I think I was reading a children's book when I first spotted the phrase "Tiny Brains". The phrase referred to dinosaurs, whose gargantuan bodies dwarfed their rather small mental faculties. (A Tyranosauraus Rex evidently had a brain the size of a pea, or a golf ball, or a marble...or something very small.) If they were the "Tiny Brains", then I suspect we are the "Big Brains".
Think about it.
We spend a good part of every day worrying, analyzing, thinking, stewing, fretting, imagining, fantasizing, pining, and otherwise mentally gestating over our lives and our dreams. So basically, we spend our entire day thinking ourselves to death.
That was the image that came up on our "Dig Into Your Dreams" teleclass the other night: of a tiny little person teetering around beneath a huge, cumbersome brain.
This is both the joy and the curse of being human. And it's the irony, as well.
We labor through life, convinced our circumstances dictate every last shred of our lives. We don't have the money we want because of our boss, or our education, or our local economy; our neighbor keeps us up at night so we're always sleep-deprived, etceteras, etceteras. We don't have love because of our weight, or our car, or our kids, or because we don't have time to go out and meet anyone. And we don't have our dream because...well, just because.
And yet, to quote my new favorite writer Joe Vitale, author of Spiritual Marketing, "Everything in life seems to be plastic. You can mold it to fit what you want and where you want to be." So yes...life is plastic. Life is this wonderful pliable stuff which you can shape and form any old way you want. And yet, under the weight of our very large brains we forget that. We think we are given a life that is already formed like quick-dry concrete and by somebody else!
This is patently not true.
It never was and it never will be because we do have the power to change and mold our lives. We have the power to walk out of our job at 5PM, or tell our children or our spouse to leave us alone while we work on our dream for an hour every day. We have the power to create savings we can live on while we transition from one career to the next. We have the power to affect millions of people if we want to Ð and share our gifts as abundantly as we possibly can.
What we don't have the power to do is control and dictate outcomes. We can say we'll walk out of work at 5PM and we can't necessarily control the reactions of those around us. BUT we can control how we feel about those reactions. If we connect with the absolute necessity of taking that action, and the positive benefits it will bring as we begin to live our divine purpose (which we have to leave early to do then the dirty looks our co-workers or boss gives us begins to seem less significant. After a while, they just seem sort of sad.
And if we find ourselves out of a job because we've reshuffled our priorities, our new groundedness can take us far in creating more harmonious work. (Please note, I am someone who lost my job because I made my dream my priority which just fast-tracked me on to living my dream!)
We find that once our big brains are focussed not on worry, longing and fear, but on our purpose in life, then things get more grounded. They get easier, too. We become clearer. We feel our divine connection more intensely. Every day seems to count more.
Joint me in some of the work I've described below if you want to see how "plastic" and moldable your circumstances can really become. I'm thrilled that the Big G is helping me spread my work further and further to all who may benefit.
And by the way things look for this newsletter in two more weeks, instead of three. The Joy Letter is now on a bi-weekly schedule to accommodate an exciting new wave of inspiration.
Bon courage, and don't be afraid to dream and act big!
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