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Entering The New Year With Thanks

Spirituality | December 21st, 2008 No comments

December; the end of the year, everything moving towards the darkest day before a new year and a new spring brings light again. How should we enter this new time?

Mind becomes Matter

We are creating with our thoughts and emotions, which can really scary since it means that we cannot hide anymore. On a large scale, the current imbalances in the world (the financial ones, for example) are bound to become manifest. On a personal level, the elements in our lives that are not authentic, not rooted in our heart’s truth, not born out of bliss, not connected to our Soul, may make themselves known more and more in a bulldozer kind of way instead of the whispers long ignored. This year, how will we face them?

Time of Celebration

This month, what exactly are we celebrating? For me, the best way to wrap this year up and consciously take the step into the next one is to celebrate with a Spirit of Gratitude.

If you are currently struggling and cannot see the results of your choices just yet…if your little company is fighting to survive, the book you’re writing hasn’t found it’s shape yet, if you took a pay cut to do something you believe in and now don’t know how to pay the bills, if you left an unhealthy relationship and now find yourself in a tiny room surrounded by boxes, wondering where your life went…congratulations. You are right on track. This is the time for Trust and Faith.


The world is literally melting around us, but you have insight and courage enough to choose, to rise out of the ocean like an iceberg that will never melt, to move forward based on your own talent and intuition…congratulations.

And if you don’t…If you’re not being true to yourself, still running around trying to fulfill all kinds of expectations and definitions of who you are, exhausted because you are not in touch with your passion, in a relationship that doesn’t feed you anymore but don’t know how to change it, if your Soul is aching because you never listen to it…congratulations too. You are being given the opportunity to change.

Thank The Universe, And Ask For Change

This is a good time to thank an abundant Universe, to thank the Source of Love (or whatever name it has in your belief), for the chance to make new and better choices. The chance to show gratitude towards all of the actors in your film and then fire some of them. To thank your own fears for working so hard to keep you safe — even though you are essentially indestructible. Thank those fears and then fire some of them, too.

Thank your self for your hard work, your big heart, your good decisions, bad decisions, pathetic decisions, the chance to learn, to change, and to grow. This is what we celebrate!

During this time of cinnamon scenting, gift wrapping, Christmas tree decorating, overeating, and gift stressing, let’s not forget what is waiting for us out there…and what to be truly thankful for.

Light & Love.

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