If you have gotten this far in your investigations of Dream Yoga, you are looking for ways to maximize your impact for good in the world in the few years that you have been given to make a difference. You know that you have abilities and capabilities to share, but you also know that you have often been your own worst enemy in your quest for a broader, more useful life. Fear, self-doubt, lack of information, failure to learn from past mistakes, are some of the common roadblocks that we all must confront sooner or later.

We would like you to consider the outlandish possibility that as you allow yourself to be of service to your dream group members, especially those which frighten or repulse you the most, the more you will find yourself serving others in rich and meaningful ways. We are suggesting that you start with who you are, where you are, touching the lives around you, starting with the ones closest to yourself - your own dream group members. As you do so, you will add their strengths to your own. You will learn to get out of your own way. You will first clarify, then align yourself with your soul purpose, and it will guide you through the thicket of your fears and doubts.

We assume that there is within you a sense of how you can best be of service. That awareness will put you where you can do the most good with your life. Your job is to work at getting out of your own way which is mostly a matter of listening to yourself, interrupting habits of worry and self-doubt, moving forward on the basis of internal consensus, as a whole person, buoyed by the support of your dream sangha within you. We would invite you to consider that your vision of service can be expanded and directed by your dream group members, which will both strengthen and reassure you by providing a sense that the responsibilities of service are shared.

Your fellow dream yogans stand ready to help you to clarify your call to greater service, to help you sing your song and dance your dance, whatever it may be. Only when you are uniquely yourself, fulfilling your being here and now, will the rest of us reap in fullness the rewards of that which you and you alone have to give. And it is only in giving that gift which springs from the depth of your being that you will know, without any doubt, that you are going home.

How to clarify your life purpose.

Answer the following questions:

• What would I like to do with my life?
• How do I want to be remembered after I am gone?
• What would my life look like if I were truly doing what I want to be doing? (Write a paragraph in the present tense describing your ideal life of service.)
• What has stopped me from attaining this goal to this point?
• Is this goal realistic? Do I have the aptitudes and access to the resources required to accomplish this goal?
• What is my sense of the steps that are required to achieve this goal?

After you have answered these questions, we invite you to incubate a dream based on the presleep suggestion, "How may I be of greater service to others in my life?" Interview your dream group members and let us know their response to your question. We want to help you to build in the world your heart's desire, to follow the course that speaks most deeply from within.