Understanding Visions

In the push to understand our visions, people often pull them apart and destroy their visions.  We will teach you how to work with visions with a light touch. Let’s review how to be successful with your visions.

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A Time to be Modest

So a lesson for working with visions is one of modesty. Don’t try to share everything. If it is graceful to do so, share only the drift of vision you have, the hints of which you know will help another life more gracefully. You only need to share the hints, not the full vision 99.9% of the time.

Since most people are not in control of their motion, this also means that a person’s motion will drag the vision into a direction, it wasn’t meant to go. Just because you witness something doesn’t mean you have to repeat it. You are merely a witness, don’t make a mistake to think you are a player. The sage plays no games. In nonjudgement, you simply move with life; with kindness, you sometimes nudge things along. Nevermore than a nudge is required. If you believe or try to go beyond a nudge, you will stumble, and counterforce will shift the visions into something else.

The river was my true and first teacher so that I will share some a lesson from her. Think of vision as water. Let it flow like water and work with them like water.

People will try to trap water, force it to do work. But in reality you don’t hold the water, you let it move through your grasp, you drink of it, let it flow through you and just smile. It’s enough just to remove your thirst and get a touch wet.

In this manner, the experience will expand out, and you won’t lose your attention in trying to hold it.

Visions are Personal!

All too many people think of visions as always being a shareable Hollywood moment. Visions are quite personal most of the time. Many times visions are quite subtle and gently guide you towards your life’s goals. Yes every once in a while you will see an amazing take your breath away vision, but the majority of visions are simple and elegant in how they blend into your life. A person often needs several years of practice to truly learn how to tease information from a vision in a manner that can be shared with others without confusion or mistakes.

I know for myself, some visions might be too large: there is only so much in a vision a person can hold. A vision can be so powerful that your first instinct is to share it with another person to help understand it. Visions are often larger than words, which also means most visions don’t translate cleanly into words. This means, sadly, when sharing visions many times, the words we share will create misinterpretations from others.

A Time to Share

While visions are personal, at key moments we can modestly share to help expand a vision out also.

The big trap is over sharing. Expand/Share too much, too fast, and it all gets corrupted.

Potential and visions are susceptible to corruption since they have yet to manifest. Visions are not physical; rather, visions represent potential or spirit. All visions are fluid and not rigid at all. As a result, visions are easily shifted and changed by different perspectives and interpretations.

I will use the Awakening Dragon Taoist community as an example.

The Awakening Dragon community did start as a vision. While I did share it with people to assist within the flow of the vision, I didn’t initially share all of my vision, in fact I didn’t share it with anyone for 2 or 3 years, because I needed to slowly process the vision first in a modest way myself, to test ideas out, to explore out the nature of what the vision could be or in what manner it should be shaped that would be graceful.

Then only with a very small handful of friends, I tested and tried out ideas of the vision. Only after seven years did I expand Awakening Dragon to be more open in its format. Without modesty, I would have failed in my interpretation of the vision because initial insights to the vision were not polished enough.

Over time I have shared more and more as people have grown within the Awakening Dragon community, Yet I still haven’t shared my entire vision, -> not even with myself < -. I will allow myself to discover the vision over time rather than limit it to only its starting seed vision. Because the actions of a few hundred people will alter it away from my vision also. This is fine, since the whole point of a vision is to follow growth. Initially if I shared too much, had too many people come in at once, that would mean too many varied interpretations would diffuse and undercut the growth process of the community itself before the vision would have had a chance to mature. Too little focus hurts, too much focus hurts… so in the end modesty is usually the initial perfect path of following a vision. Later this can change once a vision is mature, but before that maturity all visions are like children and need proper nurturing.

Additionally in sharing the vision of the dragon community I had lightly, allows for feedback and evolution to come into the process, the vision itself then shifts, adapts, evolves and become more powerful, and in some respects very different than the original vision. Or the interpretation of the vision. Here is one trap of sages, to mistake the interpretation to be the vision itself. That is not the case, vision is always merely Potential. Interpretation of any vision is merely an opinion of what it could mean in our more limited physical form.

I have allowed the vision of the Awakening Dragon community to be shared as a small mountain spring, over time, it is growing into a smaller stream and now into a little pond and river. In time it will flow into a lake, then a larger river, larger flows and even into a sea, and the ocean of larger community. In this manner of slower shared growth, it will never lose its original flavor of the spring it came from, and yet also grew to be something greater than I could have explained in the first vision.

I hope this sharing of how I worked with a vision within my own life, illustrates how we need to use caution but also must be willing to share truly the delicate art of visioning itself.

Never Force a Vision!

Part of keeping a vision modest is not to judge your visions.

The simple truth is: the future is neutral. It isn’t bad nor good.

The future is what people make of it with their actions.

Think about this for a moment. The future is never a vision; the future is always based on your actions. Visions exist to help guide our actions but never have the power to force our actions. We have free will, and it’s our free will that shapes any future.

It is much easier to have visions than people realize, it is harder to let visions guide us and most difficult of all to accept that it is our actions that fulfill any vision.

So work at that which is harder, Focus on what you truly want to become, put effort into making the future better. Doing nothing means not having a future. To only stare at a vision ironically also stops a person from doing anything.

It is all too easy to have visions of crazy possibilities which then paralyze a person. Turn that around to use any vision to guide you to more graceful options.

The challenge isn’t what we face: We face ourselves.
Rather the challenge is what we decide to make the future into.

Are you up to making life better tomorrow? If so, you are ready to explore your visions.

People often ask me to share what I see.

What I see is:

People think they’re alone.
They feel powerless that they don’t control their futures.
I see the future depends on the choices everyone makes now.
I see power is a choice.
Most people are fooled into thinking they are alone and powerless.

We always have a choice in how we use our power and visions can be insights for making wiser decisions for our actions. They can be used to bring us closer together and help teach us new ways to work together. Or sadly they also isolate us when we judge them since judgment just imprisons one into doing nothing.

The times will shape us, direct us and teach us. Our visions are moments of inspiration to help us grow and move ahead.

The future is what we make it be, not what is given to us nor even what the vision shows to us.

We can reflect upon a vision, learn from it, watch it unfold. It’s always up to our actions to create our future. Always hold visions modestly, so you have room left for your efforts to build a better future.

Visions are flexible; Actions are powerful. Blend vision and action to empower you to shape a future.

Visions of the Future

Being able to foresee the future is not what people think it is:

Nothing can change if you truly foretell the future. Simply because that measurement of the future fixes it into being so.

If you want to change the future then don’t know it.

Oracles look ahead to fix points in time.

You don’t have to know what is in the future, rather use visions of the future to help guide you to learn more about yourself.

Seers look ahead to only learn about stories of what might be. To be a Seer is about having a vision of the future to explore your own possibilities.

If you want the future to be a certain way, then be true to knowing your own nature!

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