Reframing

I dreamed I was back in the City of my Dreams. I was walking in the streets and everything was so beautiful, art, hygge and creativity were everywhere, houses ornamented with lovely painted woodcarvings. The city was so full of delights I started to cry with joy. But then, suddenly my mood shifted and I found myself elsewhere, in a situation I didn't enjoy. I realised this City is a mental state or state of mind. In order to find it again, I have to re-enter the "frame". That was a very interesting dream, it made me think a lot about our moods and how we can change them or get trapped in. If I was depressed and a friend told me "snap out of it, change your mood", I would consider the advice very insensitive. We need time to process things, we need to mourn. But we also need closure at some point. Closure is the goal. Otherwise, we are pathless, drifting on a boat when we could sail it. I believe the Mind is powerful and I hold Imagination's power as the most magical help we can get, if used correctly ( yes, anxiety is a misuse of imagination). Imagination doesn't want to work against us, it wants to help us reinventing ourselves, it wants us to enter different frames of mind, not because others tell you that is the frame of mind you should adopt (we are unfortunately quicker to adopt negative ones like guilt and self depreciation, because of our trauma). In the end, we are nothing, like the Japanese Buddhist Komuso, the so-called priests of Nothingness who go through villages, playing the shakuhachi, while their heads are completely concealed under a woven basket. We might as well choose which place or frame of mind we want to live in, instead of letting others choose for us. Think how much we internalise nearly everyone, a boss, an ex, a rude person in a shop, and all the bullies we ever encountered, let's choose wisely who we should listen to and who is our true master.