DreamBuilder Program by Mary Morrissey

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Transcript – Week 2

Designing & Testing Your Dream Now, this next section requires that you have picked a dream. If you haven’t picked a dream, I want to suggest something to you. Here’s the deal, you don’t get a choice about creating a life. Again, you’re going to create a life, you will keep breathing another 525,600 minutes or another 12 months. In the next 12 months, you will create a year of life.

You don’t get to not create a life so make up something. At least make up a possible life something that you would love to experience, or be, or do, or give, or express. Make something up if you haven’t thought of something on your own. You need that in order to go forward with these principles. You’d have to have something to apply it to.

Dr. Jean Houston, the famous anthropologist, told me a story once about an old man who was walking through a botanical garden. As he’s walking through the botanical garden, he gazes at a cactus plant he’s passing and he notices there’s a little frog on the cactus.

As he passes by he hears, “Mr., Mr., I am a princess trapped in a frog’s body. All you have to do is kiss me and I will turn into my princess self and I will give you any pleasure you desire.” The old man puts his hand out and the frog jumps on his hand. He brings the frog right up to his mouth and then he gently takes the frog and puts the frog in his pocket.

He hears this muffled [inaudible 00:01:35] he pulls up the frog and she goes, “You don’t get it. I’m a princess trapped in this frog’s body. All you have to do is kiss me. I will turn into my princess self and I’ll give you any pleasure you desire.” He holds the frog back up close to his mouth and then he says, “Frankly at my age, I’d rather have a talking frog.”

Of course, it made me laugh when she told me that story. What I loved about it was just because most people would think that’s something you should want is a princess who can give you any pleasure you want, most guys would want that, this guy had his own center of gravity.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Just because life tosses you an idea or just because somebody is living a certain way, you get to decide what matters to you. You want your dream to be something that matters to you, that’s really in harmony with your own soul’s purpose. Now, how will you know that? We’re going to take a little test.

I’m going to ask you five questions that you will apply to the possibility of the dream that you are deciding for. By the end of this lesson, you will have decided for a dream. Now, you’ve been in consideration of a dream, you’ve been exploring the possibilities about how dreams work.

You understand that everything is created twice, that thoughts held in mind reproduce after their kind.

That you are a creative presence and power, and you don’t get a choice about that, that you will design a life or you default to the position of the patterns you’ve had. You’re choosing to explore possibilities, entertain ideas, move into the imaginal realm.

Construct a thought form of possibility that you fall in love with that’s what you’re doing here in dream building. Just because an idea comes up, you test it. Is this really the life I want to live? There’s five questions that will help you decide if this dream is worthy of you putting your life energy into it.

Most people, when they get a really great dream, get an idea about something they’d like to do, they ask the wrong question. They say, “Am I worthy of that?” It’s the wrong question. The real question is, “Is that dream worthy of me? Is it worthy of me?” You have this precious, precious thing called your life. It’s unrepeatable.

Every single day is a gift from the universe to be shaped. Actually, every day is like a lifetime in miniature.

It has a beginning, it has an end. You get to shape that. You can experience it as deeply or as shallowly as you choose. How you shape each day begins to create a pattern that becomes a form, that becomes an experience that we then say, “That was my life.”

You’re starting right now for the whole next year of your life. It does not have to be what it’s been before. It can be what you really long for if you’re willing to apply the principles that we’re talking about. Remember, they work if you work them. Consider a dream now. Bring one to mind or make one up. “This is the life I want to live.”

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Now, we’re going to ask some questions that will help us test that dream. First question, “When I think about living the life I’m imagining.” Imagine, move inside that life, just like Goody moved inside her hotel.

She got inside the upper room. She was seeing the fire and the embers, and the empty coffee pot and the conversations, and the dessert plates with crumbs on them.

She felt so fulfilled. Imagine the life you want to live. Question number one, does it give me life? Meaning when you step inside that dream, imaginally, do you feel an amplified aliveness? You want a yes to this question. Your life force will never lie to you. If you imaginally move into a dream and you feel containment or constriction, it’s not your dream.

Now, you may have a worthy goal. My dream is to get the garage cleaned out. Well, that might be a worthy goal to get your garage cleaned out, but it’s not really your dream. Your dream is for more expansive, expressive life. The forms of that will be unique to each one of us. The creativity and the lens through which that is expressed is unique as our thumbprint.

That it gives us more life is universal. When you imaginally put yourself inside the dream, do you feel more alive? Do you feel expansive? you want a yes to that question. Does it give me life? Yes. Number two, does it align with my core values? Now, you may not know what your core values are, and that would be a good exploration.

When all is said and done, and when you put your head on the pillow for the very last time and you will, what will have mattered to you? What matters most? I remember sitting with Robert Fulgum one time. He’s I think one of America’s great philosophers. He wrote the book, Everything I Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, and I was struck by it. He says, “Mary, don’t you find it odd when someone comes to you as a minister and they’ve just got this ashen face and they sit down, and they say, “I just found out I’m going to die.” He says, “Don’t you want to say to them, “How’d you get to be this age and just find this out?” I hadn’t ever thought of that, but it’s true.

Most of us walk through life pretending like it’s going to happen to other people. We’re really not on the list, when what’s true is we just never know when. This life is precious and it’s fragile. When it’s all said and done, what will have mattered most to you, those are your core values. It may be relationships. It might be family. ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream It might be giving your gift to the world. I don’t know what it is for you, but I know that you need to know.

You want to align your dream with your core values. Here’s the truth, your real dream will never ask you to be out of alignment or to mute or to mitigate your authentic true values. Here’s an example.

It was a young woman who came to me once. She took the dream building workshop, she was exploring this and she had a dream for adventure. When she got into the imaginal realm, she had never done any travel. She was in her early 30s, and I didn’t know much about her.

She’d taken the workshop. Then, she came back afterwards and made an appointment with me to talk. She said, “When I really got clear about what I want, it’s just like I just light up when I think about adventure. When I think about traveling and I just want to do that. I’ve never done any of that.”

She said, “I didn’t go to college. I went to work right away. I got a hair dressing license or a hair styling license. I’ve been cutting a hair all these years. I started thinking that I could actually cut hair on a cruise ship and I could go to exotic places and I see myself on these beaches.” You could just see her light up as she was talking about this possibility of exploring, traveling, expanding her horizons, cutting hair on a cruise ship. She said, “Then when you ask us to test it and it was like, does this align with my core values?

There’s this part of me that isn’t happy about my doing that. I said, “Describe that.”

She said, “Well, my husband is really in support of me. When she came, she had a contract from a major cruise line and it would mean she would go out for three months, come home for three weeks. Go out for three months and come home for three weeks for a 15-month process.

She says, “My husband loves me. He wants me to have what I wanted and he’s supportive. He’ll take care of everything, which includes our three-year-old, but I just don’t know about the long range effects what this will mean to my three-year-old over time when she’s 10 or 12. Will she resent that I missed a year of her life?”

I just looked at her and I said, “The fact that you are not settled about it is a very strong signal that it’s not in alignment with your own core values.” When it’s in alignment with your core values, you line up. All parts of you agree, not all parts of you will say you know how to do it, of course not.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream It’s outside the frying pan of what you’ve known, but you won’t have parts of you arguing with you about whether or not this is your path. I said to her, “What was that struck you about travel was really the call of adventure? Go back to the dream room. Go back to your imagination and explore other images of adventure.”

Adventure for the more adventure, for the expansive, adventure for a form of life where you’ve been feeling constricted and contained and too much routine, there is something [inaudible 00:10:23] you. The picture you got of adventure is not in line with your core values, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t an adventure for you.

Go back to the dream room. Explore, expand, consider, and pull out a big fish. She came back a couple weeks later and I could just tell by the light in her eyes and the lightness in her step and the way her shoulders were being held that whatever it was, she’d found it.

She sat down and she said, “I spent some real time getting close to myself listening in and exploring what adventure means. What I realized is I never went to college because my father had a viewpoint and the viewpoint was, “Girls are just going to get married and have babies anyway. They don’t need to go to college. We’re going to send the boys to college. My two daughters are not going to go to college.”

Then when I was the one who really wanted to go to college, anyway, he told me I wasn’t college material.

Believing that I went on and I became a hairstylist. The truth is I don’t want to do more hair styling. I was seeing a cruise ship as like a breaking free of something. I don’t want to do more hair cutting. I want to do less.”

“When I finally got connected, what I realized is I have always wanted to teach kids. I just think I would love to teach kindergarten ever since I was a little girl I saw myself teaching kindergarten. You have to have a college agree to do that. Absent that I haven’t been able to do, I’ve just done what I could do.

“When I shared that with my husband, he and I began to explore possibilities about how I really could do that. We’ve already been approved for an equity loan on our house that’s going to fund my education. I’m just going to work part-time. I’m going to go to school. I really think that I am college material and I want to find out.” ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream You could just see her adventure was the adventure of learning. That kid was not only smart, she was so smart, and she was so excited about the opportunity to learn. She did her whole four years of undergraduate work in elementary education in two years and a summer.

The three-year-old, two and a half years later is one of the students in her first class. When I went to visit her, here she was putting up bulletin boards and arranging the room and the feeling and the energy in that room, and her own child was going to be one of her first students.

Now, not only did she have her dream, but it was so in alignment with her core values, that it not only was a blessing to her, but everyone else who knew her. The question is does it give me life? Does it align with my core values?

Question number three, is your dream going to require that you grow? Talmud says every blade of grass has an angel leaning on it, whisper over it, “Whispering grow, grow, grow.”

That same pole of becoming is in you. Your current frying pan isn’t big enough. It’s going to require that you step into a larger dimension of yourself. Now, does it mean you know how to do that? No. Does it mean you know all that’s required? No, but can you see that to live a larger life you’re going to have to grow?

Grow in understanding, grow in awareness, grow in action, grow in the many different things that’ll be required to anchor and secure, and make stable than a larger experience of aliveness and life demonstration. That’s your dream. Does the dream require that I grow? You want a yes to that question.

That puts you in harmony with the way it works in the universe. Does it give me life? Does it align with my core values? Is it going to require that I grow? Number four, do I need help from a higher power? another way to ask this question is, do I know every single thing that needs to be done to bring about this dream?

If I know every single thing that needs to be done to bring about this dream, then the dream isn’t big enough. It’s just a worthy goal. It can be a really great worthy goal. If you already know everything there is to do to bring about the dream, it’s not big enough.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Here’s how it works, your dream actually pulls you into a larger dimension of who you’ve been created to be, but you are not yet aware of it. My dreams have pulled me into larger dimensions of awareness about who I really am, who I’ve been created to be. That dream is the future pull of the discovery of the authentic self.

Now, part of that is exploring in the unknown aspects of really who you are. You have to to allow the dream to build you, not just you build the dream. We’ll talk more about this as time goes by. For now, the question is, do you know every single thing that needs to happen? Do you know exactly how to build this dream?

Do I need help from a higher power? Yes. Now, where is higher power? It’s this infinite mind. It’s everywhere present. It’s the land of the solution. It’s just not in my awareness yet, but I have access to that because I’m a child of this universe. I’m a child of the infinite, I’m part of it.

Do I know exactly how to get all that known? No, not yet, but again, that’s not my business. My business first and foremost, just to create the blueprint, is to make a decision for a life I want to create and a difference I want to make. Does it give me life, this dream? Does it align with my core values, this dream?

Is it going to require that I grow? Do I need help from a higher power? You want yeses to all those questions. The last question is this, is there some good in this dream for others? Now, the universe cares very much about fuller, freer, expanded, experiencing life through you. Yes, but not just you. We are all connected.

There is one presence, one life, one universe. Your dream in order to have the full way of the support of the universe must in some way, make a difference for good. Now, if you’re thinking, part of your dream is you really want that intimate relationship that has seemed elusive to you and you think, “Well, how is having my soulmate, my partner, how is that going to be a blessing to others?”

Here’s the truth. Any two people who absolutely anchor and demonstrate what real love looks like in the world are a blessing to every person who knows them. If your dream is about growing a garden, you’re either going to produce food or beauty. There’s a blessing in that.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Your idea of good for others does not have to have some peak merit to it that makes most dreams. It’s not like that. It’s this way, just look at that and say, “You know what? There is a blessing in this dream for others. There is good. That will come from this to others.” One of the men who went through the workshops that I’ve done, it was a number of years ago.

He was a software engineer in the Northwest. He was making a lot of money at that time. He had a family, he had two sons, and a wife. His dream where he would go do his software engineering put in 60, 70 hours a week, but where he came alive was on the weekends, in his backyard, inside the hot house where he grew orchids.

He loved growing orchids. His dream was that he would create a nursery and open up a floor shop and yes, be a full service floor shop, but they would become known as the place to get orchids in the Northwest. That was really his dream. He wanted to do that. He began to shape that dream and construct that dream in his mind.

He wrote it down. He described the florist shop. It had a greenhouse out back where he grew his orchids.

This is what he loved to do he got to do full-time. That what he loved to do would absolutely produce income for him and his family. Then as he began to test the dream, yes, it gave him life.

Yes, it aligned with his core values. Yes, it would require that not only he, but the plants would grow. Did he need help from a higher power? You can’t grow anything without the law of nature, the help from the higher power. Certainly, how to start a business he had not done that before, that he would need help in doing that.

When he got stuck, it was on the last one, is there good in this dream for others? What he knew was that to quit his job as a software engineer, it would completely change the economic standard that his family was used to living in at least for a time. In order to have the funds to start the business as best he knew it was either going to require taking out a loan or taking the equity out of his house.

Perhaps even out of his retirement to start this business. He knew that that economic shift was not just going to affect him, but his wife and his sons. He began to feel selfish. He began to think, “No, I can’t do this. I need to do what I’m doing. They have a life. It’s not up to them to sacrifice so I can have my dream.” ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream When he told me that he had decided not to open the florist shop because there was really no good in it for others, I asked him to just reconsider. I asked him to just at least spend a little time asking the question, what is good? What does that mean good? What is does that mean to him? What did it mean in regard to his dream?

What did it mean in regard to his family? What is good? Frank went away and when he came back again, I could see. When we’re troubled and struggling, it isn’t just internal, it shows up in ourselves. It shows up in our countenance and the way our shoulders are held and the step we take. Boy, when Frank came in, it was just a whole different energy.

I was like, “What happened? You look better.” He said, “I am better.” He says, “When I asked that question, what is good? I started thinking and it led me. I just kept asking the question. It kept leading me to down different quarters of my life. What I realized is right now, I’m working 70 hours a week. I make a good living and we live on that good living.”

“I have very little free time. My boys don’t even hardly see me during the week. I also started thinking about how I got into engineering. My dad was an engineer and he also had a strong work ethic and a male value, which was it’s up to the man to provide. I got into engineering more out of fear than something I really love to do.”

“It was something I thought I could do that and I have done that. I’m doing what my dad did, which was provide. The model I was raised in it doesn’t matter what you dream or it doesn’t matter what you really would love to do, you got to provide buck up, suck it up, and go out there and provide.”

He said, “All of a sudden I realized I’m living my dad’s life. More than that, I’m modeling for my sons that they should live that life too. If they don’t see me shift this pattern, if they don’t see me go after my dream, how will they ever think they can go after their dream?”

“Am I by staying doing what I don’t really love to do, but do it for the money, am I not showing them a value that isn’t the highest value? I started thinking my wife is interested in this florist shop, she says she’d love to help out. My sons as they get a little older could work summers, they could work weekends. If they want to, there’s a place they can work.” ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Well, Frank did that. He actually took a step. He got a leave of absence for a year from his software engineering job. He borrowed money against the equity of his house. Got a bridge loan and opened that florist shop. I don’t know that it ever became known in the whole Northwest as the place to get orchids.

I do know this, it got a great reputation. Business flourished over time, took him a few years to get it going, but he was living the life he loved. His sons did work weekends and summers. The community came to know them, not only as a family, but a great place to be and do business with.

He began to see how they was good in it in a way that was not predicted by a pocketbook. When you ask yourself the question is there good in this for others? Let yourself be expansive in the consideration of what that means. To recap, the five-point test then on your dream, remember, you’re not asking, am I worthy of this dream?

You’re asking is this dream worthy of me trading my life for the building of that dream? Again, you’re going to trade your life to build. You’ll either build on the default position or you’ll build out of design. You’re creating a rich powerful piece of design to bring to the mind, to go to work on. To create a life that you would love, and can fall in love with this idea.

Does it give me life? Does it align with my core of values? Is it going to that I grow? Do I need help from a higher power? Is there some good in this dream for others? If you can answer yes to all those five questions, then this dream is worthy of you moving toward it. Now, you may get redirected along the way to some higher order dream, but take some steps.

We’ll show you what those steps are here as we go through these lessons. Right now, I’m asking you to decide for that dream. If your dream did not pass the five-point test isn’t quite in alignment with your core values, or it’s not big enough because you really understand exactly what needs to be done, then go back to the dream chamber.

It isn’t that there isn’t a dream for you. It’s just that the discovery of it isn’t yet complete. Do whatever’s required before you take the next step now, because you want to have a dream in mind and decided for.

Now, I want to conclude this lesson by sharing with you really a clue and a code for how it is that we’re going to go forward in our work in dream building. ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream A few years ago, my husband and I went to Concord, Massachusetts. Years ago, Wayne Dyer had said to me, “Mary, someday, you just got to go sit in the vortex of Concord.” Now, Concord is where democracy American style. It was hatched, the ideas were hatched right there. It’s where the shot heard around the world occurred.

100 years later, people were gathering, having conversations that would become known as the conquered conversations. When Joe and I went there and we spent a day. We traveled and we tourist round the place and sat in places that in the middle 1800s, people were gathering and conversing. We went to one of the homes where these conversations held every Sunday night, deep, rich inquiry. They learned to ask important questions. Now, the home is still owned by the family. The furniture in that house is still some of the same furniture that was there in the middle 1800s.

This was the place where Nathaniel Hawthorne and his family would come on Sunday evening, where the Alcott family would come. It’s the Emerson home. Ralph Waldo Emerson and his family, they would gather they’d invite the neighbors. Their handyman would stand outside the parlor where they were gathering and listen in every once in a while entering into the conversation from outside.

Finally, they decided to include him in the conversations. The handyman’s name, Henry David Thoreau. It said that in the tour that we took of the house, there were walking sticks. Emerson always liked to have a walking stick when he went for a walk. When he would ask Henry if he wanted to take borrow one of the walking sticks for their walk together, Henry would say, “Nope, it’s too much company.”

Now, Henry David Thoreau decided to do an experiment with life. I love that idea and that’s what we’re really inviting you to do now as you move into deciding for your dream and then exploring these principles, and the application of these universal life laws in your life in a more conscious way.

Making you more aware of the power that you have and are using anyway to create the forms of the life you experience. Henry David Thoreau decided to do an experiment with life. Now, as a student also of Gandhi, Gandhi’s autobiography is called My Experiment with Truth.

Gandhi began his experiment with truth actually the day he was thrown off a train. As a young attorney in South Africa, he purchased a first class ticket. He was in the first class section of that train and because ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream the color of his skin was unacceptable to some of the people in power at the time, it didn’t matter that he purchased a first class ticket.

It didn’t matter that he had a legal right to ride in the first class section because they didn’t like the color of his skin. They and the powers grabbed him when he refused to move to the third class section, and literally, threw him off the train.

He writes that when he was picking himself up out of the dirt, his three piece suit and brushing off the dirt from his suit, something happened inside of him. There was all of this pull of the local humanity, local self, that ego that would say, “Get even, get back. Revenge, retribution.”

He found another part of himself that he would then call later ahimsa or soul force. He realized that either he would define that moment or that moment would define him. He called that his defining moment because he chose to turn to another part of himself. That part that would be retributive and go after and fight back, and be cynical.

All of those energy said, “No, I’m going to turn to something of a higher nature.” The development of that he would then call ahimsa or soul force. He would begin to use that as a way, not only of transforming his life, but the community, and ultimately all of India itself. Anyone who has studied Gandhi over time has recognized the great power soul force.

Well, that’s what we’re exploring here. That’s what Henry David Thoreau wanted to discover, he said, “I want to learn how to suck the marrow out of aliveness.” He went about a mile and a half from the Emerson house and where those conversations were held. There he built a place to stay alongside a pond.

He lived there what he called deliberately. He lived deliberately for two years, two months, and two days.

Then, he wrote a little essay about his experience, and he called it Walden. Joe and I got a picnic and we grabbed a copy of Walden and we went out and we sat by a small lake, Walden.

We read the essay together and I was struck in a deeper way than I ever have been by part of the conclusion of Walden. While I’d heard this phrase many times, I began to realize that what Henry David Thoreau was giving us was not only a clue, but an actual code to how it works in the universe. ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream It is a metaphysical universe. There is both physicality and there is spirit. There is this invisible substance that is life itself that physicalizes into what we call the human experience, which is apprehended through our five senses. It’s got physicality to it, but it is really spirit expressing in a physical way.

Henry David Thoreau said this, “If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary, and meets with a success unexpected in common hours.” All sorts of things begin to occur that never otherwise would’ve occurred.

More universal liberal laws begin to establish themselves around that person. The old laws are rearranged in one’s favor. Nevertheless, one begins to live with the license of a higher order of being.” Do you remember when you got your driver’s license?

If you can remember that, it was a feeling of empowerment and freedom and choice, and power. You could go places. You could do things that you couldn’t do before, or you had to wait for permission, or you had to have somebody else do it for you, or get you there. Now, it’s in your authority to do that.

Well, this is what Thoreau was saying is that there is a higher order of being, a license that you get to live from a higher order of your own beingness. It starts out with if. You can have this license, it’s yours by your birthright, but you have to attain it just like you have to go through the rigor of learning how to drive a car.

Being a student driver and then taking a test. If you pass the test, a written test and a driving test, then the state gives you a license. Then, you have authority to be able to operate at a higher domain of empowerment. The universe is very much like that. The ability for you to create your dreams is innate.

It’s everywhere present, but your access to that and your awareness of that is what changes. Thoreau said this, “You don’t have to do this. You can create another life, another whole year, another whole lifetime out of the patterns that are already programmed into your thinking.”

“You can continue to stay, what most people do, which is condition-based thinking and look to conditions for permission to do what you really want to do. You can choose to shift and get the support that’s required to stay in that upward momentum.” ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Thoreau says, “If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream, you can’t advance in a direction you don’t have.” There’s an old saying that says, “No wind is favorable to the sailor who has no destination in mind.” You have to know where you want to end up so you know how to set the sails, so you know how to turn the rudder, so you can capture the wind, and use it in service of where you want to end up.

That’s what your dream is, it’s a higher order life that gives you a navigation point from which you harness the energies of life in service of the destination or the dream you’re considering your dreaming of, your wanting, you’re desiring. It answers your discontent and it expresses your longing.

If one advances confidently, how do you advance confidently in the direction of a dream that hasn’t happened yet? How can you be confident when it hasn’t happened yet? You become confident because you study and you understand the laws of the universe. You understand how it works.

When you plant corn in a field, you are confident that if it is tended well, the law of nature will take its course and you’re going to get corn. You know ahead of time the growing season, you don’t know the growing season in your dream, but you get confident in this way.

Imagine this, I’ve got a lamp in my hand, it’s got a bulb in it, and it’s got a cord. I’m advancing now over to the electric plug. Do you suspect that I’m advancing with a measure of confidence as I had over to the electric plug in the wall? Well, you would be too, you just head over to the plug. You’d be fully expecting that lamp to come on.

If you plug it in and turn the switch and the light doesn’t come on, you don’t get down on your knees and beg the law of electricity, “Please, law of electricity work for me this time, please. I’ve done really well. I’ve done my meditation, my prayer. I’ve been good. Can you, please?”

No, we think there’s something wrong in the wiring here. It’s either in the wall, it’s in the cord, or I need to change that bulb. We want to get properly wired so that we could have the light we want to have wherever we are. The truth is the ability, the law of electricity has always been here.

The ability for us to have light wherever we wanted has always been present, but it wasn’t present to us because we didn’t understand how the law worked. ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream Once we began to understand how the law works and get in harmony with it, we cannot only have incandescent light wherever we want, we’ve learned how to use laser.

The law always works. The question is are you working with the law? The law of the thermodynamics always works. Wilbur Wright began to explore and experiment with that law. How to get something that’s heavier than air up in air? There was a law to be applied. You and I get on airplanes all the time with confidence.

We’re confident that that law of thermodynamics is always going to work. We’re also confident usually in the airplane industry that we’re flying that there’s proper maintenance and knowledge, and skill to apply that law in a constructive way. Well, that’s what you want to do.

You want to have proper knowledge and skill to apply that law that is going to work anyway towards the construction of your dream, because you’re going to apply your thinking anyway. If one advances confidently, you get confident in how it works in the universe, you’re studying this, you’re listening to these CDs. You’re doing the explorations and checking this out and thinking about this and having conversations about it. Writing your dreams down and you’re experimenting with a different way of living live life. If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream, endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary.

Now you heard the story about Goody Cable. She imagined not only the hotel, but she began to live the life she was imagining. Mentally, she moved inside the hotel. Mentally, she was upstairs in the upper room, having conversations. Seeing the fire turn to embers. Seeing the plates with crumbs from the great desserts that had been eaten.

Seeing the coffee pot with just a little coffee at the bottom had all been drunk. The conversations were rich. Ultimately, she would find herself in that very room.

If one advances confidently in the direction of their dream endeavoring to live the life they are imagining, one passes an invisible boundary. ©Mary Morrissey ® • Brave Thinking® Institute • www.BraveThinkingInstitute.com • All rights reserved • Unauthorized duplication is prohibited by law.

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Transcript – Week 2: Designing & Testing Your Dream The boundary is made only one thing. The frying pan is made up of thought. It’s a thought that we can’t.

It’s a thought that’s not enough. It’s a thought I need a different education. It’s a thought one passes an invisible boundary, all sorts of things start to happen that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

One meets with a success unexpected in common hours. The laws of the universe begin to reveal themselves to you and to me. One begins to live with a license of a higher order of being. This is not only the promise, this is the way it works to people who are awake and aware enough to see it.

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