Flying to the Present

Dreams of flying have been a standard fare for my nightly reprieves. When I think about it, I can truly feel the sensation and how I can actually fly. It's not as easy as Superman does it. He zooms here, zooms there, his fists (in the modern Superman) squarely set, his red cape soaring. No, in my dreams, I have to work at it like the treadmill or the StairMaster. It's more fun than that, but it's still a little like exercise.
After many years, just this morning, I figured out what those flying dreams are telling me.
Because my hubby has become an intellect on New Thought, Ernest Holmes, and Science of Mind, he is always on the lookout for used books about the subject and the leaders of these religious/metaphysical movements. So last night when I was fixing him a dinner treat before his massage (I give him one every few months, or so) he read to me from his latest book. It's a collection of essays that Ernest Holmes wrote, and it's called Living the Science of Mind. It was a few paragraphs about leaving any sad past behind, or any past, for that matter. How ruminating on the past will destroy your future, and why our thoughts control our outer world. Hubby and I just love that stuff.
In my mental wanderings of what I would write about today, I started thinking about my flying dreams and Ernest Holmes' teachings. Suddenly my dream interpretation became clear.
I can leave the past behind, with a little work, and "fly" to a new height. Old hates, resentments, failures, the ugly stuff that can cloud my mind, can be escaped. A new world of good thoughts and pretty vistas are mine for the taking. Instead of replaying past memories of being so terribly harmed, I can change the directions of my thoughts. After all, I do choose my thoughts.
I must think that there's a pay off for staying in a negative, hateful, ugly mind set. Otherwise, why do it? But living in the past doesn't enhance the present or the future.
Letting go is a simple concept, but not easy to accomplish. Why isn't it easy? Simple is pure, basic, plain. Easy is that slide on ice everyone wants: the "take a pill" consciousness. Let something or someone else do it for me. I have to do this for myself and it takes some work, but the end is definitely worth the means. I can fly away to a vision and create an almost perfect world for myself. That's cool.