Do a deliberate exercise

Take out a sheet of paper or do this in your head.  Specify what you would like to do.  Imagine how it feels to already be doing it.  How do you sense you are already closing the gap between here and there? What prompts you to realize this thing is already done? Appreciate how it feels to experience the dream.  Share your enthusiasm. What are you thinking?

Be that now

Every moment, you give birth to ideas.  Notice when you become what you ask for and when you do not.  Notice that the inner being part of you is already what you dream about and the physical you chooses to catch up and align, that is, live the dream or not.   How often are you asked who you are? what do you do? and what would you like to be? When do you feel your way into this process of becoming?  Know you are that now.  You are all the labels and identities you imagine whatever you choose to manifest into being.

Influence degrees of freedom

The ego mind only has limited degrees of freedom that reflects a limited range of cosmic understanding.  When you are around people, you may adopt their ways and accept their judgment.  Thus, you begin to sense your impressions are influenced by collective ways of seeing and thinking or group consciousness.

To recognize something beyond the ego mind continuously receives, maintains and processes information is to realize something within is constantly transforming.  Natural ebbs and flows are working even when one is unaware.  Anything conceivable in mind is nothing but a dream and yet, also a timeless teacher.

Detach from the doer

Training the mind to settle down requires patience and diligence. During this process, you may find that inner contentment is unstable. Why is that? Could it be that the doer within is still wanting something?

In many cases, the mind interferes.  It exists to control.  And yet, the watcher within knows mind can relinquish all control and even disappear. There is no need to question or do anything. Allow the mind to do what it pleases. Remember how it feels not to respond.  Simply notice emotions. To be fully aware of the dream is to accept all control is beyond reach, to watch fear dissolve and surrender to what remains. Degrees of transformation unfold in living experience.  One emerges in a state of heightened awareness.

Rely on the path

To know your thoughts and emotions intimately enables you to weather any storm.  When you live under the influence of afflictive emotions, you forget who you are.  When you look for strength and trust outside self, you grow more afraid of illusions.  In order to free the essence of being from the mind, it is necessary to understand and transcend afflictive emotions that you permit to control you.  Awaken from the dream.

What enables you to realize new levels of awakening? How does life show you sources of pleasure also bring you insight into experience of pain and suffering?  Why does heightened awareness serve you?