Happy Talk

In the classic Rogers and Hammerstein musical “South Pacific” there is a song, “Happy Talk.” https://youtu.be/JXgmQDFhPjo?si=28ulmE0cnhhDtl-6

The lyric goes: “You gotta have a dream. If you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”

Students of The Art of Manifestation will recognize the message. In the musical, the context is romance, but the principle applies in all contexts.

What common attitude defeats this idea? Have you ever had a friend or someone else say to you, “ Come on, be realistic!” What does “be realistic” mean in this case? Accept the external reality as the only option. For a practical minded person this can sound like good advice, right?

But in terms of having a dream, being realistic is often the dream killer. There is something to be said for acknowledging external reality, but accepting that your future reality must be an extension of the current external reality is surely a way to muddy the dream at best, and defeat it altogether at worst.

What is external reality? Someone’s imperfect compromised imagination made real, right?

Why do we do affirmations, write down our goals, keep our eyes on the prize? It is to manifest a more ideal vision for ourselves and our loved ones. We have to reprogram our subconscious in order to be successful in this endeavor, and in order…