New Year - New You?So many of us may feel the pressures of beginning a new year with a new you. But really what does this mean? It is coming to the end of January already and I always try to release a newsletter early in the month. But this year I have been welcoming the inner voice sharing its wise words: “This is not a New Year, this is a transition in time.” And so this is what I have been doing. I chose the image above for one simple reason, to me it is like our conditioned minds. We are always influenced by analysing and categorising our thoughts into feelings and vice versa and then organising them so they feel comfortable. But what happens when we simply allow ourselves to be, witnessing our perceptions in relation to the many parts of ourselves with love and acceptance. When we do this, we begin to welcome the wealth of who we truly are and the organised management of ourselves is open to expand into being. When this happens we release all the many perceptions of ourselves and invite a much deeper connection within us. If you take a look at the image above and perceive it as a way we all often manage ourselves we see many drawers and each draw can contain a belief, a coping strategy, a perception, etc etc. The list is endless. But when we allow ourselves to be free, to fully be, we welcome the living, flowing, forever changing organism that we truly are. So much has changed in my own life over the past few years and this of course is changing how I live, how I connect to others and also how I teach. We are so much more than our categorised perceptions. We are living beings, bringing conscious awareness to what we are doing, in relation to how we are being. And this is the beauty of the presence of the sacred self. For, there is no agenda, just being. We learn to be, we learn to see. Top image - credit to Erol Ahmed + Lower image - credit to Daniel Jensen
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