Living Our Dreams

[Raene]

Want to share your dreams/goals?

I want more than anything to have a house of my own with a certified commercial kitchen that I can use for classes, catering, etc. I hope that the house could double as a B&B with another smaller non-raw kitchen for guests and my partner to use. I would love to quit my boring, meaningless job and do what I love...teaching people about food and making food for others. I could see it being a non-certified restaurant type place too where people could come, by donation (b/c of laws) and sit down to a romantic raw vegan dinner with their loved ones. To own my own house and be able to do this...now that's my dream.

What's yours?

[Apasaraw]

Raene, that sounds wonderful!
I wonder how a kitchen gets certified. This has always stymied me. It sounds like fun!

I'd like my perfumery company to continue rolling. For my muscial endeavours to develop. Peace in our lifetime.

[shashibala]

My Dream is a work in progress. It is evolving as I heal inside and out.
It involves living off the grid, growing food organically, and helping others regain their health through raw foods. Maybe in combination with yoga and energy work. It is all unfolding and the vision will become clearer as I progress! Thanks for asking!:)

[Raw Yogini]

I also have a dream of living off grid and having a big organic garden in the summer and having produce year round w/ a greenhouse. This year I am planting an organic garden and I find myself gradually getting closer to that dream. One of my dreams used to be to be raw vegan. I'm doing that so my other dreams are in reach, too.
Another dream I have is to travel all over the world.
What a fun thread!

[Care4raw]

Want to share your dreams/goals?

I want more than anything to have a house of my own with a certified commercial kitchen that I can use for classes, catering, etc. I hope that the house could double as a B&B with another smaller non-raw kitchen for guests and my partner to use. I would love to quit my boring, meaningless job and do what I love...teaching people about food and making food for others. I could see it being a non-certified restaurant type place too where people could come, by donation (b/c of laws) and sit down to a romantic raw vegan dinner with their loved ones. To own my own house and be able to do this...now that's my dream.

What's yours?

Hey Raene,

You are so clear about this that i am too! I mean i can really see this as a reality for you ! i can see lots of people retreating there, the land.People healing and starting their lives at a more healthy place .As you are a mother it could also add that dimension of how to live this way with our families. You have a lot of knowledge and the fact you want to share it with the world for good ,is a blessing.

I did some Abe Hicks exercises when i was freaked out about a move my family had to make. Visualizing exercises drawing out my perfect move. Everything came out as i imaged!Including manifesting a family home over looking central park, and having the perfect renter from where i was living say "I love you home I will take it!" ( I had to rent out my home in Calif).It was so accurate my imaging to the detail that I can barely believe it myself!. My point, start to be concrete. Photograph some places in your area that appeal to you,etc.You may have started this process and again,you already sound pretty clear. Good luck!

[Apasaraw]

Rawyogini thanks for reminding me. Travel of course! Great one!

I can see us as a people getting back to the land. I feel blessed I'm the only generation off the farm and I have it in me to do this again one day. My cousins all still farm being off the grid is no big deal to them. I'd have to adjust biiiiiig time.

Any word on Jinjee and Storm's off the grid vegan housing development? They were looking for a location last I checked.
http://web.mac.com/jinjeetalifero/iW...Blog/Blog.html

[MrsJohnnyG]

Raene, that sounds fabulous!

In many ways I'm living my dream. Well... I should say phase 1 of my dream. Heh heh.

In my 20's, I was in a high-stress career climbing the corporate ladder. I was making good money for a 20-something kid, but I was single, lonely and miserable.

Finally, I walked away from that career, happy to take a huge pay cut in order to start living the way I wanted to live. Shortly thereafter I met my now-husband (the most amazing man on earth!!), started my own business, and we now live on a beautiful acre in a beautiful house and I am loving every minute of having my own business that I operate from home.

Now, my ultimate dream would be to have four children (I'm 37 now and none of our pregnancies have made it past the first trimester, so this one has some urgency! and yes, we are totally open to adopting), several acres of land, and a house where the six of us can live in bliss. We'll have a greens-and-herb garden, plenty of room for the kids to run and play outdoors, and space for me to homeschool them.

To be honest, we have room for 4 kids in the house we're in now. And there's a decent amount of land for kids to run and ride bikes and play hard. So really, all we need are the 4 kids! (At my age, I really should be happy if we're able to have ONE... but hey, we're talking about big dreams, so there ya go! )

[Raene]

I really love everyone's responses. Beautiful dreams/goals that we're all capable of achieving.

Apasaraw, yes, Jinjee and Storm found land and even have 6 committed families now. Sounds like heaven if that's what you want :)

Care4Raw, I am a huge Secret fan and I do believe this is going to happen in the next year. I have been picturing the exact house I need and I feel it coming. Thanks for the reminder that we can manifest whatever we'd like!

[The Forager]

Living off the grid, having a huge organic garden and acres of land I can put fruit trees on and a wind turbine :) Using less carbon than I put out would be nice.

Having a no kill cat shelter/sanctuary also run off the grid. All the cats would be raw foodists.

Being a raw foodist.

Moving out of Florida and going somewhere green, open, and preferrably with mountains and fresh spring water. Oh, and a spring in my land somewhere so I can bottle my own water. Yup. That's the life.

[Conscious Midwife]

My BIG dream is to develope a health and wellness facility.
with suites that house assorted wholistic and integrative health practices.

My structual visual includes a vegan cafe, roof top garden, a reading room/ solarium and a studio (for pilates, qigong, yoga etc...) I invision the facility hosting institutes throughout the year to provide community members with sound alternative health and healing information.

I also have a few books stirring on the inside of me and some motivational messages I need to get out. I also plan to travel all over the world to study the healing arts.

stay tuned the concept with be manifest soon. It already has a name and tax ID#

The ALMS Centre
Abundant Life Mind and Spirit

[Vivafree2]

I have my dreams for a long time - I envision a house of my own on the large lawn surrounded with mature trees and little garden, sunshine....sunshine outdoor and inside the house - my office, studio filled with books and art projects, I am writing and painting there.... people visit me I have many friends, I invite them for raw weekends, I host and facilitate presentations and workshops about health, raw food, esoteric knowledge and art, I lead art workshops, I have online and real store/gallery where people can buy natural products, art, paintings, artistic souvenirs. I invite other artists to exhibit and teach, I invite raw chefs to teach and show their artistic abilities... I am in this house with a man of my dreams.( I never knew his face) We work together, travel together and share same passions, friends and taste... my life is easy, pleasant, I am fulfilled by doing things I like and do best...we are financially comfortable and have time and peace to fully enjoy life... we are healthy and we help other people achieve their dreams and potential - in art and health. We swim often and spend time in nature hiking, visiting beautiful places.... we laugh together and with our friends. I am skinny, happy and safe, i am a writer, an artist, motivator and teacher and great host.

In the meantime i dream about bigger studio -preferably walk in studio/gallery with apartment upstairs - so some of the things can be achieved on the smaler scale... without the garden... but i still dream about my other half...
to live true life and found true love

[Conscious Midwife]

By popular demand folks from a wholistic health class I took and catered for want me to host a vegan and raw vegan meal prep class....HMMMM looks like the vitual ALMS CENTRE will be under way this summer!!!

[Fennec]

Mine aren't prioritized; simply listed as they come to mind.

• Finish my credits for an Associate's Degree.
  
• Continue my studies for a career in wildlife conservation.
  
• End my cigarette cravings!
  
• Foster shelter and rescue animals until they are old enough to be adopted.
  
• Travel to exotic places. (The Northern Marinas Islands are calling to me.)
  
• Practice and study my spiritual beliefs on a daily basis.
  
• Learn that patience is a virtue.
  
• Remember to tell my significant other how much he means to me.
  
• Volunteer at a women's crisis center.
  
• Learn the piano or flute.
  
• Drink eat glasses of water each day.
  
• Practice yoga daily.
  
• Let go of haunting memories.
  
• Forgive those who have harmed me, whether real or perceived.
  
• Paint a second self portrait. (The first was an assignment in Art.)
  
• Write an autobiography and some novels.
  
• Continue studying Latin; learn Portuguese, Arabic, and Japanese.
  
• Plant an herb garden.
  
• Take up running.
  
• Go on a camping trip with absolutely no items.
  
• Plant a tree soon after my child is born (if I ever have a child).
  
• Participate in a spiritual discussion group once again.
  
• Vacation with significant other.
  
• Visit Assateague Island National Seashore, MD with my father.
  
• Become a more positive, happy person.
  
• Casting aside judgments so I can concern myself with other's needs before my own.
  
• Start reading more.
  
• Return to my lightest weight and stay there.
  
• Stop panicking over my credit card bill, LOL.
  
• Learn how to be more organized.
  
• Dream lucidly. (This is something that has occurred only rarely.)
  
• Be more confident.
  
• Go on a water-only fast to prove I have control over my body.
  
• Expand my vocabulary.
  
• Improve my memory.
  
• Take more chances.
  
• Listen before giving advice.
  
• Become more politically educated.
  
• List one thing that makes me happy in a journal for a year or more.
  
• Learn to appreciate my qualities while improving my faults.
  
• Have clear skin.
  
• Have at least one more dachshund! (I grew up with one.)

[Conscious Midwife]

My BIG dream is to develope a health and wellness facility.
with suites that house assorted wholistic and integrative health practices.

My structual visual includes a vegan cafe, roof top garden, a reading room/ solarium and a studio (for pilates, qigong, yoga etc...) I invision the facility hosting institutes throughout the year to provide community members with sound alternative health and healing information.

I also have a few books stirring on the inside of me and some motivational messages I need to get out. I also plan to travel all over the world to study the healing arts.

stay tuned the concept with be manifest soon. It already has a name and tax ID#

The ALMS Centre

Abundant Life Mind and Spirit

Taking MBA courses now that are helping me to really get the business aspect of this venture together. Fueling my passion and empowering me to make bigger more efficacious request of the UNIVERSE!

[Veganforlife]

I'm living it. Each day I am alive, pain-free, LIVING, it's my dream...