5 Steps for Crystallizing Your Dream

By Susan K Minarik

Listening to some of the proponents of the much-touted law of attraction talk about it, you would think all anybody has to do to materialize their dreams is make a wish and happily wait for it to come true. But as the old saying says, “If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.” There’s a little more to it than wishing.

To create a thought powerful enough to generate reality involves, well, work. All dreams extract their price; to put yourself into alignment with your desires is not a job for the faint-hearted. You need to be willing to clear yourself of worry, fear, anger, guilt and self-doubt to begin with. Then you need to identify your dream-goal, to know your heart’s true desire and to believe in its possibility as a future reality for yourself. You need to learn to hold your dream in your imagination with concentrated focus and love, and to hear and follow the subtle hunches and intuitions it provides to guide your actions.

But if your dream is truly from your heart, the work will be a joy to do and the dream itself will lead you on your way. The key to all the work involved is to crystallize your dream. Get to know it as fully as you can. The more clearly you see and understand it, the more you’ll be drawn to do all you need to do to be ready for its materialization.

While the path you take to manifest your dream will be unique to you, you can speed up the process by following these five steps:

1. Schedule 15 minutes for yourself daily to relax and focus on your dream. With each visit, allow yourself to see more details of it. Make your picture of it bigger, brighter and clearer. Involve as many senses as you can when you imagine it. Let yourself imagine how it feels to be living it, experiencing it as your reality. Expand the context in which you see it. See it unfolding in time and expanding as it touches more and more aspects of your life. Immerse yourself in enjoyment of it; feel the beauty it in your life.

2. Remind yourself of your dream each day as you awaken and as your prepare to sleep. Just touch it with your thoughts and feel appreciation for all it is bringing to your life. When it enters your thoughts during the course of your day’s normal activities, smile at it in acknowledgement. Actually smile; you want your body and your subconscious to know your dream is a source of satisfaction and joy.

3. Whenever you find thoughts of discouragement or doubt entering your mind in regard to your dream, immediately stop them and refocus your mind in whatever way you can. Turn your attention elsewhere. Repeat affirmations, notice your breathing, pay attention to whatever is happening in your immediate environment, turn on a radio, sing a song. Determine that you will respect, protect, nourish, and cherish your dream enough to do whatever it takes to break away from associating negativity with it. Face the negativity later, apart from your dream, giving it the attention it needs in order to be dissolved.

4. Seek out and experiment with methods for shaping and naturally expanding your consciousness. The more tools you have for working with your own mind and emotions, the more easily you’ll create your dreams.

5. Read, watch and listen to others who have created their dreams and to people who are committed to making their dreams real. Learn what techniques they use, what they do when they’re challenged by circumstances or events, how they deal with setbacks, how they stay focused, what attitudes they most value. Especially seek out the stories of those whose dreams are similar to your own and discover what you can model from their experiences.

The beautiful thing about having dreams is that as they grow, so do you. First you grow into them; then you grow beyond, as still larger dreams emerge. And while they call for more effort than wishing, their rewards are real and true.

Susan K. Minarik publishes The Magical Mirror, a free newsletter providing tips, techniques and inspiration for realizing your dreams. Subscribe at http://www.magicalmirrormachine.com.  She is also the author of “Winning the Tomorrow Game: How to Discover and Create the Life of Your Dreams,” available at http://www.thetomorrowgame.com

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