What if everyone allowed themselves to open to the infinite possibilities of love? Radical love.

What if each one of us gave ourselves the gift to be completely open and vulnerable to giving and receiving a love so radical nothing could stand in its way...if we truly allowed the power of love to move us into higher octaves of being.

What if?

Can you imagine? Can you even allow yourself the gift of opening your mind wide enough to think about it for even a moment...what would your life be like if you allowed yourself to love everyone in your life without any restrictions, barriers, walls, guards, shields, etc. holding nothing back...what would your love be capable of? What would you tell the people closest to you? What action would you take if you were completely released to love? Would you parachute from a plane to simulate the feeling of falling or flying? Would you give all your possessions away to express your gratitude? Would you write a love letter revealing all of the words and feelings inside? Would you start with taking care of yourself or would you attempt to love others first? What would you tell a child about love, and its infinite possibilities? What would you do if you were completely unafraid to love to your fullest capacity?

What if someone loved you with completely radical notions? They had a way of knowing exactly what it is that you need, on all levels, and they were able to deliver? What would that be like? What would you want? What would you ask for? What is it that would take your breath away? What if you opened yourself to receiving radical love? How would your life change? If even receiving this radical love for only one moment? What would that bring to you? What would it take for you to receive this love? How scary is it to dream about?

What if you just opened up...to LOVE?

Remember the little blowup punching bags you may have had as a child? How they would sway back and forth after taking a blow - only the gravitational pull of the weight in the bottom of the bag keeping it on the ground and returning to it its center. You give it a big smack and bobbing back and forth it would go, until enough time had passed from the intensity of the blow, the bag finding its center once again. Sometimes if the blow was big enough  the bag would go sliding across the room, then the bag would bobble back to its center.

I feel as though this could be a constant state of life if we are not rooted to our center. When we live unaware of where our center is, what our center feels like, and what knocks us off our center, life can knock us around and uproot us - tossing us into a dizzying bobble. Making processing information, decisions making, the ability to connect with others, completing tasks, enjoying life, and sometimes just breathing unimaginably difficult. Thus the unending importance for each of us to dig down deep within ourselves to find our center, feeling the depth of our roots, keeping us steady, keeping us strong, keeping us balanced, in place and avoiding being blown across the room with each passing moment.

In helping families discover their dreams I cannot help but agree with Adler's (Alfred Adler is the father of Individual Psychology, a psychology emphasizing the uniqueness and individuality of each person) investigation of dreams and their meaning. Adler observed that dreams of the dream time (or "dream life") and the dreams of the waking life worked together. He found that everyone has the same underlying goals in their dreams as they have in waking life, as if we have to strive towards goals not only in our waking life, but also our dream life.

Often times, we don't remembering our dreams (from our dream time), the pictures or the meaning of our dreams, therefore all we have to go on is the feeling the dreams arouse in us. Thus, the aim of our dreams are the feeling they leave us with.

Get to know the feeling of your dreams, create a support system, root yourself in yourself in the feeling of your dreams, believe in yourself and the support system you have created, and live your dream.