How To Pursue Your Dreams In Uncertain Times

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Here's a mantra for you. It's a prayer. I'm open to creative possibilities. When I say that, what happens is it opens your consciousness up to release that single pointed focus of this was the only way that this could have happened and open you up to, well, what's possible now?

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Now let's get back to this week's episode. Hi, I'm Kasia Perowicz, one of the producers of the Doctor's Pharmacy. How do we take action toward pursuing our dreams in a time of so much change and uncertainty? At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Hyman discussed this question with bestselling author Gabrielle Bernstein.

Right now, it's an unusual time. And you say in your book that when you have faith in the universe, it becomes safe to hold big visions, even if you can't see them yet. And the question is, in this time.

Where.

People don't feel safe, in this time where you know, even if you had dreams and visions for your life, and I know I had that have been completely derailed, you know, how, how, how do we deal with this in this time and, and what holds people back in the best of times from pursuing their dreams?

There's just so much I want to say on this. I'm just gonna rant. Okay. First things first, I have a Mantra that I use whenever I feel that there's a block in a way. And if it's particularly around an abundance block or a actually, you know, it's really just around any block, I would. And I. I offer this up for people who are having abundance blocks or blocks around life purpose and goals and visions. Here's a Mantra for you. It's a prayer. I'm open to Creative possibilities. When I say that, what happens is, is it opens your Consciousness up. to release that single pointed focus of this was the only way that this could have happened and open you up to, well, what's possible now? So it's a prayer. It's a prayer. It's saying guidance that I'm aware of, a God of my own understanding. I am open to creative possibilities. Show me what you've got, right? Reveal to me what I can do right now. And so that energetic state can relax you because it gives you this opportunity to stop searching and start allowing. But it's also just a very different vibrational stance to be in. So that's step one. The other thing that I do, and I believe this has been the key to the momentum that's been the work I've done in the world, and I think you can probably find your own agreement with this, and it's probably a practice that could be most valuable for us right now. method in Super Attractor called the Spiritually Aligned Action Method. And here's the message behind it. The message behind it is that whenever we take an action from a place of fear or uncertainty or grasping or controlling, it will not be supported because that energy is funky, right? So if you send an email with that graspy energy, the universe doesn't support it because the other person on the receiving end feels assaulted by that email, right?

It's what you talk about is People who push and try to control and reach their goals and feel safe, right?

Right, baby. That's right. The actions that we take right now in the pursuit of momentum for getting a new job or running a business or keeping healthy or whatever it may be has to come from a place of spiritual alignment. Because when we take an action from that centered place of spiritual alignment, it is greatly supported. it's supported by others because what happens is those that are on the receiving end feel like you're not assaulting them, right? They feel relaxed in your relaxed delivery. So here's how it works. Step one is to make sure that your desire, whatever it is, is backed with love and service and not your own ego, right? And so our ego gets into the story of like, I was supposed to be that way or our ego gets into story of like, I'm losing money right now or I lost my job and I'll never get another job again. But get back into why do I love the work that I do? What is the service behind the work that I do? And we can use your example right now. Love and Service is this book I wrote will help people stay healthy right now. love and service, right? And the second step is to have faith. And that's where we have to return to our spiritual, our spiritual condition in whatever form that comes. So that faith comes through prayer, that faith comes through the affirmation. I just said I'm open to creative possibilities. That faith is asking of us to return to a centered state. However we get there individually, there's methods all throughout the book, there's methods all online that are free, but coming back to center through meditation, through prayer, so that we can get grounded in the faith that that everything is working out for me. I am truly supported and taken care of, even though I can't see it right now, as you quoted me before. That's step one and two. And then step three is that only take action from that place of service, love and faith. No action unless it's coming from that place. So if you're out there writing a newsletter to your audience or your Sending an email for employment, ask yourself, tune in. Is this email backed with service, love and faith? Is this post on social media backed with service, love and faith? Is this announcement about the book backed with service, love and faith? And when you know that you're grounded in that place of service, love and faith, you know that you're there because you're not attached to the outcome. Right.

Right.

So whenever you take an action, when you've released the outcome, it will always be supported. Now, the final step, fourth step is pain.

That's a really important thing to underscore because I think people often can do things, but they're maybe coming from a good place, but they also are attached to what happens at the other end of it. And that attachment to the result is what causes all the suffering and pain. And actually impairs your ability to get what you want.

Exactly. And then the final step, which is so relevant right now, is patience. So we have to continue to take action. If you're unemployed, you have to seek employment and get on LinkedIn and create work on your resume. If you are a business owner struggling to sell your products, do not Try selling a single product until you are spiritually aligned. It will fail. It will offend. It will come off as tone deaf. I really, really, really cannot emphasize this method enough right now. We all have to take action in order to keep the momentum of our lives going. We can't just, you know, crumble and fall apart to the point of that will be the demise of our economic system if we all just stop working and fail to show up, right? So what we have to do right now is to really use this time to strengthen our commitment to service and love, set devotional practices that strengthen our faith. And then when we feel in that, that we're in that alignment, that's when we take an action.

Often we don't spend the time to identify a clear vision for our lives. We sometimes tell ourselves our dreams are impossible, even before thinking about what steps it would take to reach them. John and Missy Butcher designed a system that breaks down the most important aspects of living well and guides you to create the life you envision.

How to have healthy relationships, how to manage your financial life, how to manage your health. These are like foundational ideas that we kind of learned by accident, if at.

All, in our lives.

And most people end up pretty unhappy and miserable because they haven't been thoughtful or intentional about it. So take us through, for you, what were the sort of insights that led you to sort of come up with these four questions? And can you go with those are for each category? How those work to help people create this life vision.

12 categories of life that we focus on are the first five are your personal life categories. These are you separate from the rest of the world. These do not require the cooperation of others like your career. It requires the cooperation of others, parenting, your social life. These first five are you separate from the rest of the world. They're your health and fitness, your intellectual life, your emotional life, your character, and your spiritual life. Those are the five categories that are all you.

Well, it's interesting. You make health and fitness the first category.

That's right.

Because it's foundational. It's foundational.

Because if you don't take care of that, it's hard to execute on the other things. It's how to be emotionally stable, intellectually curious, to have a character that doesn't get batted around by ill health, which can happen.

Tremendous amount of thinking went into how to sequence these categories, and you're exactly right. health and fitness is first for a reason, and your personal life categories are first for a reason. Because until you get your own stuff together, you're not going to have good relationships. You're not going to be able to create that great career. You're not going to be able to move into the world and show up in the way that you need to to create the success that you want to create. So those are the first five. And then we go into the relationships, which are your love relationship, romantic love. Parenting and your social life. In those 12 categories, the LifeBook process takes you through four questions in each of those 12 categories. And the four questions are, what do I believe about this category? What are my beliefs that control my behavior in this area of my life? That's an interesting one.

Kind of a big one.

Because everything derives from your beliefs, right? So your choices, your actions, your Responses to things all derived from your beliefs, whether they're good or bad. If you believe in limitless possibilities or if you believe that your life is really constricted and limited and confined, well, that's what you'll end up getting.

Exactly right.

Whether they're conscious or unconscious, whether they're.

True or not true.

That's right.

What precisely do I want in this area of my life is the second question. With no fuzziness, with complete clarity, what do I want in my health and fitness? What do I want my love relationship? What exactly do I want for my financial life? Third question is why do I want that? What is the purpose behind my vision? And then the last one is what exactly do I need to do to get it?

Yeah.

Strategy. So premise, vision, purpose, strategy. What do I believe?

And they all build on each other.

Yeah.

Because first it's like, what do I believe? Well, what whatever you believe is going to be the base of your entire life. and then what is your vision? Well, that's based on your beliefs, right? It's all. And then the next thing is, well, why do I want that? If I, if I believe that, and I, I, that's my vision.

I want that.

Why?

Because that is the fuel.

That is the fuel.

Yeah.

When we take the time to create a vision for the life that we want to have, we can have wide-reaching impacts on our families and communities. And it's never too late to point your life in a new direction. If you enjoyed today's episode, I encourage you to check out Dr. Hyman's full-length interviews with Gabrielle Bernstein and John and Missy Butcher. Please also consider leaving us a comment and sharing this episode in your own networks. Thanks for tuning in.

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