Happy New Year to you! I’ve experienced a really wonderful and
fulfilling ending to Year 2012. These
past Fall season months have been filled with celebration and breakthroughs as
well as quiet and contemplation. The
year has also presented its terrible tragedies and disasters in the world. Yet, by grace here we are.
Meeting various challenges with acceptance
instead of resistance has kept me on course with my hearts path. It is amazing how much inner space we can
create to expand and hold what the universe sends to us. As I take a quick look back I am deeply grateful
for the friends and forces that have helped guide me.
Living my life more fully in
alignment seems to have been an important personal theme of mine. To me this means living with Awareness
(of my thoughts and actions), living with Intention (to stay heart based
in my interactions with others), and living in Integrity (speaking and
acting according to my core values). It is choosing to live more consciously.
It might sound like a bit of
spiritual ‘work’ but, it isn’t really work.
It’s my path – my dharma -and I recognize that it rises of itself. Sometimes this involves releasing while at
other times, greeting something new. Change. It’s never a completely black or white
thing. Life is a collection of moments
and it moves along in stages of new understanding through experience. We are
led along to insights that at times emerge as a new chapter, a fresh start.
At year end I was moved to draw a
mandala, pictured above. Though simple in
appearance, for me it symbolizes my hopes and intentions for the coming
year. In a way, it’s my prayer. Whatever I accomplish in the world, for myself
or for others, let it be from the Heart!
Let me release any fear-based
illusion of separateness and act in awareness and acknowledgement of the great connection
to Source we all share. Let me be
blessed to see - and own - my mistakes and carry forward on a good path knowing
I have learned the lesson and received the gift of the experience. And,
simply, let me be more kind.
What fresh Intentions might you have
for the coming year? How might that translate for you? Ask, how will I express it? What has meaning for you? Ask, what constitutes feeling Alive - for YOU? It’s important to realize that in
asking such questions of ourselves we are also asking them for others. As we move to manifest our personal Intentions
we encourage others to do the same. We
can find ourselves led to a time of rich personal growth, creativity and
friendship. There is valuable
commonality in connecting those threads.
All Blessings on your journey……….NAMASTE
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