These are all questions any good journalist will tell you are necessary to see the whole picture.  That is where the problem lies.  We think we always need the whole picture.  We think, even though we know better, that our lives look like something we see on a movie screen.  We think there is a linear theme, and that is never the case.  Yes, there is a beginning a middle and an end but the middle is not linear, it is a puzzle and the piece that you start with may well be the piece that you find again that fits in a different spot.  This is a gift once our perception has changed.  We get to choose who we are, our soul may be the same from one life to another but our karmic patterns and lessons change and we have the power to choose that.  What we do is also decided by us.  What is your passion?  Once we find that “what” the makes us tick we can not go back.  We have to live it or we pay the price of living a very unsatisfied life.  Once the who and the what are uncovered we find the where, why and how to be answered.  The universe has a way of allowing us luxuries of opening doors and behind those doors we experience the where, why and how.  So, the key here is to turn inward and unlock the door to who you are and what you really want.  Once this is done you will find the rest of the story will unfold before your eyes.  The one thing the universe always delivers is an experience better than that of fiction.  You are able to write your own masterpiece.  And isn’t that what we all want to do?

For this year I am going to make my normal weekly or daily “To Do” list, as I truly find these lists to work for me not against me.  However, I always have a longer list the “I would like to do” this typically consists of cleaning the basement, putting things on Ebay, washing the windows, giving away the clothes we no longer wear.  The list that we all want to get to but never seem to do it all, or sometimes any of it.  So this year I want my lists to work for me not against me.  I am still writing the longer list, the “I would like to do or the someday to do” list, but in it I am making sure to put fun things in.  I will put, Hiking once a month with my boys, Taking a long bath, Reading for pleasure and not just for work or school, Host drumming circles, go on more dates with my husband.  I am sure you are starting to see where I am going here.  The energy in a list has to work with us.  In this way we will actually get to cross items off.  Once one item is crossed off we can get to another and then another.  This is how we make that energy work with us and not against us.  I am now excited when I look at my “someday to do list”  I am thrilled by the idea of more space in my basement or by a romantic evening with my husband.  I deserve both and I can now create both with more ease.

So, how are you going to redefine your lists?  The options are endless, just remember that while you create your list put positive energy into it so that when you look at it the list creates a feeling of excitement, not dread.  There is no more room for dread.

So I send this challenge to you, spend 30 minutes a day creating.  You can create anything, I give you permission (I have found sometime I need permission).  Here are a few ideas that can assist you on your creative path:

• Vision Board - these serve us in so many ways. What is it that you dream about?  Here is your chance to see it on paper.  The next step is in your reality!
• Start Journaling! I know, I know, people look at me like..seriously, you want me to write.  Yes!  I want you to write.  Until we start writing we are not able to see patterns that are no longer serving us.  So write baby write.
• Listen to music and dance! There is nothing better than allowing your body to feel a higher vibration.  When we listen to music we allow many of our senses to come alive again.
• Create a new meal that you have never tried.  We all need to be nourished, be creative with your nourishment and then you get the benefits almost immediately.
• Color! If all else fails get a coloring book, a mandala off the internet or just a scrap piece of paper and color.  It is easy, non intimidating and always a good time.

For me, this year, the sacred comes in the packages of two small boys who for the first time really understand what Christmas is about.  They understand that this whole month is sparkling with love, compassion, fun, excitement, joy and most of all magic.  I have been able to watch the movies of my childhood with joy and new perspective.  I have also been able to watch new movies and remember what I forgot….how to believe.  I have been able to feel Santa watching our home to make sure that we are all being such good boys and girls.

This holiday season is such a blessing and not one about gifts and hubbub, one about the real spirit of the season.  When I was a little girl I was in 6th grade and kids made fun of me because I believed in Santa.  I remember one particular moment on the playground when a boy in my class came up to me and told me that Santa wasn’t real and I was a stupid baby to think he was.  I told him with all the truth in my heart that I thought it was sad that he did not believe.  I said, and yes I do remember this, “My mother said that Santa is the spirit of Christmas.  If you don’t believe in that than I think that is sad.”  He walked away dumbfounded and I felt very vindicated.  The truth is Santa does exist and to this day I know this spirit we speak of.  He is an old friend who allows me to remember what i forget through out the rest of the year.

This year, I know I was a good girl, I know this because I have my gifts already.  Their names are Mitchell and Wyatt and I do not need a gift receipt.

The greatest part of this recognition is also having the power of knowledge and the power of faith to let it go and see what happens.  I have recently thrown caution to the wind to see what life is like in the flow.  I can tell you this; it is different for everyone and it is amazing.  I have learned to watch as my efforts and hard work come to make sense in a way I never knew they could.  I have seen my goals attained in the shortest time frame ever in my life.  I have seen and felt how energy shifts and doors open and life blows in.  I have seen how when I speak my TRUTH it comes back to me and allows me to serve as it is serving me.

This my friends has been one of my biggest lessons yet, and this time I really got it.  I pray that you too find your flow and become one with it in a way you never have before so that your life opens and invites you into your dreams.

Namaste.

I am excited to start this new journey with all of you.  I know we are all being called to raise the energy and form communities.  Here is my start in doing just that.

Let’s go!