Your New Year’s resolution is not just a cultural artifact or informal idea-setting social custom. It’s a KEY INITIATION for your upcoming year. It’s a sacred and extremely powerful act, if you do it right. If you’d like to be clear with and really empower your resolution, read on!
This is the time of year when many of us are, at some level of awareness, deciding to do something different with our lives over the upcoming year. A solar year and calendar year are birthing right now, and the birth/beginning of a thing is a great time to get clear on its purpose, to establish a vision and intention, and to use that purpose-vision-intention to guide the growth of that thing.
So at New Year’s, we talk of Resolutions. In its Latin roots, the word resolution speaks of unbinding, and breaking down (think dissolve or absolve). In our current use, the word is connected to being ‘resolute’, concentrated and firm in a decision—which in a certain way is the inverse of the Latin. In conflict management, we talk of ‘resolving differences’. We also talk of computer screens having a resolution, indicating the sharpness of the image; and also of resolving an image in a camera through focus. Let’s put these together…
Our New Year’s resolutions serve 3 primary functions: They are ways we…
1. Unbind ourselves from what we may still carry within, which is no longer resonant with our authentic truth, love and power. (What we don’t want)
2. Concentrate our will and steadfast our decision to live more fully, more richly, in that truth-love-power. (What we do want)
3. Sharpen our focus, vision and imagination that we may see all the more clearly how to resolve the difference between where we are and where we want to be. To live our Divine Destinies more sharply, more precisely, each and every moment. (How to get there)
So here is the invitation to each of YOU…
Take a half hour out of one of your days. That’s 0.0057% of the year 2011. Sit down in a quiet, undisturbed space with a piece of paper and a pencil. Light a candle and breathe for a few moments. Ground yourself. Just come into your body, into the moment, into the season. If it feels appropriate to you, call on guardians, angels, teachers, G-d, mother Earth, or whoever resonates with YOU. All this helps set and solidify the energy and the space as an important moment in time. A sacred moment.
Once you feel your mind, body and energy are fairly calmed, begin by asking what you want to release/unbind yourself from/let go of that’s no longer nourishing you or the world. Write for 5 minutes. You can list ANYTHING! From letting go of “how I got angry at my son last night over dinner” to “all the anger I ever generated, and the energy of anger in my life and world”.
Then move on. Take a deep breath, release that list… Close your eyes for a moment, and begin your list of all those things you wish to LIVE in. What you are deciding to be and do. Be clear and specific. Don’t downgrade your dreams because of your practical evaluations. Go all-out. Do you want to make $200,000 a year doing what you love and serving lots of people? Great! Do you want to live without anger in your field? Do you want to be more grounded? Do you want to value yourself and your gifts more? Do you want to deeply invest in your personal transformation? Great!
Now breathe, release that list, and after a moment’s pause, begin to come up with what action you can take to resolve that difference, bridge the gap, and activate your divine destiny ever more deeply. Sharpen your intention. Maybe there’s a letter to write someone, or a self-improvement program to invest in, or a courageous business decision that needs to be made, or a person with whom you need to dissolve ties.
After you’ve completed this ceremonial act of making your sacred resolution for the upcoming new year, take a deep breath, blow out the candle, and step into your day, all the more conscious. Keep this information that came through present for you. Let it inform and remind you.
What you unbind/release, and what you build in that emptied space, is an ongoing project of CREATION. This year, you can take vast leaps and power strides into creating the reality of your dream—your Divine Destiny.
Taking action is key to grounding your ideas, and manifesting your dreams. Don’t worry about it being ‘perfect’. Get out of the dualism—know any action you take is PERFECT IMPERFECT ACTION; that you make the decision and take the action is the key. So breathe, take a moment out of your day, and TAKE ACTION by consciously creating your resolution. And after that, take action again, and again, and again. RE-RE-RE-SOLVE again and again until your dream IS the life you’re living.
Happy New Year, Beloved Brothers and Sisters! May we co-create Heaven in 2011!
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