Getting out of dreams

Last night I was dreaming, it wasn't a scary dream, but I still didn't like it. I was dreaming that one of my sons was supposed to go on a field trip and he needed $20. I didn't have it and no one I knew had it so I could borrow it. I started to get really upset. Then for some reason I said to myself in my dream, this is a dream, I can stop it, so I did and I woke myself up. I told myself again it was just a dream and went back to sleep and was just fine for the rest of the night.

Usually when I have a bad dream or a dream I don't like I'd make myself cry and whimper, then my boyfriend laying next to me would wake up then he'd wake me up. I didn't have the strength within myself to make myself wake up, I needed help.

Two things came to me this morning. One, I was strong enough to wake myself up, to take myself out of a dream that I didn't like. All by myself. Obviously I am getting stronger, before I had to rely on my boyfriend to help me out of bad dreams, but last night I helped myself out.

The second thing I thought of is why can't we do this in our awake times, what I did in my dream. I do believe that will transfer to my waking life. I have gained strength by believing in myself and trusting in myself. I now feel even more sure that I can rely on myself when I need to. In my dream I was in a situation that I didn't like and I got myself out of it just by saying wake up. What if we find ourselves in a situation that isn't satisfying or fulfilling. Or a situation that is scary or we are someplace we know we shouldn't be, it should be just as easy to get ourselves out of those places. I am mainly talking about those places in our heads.

If we see we are having dark thoughts, thoughts that are depressing us. Thoughts that are stabbing at our own self-esteem. We need to say to ourselves, stop. This isn't right, this isn't where I need to be in my thoughts. So you stop and take yourself out of them. Go to your happy spot, think of things that are right and proper. You know what those thoughts are. And you know the thoughts that will lead you down the wrong path and you know the actions that will accompany you along that path.

At the moment you realize that what you are thinking and/or doing isn't right, stop. You may already find yourself half way down the path. That is okay, listen to your heart, at that point turn around and follow the correct path. Yes, at the beginning you may be farther down the path, but with each time you realize what you are doing isn't right and you correct your path, that distance that you have taken down the wrong path will become shorter.

Take into yourself the lessons you have learned, the power you have gained and stand up to and for yourself and make the decisions and choices that will empower you, empower your life. You will be richer in your soul because of it.