How to Keep from Talking Yourself Out of Following Your Dreams
It takes an active mindset shift, self-awareness, and recognition of the risks involved in doing the next right thing.
Dreamcatcher lore stretches back to “when the Earth was young,” according to most Native American legends. It’s believed that dreamcatchers are intended to protect infants and children from bad dreams; as they were often hung on cradles, much like we hang mobiles over cribs in modern-day.
There are two tribes whose stories have withstood the tests of time: the Ojibwe and the Lakota.
Ojibwe
This is the story of a grandmother and her grandson. The elderly woman was patiently watching a spider weave his web when she noticed her grandson attempting to kill it. The grandmother told the boy not to hurt the spider, and the arachnid was so grateful that it offered to create a web between the woman and the moon. This web would “snare the bad thoughts and keep them from you.”
Lakota
In this version, a Lakota leader met the trickster/god of wisdom Iktomi, and Iktomi was the one to create the first web. Iktomi is believed to have told the leader that the dreamcatcher would allow the dark forces to burn away and disappear…
