Owls and Orchids

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. “
John F. Kennedy

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I’ve been giving this a great deal of thought of late.  What is it that drives so many people to travel the world? If you asked, most would say they want to experience another lifestyle, another culture, to see new places and experience new things.  So, if that is the case, what is wrong with the life they are living that they need to travel outside their normal everyday lives to find the excitement and adventure they crave?

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In a large part I believe it is a dissatisfaction with the life they are currently living, but what is that? In my opinion, I believe it is not BEing present in their own day-to-day lives.  They miss the beauty of the sunrise or sunset, they fail to see the smile from someone they helped across the street, they forgot the simple pleasure of hearing “thank you’ from someone for whom  they did something, or even the smile from a blind person who is collecting from his usual place on the footpath.  They have forgotten to BE present in their own lives and have forgotten to notice what is happening around themselves.

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Recently we watched as Rachael Leahcar, technically blind, wowed audiences night after night with her incredible singing on  “The Voice”. She was inspirational, and it struck me then that if she can remain so happy and cheerful, upbeat and looking forward to an incredible future with her challenges, then  what is stopping the rest of us from doing the same thing?  We don’t have her challenges. Admittedly we may have our own, some smaller, perhaps some larger.  To me, and for me, it became a matter of degree. Almost “Six degrees of Separation“.

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Let me explain.  To my way of thinking we are all given choices, both before we are born and after.  It is only my belief, although shared by many others, that we decide on the way in which we will learn the life lessons we have been born to learn.  We choose the good experiences and the bad. Sounds crazy to some I know, but how would you explain why two apparently similar lives can turn out so vastly different?  This can even relate to two identical twins, identical in all respects but their lives can be totally different; one has ‘all the luck’ and makes a huge success, money,  travel,  you name it they have it, whilst the other, seems destined for all the bad breaks and never makes ‘a go of it’.

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I know that they have chosen to learn different lessons this time round and the lessons are presented to them in ways they have agreed to but cannot recall. The things they learn along the way will be vastly different. Neither is right or wrong, they simply are.  The same thing applies to our families and friends. How we respond to our challenges depends on the way we integrate our lessons into our lives.  It depends on how we dream our way through our lives.  Strange concept.  Our dreams are incredibly important.  Studies have shown that people who have bad sleep patterns, who cannot sleep for long periods, who fail to get into the deep dream state, (theta brainwaves),  approach each day, every experience in a different manner to those who have abundant sleep and dreams.  They are carrying an extra ‘ball and chain’ around with them that they don’t need.

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When we dream, consciously or in our sub conscious as we sleep, we  integrate all we have learned from the day with what we have already learned previously. It adds to sum total of our experiences.  When we wake we automatically put all these things into play.  Our behaviours has been ‘modified’ by the new experiences we have ‘recorded’ and how it has effected the sum total of who we are.  Sounds cool? I think so. We have the power to shape how we respond to the days happenings and how they are integrated into our  ‘knowledge base’.  I choose to take the positive experience out of any negative that may occur and turn it to my advantage.  It takes a little work, okay, perhaps at times a lot of work, but in the end it is worth every second.  I have chosen to join with like-minded people who support and mentor me and I know have the benefit of a greater outlook on life than I previously had.

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So, if you can’t rewrite your crappy day, write your dream before you get to bed and dream a dream of a beautiful day where everything is marvellous and wonderful and you have a fantastic time.  I guarantee that when you wake up you will feel on top of the world and the approaching day will  be no trouble at all.  If you’ve included your work day, then I wouldn’t  be surprised if many of the dream scenarios didn’t turn out precisely as you dreamed them.  It sounds great doesn’t it?  So, dial-up your dream day, date, holiday, job, whatever it is, and ask the Universe to please deliver it to you.  Then sit back and watch it all unfold. It may not be exactly as  ordered, the higher powers sometimes give you something even better.

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So dream your dream day, your dream life and see what happens. I’m going to do the same now.  Happy dream scripting.   My dream will make the world go round….  a world trip I think.  Wonderful.

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  “Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.” ~ William Ellery Channing