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 your most wild and heartfelt and deepest of desires- you have to feel worthy of them first.
You see, there was a long span of time in my life where I didn’t feel worthy, and so my daydreams energetically matched what I felt about myself. I would basically be having day nightmares. They were like little mental visualizations of all the ways in which my life could go wrong. I could get robbed, I could get assaulted, I could get in a car accident, my partner could leave me, my job could fire me, the list goes on and on. And honestly, I think for a long time I didn’t even realize that was where my head was. Or that I could do anything about it. It was just the way things were.
When I started consciously doing self love practices, something shifted within me. It’s not that my daydreams magically switched from anxious to inspired. What happened was that I started 𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 how dark they really were. And I would pause, and get curious, and ask myself why is that?
Then I started playing with consciously changing them. I would stop the camera reel mid roll, and say no way, that’s not what I want for myself, how about this instead.
It was a process, one that I am still actively in, and that I am in no way perfect at. But over time I have retrained my brain towards loving outcomes.
Now does this mean that I only ever experience good and positive things in my life? No, and in my opinion anyone who promises that life is always going to be rainbows and unicorn farts is either on something or selling it. But what has happened is that I am more 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 to see the good in all situations and I am more easily able to pick myself up when things get difficult.
In other words, this practice has made me more 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵.
And like all practices, it is just that, a practice. Meaning you actually have to do it, consistently, to see results.
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