Interesting how that is... Makes a person wonder, what was wrong in the year we have just been through, where was the good times, that will now become a memory for those still walking this earth and those who have now joined the Ancestors and missed so here by so many who love them.
We seem to always want to look ahead, want things better than they are, or look back to when ... but do we miss the now of it? The mindful moments when we can make it the best of times in the hard times, the good times, the best of times within and around us in doing that? The questions, the answers that are often found within us. Have we lost the filter or ability to sit silently for a few moments, hours, days to "gnaw on it" as feelings rush through our brains, soul, body, and nervous systems, before speaking or hitting send on emails, letters, Facebook and Twitter? We are a world of complexities, of reactions, feelings, each trying to live our lives and affected or infected with the thoughts, actions, words of others in our worlds. Each with the ability to pay it forward in small and large ways; in good or bad ways with each action, each thought, each word... We have a strong impact on others and reflect the best or worst on our children, on each other, on every living thing... from strangers we see on the street to each person we interact with. We also have a responsibility in how we take in the thoughts or actions of others; in other words how much we allow them to affect us! Do their words resonate in our hearts? Our minds? Do they hold us up or diminish us, do they harm our emotional assets by their comments by judgments, by their own comparisons or their own needs?
Some give others too much room in their precious heads... that is a high rent district! It may serve you well to limit who you rent to there. We each have our own wings, no one can clip them unless you sit still for that. Soar on, set your sights on where you choose to fly, OR just lift off because you can.
"It doesn't matter what others think of you, what matters is what YOU think of YOU".
As this year draws to a quick close, it's time to let things go... let those things go that no longer serve you, those things that no longer feel right to you. Those things that are weighing you down, that are making you less than you are. It is a great time to make an inventory of what you choose to take with you into the New Year, beginning with attitude, with feelings, with desire, hope and the true idea of three things in relations with yourself and others.
1. Is it necessary
2. Is it true
3. Is it going to make things feel good to you or another
Pay it forward... more than a thought, more than a holiday, more than an event ... a lifestyle that anyone can adopt beginning with attitude, smile, desire.
Some things best to let go as the year ends, some things to drop just as the ball prepares to drop bringing in 2014.\ A time of those resolutions... of diets, good will, stopping this and starting that, of unrealistic goals and those things that folks always do.
How about folks begin within... Take their own tylenol when their head hurts, remember the three things as they take a breath... pause for their own cause, then make it a point to remember to smile before sharing their words that will ring like a bell that cannot be unrung. The ball is getting prepared in NYC... are you preparing for the changes you want to see within in order to shine brighter in the New Year? I wish you enough.
It will be a New Year, a year for each of us to do with as we decide, not a year to do it for us.
DRSES
1 comment:
Great blog as always and here is wishing you success this coming year with your newly published book and much happiness and joy which you so richly deserve.
EE
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