The New Year of 2011 is arriving! A joyous one to all! Every year around the Solstice and New Year, like many of you, I naturally take stock, reflect, reminisce. In that reflection this year, I find how much gratitude and joy are present in my life! The flow of these qualities grow, as I flow into deeper alignment with my hearts passions. It seems there are cycles of clearing and being present with what has stood in the way of flow, alignment, passion and then new space is created for more fullness of being!
The practice of becoming more and more conscious is indeed a part of this magical cycle. How can it be that one day I am unaware of the blocks and the next, they are staring me in the face? It has gotten to be sort of a humorous game to see what shows up next, what is calling me to awaken just a bit wider from the slumber of living life unconsciously. Yet, I follow the lead of who, what and how the awakening is to happen, remain present and before long enter into freedom.
It is being said that in 2011, as we move toward 2012, it is increasingly important to be mindful of the consciousness we are living in and with. What we surround ourselves with, creates our sense of reality, it creates the quality of our lives and even the health of our bodies. The quality of energy that pulsates through us, will be the qualities of energy we bring into our lives, forming our perceptions of reality.
Howard Thurman's quote always rings true, and it rings loudly for this coming year.
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come ALIVE. Because what the world needs is people who have come Alive!" When we really listen to the heart's song and passion, we become lifted up and we are met with the aid of the Universe. This doesn't mean we won't hit a bump or two. The bumps, the temporary dances with our own shadow, refines and purifies the degree of aliveness we are coming into.
I try to stay away from placing labels of 'good', 'bad', 'right' or 'wrong'. I have found that even the 'bumpiest' pages or chapters in my life's ongoing book, have been sacred times. It is how I hold them, think and feel about them. Becoming conscious of life's experiences and not automatically jumping to conclusions based on fear, cultural programming, or labeling what should or should not be happening, I have the freedom to see the lessons in what is actually presenting itself. Many of my greatest moments of finding great freedom within has been from hanging out with what 'heavier' energies, like a depression, sadness, or a judgment, are trying to teach me. This is very different than wallowing in 'darkness' out of a habitual way of living with this energetic quality. We can learn to bring consciousness, awareness, presence to any and all qualities, explore where and why they are visiting us, and in doing so we help to set them free.
Once we allow a healing on any level, by bringing conscious awareness to what has felt more 'dense', we then cultivate the 'lighter' energy that rises to meet us! That lightness is always within us, sometimes we just need to take the time, space and quiet to do a little housecleaning.
The key word is consciousness. Setting our course in this next year to become more aware of what our energy 'pulls' are revealing to us. What is holding us back, what is calling us forth, and how to balance between the light and shadow of our own being. How our reality is created by what consciousness we surround ourselves with and what we feed ourselves in all the energetic forms. This awareness is the first step to move out of habits that keep us from feeling our fullness, our brilliance, our selves as love! When we have the courage, commitment to grow into this fullness, as Mary Anne Williamson says, 'we give others the permission to shine'. This helps us, this helps the world!
2011 will be an amazing year to inquire within, explore any of those areas where we feel we are not living our lives to the fullest and revamp our energetic relationship to Life! Become awake, conscious to our hearts dreams, and clear whatever blocks it's song. If we choose to believe that all the energies in the Universe are simply waiting to meet and greet our Inner Light, we can choose to feel we are not alone in this new world forming to uplift each of us, individually and collectively. However we have to align our energies and clear, heal CONSCIOUSLY, whatever old energies of beliefs, thoughts, subconscious attitudes which stand in the way of our own inner freedom, peace and joy!
So, here's to a Happy, Transforming, 2011 New Year!
Align your intentions and energies with what your heart sings for!
As we each shine our individual Lights, our collective Light grows!!
