Issue 41, January 2002
Come On Baby, Do the Two-O-O-Two
©Jane Teresa Anderson, January 2002
Take a close look at 2002 as you step into it tonight, chinking your glass, toasting the promise of all the good things the new year will surely bring you - if you play it right. And how do you play it right? Easy! The clue is in the year.
Turn 20 around and you have 02. 2002: the year to turn it around, the year to act on your dreams to turn around the things that haven't been working for you, the year to see your wishes fulfilled. Remember that, every time you write out the date.
Okay, so that's Step One: Every time you write 2002, think to yourself, "This is the year to turn it around". Hmmm. But what do you want to turn around, how do you do it?
Step Two is to make your New Year wish list, only write it in the present tense as if it is already happening for you. So, instead of writing, "I want to be well paid for my skills as a landscape artist" write "I am a landscape artist and I am well paid for this work".
Now your DREAMS will have a field day with your list. If you have no unconscious thinking patterns, fears or beliefs to the contrary 2002 will find you being well paid for your work as a landscape artist, but if your unconscious is in conflict with your conscious mind your dreams will get straight to work on this minefield.
Affirmations (that's what your present-tense statements are) only work if your unconscious is in full accord. The thing is, the main reason why you have put your landscape artist affirmation out there is because you haven't achieved it yet. And the reason you haven't achieved it yet is either because you've only just thought about it OR you've been trying to achieve this but with insufficient success. Aha - the great unconscious is at play - or should that be at war?
So, if affirmations don't work when your unconscious is in disagreement, why bother starting the New Year with a list of affirmations at all? The secret is that the act of writing out the affirmations triggers your unconscious into action producing dreams declaring the state of play loudly. Hmm - loudly but symbolically.
*** If your dream interpretation skills are good you can rip through the bizarre dream scenes and cut straight to the common-sense bottom line.
"Aha!" you might conclude, "No wonder I haven't made it as a landscape artist yet! My dream shows I have an unconscious belief that I'm fearful of financial success because money brings unhappiness."
"Err - what? How do you get that?" your housemate might ask. "You just said your dream was about trying to run down the road in the bunny-ear slippers you had when you were five and the pavement turned to glue and you got stuck. How did you get 'money brings unhappiness' from that?"
"It's a long story," you reply, "those bunny-ear slippers brought more than a few tears - no - as I said, it's a long story".
OKAY - now let's freeze frame and start this one again:
*** If your dream interpretation skills are not too good, or even if they're non-existent, there's still a magical turn-it-around formula that you can apply. Now, you won't know which dreams are coming up in reaction to your affirmations, but you can make a pretty safe bet that any repeating dream that involves being stuck, or not getting to where you want to be, or not getting proper rewards is likely to be relevant. These dreams symbolically deal with why you're stuck, not getting to where you want to be or not getting proper rewards for your landscape artistry efforts.
To "Do the 2002" (say "Do the Two-O-O-Two"), to "Turn It Around" to achieve your landscaping artistry wish, you simply turn around the dream. Like this:
"Aha!" you conclude, "No wonder I haven't made it as a landscape artist yet! I keep having this dream about being stuck. I've no idea what it means but it must be about why I keep getting stuck trying to put my landscape artistry business into motion. Oooh - look - a dream pun: stuck and into motion! I must have an unconscious belief about being stuck or not wanting to be in motion."
"Deep stuff," your housemate replies. "Stuck and in motion. You don't look like you've got glue on your feet to me. And what's that got to do with your old bunny-ear slippers, that's what I'd like to know?"
"Stuff the bunny-ear slippers," you reply, "Don't disturb me for ten minutes and if the phone rings, I'm not here."
You slip away, find a comfortable place and close your eyes to do your visualisation. You see yourself back in your dream, complete with bunny-ear slippers, starting to run along the road. Only this time you don't let the glue get you. You see and FEEL yourself running with great ease, breathing full deep breaths of fresh air and feeling all the feelings you want to feel when you are successfully reaping the rewards of being a landscape artist. The most important thing is to FEEL the feelings you wish to feel and to combine these feelings with the feeling of running easily.
You do this visualisation as many times as you can in a day, but at least twice. You do it every day until things stop being stuck and begin to move -which they absolutely will. All without necessarily understanding your dream.
Why does this work? Because the magical mix of SEEING yourself turn around the ending of your dream and FEELING the feelings you aspire to actually reprograms your unconscious mind. By doing this you take your old unconscious belief - the one that had been standing in your way and keeping you stuck - and you TURN IT AROUND. Your waking life affirmation then slides easily into reality as nothing is standing in its way any longer. Certainly not in bunny-ear slippers anyway.
So there you go. This is my 2002 wish for you. That you take this 'Turn It Around' frame of mind into your New Year and get down and do it. It works for me and for those people I have had the supreme reward of watching apply this principle to their dreams.
2001 has been an amazing year in every sense. The year has again stunningly illustrated the immense power one person can hold in influencing world events, for 'good' or for 'bad' (if good and bad could ever be judged). You do have the power to turn things around, and every turning point starts within a single person. Start it by working magic with your life and then letting your magic spread to others.
And so, in this strange world where we all believe in time and where I, living in Australia, step into next year before many of you do, I raise my glass and wish you all many blessings.
It's time to party. I must remember to take off my bunny-ear slippers before I walk down the street.
Jane Teresa Anderson
P.S. Thank you to those of you who have been sending your good wishes asking about my progress with writing the new book. I'm almost there! Over 80% done and only a few weeks to go to finish - the first draft. The book (my fourth in paperback) will be published by Lothian in late 2002. Yes, of course I'll tell you more about it closer to the time!
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