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From an early age, I was very much a dreamer.  I believed anything was possible.  I felt anything could be created, and certainly that I could do it.  Most children believe in this way.  They have no trouble believing in the magic of life, like Christmas, the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, Gnomes, Fairies, etc.  They believe in their dreams, and that what they see as possible, is in fact possible if only they had the skills to figure it out…and sometimes they do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What happens to this magic?  Somewhere along the line of growing up, our ability to believe in magic seems to change for so many of us.  I don\u2019t believe we lose our idealism.  In fact I think true idealism is a force within us that if tended and nurtured, will become a generative influence for the seeds of creativity within us.  Yet even while this force remains within, it gets buried beneath layers of skepticism, rationalism, practicality, political correctness, naysayers, scientific thinking, negativity, false idealism (conformity, body image, etc.) and a high level of apathy in our culture.\"\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What if idealism, or more specifically, connecting to our dreams, is about \u201cdoing our part?\u201d  What if we have those dreams so that we can be a contributor in life in such a way that moves humanity forward in a direction that evolves our souls and connects our spirits and each other?  What if our unique ideals are the very things that we are given to bring forth our unique gifts and share them in the world?  Wouldn\u2019t we then have a responsibility to connect with these ideals and do all that we can to live them?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ok, maybe that\u2019s too idealistic!  Or is it?  In my life, I\u2019ve received a lot of conflicting messages about what we are capable of, or what is acceptable.  I\u2019ve heard those who said, \u201cpeople cannot change,\u201d yet I\u2019ve witnessed profound changes in many people.  I\u2019ve heard people who said, \u201cthe word \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d will keep you from making progress,\u201d  yet I witnessed those same people making excuse after excuse as to why they couldn\u2019t do various things.   I listened to people say that fear is nothing that should stop you, and yet remain paralyzed in fears they don\u2019t even recognize.   At the same time, I saw people say how worried or afraid they were about something, and do it anyway.  I watched people who said they \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d end up making things happen anyway, and discovering abilities they didn’t even realize they had.  I wonder what might be possible if we actually aligned our words with our actions, and of course believed<\/em> that we could with all our heart?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELIEF!  Now there\u2019s a word to contemplate.  What do you believe?  Perhaps it is in getting clear about what you believe that will help you connect to those ideals and dreams you came here to align with.  Getting clear on our core beliefs is easier said than done.  We might find that we have so many beliefs, and at first, we don\u2019t see the core beliefs behind them.  We might discover that we have an easier time noticing all of the things we don\u2019t believe, rather than knowing what we do believe.  Perhaps there is resistance to believing anything out of fear that we might be dogmatic or wrong.  Or perhaps we notice that as we begin to articulate our beliefs, we wonder why we believe them in the first place.  We can learn a lot about ourselves as we look at what we believe in and what matters to us.  In fact, it is important to do this to really know ourselves and shine forth the essence of who we truly are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider how many people don\u2019t know who they are.\u00a0 Consider the countless individuals who go through life never\u00a0even thinking about what they believe.\u00a0 They simply accept what their family, the media or their community has stated as being \u201ctrue.\u201d And even worse, there are those that have lost such hope in the validity of their dreams, that they adopt false ideals that have to do with power and control. \u00a0Thankfully, I see more and more people opening up to who they are, and feeling the discontent of not having been living in alignment with that.\u00a0 This is wonderful news!\u00a0 Imagine what might open up and become\u00a0possible as more and more people share their gifts, open to the gifts of others, and live in alignment with ideals that ultimately spring forth from a \u201chigher authority,\u201d perhaps from the \u201chigher authority\u201d that is our true self!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I contemplated what I believe, and why I do what I do, I came to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n