Hello my dear friends,
So interesting… Right after I finished writing this little letter to you about Manifestation and living your dream life, I opened an email with this quote. Hello, Synchronicity. I guess this message is really important for someone here to hear:
"When the soul wishes to experience something, she throws an image of the experience out before her and enters into her own image."
John O’Donohue
Today I want to share with you something that I’m doing this year for Halloween and that I’m inviting you to do with me, which is being your Dream Self or, as Carl Jung says, your shadow self… Only, the creative and fun kind—the spark of joy that, for whatever reason, you wish you lived but that’s denied to you so far, either by yourself or just in the way that things have lined up.
By dressing up and embodying your sacred, secret, wonderful dream self for a day, you’re helping to manifest the life that you really want, and you’re doing it in two different, and powerful, ways.
How do you do it? Well, say, if you’ve always dreamt of going to Egypt on a cruise, then you dress the part. You decide what your attire would be on the cruise, get some brochures and, for Halloween, you’re “on a cruise going to Egypt.” If you have always wished that you were a part of the social aristocracy of New York, then decide in what way and, well, you could dress for a social event at the Met. Get a glittering gown and wear it to your “fundraising event.” If you’ve always wanted to be a singer, get a guitar and write a song, and be that singer for the day. You get the gist.
I urge you to put a little play and joy into the part. What I mean is that you spend some time creating the “decorations” of your pretend dream life. You do this by spending time doing a bit of the life you’ll be living for the day. So if you’re going to be the musician you always wished you were, write a song. For me, I’m illustrating one of my children’s books, so I can have that as part of my “costume.”
Now what, or how, does this have to do with Manifestation?
Manifestation tools often use the observer effect to collapse possibilities into the outcome that you want. Or nearer to that outcome. And a way that you “observe” the life that you want is by visualizing it. And it’s a lot easier to visualize an idea if you’ve brought it from the realm of possibility into a bit of the real world. Like a starter seed. So by planning your outfit, your craft, and living it, you have just made a bit of your dream tangible. This is powerful.
When you dress the part, you’re taking that seed of information and transforming it into reality in a way, setting off a butterfly effect that could, in some interesting ways, change your entire life.
There’s more to this, so now we’ll dive into the second element—other people helping to create your reality.
Caroline Myss says something poignant in one of her lectures, which is that the viewpoint of the other people, looking at you, helps to define who you are, and your manifestation of yourself.
As they see you, they are observing you and thus collapsing reality, holding your situation in place… tying you down, essentially, to that reality.
So I say, let’s use this to our advantage.
You’re going to be your Dream Self for Halloween and, for a crack in time and space, you’re going to show everyone how to see, and thus define, you.
When you go through the day in your cruise clothes, clutching information on the pyramids, you are teaching every single person who sees and interacts with you that you are linked to that experience. They think, “Oh, she is a person who could go to Egypt.” For, in a way, you’re already there, doing it.
How can this change your life?
Well, in one powerful way, this experience will be deeply meaningful to you. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever forget the time that you took your inner dream seriously and dressed the part. That, alone, is… incredibly special, and will probably be an experience you’ll always treasure.
Then, there are all of the synchronistic coincidences that could come out of it.
Someone could say to you, “Oh, you want to go to Egypt? My friend went to Egypt on a cruise. I should connect you two.” Then suddenly you have more information about that formerly pie-in-the-sky experience. Or how about “Oh, you want to illustrate a children’s book? I know someone in publishing.”
OR EVEN… you could realize that that dream that you wanted really isn’t for you. This is why it’s so important to try things. We might treasure an idea and never even know if it actually works for us or not. You could say, “I tried it and I’m done. Now what I really want is…” and go from there.
Manifestation and fun are a powerful duo. I recommend mixing the two together whenever possible, and this Halloween is a great way to honor your dream self, your dream life, and your spirit and soul. And it’s a fun way to do so. So let’s try it!
That’s my challenge for you, friends. BE YOURSELF for Halloween–the version of yourself where you’re Living the Dream.
Big hugs to you all,
Paige xo
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