HAPPY New Year!! Here’s wishing every one of you a happy day of celebration followed by a great year.  I also like to celebrate the ‘new year’ in the spring time when the crocus bloom as springtime is when so much life springs forth.  Today though matches our calendars.  Has everyone hung their new year’s calendar up yet?  I use a great big wall calendar I can write everything on.

How do you feel about New Years resolutions? We have probably all been guilty some years of going back to our old habits in just a few days and then feeling discouraged.  Resolutions should really be made all year round and like new decisions at times when we have a rather clear awareness of things gone wrong and what we do not want in our lives.  It helps if we will spend some time lining up our energy with our new decisions by using intents and positive expectations.  Every day provides a wonderful opportunity to set forth our clear intentions. We do not have to wait for a new calendar year.

Here’s an idea I got from reading The Law of Attraction by Abraham Hicks.  Find a comfortable place where you will not be disturbed. Use something like a spiral notebook or composition book (always on sale for back to school times) to write in. . Write at the top of your first page: My Current Intentions: Then write a sub-heading on the following four pages.: My Current Intentions Regarding My Body, My Relationships, My Home, My Work. Then, write a general description of how you want to feel and be regarding each of the four categories. Be general and easy. Let these words come easily from you.

Now, go back to the first category, focus on the topic, and sit back, relax, and daydream about this. Imagine your body looking just as you would like it to look. See it in your mind’s eye. Try to imagine how that beautiful body would feel. Move it, in your imagination. Take it for a walk, dress it in something that pleases you. Appreciate its stamina and flexibility and clarity. Spend as much time daydreaming about this wonderful physical vehicle as you can. Stay in your vision until you feel refreshed, and continue to be there as long as you can.

Now, go to the second category, and do the same thing. Bring an image of the most significant person in your life experience and see that person with you. Feel appreciation for that person. Mentally speak your appreciation. Imagine that person loving you back. Praising you, and complimenting you. Feel your mutual appreciation and admiration. Stay within the vision until you feel refreshed.

Now, go to the third category, and feel appreciation for your home. Make mental pictures of your home as you want it to be. See it orderly, if you desire that, and beautifully furnished, if you desire that. In an easy and carefree manner, imagine it however you would like it to be. Take pleasure from your vision and stay there until you feel refreshed.

Now, go to the fourth page, and gather a mental picture of your work. Feel appreciation for the excuse it gives you to flow energy toward something. Acknowledge how expansive it is, and feel appreciation for its ever changing nature. See yourself expanding and thriving. Stay there until you are refreshed.

There is no right or wrong way to approach this. The thing that is important is that you choose areas of your life that matter most and that you conjure positive images that thrill you. And as you do that, you have not only resolved, in your own mind, how your New Year will be, but you have notified everyone and everything in the entire Universe and you have solicited their assistance in achieving your intentions. And from that moment forward — the entire Universe will conspire to assist you.”

Much love and many blessings to all for this wonderful New Year. Pastor Sharra