Welcome to 2012

Wishing all my readers a fantastic 2012. May you be Happy, Healthy, Wise and Wealthy!

I find the whole idea of "new year, new ideas and new start" a tad exaggerated. I am sure I am not the only one!

In the context of spiritual growth and co-existence, each moment that we are alive is an affirmation of the renewal of the force of life and our own co-creative power. It gives us the opportunity to wipe clean all past errors, drop our limited perceptions and start afresh.

When we consider that time is a man-made concept the passage of an old year into a New Year is simply a a passing of a imagined scale of measurement and which really means nothing in the greater scheme if things - universally speaking.

Gosh! Don't I sound like a bah humbug person!lol.

My simple assertion is this: we do not need the start of a new year to redress all that has passed. By the mere fact that it is passed means that it has served it's purpose and therefore we are free to shed all effects of events from this past that does not serve us in this moment. We do not need a certain event marking a passage of time to encourage us to start afresh yet we have become so accustomed to being attached to events, outcomes and situations that we need a reason and a benchmark to get us to declutter our crowded lives.

In an effort to organise our hectic lives thus hoping to feel less burdened by it we set up new year resolutions. Sadly our intentions to be "good" in the new year usually mean we over extend our goals (resolutions) which means we inevitably set ourselves up for failure.

What I am suggesting is that were we to take stock each moment of each day, we are giving ourselves permission to set up bite size action steps; by following these and learning to forgive ourselves if we realise our mini-steps are not working for us, we allow ourselves to have room to manoeuvre, giving us permission to change our minds about the overall goals we want to achieve. That to me is far more flexible and self supportive then setting up Annual Resolutions as a way of affirming where we have possibly failed in the past.

So in the vein of starting a New Year with positivity I encourage you to love yourself each moment of each day, allowing yourself to release all that has passed and find that each moment has new energy to help you on your path to spiritual balance.