Crystalize.

Thoughts can blow your mind. Whooohhh...

Watching the patterns, the possibilities of the imagination, even more so. How about those moments when you catch yourself eating popcorn in the front row of the movie YOU are creating inside of your head? There is a whole word of senses and details and flashes and colors and smells and emotions that live right there, INSIDE…on the stage you build. This is the gift you begin with, wholeheartedly, as a child when you live to have tales read to you at night about “The Adventures of Mupi the Hippo” or "Ted the Monkey ". Mupi or Ted become your steady imaginary companion and guide you in the world as you explore. They become bridges in your mind to bravery and courage. Then, one day, someone may tell you you have an “over active imagination”. Someone may tell you it isn’t healthy to create such “ideas” and live in a world that “doesn’t really exist”.

I am truly sorry if someone ever told you to “stop that non-sense” instead of encouraging you to use this skill to make dreams become REAL. I am also sorry if you needed to create movies in your head to escape reality because it hurt too much to be there. I really do hate “imagination abuse”. Well, ok obvious, I really do hate any kind of abuse. It really is a pain in the ass to recover from. If abuse wins in any form, it can block you from so much beauty in the world. However, with work and forgiveness and belief and faith, imagination remains your steady friend to help you explore your beauty once again.

Imagination is where you get your dreams to take shape and develop flight. It’s like this built-in stomping ground to work out the quirks to find out what really makes you TICK. There is nothing like crying during the movie YOU create, sometimes laughing out loud, sometimes falling deeply in love…all alone…with that movie inside. You get to choose the players…so beautifully scripted and acted out within your own creation. Ooooohhhh…and the music…ahhh….the music! You get to choose the soundtrack that melts you into a little puddle. All the fine points are made by you.

So, dust off your seat in the front row of your life. With practice and time to overcome any fear…your free theater of thought and imagination will help you find the courage to bring your delights into reality. If you can imagine it, you can have it. Why would you settle for anything less?