Is Your Dream Big Enough?

Test Your Dream with 5 Essential Questions
Building Your Field of Dreams
(Mary Manin Morrissey)

1. Does this dream enliven me? Feel your own life energy in regards to your dream. Does the mere thought of it quicken your pulse? Is it something that inspires and creates enthusiasm? Is it something you want passionately? Do you feel an amplified sense of aliveness as you vividly imagine living the fulfillment of this dream? If you don’t answer yes to these questions, if that dream is just a big “I should,” then you won’t harness the energy to bring your desire into form.

2. Does this dream align with my core values? Does it align with your fundamental sense of integrity? Pursuing your dream will cause you to make many difficult decisions; inevitably you will come across some shortcut to your dream that also cuts deeply into your values. You will be forced to choose one over the other. In the spiritual venture of dream-building it is critical that at each juncture, each crossroads, you remain true to yourself.

3. Do I need help from a higher source to make this dream come true? Do I need God/Universe to show me/guide me into HOW? If you think you can accomplish the dream alone, the dream is not big enough! You have no room for God in your dream if you think you can control every detail. To access this Higher Source, you need to willing grow, which is impossible to do if you are full of your own ego. The dream must be bigger than you know yourself to be, so that you learn to allow the Higher Source to do for you what you cannot do for yourself.

4. Will this dream require me to grow into more of my true self? If the dream is bigger than you at the outset, who will you become as you grow into it? Remember, your dream is that part of you longing to express itself. Every choice you make that requires you to grow and stretch moves you closer to your true self. The "you" that has defined the dream is not the "you that will exist once it has manifested itself. The transition between these two states or expressions requires the lesser you to surrender to the greater you. You're leaving a limited life and moving into a larger one. You are bringing out hat part of yourself that's been boxed in, tucked away. As you mold those longing into reality, you are growing and stretching, more accurately expressing your true self.

5. Will this dream ultimately bless others? This is the final test of your dream. Every good and true dream has a seed within it that can bless and benefit others, because in this universe there is no such thing as a private good. We are all connected in the intricate web of life force, and what harms one ultimately harms all, just as what is truly good for one is ultimately good for all.