Happy New Year! Are you ready? It sounds like we’re all going to be working this year to stop judging, start discerning, live and let live, and let ourselves be ourselves, no matter what anyone else is doing.
One of the reasons I rarely share my personal views on many global subjects is because I do not want you to choose what I choose, simply because I choose it. I want you to be you, whatever that means to you. I want you to embrace the political views that resonate with you, to take the approaches to well-being that resonate with you, and to behave in ways that make you feel good. I share what works for me only in the hope that it gives you food for thought, and helps you more clearly examine and define your path and what resonates with you on your own personal journey.
After years of working with angels, I’m clear that my way is not “the right way,” nor could it ever possibly be the only way. It’s simply right for me. It resonates with me, and with many of you, but not all and that’s how it should be. Some of you wrote me last year with the kindest expressions of love, both with and without agreement. Others wrote with sincere desire to sort out your own truths. Still other expressions felt like daggers twisting in my gut when the hatred, anger, and fear that some aimed at me caught me unaware many times last year. There were many times when I was inspired to serve tirelessly, and honestly a few times where I fought an internal battle to even care about continuing this work because it hurt to be used as an emotional punching bag. What has saved me, time and again, was the angel wisdom that everyone has a right to their expressions, and I, like everyone else, have the right to decide which energies I take in.
Many of you grappled with similar concerns last year. In addition to the global challenges, many of you lost long-term friends over political differences. You were on the receiving end of angry family members who were so scared that they came unglued over the different perspectives on how to live safely amidst a pandemic. You were trying to be compassionate even when others weren’t so kind. You did your best. I did my best. We all did our best. Given the intensity of the challenges last year, I think that’s something to be proud of.
Collectively, we are learning a new way of being. We are learning to give up the outdated paradigm of an ultimate right/wrong way to handle anything. We are learning to pay attention to our own energy more and to do only what resonates with us. We are learning to trust our internal guidance – for ourselves – without requiring anyone else’s agreement. We are learning to withdraw our attention and energy from situations and people who insist that we must agree with them, rather than engaging in the impossible age-old dance of attempting to please everyone.
We are learning to discern rather than judge, and to live and let live at a deeper level than ever before.
This requires faith and trust in a higher power that guides us all in a perfectly orchestrated dance defined by our very own desires. It requires faith that if you do what resonates with you, you are safe, protected, loved, and guided. It requires a trust that you are worthy of your own dreams, and a belief that the universe can deliver them far more elegantly and peacefully than we could figure them out on our own.
My wish for you this year is that you trust your own heart, that you accept your own thoughts, feelings, and desires without the need for others to agree, and that you find peace in the knowing that in God’s eyes you are perfect exactly as you are, even as we continue our eternal expansion.
It is time to dive heart-first into a new year with faith and trust that what resonates with us is exactly what our soul is guiding us to do.
Here are a few pointers to help you explore the idea of resonance:
1. Practice with simple decisions
Think of different foods you might have for you next meal, or simple options for a decision whose outcome isn’t terribly important to you. Tune into your body. As you think of each option see which one your body resonates with. Which one makes you feel happy? Which decision lights you up? Which feels better?
Practice looking at various things and various people, even if only on TV or the Internet, and notice how your body feels, and how your mind feels. Do you feel discordant or resonant? Practice choosing things, people, and situations that resonate with you, rather than over-analyzing who or what should. Notice how you feel as you make these heart centered, resonant choices.
2. Practice shifting your focus
Sometimes we can’t physically remove ourselves from a situation or person that doesn’t resonate with us so the only choice we have is to choose a more resonant focus. Say you’re stuck in a job you don’t like for the time being, even as you’re creating a new one.
You can choose to focus on whatever you can in the current job that does resonate with you. Choose to focus on the future job you are creating, that really does resonate with you. Do your best to use your mind as a tuner and tune into the aspects of the situation that do resonate. In this fashion, you’ll draw kinder and more resonant situations to you in all areas of life.
3. Accept yourself. Accept others.
“Live and let live” is a motto the angels love. We often forget to apply it to all the various aspects of ourselves! At times we all get tired, cranky, fearful, or sad. We want to feel better, but sometimes we don’t. At these times let love resonate with you. Accept yourself. Sweet talk yourself. Give yourself a hug and say, “It’s OK to be human honey.”
Love always resonates and as we give it to ourselves, we more quickly shift out of those other non-resonant states of being. The more you accept and love yourself, the more you can allow others to be who they choose to be as well.
I suspect it will be a year of exploring a deeper, more soulful definition of freedom than ever before – the freedom to choose thoughts, feelings, and actions that resonate with us, and the freedom to release those that don’t. May we all focus on the realities that resonate with our individual perspectives, trusting the Creator of universes to sort it all out and guide us in a dance of health, harmony, and above all… Love! Happy New Now!
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