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Cover and Imprint

Dedication

Thanks

Foreword

1. Introduction

2. Why is it important to discover and fulfil your dreams?

3. Preparation – techniques to relax and tune in

4. Entrance gate – discovering your dream

5. Anchoring

6. What can slow you down?

7. First steps on the journey to fulfil your dream

8. Intensify the attraction toward your dream

9. Two advanced techniques to tune in to a new reality

10. Take inspired action

11. Subconscious beliefs

12. Conclusion and practical tips for the journey

13. Recommended literature

14. Attachments

DISCOVER
AND FULFIL
YOUR DREAM

A Practical Guide

A simple guide to discovering and fulfilling your Life‘s most important dreams

by Vladimir Ekart

Vladimir Ekart

Discover and fulfill your dream

A simple guide to discovering and fulfilling your life‘s most important dreams

Ilustrations Jan Hruby

Cover Jan Hruby

Ebook Milan Vilimek Jihlavsky

Editing Karolina Budska

Translation Klara Burgess

Publisher Jan Melvin Publishing Brno Czech Republic 2012

First edition

Copyright © by Vladimir Ekart, 2012

Ilustrations © by Jan Hruby, 2012

Copyright © by Jan Melvin Publishing 2012

All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever.

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www.discoveryourowndream.com

www.melvil.cz

ISBN 978-80-87270-23-3

Dedication

Dedicated to my children, Luky, Vladik and Terezka, an amazing source of inspiration and my best friends.

Also dedicated to my wife Jana, who is my greatest teacher.

And to all kindred spirits who relentlessly seek ways to fulfil their dreams and make this world a colourful and lively place.

Thanks

To Honza Hruby, an excellent designer and a great friend, for creating wonderful illustrations for this book.

To Klara Burgess, my yoga teacher and kindred spirit, for translating my book into English so masterfully, as if I wrote it.

Foreword

My name is Vladimir Ekart and seeking and fulfilling dreams is my lifelong passion. I consider myself to be a great adventurer, and see every moment of my life as a challenge to go further and discover more about our life here on Earth, in this playful three-dimensional space.

I have always enjoyed experimenting on myself, testing various methods – some of the pathways and tools could be called spiritual and some very pragmatic and practical.

I have been pursuing meditation and personal development for more than 20 years. I have successfully tested all methods related to it on myself.

At the beginning of my search, when I was about 20 years old, I was very interested in Buddhism and Zen Buddhism. The Buddha’s path continues to inspire me. At the same time, I studied economic and management systems so I could apply my dreams to everyday reality. Modern science, including the latest findings about the functioning of the human brain and body as well as quantum physics, has also played an important role in my education.

For many years, I ran my own business and learned to develop and manage our projects.

Over the last few years, I have worked with people within personal coaching and workshops, helping them find their own way based on my experience and proven coaching methods. At the same time, I have learned and developed a lot by doing this. These are amazing interactions and a great opportunity to test on myself what I teach to others. I highly recommend that you test everything directly on yourself. A combination of a spiritual and material perspective has always been fundamental for me.

One of the guiding ideas of my life and my attitude to living is that the things we learn have to be applicable in everyday life. This is a principle through which I verify every little realization I make on my journey. I immediately try to apply it in practice.

In my opinion, the greatest strength lies in the transformation of all human and spiritual values into everyday practice.

Life is about life itself. It is an amazing experience, and I wish for all of us that we find a place from which we can joyfully create and live our dreams.

1.
Introduction

Discovering and fulfilling your dream is a creative act which connects you with the entire Universe, while employing multi-layered mechanisms from the field of thought substance, subtle-tangible and tangible energy. It is an alchemical process of discovering the principle of life itself.

Be receptive and creative. Let yourself exceed your own limits and step into the space that allows you to invent something new. Once you enter that space, you’ll see that it is very kind and full of possibilities. As long as we let it happen and cooperate, it allows all our wishes and dreams to arise. Enjoy the exciting journey towards your dream and be careful what you wish for – you are entering a land of unlimited potential - your wishes might very well come true!

Bon voyage…

Note:

The book includes a couple of practical exercises that will help you apply the information you have learned. For your convenience, you can download the Workbook on www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads

2.
Why is it important to discover and fulfil your dreams?

We live in a dual reality because we, as beings, have decided to do so. We have chosen to leave the primordial Unity and enter the world of polarities, the land of contrasts. Why have we done so? We have made the choice in order to recognize ourselves and play. We are on a quest to learn and discover, and it is a great adventure for us. Even though we might have forgotten it.

Ever since childhood we have known what we would like to become and what we would like to do. We have dreams and we long to fulfil them. Later in life, we forget and put our dreams away into a storage compartment, and our playfulness and joy gradually fade away.

Therefore in the process of remembering and fulfilling our dreams we are also returning to our childhood – to ourselves. In this way, we awaken our inner child and reconnect important parts of our being: the adult part, capable of decision-making and seeing the world from a practical side, and the childish one, that playful and joyful part that knows no limitations. Discovering and fulfilling our dreams is then a path to wholeness.

I am deeply convinced about this, and there is one more reason why. I believe that each of us was born with a specific calling, which we carry inside. If we don’t follow our calling, we cannot feel whole. We live our lives following what is appropriate, complying with others and feeling less and less content. We search for ways to fill the empty space inside of us. We strive to label the emptiness with the proper name, thinking that this will satisfy us. Some labels do work for a while. However, they always peel off eventually, and we feel miserable again. So we go on trying to find new labels which will do a better job at helping us forget. Sometimes we can be very persistent in this.

The journey toward your dream is a return to yourself. We all know our dream, and the important thing is that we all have the potential to realize it! Once we decide to rediscover and fulfil our dream, we find out that we have always been equipped to do so. This is very important. We have always known our dream, our calling. And we have everything we need to realize it. What we have to do is find the courage and take the first step. All we need is to find the desire in us and commit to discovering and fulfilling our dream.

It will not always be easy, but it will be a great adventure. I guarantee you that it will be worth it. It will fill you up with energy and an appetite for life. You’ll thereby become the right piece of the puzzle in the bigger picture of the whole Existence.

In this book, you’ll find ways to do this which I have personally tested. You’ll find techniques here which will help you to relax into a state where you can feel your dream and tune in to it. You’ll also find practical steps for staying on the right track to fulfilling your dream in everyday life, which has the tendency to draw us back into old patterns of behaviour. Maybe you’ll have to change the current direction of your life. This could take time, happen spontaneously or be carefully thought through first. None of these ways are wrong. Be accepting, receptive, and allow yourself to make mistakes. Try it again and again. Don’t give up. Don’t forget to be playful while at the same time taking concrete steps toward fulfilling your dream.

Techniques and experiences from this guide can also help you in other areas of your life. Once you master them, you can apply them to any changes you’d like to make. You can also adjust the techniques to suit you better. We are all different from each other. We are all unique. If you feel you need to modify certain steps, feel free to do so. Be playful.

3.
Preparation – techniques to relax and tune in

The relaxation techniques in this part of the book are designed to help you attune to your feelings. Tuning in to your feeling body – your heart – helps you to be momentarily liberated from your practical mind. In this way, you can connect with your subconscious mind and your creative nature, where all your dreams reside.

Through mastering these techniques you’ll learn to balance creativity with practicality, and vice versa. After a while, you will be able to tune in to your intuition in the midst of everyday life. You’ll become a master at drawing inspiration from your creative potential and from the dream world, and then switch back into the realm of your practical mind when needed. The practical mind is an important tool for bringing intuitive insights and dreams into reality.

The following exercises can be performed at home, either in silence or accompanied by inspiring, meditative music. You could also decide to do them outdoors or in a place that you like. What matters is that your environment helps you to enter the right inner attunement.

Concentrating on breath

You might know this method from other meditation techniques. Sit in a calm environment where you are not likely to be disturbed. Close your eyes and observe your breathing. Notice the air entering your body through your nose, flowing through your head into your throat and lungs. Notice that it pauses before rising slowly back up and out of your body, followed by another brief pause before the next inhalation. Relax. Don’t try too hard. Don’t strive to concentrate too much. Just observe your breathing. No need to do anything else. Your body knows how to breathe on its own.

Just observe. Be the witness. When thoughts arise, do not try to hold on to them or push them away. Don’t pay too much attention to them. Just observe them coming and going, like clouds in the sky. If you catch yourself being concerned with a thought or trying to solve a problem, release it and come back to your breath. If you find concentrating on your breath alone to be challenging, you could try counting to five with each inhalation and exhalation. As your breath deepens, you might want to count to six, seven or further. Later on, you could try it without counting unless you get distracted again.

Observing your feelings

Relax and sit down in a comfortable and calm place. Close your eyes and watch your breath as we did in the first exercise. Then focus on your feelings. Ask yourself: “How do I feel right now? What does my heart feel?” Don’t try to think about it. Focus mainly on the way you feel. For example: “I feel cranky. I feel joyful, tired, calm, impatient…” Be receptive. Do not judge. No feeling is wrong. Do not try to change the way you feel. Just feel.

Your feelings can also change. You could first feel tired, and then joyful or agitated the next moment. Give yourself the freedom to feel whatever arises. Stay present.

Tuning in to your creative energy – energy field (prana)

Relax and sit in a comfortable and calm place. Observe your breathing in the same way as described above, but don’t close your eyes this time. Raise your hands in front of your body with your palms open, facing each other. Keep your hands relaxed, maintaining a 30 cm distance from one another. Alternate gently bringing your hands closer and farther away from each other. Imagine your palms are attached to one another with strings or rubber bands. Slowly stretch and release the bands until you start sensing their presence in your palms. Perhaps you’ll have sensations of warmth or cold. You might also feel tingling in your fingers or palms. It can be different for each of us. There is no right or wrong sensation. Play with it. If you feel it, you have activated the connection with the healing and creative life energy, which is also called prana or chi.

While you are feeling the energy, an active communication is happening between you and your essence (Existence, Universe,…). In that moment, the dominance of your left hemisphere is turned off and light, healing energy and information starts to pour into your body. You can experiment in many different ways with this energy. Just simply sensing it should calm you down. If you’d like, you can close your eyes and just feel.

Feel free to also experiment with other exercises you may know. Retuning and calming down is important and useful to practice. In this book, we’ll apply it toward discovering and fulfilling your dreams, but it could be an effective tool for major improvements in many areas of your life.

4.
Entrance gate – discovering your dream

After we have covered retuning and calming down, we will move on to the initial phase of discovering your dream. Relax completely and be playful. Don’t try to employ learned patterns of logical thinking. Allow yourself to forget all your present circumstances and conditions. The situation you find yourself in today is temporary. You have created it and you can change it anytime, even though it might not seem that way. Don’t think about it, just dive into the following question.

What would you allow yourself to do, who would you allow yourself to become, given the guarantee of unlimited success.

Imagine that you have met someone who guarantees you absolute success in an activity of your own choice. All the money, time, knowledge or contacts you need are available to you. Who would you become? What would you do? What would fulfil you the most? Don’t analyse whether it is possible or not. Don’t give any attention to your current situation. Relax into it. What would you do if you had unlimited possibilities? The answer is most likely revealing your life’s purpose or one of the most important tasks of your existence, and you are naturally predisposed for it. Pay close attention to finding it. Describe it in detail. How does it look when you do it, when you become it? Daydream and write it down, right now:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

Find a map of the journey toward your dream in the attachment. Fill in today’s date, as the beginning of your journey, and a concrete description of your dream. Place the map somewhere visible so that you are constantly reminded of it.

5.
Anchoring

After having discovered what you would like to do in life, given the guaranty of unlimited success, you need to find an anchor and weigh it down.

Now you know what your soul desires and maybe even the purpose of your existence. However, for the time being it is only a vision, whose existence is like the thin flame of a commencing fire. If you don’t feed the flame it could easily die out. To anchor the dream you need to start materializing it. It is time to transport the vision from the realm of dreams – from the non-physical – from the field of unlimited potential – into the physical reality.

It is said that visionaries see the invisible, but the second part of their task is to manifest the vision in the material realm. That is how we become creators, live out our true essence and become a part of the Universal play.

How can you anchor your dream?

Give your dream a concrete form. Maybe you have already done it in the previous step, but if not, go back and do it. Be very concrete and clear. The clearer the vision of your dream, the faster it can manifest. I recommend going back to the definition of your dream and working with the vision until it feels a hundred percent right. Try to truly feel it out. Imagine yourself in the future, living in accordance with your best feelings. Is what you see in your imagination exactly what you have written down? If not, go back to Step 4 and do it again. This is very important. Once you are finished and fully satisfied with the outcome, think about how it makes you feel. It should fill you with energy.

Write down your feelings:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

Draw your dream:

Giving your dream a material form with pen and paper is one of the first steps on the way to its realization.

Get a large sheet of paper and draw your dream. Play with it. Create a beautiful picture of your vision. Concentrate on details and don’t forget to include yourself in the picture. It is important to be able to see yourself there. Unleash your fantasy; it is only a game for now. Dive into it and leave your critical mind aside. Its function will be used later on. You might also include notes in the picture to clarify your vision.

Once you are done, immerse yourself in the picture. Enjoy it. It is part of your reality now. You have already started to materialize it. Your have given your dream a form.

Hang the picture somewhere in sight, where you have complete freedom to enjoy it whenever you pass by. Immerse yourself in it often. It will inspire you to take the particular steps needed for the realization of your dream.

I’ll recommend a couple of small but significant things that will help you.

Trust. Trust the creative process. Trust that you have already set out on the journey. Without trust and faith, very little is possible.

Feel it. Try to take time to look at the picture of your vision at least once a day, imagining yourself living the dream. How is it? How does it feel? Spread those feelings throughout your body. This is very important. Once you do this, your body will start vibrating in harmony with the frequency of your dream and will send the vibration into space. The vibration will attract similar vibrations, energies, people and events to itself. We will discuss this further in Chapter 8 (see Chapter 8, The Law of Attraction).

Never give up. Be persistent. Don’t give up even if the circumstances look unfavourable. At the end of the day, it is your life. Every time you feel miserable, thinking you’ll never make it (whenever your thinking mind tries to talk you out of it), imagine how your life will be transformed once your dream comes true. Is it worth it?

6.
What can slow you down?

Comfort zone

The “comfort zone” is a space you have got used to living in. It has become your habitual space, in which you feel comfortable. However, habits can be constricting, especially when it is time for a change. Changing your life is not always easy; it can be hard work at times. Moreover, your mind can play tricks on you in order to discourage you from taking new steps. The moment you start considering a change in your life’s direction, various doubts and rational arguments may arise concerning why you prefer to stay where you are and not change anything. (I am by no means saying that you should start mindlessly changing everything you have built up to now. Even though this might also be a good choice in some cases. Always respect that you are an individual, and listen to your feelings to find your unique way). Nevertheless, the notion of a comfort zone is to remind us that sometimes we have a tendency to stay in a situation that doesn’t benefit, or even hurts us, and we remain in it merely out of habit. Therefore, take the time to carefully re-evaluate your present situation in relation to the dream you have discovered. Reflect on what you like about your current state and what you would like to change.

Stepping out of the comfort zone can feel risky, even scary or dangerous, but don’t let yourself be stopped by it. Feelings of fear can be closely related to change. This is understandable, as change brings unknown things and raises the possibility of making a mistake.

Fear

Carefully consider all the risks. However, be wise and try to recognize when your fears tie you down and prevent you from following your dream. It might be helpful to make a list of all the fears and concerns related to the change you are about to make. Write them down on a piece of paper and reflect on whether they are serving you well, or whether they are slowing you down:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

You could also try a little exercise to practice communicating with your fear. Sit comfortably in a calm environment, close your eyes and focus on your breathing (as in Chapter 3). Relax and allow one of your fears to come to you. Don’t try to change it or push it away. Imagine your fear has a human form and ask him: Why are you in my life? What important message do you carry? What do you represent in my life?

Don’t search for the answer. Let it come to you. Your subconscious knows the answers to all your questions and problems. Learn to communicate with it and trust it.

The answer can come in various unexpected ways. It might come in words, symbols and a vision of a situation, or in an image or intuitive feeling. Don’t try to push it. Be patient and open. Let yourself truly feel it. Then write your feelings or findings down:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

You can repeat the exercise with another fear or concern that might arise.

Victim mentality

A state of mind that can completely block the journey toward your dream is called the “victim mentality”.

It is a very common state, in which you hold someone else responsible for a situation you find yourself in. This mentality leaves you feeling helpless and trapped in a situation you don’t like, with no power to change it. Every time you feel this way you are giving up your own power. It is a dangerous state, because if you delegate responsibility for your life’s situation to someone else, you are also giving him power over you. Giving up responsibility can sometimes feel agreeable, but it is also cutting you off from the possibility of resolving the situation in your favour.

Clearly, a negative event can happen in life, but you are always the one who decides how to react to it. You always have a choice: to blame someone (partner, parents, government, etc.) and feel that you can’t do anything about the situation or event, or to understand that even though it might seem that someone or something outside of you caused the undesirable condition, it is now up to you to decide how you are going to deal with it. It is up to you whether you hold it in for hours, days, years or even for your whole life, or whether you will find a solution and move on. This is the grand mystery of keeping or giving up the power over your life. Abandoning the victim’s role equals becoming the creator of your life.

Later in the book, we will talk about how we are always the sole creators of our own life situations, and no external person or thing can cause them. This is very difficult to understand for many people. They tend to maintain the victim’s mentality and don’t want to assume responsibility for their life. This is convenient, since blaming others is much easier than striving to find a solution yourself. However, don’t forget that you are giving up your own power in the process!

Try to investigate your situation. Close your eyes, relax and feel your breath. Then ask yourself: What are the areas of my life in which I feel like a victim?

Write down your findings.

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

7.
First steps on the journey to fulfil your dream

You have discovered your dream – the one thing that truly attracts you and which you would love to become. You have anchored it and created a clear picture of your dream with all the details. You have also become familiar with what might discourage you or slow your journey down. Now, it is important to begin the journey and take the first step.

Fulfilling your dreams and visions is a creative process which happens simultaneously on several levels. A lot of people stay in the dreaming and planning phase, not taking it any further. They don’t incorporate their dream into their life.

It is important to be consistent and start taking the steps one by one. Be thorough and persistent. You might be dealing with one of the most significant changes in your life. So it is worth investing some time into it. However, don’t be too pushy. Just let things flow. Some processes need time and some require quick action. Find the balance; find your own life current.

How are you going to do it? Lets lay out the journey.

Ask yourself: What is the first thing I could do on the way to my dream? What might my first step be? It doesn’t have to be a big step. It can be a very small action, something that can easily be reached or realized. Take the steps you are able to take. There is no need to plan spectacular steps. Don’t be too hard on yourself. Beware of unnecessary rushing; you don’t have to accomplish it all in one day. However, keep moving so that you feel that you are on the path. Everyone is able to find his or her own pace. If you set reasonable and reachable goals for yourself, you’ll be motivated by your success to plan and achieve the next step on your journey. Be persistent. The important point is to set goals that will ultimately lead to the realization of your dream. Enjoy the journey itself.

What is the first thing you could do to start realizing your dream? What could be the first step?

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

What could be the second step?

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

What might be the third step on the path to your dream?

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

I suggest you use a workbook, a practical tool which can help you stay on the right track to fulfil your dream.

Workbook

You will find a workbook in the attachment. Print it out as many times as you need to and use it regularly, every day if possible. This is a very important routine!

I recommend setting aside a time each day to dedicate to it. It won’t take up too much time but will serve you well.

Also note all the important steps on the path to realizing your dream in the map of the path to your dream, which you’ll also find in the attachment.

8.
Intensify the attraction toward your dream

When fulfilling a dream, it is important to understand a law which influences everything that happens in life.

If you already know the law of attraction, take this as a reminder and incorporate your experience when working on fulfilling your dream. The law of attraction says that you attract things, people and situations into your life according to the way you think and feel. I mean this literally. You have attracted all that exists in your life (people, things, situations) through the law of attraction. The entire world you live in responds to your vibration. Therefore it is also sometimes called the law of resonance. You are constantly creating through your vibrations, on the frequency to which you are tuned in. The environment around you responds to your vibrations, and people and situations vibrating similarly are attracted to you.

What influences your vibration? The way you think. Or rather, the way your mind thinks. The mind stores a lot of subconscious patterns and habits which are not necessarily serving you well. So it is good to notice and observe the reactions of your mind.

The way you feel is a reaction to your thoughts. Your feelings are then reflected throughout your whole body, including your heart and every cell. It has been proven that the brain vibrates on a certain frequency. It has also been proven that the heart emanates a vibration field which is 5,000 times stronger than the brain’s. This means that if you are communicating with someone and you also feel something coming from the person, this emanates very strongly into the environment, and he or she feels it on a subconscious level even if you are saying something else.

Cells function similarly. The way we feel vibrates our body’s cells, which then send these vibrations into the environment. This means that your thinking influences your feelings and your feelings influence your behaviour.

The cells of your body don’t only send out vibrations. They also receive vibrations from your environment. This means that your body sends out vibrations and also reads vibrations from others around you.

See attachment for books in which you could find out more about the topic.

This is the way you create your life. For the most part, you do it subconsciously. Therefore it is good to be aware of it and start creating consciously. Your life will gain more meaning. You will find out that you are the one giving meaning to it all. The way you think and feel forms a basis for your actions. Your behaviour affects the response of your environment. Your subconscious beliefs play a big part in this process. I will explore this more in Chapter 11.

How to apply the law of attraction in the process of realizing your dream?

Vibrate on the same frequency as your goal. This will intensify the attraction process. Without understanding the law of attraction you could work very hard, but the outcome might not be commensurate with your efforts. It is necessary to combine working on your frequency with taking practical steps. You must feel it - you can’t cheat the law. You can’t say something other than what you feel and expect it to work. You can’t say: “I want to achieve my dream and I believe it” while feeling sceptical about it.

You have to literally become it, play a game, be your dream. Try to imagine what it would be like if you already had it, if you had become it? How does it feel? Find the time to visualize this many times a day.

If you feel it, you are vibrating on the same frequency and emanating this into your surroundings. You’ll act in accordance with it, because you will feel it and your behaviour will start bringing adequate results.

Working in the field of subtle-tangible energy

When you are tuning in to your dream, you are working in the field of subtle-tangible energy, the space between intangible thoughts or ideas (dreams, visions) and indelicate tangible matter or physical reality.

The subtle-tangible energy field is where thoughts, dreams and everything else that is being created start to materialize.

When working in this field it is important to be perceptive. The moment you feel the right vibration, you will feel your dream in every inch of your body, as if it already exists. The vibration field you emanate attracts people, things and situations vibrating on the same frequency.

It can happen very inconspicuously at first. You might receive only small and imperceptible signals from your environment. The signals might come in the form of accidental encounters, news you happen to overhear in a conversation, a poster with a slogan or an article you come across in the newspaper. You might also meet a person who is an expert in the field, and so on. Notice these little things and appreciate them. It is happening already, so be happy about it. This appreciation will amplify the field of positive attraction. You might say: “Great, it is happening!” or “Excellent, it is working, I am sending out the right vibrations, and my dream has already partially manifested in my reality”. You will amplify your vibration frequency and strengthen the whole field of attraction. Be playful. Playfulness supports the ability to notice subtle signals.

Surround yourself with the reality of your dream

I have some recommendations to help you amplify your vibrations and strengthen your ability to attract what you desire.

Visualization – day dreaming

Sit in a calm and comfortable environment and imagine yourself as having already realized your dream. What would an ordinary day look like? What would you be thinking about? What things would you surround yourself with? See yourself interacting with people, friends and family. Imagine the way you would be spending your free time. Live those moments as if they already exist. Feel them in your heart and in your body.

Surround yourself with your new reality

An excellent way to start materializing your dream is to incorporate it into your environment. Find images that represent it. These might include a photograph of a place where you would like to live or work, or a picture of a car you’d like to have. Photographs of people with whom you’d like to share your success or who have already achieved what you want. Paste them all over your house or workplace. Print out phrases that represent principles that resonate with you. You could also change your office to resemble a place where your dream has already come true. You could put pictures on your computer or phone. Unleash your fantasy.

You could set reminders on your phone that would stop you during the day and force you to remember the direction you want to take in life.

Buy books and magazines that are related to the topic of your dream. Attend lectures. Watch movies that remind you of your dream or of people who have fulfilled theirs. Find such people and visit them. If possible, go look at your dream. For example, if you are planning to have an office in a certain place, go there. Walk around, sit in the nearest restaurant or coffee shop and let your imagination go to work. If an object is part of your dream, perhaps a computer or car, go to a store and have it presented to you. Pretend that you are buying the item soon. You might be surprised to find that those actions inspire you to take steps that will speed up your journey.

Gratitude

Expressing gratitude greatly affects your vibrations. Notice whether you are one of the many people who tend to focus on lack rather than abundance. The truth is you have already achieved many things. You probably have family, friends, clothes, appliances, maybe a car. Learn to appreciate what you have. The current situation might not live up to your highest ideals, but this condition could be only temporary. Sometimes it can change very quickly when you change your vibrations.

When expressing gratitude you are actually saying that you have abundance in your life. You just want more of it. You want growth, and that is healthy. You are aware of your accomplishments and appreciate what you have. Such a state of mind profoundly influences your vibrations. When you focus on what you don’t have, you vibrate on the frequency of lack. Of course, it is good to see what needs to be improved and then work on it. However, by expressing gratitude you start emanating abundance and retune your subconscious mind onto it.

Do the following exercise. Write a list of things you are grateful for:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

How do you feel now?

I recommend doing this exercise often. I know people who do it every evening before bedtime. It is a great way to tune your subconscious mind before sleeping. There are studies which show that the states of your mind before falling asleep and after waking up are identical. The practise of expressing gratitude is a good way to programme your subconscious mind towards abundance.

9.
Two advanced techniques to tune in to a new reality

I have had very good experiences with the two techniques I recommend here. I have often experienced rapid changes thanks to them.

Sometimes it is difficult for the mind to imagine a new reality. When the situation in which you find yourself is so radically different from what you would wish for, your critical mind has a tendency to betray you. It might say: “Look at you! Who do you think you are? What makes you think this could ever become your reality? Are you crazy? What kind of dream are you chasing? Don’t you want to do something more useful than dreaming?”

When looking at your present situation these concerns might seem truly justified. However, remember that you are who you feel you are. Work on the change. It is the journey to your new reality. People before you have fulfilled their dreams, and their starting point wasn’t necessarily easy either.

They had to be able to believe in their dream despite the situation they were in.

Therefore I am recommending two techniques to help you change your current vibration and provide the first positive impulses on your journey.

First: What would it be like, if…?

This exercise is very simple, yet powerful.

As I have already mentioned, the mind can be very critical and betray you when you make statements like: “This is my new reality and I feel this way….”

However, what might be closer on the emotional scale is a playful question:

“What would it be like if I was….”

“What would it be like if I achieved….”

“What would it be like if I …” Create your own variations.

Play with the idea, what would it be like if…..? In this way, you don’t say what something is while your mind sees the opposite, but instead you say: “What would it be like if…?” And your mind won’t see any harm in it.

As you immerse yourself in the game, your vibration changes. You are thereby moving closer to your dream while creating a clearer idea in your mind of what it would be like.

If you want to change a negative vibration about a certain thing, try this exercise. It has worked for me many times, when I needed to relax in a negative situation I couldn’t influence. And the changes in my physical reality soon followed.

Try it now: Write down simultaneously your version of the question

“What would it be like if…” and the feelings you are experiencing:

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

I recommend setting reminders of the sentence on your phone and coming back to it often. You will soon feel the results of the change in your vibration. Sometimes it only takes a couple of days. It depends on the intensity of your practise.

The second exercise is similar. It is the next stage of the same question: “What would it be like if….?”

After the first exercise has brought you positive results, and you are successfully creating situations, I recommend changing the question to the following:

“What is it like when I have/I am/I have achieved, am successful, etc.?”“How does it feel when….?”

The moment a situation has at least partially manifested in your life, it is easier to contemplate what it is like to live in it. Your mind can cope with thinking about it, and this allows you to strengthen the positive vibration.

These two simple techniques will help you quickly change your inner attunement toward your dream.

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Take inspired action

Inspiration

The farther you advance on the journey to fulfil your dream the more you will be in touch with your feelings. You will become more perceptive of what is happening within and around you. You will most likely start to see the larger picture of your life and the interconnectedness of all things. You’ll understand that your life is one big game and you are its creator. Try to make time during the day to free your mind from the constant stream of thoughts. Try to tune in to yourself and just be; experience being here and now. The more you tune in, the more you notice inspiration arising from your heart. Learn to be aware of it. You don’t have to understand it straight away, just notice. It is your subconscious talking to you.

This inspiration often doesn’t correspond to logical thinking, and it might be difficult to follow. Keep trying and eventually you’ll start to understand the language of your subconscious.

The inspiration might come in the form of an idea, or an impulse to call someone or go somewhere, even for no logical reason. Learn to trust those messages.

They often guide you to a place where you would never think of going, yet where you find something that helps you get closer to your dream.

Many of the greatest ideas came to their creators in the form of inspiration. Inspiration is essentially a connection to an unlimited Universal field (Unity, divine essence, quantum field or however you want to call it). This field constantly communicates with you, or is trying to. However, its messages are often lost in the noise of your mind. As soon as you tune in to the field, you gain unlimited access to the source of information existing all around you, as well as within you.

A great way to access the field of inspirational communication is through the exercise from Chapter 3 (Tuning in to your creative energy)

As long as you feel the energy field between your palms, you are also tuned in to the field of information. It is essentially the same thing. Light and information is flowing into your body the moment you feel the energy field between your hands. There are many ways to do it; pick the one that suits you best and don’t worry too much about the technique. What matters is to enter a state of relaxed perception. Don’t emphasize the technique too much. Turn your attention to the present moment. The rest will happen by itself.

If you believe in a higher power (Universe, Unity, God, Nature, etc.), ask for help. Connect to the higher power of which you are a part and cooperate together on fulfilling your dream.

Inspired action

As soon as you learn to sense the inspiration, follow it in the form of inspired action. Do what you feel. Translate feelings into actions.

The Universe is sending you ideas and information.

It is good to learn to follow them. Most of the time you are not the only one who has received the idea, and only those capable of reacting quickly will be successful.

Many people receive an inspiration but ignore it. They leave it alone, thinking that it’s too crazy. They might also lack the courage to try.

Go and do it now. Once you feel inspired, you become filled with a great deal of joy and positive energy. Use this energy to follow the inspiration and take the first steps.

If you react immediately, you might be surprised at how fast you are able to plan or write down the whole thing. You might not even be able to sleep, and might have to go try it out right away. This happens very often. The surest way to kill good ideas is procrastination. Statements such as:

“This is good, maybe I could try it, lets see tomorrow” often mean that you will never come back to it. A couple of days will pass, and it might all seem silly. You might not have the energy to follow through with the idea, or else the everyday routine distracts you. Alternatively, you might restart the implementation process after some time, but then it takes more energy to get back into it. This is the better option.

Do it now. Follow your inspiration. Go and use the energy wave that generally accompanies inspiration. Take inspired action.

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Subconscious beliefs

You have already taken some steps to fulfil your dream. You are able to tune in to your dream, you have partially changed your environment so that it reflects your dream reality, and you have learned to listen to your inspiration and follow it with inspired action.

Let’s summarize a bit here. How do you feel about it?

Write down what you have already achieved on the journey toward your dream. How do you feel about it?

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

Also, write down what you have not yet succeeded in. What would you like to improve?

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

What to do when you feel that you have done everything in your power to fulfil your dream, but you still haven’t made it to where you want to be and some areas of your life remain unchanged?

There might be a belief hidden in your subconscious that is blocking your success.

It would be wise to search for it, find it and change it. Your subconscious mind is much more powerful than your conscious mind. In other words, the conscious mind is only the tip of an iceberg whose greater part (the subconscious) lies under the surface of an ocean. If you want to be free from limitations, you have to look deep and re-programme your subconscious.

The programming of your mind happens throughout your life via unremarkable statements from your parents and teachers, as well as through the media. The media play an enormous role in the programming process. We all receive many reports about the world around us, but might not always be aware that the information is often selectively chosen to influence us.

At present, you need to find out what subconscious beliefs you hold and whether they serve you well.

Be truthful with yourself.

While searching for these subconscious beliefs, you might not always like what you find. However, if you don’t face them, you are not allowing a change to take place.

I recommend four steps that can help you to find and change these negative beliefs.

1. What area of my life is not going according to my wishes?

(e.g., money)

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

2. What is my key thought about it?

(Money is bad, rich people are selfish)

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

3. Is the thought serving me well?

(It causes me to lack money, because being rich equals being selfish)

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

4. What could be my new key thought?

(Money could help to build a project that would help people I love)

(Work out this point. You can also download a workbook at www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads)

Use this simple exercise to discover and re-programme your subconscious beliefs. Write down the newly-created key thoughts; place them in a clearly visible spot and work with them daily. By changing the key thoughts, you’ll change your habits of thinking and behaviour. When you change your behaviour, others around you will react differently, and your life will change accordingly. This is one way to anchor the changes in your life. The presence of negative people in your environment might also be blocking the fulfilment of your dream. It is important to realise that the people who surround you are your own reflection. If you happen to be among negatively vibrating people, take a close look at your beliefs and thoughts. Before you start trying to change your situation and other people, first change yourself. Many times when you make a change in your attitude, negative people simply leave your life or else undergo a change themselves.

Don’t get discouraged, and remain playful. Open your heart and feel all the impulses urging you to change your life. Life is a place full of opportunities, and it is up to you which one you choose. Ask yourself often: “What is truly important for me at this moment? What do I want to consciously attract into my life?”

12.
Conclusion and practical tips for the journey

We are coming to the end of our journey. However, your journey toward your dream is not yet over. Come back to each step as often as you feel the need to do so.

I recommend working with your workbook; it’s a very practical habit. You could go through the exercises again, allowing yourself to get deeper into the topic. Ask yourself daily: What can I do to fulfil my dream? What might my next step be? Evaluate your progress continuously and don’t forget to appreciate yourself for what you have already achieved.

Set out on the journey again and again. If things are not going well, stop, take a break, relax, and after having recharged your batteries, carry on feeling inspired again.

Be persistent yet patient. Let each thing happen in its own time. If you push too much you could temporarily block your journey. Relax, and go with the flow.

Allow yourself to make mistakes. If you don’t allow the mistakes to happen, you won’t learn from them. They are important teachers which provide you with space to grow.

Be the gardener of your own garden. You have planted an order into the universal field of unlimited potential. Let the order grow like a flower. Be patient. Take care of it but don’t be too eager. If you believe in a higher power that connects us all, collaborate with it. Ask it to help you with the difficult tasks. What can you do at the moment? What can the higher power (Universe, Nature, God, Unity, etc.) help you with?

As soon as part of your dream starts to materialize, you will begin to feel great. You will enjoy the journey more and more; you might even find it to be as important as the dream itself.

You might learn many practical things along the way; things that could change your life. You will most likely reconsider your inner beliefs, because in order to change an external reality you need to alter the internal reality - your habits and vibrations. Thus becoming your dream might also change you. You might become more whole.

Don’t worry about what will happen next. Discovering and fulfilling your dream will fill you up with creative energy. I am certain that the next idea will strike you.

There is one more thing. After having achieved the dream, don’t forget the people around you. Don’t forget those who are still searching for the way. Offer them what you have learned and share your knowledge and experience. Share your joy in discovering and fulfilling your dream.

Discovering your dream and not having anyone to share the joy with could be sad.

But I will leave that up to you….

Vladimír Ekart – tireless adventurer and voyager toward his dreams. Share your comments and experiences on http://www.discoveryourowndream.com

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Recommended literature

The authors and books on the reading list explore the themes further and will provide you with additional information about the topic.

Eckhart Tolle – A New Earth, The Power of Now

Joe Vitale – The Awakening Course (audio program) Esther and Jerry Hicks – Law of Attraction

Eric Pearl - The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself

Pierre Franckh – Law of Resonance

Bruce H. Lipton - The Biology of Belief

14.
Attachments

I recommend printing out the attachments. You can also download them on www.discoveryourowndream.com/downloads

You will also find the complete Workbook on the website.

Workbook:

Date:

Today’s evaluation: What have I done today/yesterday* to fulfil my dream? What have I succeeded in?

What could be the next step? What can I do tomorrow to fulfil my dream?

* If you decide to evaluate in the evening, keep “today”. If you evaluate in the morning, change it to “yesterday”.

Map of the path to your dream: