Well, here we are family! New Year's Eve 2011! Holy cow! It feels like it should totally still be like August of 2011... I don't know WHERE the time has gone, but - BOOM - there it went!
I love this time of year. This post-Holiday, pre-New Year time. It's a quiet time, a reflective time when the hustle of the Holidays is winding down and the dawn of a New Year is imminent.
Now, it's true that we can make a change at any time; it doesn't take a New Year to have to change - but with a New Year at hand, our minds naturally reflect on where we were a year ago and where we want to be a year from now! And then we think about the things we want to do to change our life circumstance - we call these resolutions. We can resolve to change at any time, but I love this time of year because there is a momentum, a wave, a global event that we can use and harness it's power.
Tomorrow I will write about how to change and what to do if you want to change, but I want to leave that for tomorrow. Today, on the last day of the year, I just want to encourage us all to look back at the year and reflect on it, learn from it, and let it go.
What did you learn this year? What mistakes did you make? What stories did you create about what's possible for you? What stories did you create about what's impossible for you? This time last year, were there changes that you wanted to make, but didn't? Why not? Did you love yourself just a little bit more this year than you did last year? What's one habit that you DON'T want to bring into 2012? Can today be the LAST DAY of that habit? When would now be a good time to let it go?
We are all moving ahead into 2012 - it's close enough. But for this moment, let us think back about the year, let us reflect, take a moment to pause and really give 2011 a conscious goodbye - and with it - the habits, stories and beliefs that should stay with it. The first step to creating something new is letting go of what no longer serves you. What no longer serves you?
This is what I mean when I Tweet that "Letting go is the best way to hold on". We try to control, we agonize over feeling powerless - but all that stress, anxiety and worry leaves us when we remember that we are truly guided by The Uni-verse. When you let go of what pains you, of what no longer serves you, you step into and tap into an energy that we do not still understand - and probably won't ever truly fully comprehend. But this Energy, this Force, this Creative Uni-verse is guiding us ever so compassionately, ever so diligently, ever so mindfully to a greater and greater outcome. When we let go of the negatives, we leave room for even more awesomeness to enter.
When we see that EVERYTHING is happening FOR US and never TO US, we see the tremendous amount of Grace that our lives are filled with and we can nestle into that knowing that - indeed, every-little-thing-is-gunna-be-alright - and even better than that, everything is PERFECT as it is! So for today, leave the goal setting aside, leave the achieving at the door and just reflect - reflect on this year that is gone.
What can you let go of? What would feel SO GREAT to be free of? What are you most terrified to admit? Then - step into it and let it go!
Let me know what you want to let go of in 2011 and what you've learned by leaving a comment, or sending me an email: WhatImGoingThru@TheDailyLove.com
Love & new beginnings,
Mastin
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