Article by Make The Days Count Contributor Stefanie Johnson

There are magical places that exist within each one of us, inside our minds, hearts, and souls. By visiting these places, we can tap into the infinite and bring peace and abundance into our lives.  Each journey will be unique, as we are unique, so you may want to have a notebook and pen nearby to record your experience afterward. You may choose to have another person read the meditation to you so you may experience it more fully.      

Find a comfortable place, close your eyes, open your mind, and prepare yourself to travel within.

This week, let us find our way to the Dream Tree.  Let’s float in the vast tranquility of space, and find the answers we seek beneath the ancient tree.

You are standing at the top of a mountain.  The mountain is so tall that clouds surround you, and you can’t see the earth below.  The tip of the mountain is so narrow that only your two feet fit on it, and there seems to be no way to descend it.  Instead, you look upward, and the sky stretches wide and high around and above you, deep cobalt and so blue and pure it almost hurts your eyes to see such beauty.

It dawns on you that your position is precarious, and perhaps you should be afraid.  However, the glory of your surroundings makes you feel invulnerable.  Endless.  Weightless.  And so you become as light as air, and your feet lift from the narrow mountain point and you find yourself slowly floating upward.  

Careless, weightless, you feel the cool air caressing your body, going around and through you.  You know that you are leaving all your troubles far below you.  They are heavy, earthbound things, and they can’t follow you to the heights you will ascend.

As you continue to float upward, you notice the blue of the sky becoming steadily deeper, from bright blue to clear sapphire, indigo, and then soft black.  You look back, and see the earth below you, a blue and green ball, wreathed by atmosphere.  How small it is, compared to the vastness all around you, and yet how beautiful it is, glowing with colors and life.

However there is much more to explore out here, and you don’t linger too long gazing at familiar territory.  An entire universe of possibilities is spread out before you, and you know in your soul that you must explore them to the fullest, and that this will take many journeys.

You swim smoothly now through the darkness, tiny stars shimmering on your skin, between your fingers, and as you move through space you leave a trail of stardust behind you.

You see the round, silver coin that is the moon before you, luminous and shining in welcome.  You feel drawn to it.  You have looked up at it often with your physical eyes, seen the fullness, the waxing and waning, and so partly it is familiar.

You feel there is magic here … a realm of dreams never fully explored, fragile and lovely, invisible to the eye that seeks only concrete, quantifiable logic.  A person with such eyes would only see rock and dust and darkness here.  Looking at it now, though, with the eyes of your heart and soul, you truly see.  The landscape rises in the distance.  You are entranced by what lies on the moon’s glowing silver and ebony horizon.

(What landscape do you see there? How does it make you feel?)

Lightly, you set your feet down on a smooth, glowing white hill.  Tiny silver flowers are growing here, with white stems and translucent silver petals.  At the base of the hill there are white crystal bushes with pewter roses, pale butterflies wafting around them.  Fine white granules of sand that almost look like sugar seem to cover everything, and float around in the air.

You pass puddles and pools of quicksilver in which you catch glimpses of your reflection.  (How do you appear here? Is it different than how you normally see yourself?)

There, in what appears to be an island of white sand, grows a tree unlike any you have seen before.  It seems to be the only tree for miles—indeed, it may be the only tree in the whole world.  It is giant, ancient, with pale, twisting limbs and silver leaves.  The fruit that grows on this tree is made of crystal spheres, and as you move closer, you see things in the spheres, things you recognize.  Images of you, of your life, your memories.

Your dreams.

You sit beneath the tree, your back pressed against the cool, smooth trunk, and gaze upward.  The sphere that hangs directly above you is the most important sphere on the tree.  It contains an important message for you. (What do you see in the sphere?  What is it telling you?)

Now slowly, the message filling your mind and heart, open your eyes.

Know that any time you feel lost or have a question, the Dream Tree is here for you.            

I was honored to serve as your guide on this journey within. I hope we will travel together again soon.

“Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”
-Napoleon Hill

“We must nurture our dreams like we would a child.  They are God-given and just as precious.”
-Conway Stone

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