Make Space For Your Dreams

Recently I wrote about the Law of Attraction and how to best apply the principles of manifesting. Now I think it’s appropriate to take it one step further and discuss what happens when you are faced with the reality of achieving your dream.

What happens when the one thing that has always eluded you turns up on your doorstep? How can we prepare ourselves for the delivery of our dreams?

My experience has taught me that whilst desiring, asking and believing are all great – equally important is the ability to receive that which you have asked for.

It is easy to spend your life in a constant state of longing; dreaming of the moment when everything falls into place – the perfect job, perfect home, perfect partner, only to find that when the dream arrives, you renege on the deal.

Safety Trap

You become the proverbial horse that bows its head at the fence and backs away, crawling into the ‘safety’ of the familiar, however dull. In effect, we step back onto the treadmill of ‘wanting.’

Wanting doesn’t require you to take responsibility or to change. Achieving your dream may well do. Wanting keeps you in a state of limbo, or for a more secular analogy – in a no-man’s land!

Making space for your dream to materialise is as much a part of the law of attraction as any other aspect.

Peter’s Story

Recently I coached a client (he’s happy for me to reveal this) who I’ll call Peter.

Peter believed he was ready to meet his perfect partner. He’d wanted to meet her for a number of years but all he really knew was that feeling of wanting.

After learning about the Law of Attraction, Peter was eager to test the theory and shortly afterwards manifested the woman of his dreams. Result!

But his ‘dream’ was short lived and after a brief relationship they parted. Peter couldn’t figure out what had gone wrong. As coaching progressed we discovered that he had made no preparation to enable him to joyfully accept his dream partner.

Breakthrough

He suddenly had a breakthrough. Here’s what he realised: he still had a poem he had written for his ex-wife hanging on his bedroom wall: his photograph albums were filled with pictures of his ex-partners: he even had his ex-wife’s engagement ring in his bedside cabinet and he had love notes from various ex-girlfriends in his kitchen cupboards.

Ahaa! His ‘dream’ simply didn’t have the space to breathe or grow. As this realisation dawned on him, he began to grasp that his lack of preparation had prevented him from allowing a new relationship to evolve.

I’m not suggesting that you deny your past. We all have one. But there comes a time when you may need to acknowledge it, wrap it up, put it away and move forward.

Can you honestly say if you manifested your dream tomorrow you would be ready for it?