Dreaming Big & Embracing the Unknown

​How might the world shift if we each shared our bold, unique, and daring ideas and dreams more freely? With wild abandon, even?? 
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In my dream last night a woman came to tell me that a new idea - shared and acted - has the power to change the world. 
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​She gave the example of Michelangelo (except she called him Miguel here). Through stepping beyond the prevailing way of seeing & creating art in his day, Michelangelo shifted the entire way that Western Europe looked at the human body, expressions of beauty, and humans as divine beings. Of course he was a prodigy and a genius - and still, his genius started with new ways of thinking & creating that were wildly outside the paradigm of his time. His art moved people into a new experience - consciousness - of the world and themselves, in a way that's still felt today. 
 
Our personal expression will look different from this revolutionary artist and from each other. This is part of what makes life so interesting and wonderful. Through taking little steps towards embracing all of ourselves: including our far-reaching ideas, dreams, ambitions, and yearnings (yes - including those ones hiding way back there!), we further open up to our own life energy and to the possibility of impacting others in positive and life-affirming ways.

This dream made me reflect: How many brilliant ideas do we dismiss (others and our own) just because they don't fit in with what we see around us? Or because we don't know what they would look like in physical form? Because we might be judged if we made them known? As much as I've shared, I've also held back because of fear of the unknown, fear of judgment, and dismissal of possibility.

This dream really moves me to more consciously invite and embrace the adventurous, unknown corners of my mind and being. Experiment more freely with casting aside the bowlines that keep me safely tethered to what's known and familiar. Inhale the magic of what I do not yet know or understand.
 
This morning I'm grateful for all the ways that Life encourages us to step more and more into all of who we are - and lifting up one another as we do.

Photo Credits. Top painting: Artist Unknown. If you know who it is, I would love to hear from you! Bottom painting: the Master - Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel.