Do You Have a Dream

Self-Help

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Synopsis

In this “AHA” book, “Do You Have a Dream?” 140 Insights into Building Confidence, Overcoming Stress & Loving Yourself”, you will have 140 of my best insights to assist you in focusing on and discovering more of the wisdom, truth, and beauty within you. Let go of the world around you, go inside, find your dream and follow the adventure of making it come true. In your day-to-day learning, if you find a unique way of dreaming, pass it on. We on planet earth are students of life. Maybe you can share and become a thought leader too. “I dream for a living.” Steven Spielberg Grace Allison, Modern Mystic: I am a creative, enthusiastic, visionary who enjoys making a difference through service.

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Author Biography

Grace Allison Blair is an award-winning self-help and motivational author, who has assisted thousands to find their spiritual wisdom to solve everyday challenges. Throughout her adult life, Grace became a serious student of the spiritual. She found that, often, psychological principles and practices were incomplete, but could be filled out by adding the missing spiritual component. Her approach was always to see practical applications for what she uncovered in the mystical. It was through immersing herself in this field of study and experience that she produced her idea for her book, Einstein’s Compass. She lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband, Dr. John Blair.

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Do You Need to be Loved?

I was raised by a schizophrenic mother and an abusive, alcoholic father. During my childhood with my mother in and out of mental health institutions and an absent father my siblings and I were passed around to relatives. When I saw loving families in their warm homes it felt like I was outside peering through a glass window wondering what it would be like to love and be loved. The need for love in early adulthood lead me to seek love outside of myself and as a result experienced rape as well as mental and emotional abuse. Not until I found the way of the inner light of God did I begin to know what love is. That love is inside of me. Over the years of my learning and healing I discovered how to fill the need and redirect my deep hurts into love. It took courage to know my heart.

Book Excerpt

Do You Have a Dream

Do You Need to Be Rescued?

The need to be rescued is a cultural phenomenon that affects many areas of our society today. We are in a severe state of neediness and incompleteness that has rendered us spiritually impoverished. Not everyone is aware of their neediness. Jesus described those who are aware of their neediness as poor in spirit. The Greek word for “poor in spirit” is ptochos, which means a cringing beggar, dependent on others for survival. Jesus said, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3). Our state of incompleteness drives us outside of ourselves to God as the source of healing and hope.

Broken heartedness is related to spiritual poverty. It is the state of being wounded or crushed by some loss, person, hurt, injustice, or circumstance. When a person is downcast because of an emotional, relational, or career injury, they can be brokenhearted. God has a special tenderness for this condition. Broken heartedness often brings about a sense of spiritual poverty as it shows us our need. This dark night of the soul of deep need stems from experiences of feeling unworthy, ashamed, or guilty. It can feel like a cold, blistery wind blowing inside. Who or what will rescue me from this pain? What will fill this empty, cold darkness? To feel so tortured can be like living in hell. What will cover and soothe the inner pain? Some people will eat; others will drink alcohol or use drugs. Some escape with risky sexual behavior, credit cards, gambling, and spending money beyond their means or working long hours without a day off or holiday. All of these addictive fear-based behaviors are choices based on our inner lack and the want to be rescued.

The need to be rescued by someone or something outside of our self is responsible for codependent, addictive, and often abusive relationships, as well as for financial and health problems. A constant need creates difficulty in all aspects of our life. For example, imagine you have a job but you need money. You are really scared. The job you have is not the one you really want, but it pays the bills. Maybe you think having money will make you feel more secure about yourself. In your mind, you rationalize (rationing lies) how great you will feel and what you will get from the situation.

Have you ever heard the statement, “As a man thinketh in his heart, he becomes”? What we focus on and put energy into is what we get.