Some Reflections and Intentions for the New Year
I choose myself. Zero tolerance for any behavior that is not how I want to be treated. If someone doesn’t want to connect with me, I let them go. I choose to be around those who see me and love me as I am.
Nothing matters more than living my most authentic life. Soul embodiment. What my soul came here to do. What my soul came here to be.
I create safety by bringing in my authentic expression. Instead of demanding that others change so that I feel safe — eg at ecstatic dance, judging those who aren’t following the guidelines or in the zone because I’m afraid to be judged for my authentic expression — I can bring safety to them by leading with my authentic expression, allowing others to feel safe doing the same.
I am worthy no matter what. Even if someone hates me, is angry at me, thinks I’m responsible for the worst thing that’s happened to them, I am still worthy, lovable, and inherently good. Instead of my inherited defensive strategy of shaming myself to win love and forgiveness, which does not serve me or them, I choose to be present and available to respond and act.
I am open to the challenges that life offers me and choose to see them as opportunities for my growth. Instead of blaming myself and making it mean something about me, and then thinking I’m inherently flawed, I choose to see challenges as obstacles in an obstacle course, as puzzles to be solved, from which arises an aliveness and a resourceful attitude of curiosity and creativity.
I choose to see the universe as alive and intelligent, and that I get to play a participatory role. Instead of seeing myself as separate and alone, being concerned only for my survival, I choose to see that I am part of a larger unfolding, that the things that are happening to me are for a reason, and that I get to embrace it all and trust in life. There is a larger purpose that I’m a part of. I will be OK no matter what (even death). My ego may feel destroyed, but my spirit knows it is a blessing for my transformation into my truest self and a perfect path for my soul’s unfolding into what it is here for.
I am part of an interdependent community. I don’t have to do everything on my own. I can trust and be vulnerable. Trust that if I show my true self, I will be loved. I can ask for help. People do want to help. I am worthy of love and support. It’s incredibly hard for me to receive love and forgiveness from those I think I’ve hurt or negatively impacted. Yet I deserve to be loved no matter what.
Everyone deserves love and safety. Even those who have committed the worst crimes. While we can hold them accountable for their actions and ensure they can never repeat what they did, their inner child deserves to be loved and forgiven despite everything they’ve done. Let them know that they don’t need to maintain power to survive or be loved, which is often what is driving them to continue those unconscious acts.
In one way I can see 2022 as the hardest year of my life. In another, I can see it as the most blessed for my spiritual growth and evolution. I’m still alive and well, and everything that’s happened is here to serve my growth into living my most authentic life, burning away all that is not that.
And for you:
When you slow down to be at your pace, you give me the gift to slow down and be at my pace.
When you stop to be with yourself, you give me the gift to stop and be with myself.
When you reach out and ask for help, you give me permission to reach out and ask for help.
When you take care of yourself, you give me permission to take care of myself.
I am grateful to you for being exactly who you are.
Thank you for being you.
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