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I’m leading a new class this week called Vision Your Best Life: Uncover What’s Possible for 2021, and it dawned on me that you might not know what I mean when I say “Vision Your Best Life.” You see, the spiritual practice of visioning is different from visualizing. Visualizing is the process of creating a mental picture of what you’d like to experience. With visualizing, you have a pre-set notion of what you’d like to accomplish, and you have an established idea of who you think you are and what you’re capable of. Visualizing is great as a practice, but it can only go so far. The limitation with visualizing is that you base our life’s goals and expectations on what you believe is currently possible, as you’ve experienced life so far. Visioning, on the other hand, is a process of being open to something you might not have imagined before. Visioning is the practice of tapping into this infinite field of potentiality, and from a place of embracing your connection and essence to the fullness of divine creative energy itself, it’s about tuning into the highest and best life that is seeking to emerge as you. And you know you’re tapping into this highest version of you based on how you feel — your feelings of joy, of aliveness, of purpose, that inner sense of calling. This morning, a colleague of mine shared this seedling of an idea to write her own book, where this idea hadn’t come up at all before. And I could sense the excitement it brought her, as well as the sense of who she would have to become and embrace about herself as being a published author. So my question to you is: Are there seedlings in your own life that are wanting to peek through and get some nourishment and attention? These are what I call the Divine Breadcrumbs, breadcrumbs like those used in a trail to lead you home. Your feelings of joy, excitement, purpose and aliveness, are the divine breadcrumbs, the clues that lead you to exploring a greater expression of who you are and who you’re called to be in this world. Pay attention. Listen. And be open to the infinite possibilities that are wanting to express more fully as you. Abundant Blessings and Namaste.
(Update in 2020: I wrote this post originally in 2018 and have now included a video to reference all that has happened this past year, although the content in this article is still relevant. I’ve also created a new course launching in January 2021 that incorporates these questions and moves into visioning your best life for the new year. You can read more about that course by clicking here.) The spiritual practice of reflection is one of my important regular practices, especially as I complete a cycle. With reflection, you get to see where you started at the beginning of the cycle and you witness how you’ve been transformed. In my last blog post, I mentioned two different ways you can use to reflect on this past year. One way is to do a chronological review, and another way to reflect this year is to examine the different areas of your life. You could read more about those two types of reviews here. I’ve put together six key questions to help you reflect more deliberately and to help you honor and celebrate this past year. For the last blog post, one of the questions was “What surprised you this past year?” Here are two more questions to add to the list. How did you grow this past year? Thinking through each month of this past year and in different areas of your life, how did you grow? One of the best ways to acknowledge growth is to uncover the lessons you gained from your experiences. Whether you had challenges or accomplishments, you most likely picked up a few key insights and were transformed by your experiences. If you can, write some of these lessons down. Ask yourself how you’ve grown as a result of these experiences. How are you different now than when you started out the year? I asked one of my clients recently about how he grew since he started working with me. In the beginning, he said he felt as if he were in a slumber. He wasn’t clear where he wanted to direct his energy, and he didn’t feel particularly enthused. Within a few weeks of working together, he realized he was able to tap into his own passion and to say yes to the inspiration that his heart was naturally guiding him to experience more fully. Now, he feels more purposeful and in flow with the rhythm of Life itself. Purpose and flow are good indicators that something is working in your life. This leads to the next question to help you honor and celebrate this past year. What made you come alive this year? As you reflect on this past year, where do you feel the juice? What made you feel fully present in the moment? Aliveness is a quality that speaks to your own uniqueness. You are a unique expression of life. You show up in the world in only the way that you can. As a result of your uniqueness, your joy is also unique to you. When you recognize what brings you joy and that feeling of aliveness, you open up your awareness to a greater understanding of what brings you meaning in the world. Where did you feel an energy and zest to life? The stirrings in your heart are signposts to the real you. For these last weeks of this year, I’ll be sharing three more questions that help you to honor and celebrate this last year. Keep a journal with your responses to these questions. They’ll help you as you’ll eventually be looking into next year. Abundant Blessings and Namaste. (Update in 2020: I wrote this post originally in 2018 and have now included a video to reference all that has happened this past year, although the content in this article is still relevant. I’ve also created a new course launching in January 2021 that incorporates these questions and moves into visioning your best life for the new year. You can read more about that course by clicking here.)
With this year drawing to a close, there’s a natural tendency to reflect on all that has happened this past year. As part of my own yearly practice, I ask myself a set of questions that help me to honor and celebrate the past year.
(This article, and the three following ones I will share with you, contain these very questions I ask myself at the end of every year. I encourage you to join me by setting aside some time every week to contemplate and journal your answers to these questions.) Here’s one of the key questions: As you reflect back on this past year, what surprised you? You probably started off this past January with a set of intentions and knowing that certain things would happen. Maybe you had a particular goal to accomplish. Perhaps you had a travel destination planned. As usually happens, though, surprises emerge. Unplanned events, major upsets, significant delights…all of these are elements in the cycle of Life itself. So…what surprised you? There are a few different ways to reflect on your surprises. One way is to do a chronological review. Bring your mind back to January and recollect the events that happened in your life. Then move to February and so on. You can look through your calendar as you do this if you need some help remembering all the things that happened. Another way to contemplate your surprises during this past year is to examine the different areas of your life. These include: love, relationships, career, home, creative expression, wealth, finances, health, spirituality, service, community, travel, self-care, education, politics, world affairs, and many others. You can make a diagram of these words and see what happened in each of these areas of life. As you reflect on all the surprises that showed up for you this past year, I invite you to dig a little deeper and answer these questions:
Surprises are one of the great reminders that Life unfolds in ways that you might not imagine. There are infinite possibilities always revealing. Lastly, see if you can uncover a sense of gratitude for these surprises, particularly for those surprises that may not feel so good. If anything, the “not-so-good” surprises create an opening for you to respond and to show up in a greater, more loving way. For the next three weeks, I’ll share other questions that will help you to reflect on this past year. If you can, please save your responses and recollections because we’ll be building upon what you came up with here. Abundant Blessings and Namaste. |
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