After the magical days of Christmas holidays…when pine-scented boughs and cranberry candles perfumed the air and glittering lights whispered their grace-filled secrets into our happy hearts…decorating our spaces with joy and celebration…
after these magnificent days have passed and things have grown so very quiet and restful the steady, sure-footed march of the New Year alights on our doorstep, enters our homes and slides into our hearts.
It’s time…to renew and redirect our energy to the wonderful life we have imagined and make the changes that were placed on hold as we made merry and felt merry and loved the "merry" of the holidays.
Now, there is a NEW JOY that awaits us and it is born of reflection and inspiration and discipline…our New Year’s Resolutions.
Much has been said and advised about NYR’s…suggestions that we examine our lives, compiling a list of every change we can imagine…suggestions that we make NO resolutions and not place ourselves under that kind of stress... even a suggestion that we only try to improve ourselves by one percent in the category we identify as “most needed” or, even better, “most desired” and, thereby, let our accumulated steady, slow progress become its own source of motivation.
This morning in the quiet moments when I found myself awakening a different thought occurred to me.
I had been searching for a simple resolution…one that would be easy to hold onto and yet would change my perspective and this is what arrived in response to my request:
As you go through the day and encounter many moments…some relaxing and some difficult and challenging…as you go through the day, just take a moment and imagine how your Higher Self would respond to what is happening. Do not put any pressure on yourself to do what Higher Self would do. Only imagine it and take note.
This sounded wonderful to me…and it feels instinctively that just choosing to put myself in the place of imagining a Higher Response would do some subtle, behind-the-scene work for me even while I went busily about my day, impressing my consciousness with a more beautiful, more loving, more joyful way to navigate it…and, most importantly, a way to be my own SOURCE of happiness and satisfaction.
And it actually sounds and feels quite practical, too, to become, on a continuing basis, the ANCHOR for my joy.
So I am going to give it a pop! This means I may pause a few seconds before I react and respond to what is going on…allowing myself the time and perspective I need to call up a Higher inspiration than what would automatically appear on my default button.
It will be very interesting to take this journey and, no doubt, it will have its own BRILLIANT LIGHT SHOW as I enter into this universe!
Love it!--I think it will be hard for me to NOT do what I imagine my higher self would do (unless it means not eat cake--that will always be hard!).
ReplyDeleteMarie - this is beautiful. If one could get into this habit of taking counsel routinely from the wisdom keeper within this becomes a rather automatic response...just like any other habit.
ReplyDeleteI have always resonated to the approach to intentional work that focuses on something that is a gatekeeper to wholeness. For example, the very first intention I ever made (in conscious co-creation) was to give and receive love unconditionally. Boy, did this outpicture in my life in glorious ways I couldn't have imagined for myself.
I think this is one of the reasons why works like The Secret more or less focused on the manifestation of physical desires....because as relative children...this is where "we" were at in our consciousness. And because of this immaturity we would have had difficulty seeing the connection between vibrating to joy and the actual experiences of a joyful life, whatever that would entail for us.
Now, it seems that the training wheels are off and that we have grown and matured into our true spiritual essence. We are now anchoring our spirit in a finely prepared vessel, which does have much higher and finer intentions! People like you who have devoted so much of their efforts to purifying the body/mind have created a more hospital environment, a temple, for the soul... and therefore the voice of the spirit can actually be heard. I loved this article, Marie. Thank you and Have A Very, Very Happy New Year 2011!