Creative Director: Map

I Create: Creative Director of my Life.

This is one of my morning affirmations. We’ve talked about the new direction of my blog based on this affirmation, and the questions you might ask about the term Creative Director and why it would be an affirmation – what’s the end result? This week, we are talking about having a map. If you are to be the Creative Director of your life, how do you get there?

First, I want to tell you about two very specific dreams I had. I had been mulling over the term of Creative Director and the meaning and the importance of it for me, for over a year. Certainly, with my painting work and then the book illustration work, I knew that my objective was to know that I am having a hand in choosing how my life unfolds. Having intention with what I wanted. Then, I also began to think about how to do it, how to make things happen, and make things happen sooner. If I am going to be the Creative Director of my life, how do I actually do it?

The first dream: It was obscenely ridiculous the struggle and time spent attempting to my put hair into a ponytail. Trying to do my hair was delayed and laborious work that was not successful. Other things were going on in the dream and it stretched over multiple locations, but the focus of the dream was my unsuccessful attempts. I was myself in the dream, but I was also witnessing myself struggling.

The second dream, which was the next night: In Paris. A group of us were there, and our hotel with our belongings were at the 1st location, we were in a 2nd location for the day, and the airport where I had to be at the end of the day was the 3rd location. I was in location 2 with two hours to go to be at location 3. I thought I had everything I needed, with no need to go back to location 1. Then, with 1 hour, 20 minutes to go, I realized I had left an item at location 1. I felt complete anguish and inability to figure out how to get from 2 to 1 and then over to 3. The signs were in French, and it felt impossible, with time ticking away – which was cruelly drawn out as I kept noticing how much time was left at different intervals. So I knew that I wouldn’t make it in time. Time is so warped in dreams, in both dreams, I felt like I couldn’t progress with my goal.

After having any strange dream, I think over the details and wonder the relevance or the ’cause and affect’ that may have led to elements of the dream. Upon reflecting on both of these dreams, I did have an answer quite quickly. With the first dream, it was more about how my ‘higher self’ views the efforts of my ‘limited self,’ and that a simple task appears exaggeratedly difficult for the ‘limited self’ to complete. My higher self, ‘knows no obstacle, difficulty or delay’ (to quote The Power of Your Subconscious Mind). After the second dream, I knew the answer: I need a map, which is true of, and applies to both dreams.

A map. This is how I can be the Creative Director or my life. A map gets you from one location to another. It’s very specific for taking you there. This theme of the map actually also goes back to another book I read earlier this year, twice. Power vs. Force (David R. Hawkins). The ‘map’ featured in this book is a map of consciousness. The negative emotions and lower vibrations being a lower consciousness, and the positive emotions and higher vibrations being higher levels of consciousness. The realization that I needed a map, and the level of ‘knowing’ that I had about my first dream confirms for me that any destination, be it physical or vibrational (consciousness), needs a map. You need to know (and be honest about) where you are and make a decision of where you want to be.

Then comes the mapping.

Until next week,

Devon

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