Have you ever had a dream that was so powerful that it drove you to do crazy, unreasonable, unconventional things?
I have had a decade long dream to sail in the Mediterranean.
I have visualized being in the healing waters of Mykonos hundreds of times. I would close my eyes and feel what it would be like to walk the streets of Santorini feeling the timeless beauty of the snow white architecture and admiring the spectacular views from the cliffs.
And for many, many years this vision seemed like a pipe dream.
As soon as I saw that Abraham Hicks Publications (Esther Hicks is one of my greatest teachers) was doing a seminar on a Mediterranean cruise in September 2013, I knew I had to go.
But I kept waiting for my husband to get time off of work so we could go together. I waited for the money to come in. I waited for someone to give me permission to be gone during my kids’ birthdays. I waited for everything to align perfectly. And it just didn’t.
So I had a choice.
Do I let the external circumstances prevent me from going or do I follow my heart and go anyway?
How many times in your life have you felt something strongly in your gut, but over-rode it with your rational mind? How did that turn out for you?
For me, it always felt like I cheated on myself. I just couldn’t spend one more minute ignoring what my inner wisdom was telling me.
So after a particularly powerful MasterMind group session and subsequent conversation with one of my alignment buddies, I got into such a place of clarity about who I am, I knew I HAD TO GO!
And once I made the decision, everything else flowed. How I managed to register for a sold-out cruise less than a week before the start, get killer tickets to Europe and line up fabulous childcare will be a story for another time, all I can tell you is that when you are in alignment with your desire, life will bend over backwards to bring you to it!
And at the end of the 11-day Mediterranean adventure, I knew unequivocally why I was so called to take this trip. I literally felt reborn by this experience.
I learned invaluable lessons, experienced crazy amazing things like seeing auras for the first time (still can’t believe it!), hung out with billionaires, famous authors and leaders in their fields, but most importantly, I allowed myself to be smitten all over again.
I fell for me. HARD. 😉
This magnified self-appreciation, new ability to romance myself and increased capacity to give/receive love is PRICELESS and worth every step of the way.
I lived and breathed such magnificence, I spent so much time meditating, appreciating, MasterMinding and enjoying life to the max, that I am not the same person who left for Rome three weeks ago.
I am a more self-assured, brilliant, witty, limitless, creative and powerful version of me. And that is worth EVERYTHING in my book. Because just like a mirror, the world will reflect back to me my inner expression. And I cannot wait to see how this new version of me shows up in the world!
So here is my challenge for you. Think of a dream that you’ve had for a long time. Maybe it’s to travel to India, maybe it’s to become a yoga teacher, maybe it’s to have children or to feel deep inner peace.
Commit to taking one step (Just ONE!) this week toward your vision.
It can be as simple as reading a book about a place you want to visit, signing up for a Catch a Vision session to receive a customized written vision for your BIG DREAM or journaling a script of what it would feel like to already be living one of your life goals.
The important thing is that you signal to yourself and to all existence that you know what you want and you’re ready for it.
And there is no better way to do that then to post what step you are taking in the comments below. Let me hold the vision for you and support you on your journey!
Sunrise over Istanbul.
And when you arrive at your goal you will recognize that the only reason for the destination was to have the journey.
Before you know it, you will be watching the most spectacular sunrise over Istanbul after a night of ecstatic dancing, feeling so ALIVE, so full of yourself, so invincible, that you will have no remaining doubt that truly anything is possible.
And you will recognize that the reason things didn’t line up the way you were hoping was so that you can unequivocally prove to yourself that circumstances don’t determine how you feel and what you do.
You set the tone and then watch that intention ripple out in your life.
I’m looking forward to reading your visions and the steps you will take this week!
In Great Joy,
Lana
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Hi Lana, it was so wonderful to meet you on the Abe cruise. I so get what you mean. As soon as I found out about that cruise, it lit up for me. As did the Canary Islands!
Can’t wait to see you again on that one!
I have a dream to run. Run in races. Run on a regular basis. I just want to be a runner. So, last week, coming off the cruise, I started the C25K running program.
I just did day 2 of week 2 today. I feel utterly triumphant!
I’ll be running 5K’s by the time we meet in the Canaries:-)
It was delightful to meet you too, Nneka! I am certain that we will see each other many times over and maybe we can go for a run together then!
I love feeling triumphant – I love lining up so fully with my vision that action feels like a huge victory, no matter what the results! So I celebrate your triumph or running with you and know that this feeling of success will bring you even more to celebrate!
Big love to you!
Beauty. I love how you say, “when you are in alignment with your desire, life will bend over backwards to bring you to it!” As I am really gaining more clarity recently and I see how key it is….this is so beautiful and so encouraging, thank you.
Thank you Court! I still continue to be amazed at the depth of love that all life feels for each of us and how mountains can be moved when I am in alignment!
So powerful Lana! LOVE IT!!!
and oh how you make me want to travel!!
Thank you Terra. Do it! Travel is one of the best investments that I continue to make in myself!
YESSS!!!
Beautiful post!
You inspired me and now I have three dreams that I really want to share with you Lana! 😉 You create such sacred space, I know my dreams are in safe encouraging hands with you and your readers.
1. I want to develop my own program/book that inspires people via movement and adds joy and vibrant health to peoples lives.
2. I want a deeply satisfying and soulfully committed life partnership with a man who is passionate, adventurous, and filled with loving-kindness.
3. I want to be a world-class lindy hop dancer in competitions, broadway shows, movies, and commercials.
😉 xoxo elyse
Elyse,
Thank you so much for sharing your dreams with me! In working with clients in coaching sessions, I frequently see that opening up about our ‘big’ visions is even more vulnerable than opening up about our wounds.
Here is my support on your vision: I will add my vision of you doing those things to add more magnetic fuel to draw what you want closer to you!
1. I love the program you’ve designed for it’s simplicity, clarity, upliftment and powerful results. Your clients are sending you email after email sharing how you have literally changed their lives – did you ever imagine that you can make such a huge impact just by being you and sharing what you know?!!!!
2. Your partner is sitting at his home right now dreaming about a woman like you and imagining how he will feel when you are in his arms, in his heart and in his soul!
3. Congratulations on winning the latest lindy hop competition – you looked like you were having so much fun and your infectious enthusiasm won over every person in the crowd. No wander you are getting calls from all over the place to participate in movies and shows – you were born for the stage! Your passion is contagious and anybody watching you can’t help but dance in their seat!
Lana, Thank you for giving us such a wonderful example of making a dream come true. I’ve always dreamed of cruising the Mediterranean with my love and stopping at various ports, seeing the towns, sitting at a cafe enjoying the local cuisine…. Being from Italy, I’ve had many tastes of this, now it’s time for the full experience.
I am so glad that I went even though it seemed like things did not line up perfectly. In the end, I opened up to greater love and romance within myself and brought that home to my partner, family, friends and clients. I really look forward to the day when my husband and I rent a sailboat and sail around the Greek Islands together! And please let me know about your experience when you go, Silvia!
Lana! What a powerful post! Thank you so much for sharing and reminding me that you should always follow your dreams. I’m very tempted now to go and book a nice trip for myself, too :-).
You are so welcome Nathalie. And you know what I’m going to say: do it! I have never regretted one day of traveling. And at the same time, the most meaningful travel I do is right here at home journeying deep within myself!
Wow Lana! So beautifully written. You are so right about following your intuition rather than your rational mind with things like this and I’m so happy that doing so resulted in this beautiful experience for you. Going to check out your videos now!
I believe that intuition is also rational, just not always in the way that our society thinks about rationality. 😉 Hope you enjoyed the videos Leah!
Love, love, love this…
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The important thing is that you signal to yourself and to all existence that you know what you want and you’re ready for it.
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So true. Feel super inspired reading this today, Lana!
Mandy xo
Hope that inspiration carried forward into the week and month Mandy!
Beautiful post, and I’m so happy to hear that you had such a memorable experience!! Yes, aligning with your truest desires is TOTALLY possible if you believe in it and take the steps to make it happen. Thanks for sharing, Lana!! I could feel the excitment and exhilaration through your words! xo
Thank you Desiree! I love surfing the waves of exhilaration!!
This story was so inspiring, I loved – thank you!
I have so many dreams whizzing around my head just now! I am going to try and call ONE in, and take ONE action towards it.
Thanks, Lana!
You’ll be amazed at how good it feels to deliberately take that one inspired action toward your BIG dream, Marsha!
So inspiring, Lana. It’s absolutely true that following your intuition takes you to the best places and just taking one step towards what you feel opens up a universe of possibility!
Preach it sista!
Lana you’re such a smart cookie! I love how you shared your story of letting go and how it all worked out. It looks like a beautiful trip and it’s on my list.
One thing I’m going to do is plan a trip to the beach in the next coming months! xo
Great Melissa! And before you even physically make it to the beach, you can be enjoying the mental trips there daily! Ah, I can just close my eyes now and smell the salty fresh air and the feel the warm, squishy sand beneath my toes…..
Perfect timing!! I was just feeling how I was missing out on adventure (after watching the animated movie UP) and fun and then I saw how my friend from college was still partying like a 22 year old in Australia (she had been an exchange student here) and I thought of how much I’d love to go visit her.
And then that old lady voice kicked in. She said, “You don’t have the TIME or the MONEY. That was a cute thought Jamie but trips like that aren’t for people like you.”
And then I spoke to a wise woman who said, “Well let’s start planning your trip, and do what we can and let the universe figure out all of the rest. <3
And suddenly, I realized maybe when I feel like these things aren't "for me", it really just means they aren't for the me that can't dream and hope and plan. And I can do all of those things 🙂
What a wonderful experience Lana! I’m thrilled for you!
I’d love your next post to explain how it all fell into place once you’d made your decision. There is definitely another brilliant post in that!