My work with my Dream starts upon arising. As soon as I wake up I have begun to create my Dream whether or not I thinking about it overtly or not. The creation of my day, and with it at some point, my Dream, starts when I open my eyes and become present to awakening. This is one of the most important parts of the day. For some it is that part of the day that sets the tone for the rest of the day, for what is to follow. It is important for me because what I do with this part of my day will effect the work that I eventually do with my Dream.
I have found that it is better to begin to take good care of myself early in the morning, as soon as I wake up. It is at this point that I have a choice, a choice as to whether or not to be positive or to be negative. I have always had this choice even when I was not aware of having this choice. We do have the choice to be positive or negative regardless of whether or not we acknowledge it. When we get it that early in the day can and does effect the course of the day we can start to create what we say we truly want. If we are negative early on in the day, in the morning say, it will be more difficult to alter the direction of the day than if you started it out in a positive manner.
I start my day with my gratitude list. I start my day with acknowledging what I am truly grateful for. I start my day, as soon as my eyes open, with saying that I am now grateful for my house, my friend, my job, my family and my health. Having an attitude of gratitude is very important. Having an attitude of gratitude sets the tone for the morning and day. Saying what I am grateful for allows me to put out into the universe those things and people that I love and want to continue to have in my life. The actual saying of the gratitude list is the creation. The creation is through my word. I am bringing into existence that which I want to have in my life and I am bringing it into existence through my work and language.
The second thing that I do is to repeat my positive affirmations. I have 20 positive affirmations that I believe support and enhance my life. I listen to them every morning for about 15 minutes. I listen to them with headphones, as they are mixed with relaxation music. The music relaxes me completely and allows me to be much more receptive to the positive affirmations that I will eventually hear. After I hear each affirmation, recorded in my voice, I repeat the affirmation out loud. This process of repeating the positive affirmations over and over allows me to truly learn them, to have them become apart of my life. The saying of them through my word continues to bring them into existence. I am my affirmations when I say them.
The third thing that I am practicing is staying present to my word during the day, to what I say throughout the day. Staying present to what is happening in the moment and also staying aware of my response to what is going on allows me to make a much better choice as to what to say and do in those moments. Instead of acting and speaking from impulse which much of the time is or would be on the negative side, pausing and staying aware of the moment without action gives me the conscious choice to be positive with my word. Acting and speaking from impulse is doing so from the past programming, is part of the machine, of how I have always conducted myself. Being allow of my tendency to act and speak and suspending impulsive behavior gives me the freedom to create what I really do want and not that which is determined from my past.
At the end of the day I repeat the positive affirmation list and what I am grateful for. I do this just before I go to bed. Doing my positive affirmations and list of what I am grateful for allows me to take the positive nature of my word into my dream state. This allows me to continue to be positive as I sleep, allowing my positive word to penetrate into my unconscious mind, into the back drop and context of my life. Saying my positive affirmations and list of what I am truly grateful for allows the programming to continue as I sleep at night. All of this is about living my life in harmony and serenity and also, about creating my Dream.
Dr. Harry Henshaw







