A Vision For Your Life

 

In a training I’m taking, the teacher talked about how when we create any kind of a vision, we must include both what we can influence, as well as what we cannot. That it is a sacred and courageous endeavor to include the whole picture whenever you are imagining what you would like to have or to create. Otherwise, the vision will be too timid. It will be too removed from the realities of what it actually takes to dream something into existence.

For to carry a vision is to carry both sides of the equation; without allowing yourself to be deluded as to what is yours to do and what is not.

I haven’t been able to stop thinking about this. Especially the part about including what I have absolutely no influence over. I’ve been avoiding this part of the equation. And I certainly haven’t been paying homage to the importance of including what I have no control over. Instead, I often skip right over the scary reality that there is so much I cannot influence.

Especially when it comes to other people. What it is they will do. Or won’t do. What it is they will say. Most unsettling of all, what their response might be to something I would love to do or express, but that might be unfamiliar to them. Or more to the point, contrary to what they believe is possible.

I’ve been realizing this is why so many of us let go of our childhood dreams. Why so many of us feel something inside of us that wants to be born, but that we thwart because of “what they will say.” With “what they will say” mostly amounting to thinking that what we would dare to dream is stupid. Naive. Not possible.

Not one of us wants to be on the receiving end of such dismissal and diminishment. That’s why it can feel far too risky to go for something when you are imagining it will not be received with the support you could use.

To dream something into existence is not for the faint of heart. And yet, I believe it is one of the things we all most yearn for. It doesn’t have to be grand and on the world stage. It can be as simple as trying your hand at the creative arts just because it brings you pleasure. It can be deciding that your vision of peace for the world is something you will maintain in your own home. It can be be dancing, writing and creating where what is visioned into existence stays within the walls of your own home.

It can also be something on a larger scale as well. But the point is, the size, and even the outcome, matters not. What matters most is giving attention to something you envision for yourself or the world. What matters most is to look at what it is you can influence and then bring everything you’ve got to that knowing.

Perhaps what matters most here is you look squarely in the eye at everything you have no control over, and you do it anyway. Despite your fears. Despite “what they will say.” Despite your own uncertainties. For to bring a vision into the world is to allow the will of the gods to come through you.