To Resolve or Not...

This is the time of year when many people resolve to change something about themselves, to lose weight, to stop smoking…you fill in the blanks. I look at this time of year as ripe for manifestation. Instead of looking at the negative and vowing to change it, why not look at all the good you want to bring into your life and into the world?

Every New Year’s Eve, my husband and I have a ritual of making a manifesting poster that we dedicate to the Universe at Midnight. On it we place pictures and words of things that we want to manifest in the New Year. For me, the first 2 years we made the poster it was covered with pictures of babies! Now we have Sofia. We also placed pictures of a home that we could share together with a lot of natural space for us to grow and enjoy; now we have it.

But we don’t just manifest material things; much of the poster is about personal growth and healing the planet and our relationship with it as humans.

And it works.

It is all about the creative energy of our minds and that what we think about we manifest. So what do you think about all the time? Do you think about exercising a lot? You probably manifest a lot of thinking about ways you could exercise but end up not moving much. Or do you find yourself wanting more money or love or …but find yourself just manifesting more “wanting”.

It is important to be very clear in your thoughts as to what it is you wish to manifest.

Visualize yourself actually doing what it is you want.

Be the change that you want to see in the world and in your life.

Make a poster and put it somewhere you will see it everyday. Focus on the positive, not the negative. If you hear yourself saying, “I am too fat!” That is not creating losing weight. See yourself exercising and see yourself as the beautiful being that you are, then things will begin to shift in the direction that you want. Our minds are powerful creative entities and will deliver whatever we focus on the most; it is like the old saying, “be careful what you wish for”.

The world can only change one person at a time, begin where you are; creating a more peaceful and loving attitude towards ourselves will have a ripple effect out into the world.

If you still want to resolve to stop doing something, resolve to stop watching the nightly news. It does nothing but fill your mind with fear right before bed disrupting sound sleep and shifting your brain chemistry to fight or flight where it is virtually impossible to manifest anything but more fear.

Happy Manifesting!

Health

Have you ever noticed that the more you take pharmaceuticals for an issue say pain or allergies, the more of them you have to take in order to have the desired effect? Or the generally held belief that a massage has to be painful to be effective or that essential oils have to burn or sting to be working? Why are we humans so hard on ourselves? With all of this abuse it is a wonder that we do as well as we do, thrive even, or is it? What magic is at work behind the scenes in our bodies that keeps everything just so…?
Health is not a magical occurrence but a dynamic process that is always at work both when we are healthy and when we are ill. I would go so far as to say even more when we are ill. It is our Health that stimulates the immune response that fights infection, it is our Health that makes us sneeze and cough and fills our sinuses with green goo. It is our Health that makes us puke. Our Health is most present when we feel the most abandoned by it. So how can we resource ourselves this winter in the midst of all the sneezing and coughing and threats of bird flu?? There are some simple steps you can take that I am sure you all know, this will be a gentle reminder.
1. Drink plenty of water (reverse osmosis preferred). This will keep your mucous membranes moist and able to act as your first line of defense.
2. Get plenty of rest. Sleep in! It is hibernation season, after all. Be a bear.
3. Eat healthy food in a variety of colors.
4. Do something every day that makes you smile so long that it makes your cheeks ache and laugh so hard that you almost pee your pants.
5. Exercise daily, preferably in the form of play.
6. Wash your hands often.
7. Do something everyday that takes you outside of your comfort level, especially when it comes to reaching out to others. Giving and serving others boosts your immune system.
So go outside and play, enjoy the snow.