Over the coming holiday period, take time to let your mind wander - onto how you'd like key things in your life to be, in an ideal world. Give yourself the space to daydream - we don't do it often enough as adults. You can do this out walking or sitting looking at a blazing fire. Our subconcious minds are childlike - let your inner child out this Christmas.

Today's Quick Tip talks about wandering minds and daydreaming - but not in the way the normal mind normally wanders, dragged by the nose by the recurring thoughts in our own heads. I was going to say "recurring destructive thoughts" but someone picked me up on this last week... "My thoughts are not destructive" he claimed, to which I replied "They are if they take you away from the reality of the here and now" - but, there I go, digressing for the second time in one Ezine!

The daydreaming that I'm talking about above is qualitatively different from the normal noise that we experience - either consciously or, mostly, subconsciously - on an everyday basis. I'm talking about letting your clearer mind tell you, in a moment of calm and, almost, wishful thinking, how you'd feel if you'd achieved some of your major goals - what it would look like, what you'd be doing, who you'd be with. Some of my clients tell me that they don't have "Grand Goals" - but, for someone who is finding life or business difficult at the moment, for whatever reason, being completely and effortlessly at peace, experiencing a magic moment, is a Grand Goal. Truth is, we all have Grand Goals if we just facilitated our minds in letting them out.

The title of this piece is "Daydreaming Your Reality" - something that happens anyway. Ordinarily, our repetitive destructive thoughts create a "worldview" for us that triggers (normally repetitive) behaviours that create (normally repetitive) results. Our "reality" in the outside world in a manifestation of our inner world. Psychology has been telling us, since the 1930s, that we only perceive and achieve according to our expectations - recently published neuroscientific evidece confirms that, when we see something we don't expect, our visual cortex is activated but our conscious awareness ignores the signals.

The point I'm making is that, if you change your expectations, everything changes. Change your expectations this Christmas holiday - let your mind daydream you towards a new reality.