As a kid I was always getting yelled at to “pay attention” and “keep on track”. But, if I am honest with you, I preferred to be daydreaming. I always got my best ideas that way, and it also helped my brain to relax and unwind. As an adult, I still do the same thing. I was wondering “Is Daydreaming Good for You?” so I checked out the answer. Turns out it is one of the best things you can do to boost your creativity – and productivity. Check it out.
“Many around you want to point out “reality” to you. They say, “Face the facts. Look at what-is.” And we say to you, if you are able to see only what-is—then, by Law of Attraction, you will create only more of what-is… You must be able to put your thoughts beyond what-is in order to attract something different or something more.” Abraham
I’m a daydreamer.
I spend a fair amount of time staring at the ceiling, or looking off into space. My vision blurs slightly, and my thoughts begin to converge on interesting topics and draw new conclusions together. Some of my biggest breakthroughs have occurred because I’ve always allowed myself the space I needed to allow creativity to sink in.
Oftentimes, I feel like creativity is like a timid wild animal—you can’t decidedly harness it—you have to wait quietly and let it come to you. I believe that by allowing ourselves the time to daydream, what we are really doing is allowing our creative thoughts to come to us. Rather than being a person of frantic action, we can be a person who quietly muses and can thereby dream a plan.
Daydreaming Into Being
I’ve been watching a lot of / listening to varied ideas about Thinking our way into being, rather than Acting our way into being.
->William James is a big proponent of this belief “As a man thinkith…”
->In the book, The Secret, we learned about “The Power of Attraction”.
->Even Einstein was a big daydreamer, and think of all the things he created!
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
–Albert Einstein
If you follow other metaphysical authors, there seems to be a recurring theme going on. While most of the population is running around trying to make things happen, a significant amount of people are Daydreaming their way to a new reality.
Think, Feel, Attract, Actualize
How do we go from a daydream into reality?
This is something I’ve toyed with for a number of years. You see, I’ve always had rather robust dreams, and yet, they’ve always seemed to come true. I use the process that I take my clients through, which is, in effect, a series of exercises that allows us to daydream or imagine the future, become clear on what it is we want, then create a series of integral steps toward achieving these goals.
While the process may sound simple, it is this very process that I believe sets up the success. It is like looking at an empty piece of land. Then you start to imagine… What could be? Once you start visualizing the roads, the restaurants, the town, it begins to make logical sense what order things need to happen in. One who is daydreaming about the possibilities of their life is much more apt to be pulling a plan of action towards them. When we believe something can happen *in a logical way), we are far more apt to begin taking action towards these goals.
Make an Imaginary Plan
I’m not talking about the kind of action like showing up to our piece of land and starting to dig all the roads yourself. That would be futile and exhausting. I’m talking about the ability to see a bird’s eye view of the plan, and start making the necessary contacts you need in order to make a goal flow smoothly, and almost effortlessly.
By opening ourselves to the possibilities, we feel it is possible, attend to the next actionable step, and before we know it, our daydream has become a real live fantasy.
Arriving at Success
Successful people understand this process very well. And, as they become more familiar with asking for what they want, they also become accustomed to receiving it. In the book, The Art of Allowing, Jerry and Ester Hicks talk repeatedly about their story . They imagined a way for them to help others realize their success, and through practice and meditation, they began to literally receive the information they were searching for!
“Decide what you want, believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it is possible for you. And then, close your eyes, every day for several minutes and visualize having what you already want, and feeling the feelings of already having it. Come out of that and focus on what you are grateful for already. And really enjoy it, and then go into your day and release it to the Universe and trust that the Universe will figure out how to manifest.”
Jack Canfield, The Secret
Not Convinced?? Check out this cool article, too:
and this, 15 Reasons Why Daydreamers are Better Learners
Keep On Dreaming!!
