Allyson Question #6

 

Dear Joshua,

Ever since I can remember I have had a vision (dream like picture) of myself, sitting cozy on a window bench up high over the ocean in a cozy home. It's my home, it's me doing my work which appears to be writing. As in maybe writing a book. I see this vision frequently, more times than not for what appears to be no reason. Over the past few years, I've thought about it more from a curious standpoint - What am I doing? Why don't I have this window seat, this view, this sense of being in this spot, being a writer? When I have a vision like this, one that's been with me since childhood, what does it mean? Is it a premonition? Is it just a dream, just a picture I like? Is it a vision that I use to calm myself or dream or motivate?

So ... I'm not so sure that I ever thought I'd write a book, but about 8 years ago I rented a home that had a window seat! Of course, along with the red door that my daughter asked for - we found a house in one of those magical manifestational ways and it had a tree, a red door, and a window seat -- which meant it was The House for Us. I never really used the bench, but I was so aware of it. (Oh, it was nowhere near the ocean although the view was of a garden and pretty.) While I lived there, I struggled with ... what do I want to do besides go to work and live the routine. I knew I had some ideas bubbling and many I acted on... some went further than others.

One was to create a series of writing journals for people to use to set intentions and be forward thinking in their day, etc. The idea and the action on it has come and gone and re-visited many times. The summer before last, I worked on it while staying on a ranch in CO - a huge picture window before me opening to the views of mountains - So beautiful! I was beyond tickled. I was high as a kite. I actually had the nerve to tell people all about what I was doing, which surprised me but also gave me the feeling that I was really on the right track. I thought I'd have it done and published by Christmas.

It's still in the design stage. But each time I see myself in my original vision, I 'lecture' myself that I Need to Get to Work and follow thru, etc. Maybe if it's a successful-selling journal, I can go buy my beach house with the window seat?

I guess my question is more around what do visions, long-time visions, mean, if anything? And is my journal creation tied in anyway to a dream or desire that I had set at a very young age. And I'm finally getting around to it? What do I do with my thoughts when I see this old vision? (Which I love seeing, by the way. It's mine and I feel supported and loved and smart and comfy when I see it/feel it.)

Thank you, Joshua!
Allyson


Dear Allyson,

What a nice vision! How lucky you are to have something like that. We see this as not a premonition, but a way to focus on your true desire. What is it you truly want? You don't know? That's perfectly okay. You don't need to know. All you need to do is allow it to unfold.

There's nothing for you to do other than to allow the universe, though many of those incredible manifestational moments, to do whatever it is that it's going to do to reveal to you your true desires. What are your true desires? It's those things you intended prior to your birth. It's those things you're interested in. It's living a life of bliss while pursuing your dreams and passions without regard to the outcome. You do whatever you're inspired to do, whatever feels good, whatever gives you goosebumps, and whatever you're inclined to do in the moment. Detach yourself from the outcome and everything will fall into place.

This is the new approach to life we talk about. You do not really know what you truly want. You might see this vision of a house with a window seat on the ocean, but it's not the house or the window seat you want, it's the feeling of that. It's the feeling of cozy. It's the feeling of beauty. It's the feeling of happiness, ease, love, and peace. That's what you truly want. So why not let the universe bring that to you? Because, if you allow it, that's just what will happen.

The old approach to life says write a book, then design the book, then get it published, then hope it sells, then if it sells, judge it as a success or failure. The new approach to life says write if you're inspired to write. Create if you're inspired to create. Do what you want to do. Have fun while you're doing it and when it's not fun, do something else that is fun. You need not finish anything. That's a conditional approach to life. You deem that all this work (you were never working, you were involved in your passion and you were experiencing bliss) needs to be formed into something that means something. You want to attach an outcome to it. If the outcome meets your expectations, then you will call it good and as a result you will feel good. It it does not meet your expectations, then you will call it bad and feel bad. Why?

The fun part was never work. The fun part was writing and doing what you were inspired to do. Nothing more needs to come from that. What you do has no reflection upon who you are. The results of your efforts do not define you. You are a limitless being of pure positive love and acceptance. That's who you are. Nothing you can do will add to that or take away from that. That stuff is all based on your persona and trying to define yourself through your accomplishments and failures, but that is all false and meaningless.

You are not here to do anything other than follow inspiration in the moment. If you can live by this radically new approach to life and give up on the idea that anything can define you, you will live in bliss in each moment and the side effect of that will be the elegant unfolding of everything you truly want rather than controlling the conditions so that you can sometimes feel good and hopefully avoid feeling bad.

With our love,
We are Joshua

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