Shift - A Game About Love, Fear and Life

January 1st, 2007 - filed in Relationships

This Year, Change your Thoughts, Not your Diet

Another year is upon us and perhaps it’s a placebo effect, but I’m psyched to make some shifts in the new year. I feel a rebirth the way I do when spring rolls around and I get that unexplainable giddyness. Whatever I accomplished or didn’t last year no longer matters. It’s 2007 and here I am, new again.

My husband and I just did the coolest thing. I wanted us to write our visions for 2007 and I had us start by writing our gratitudes for 2006. What an amazing exercise. Before that, we checked in on our 8 Step Process (it’s a tool for getting clarity in any relationship because you go through your expectations and shift them into goals and operating instructions etc.). We felt as if 95% of the things we put down a year ago where now things we do regularly or things we no longer have an issue with. The one place where we realy needed to continue our work was around money- we decided to put tools into place to get clarity on our budget. I felt myself getting really tense because he’s been supporting me lately and it’s been one of my biggest lessons to learn to receive- especially from a man.

I had been reading A Course in Miracles that morning and it said that we teach everything. We teach how we should be treated in relationship by what we believe about ourselves. If I feel loved and whole and powerful, you bet the person I’m connecting with will get that. And when we feel somehow less than, we’re teaching that person that that’s who we are too. When we started to talk about money, I shrunk into feeling not good enough. I had just read him a line from the course that says,” Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?” I joked that I was teaching him that I was the sparrow.

Still feeling a bit uneasy and wanting to avoid more money talk, I switched gears so that we could get on with the Gratitude/Vision exercise. We each wrote our gratitudes and my experience was powerful. By number four I was almost in tears. The feelings I had a second before immediately shifted when I started reviewing the year and all the wonderful experiences I’d had. I got married, went on a honeymoon, created a wonderful home, celebrated with my friends and family in the place my soul loves most…) It was interesting to see what I valued most. My relationship and friends and family were at the top. I didn’t mention work until number 8. We shared our lists and then wrote our visions and shared those.

There’s a quote that says it’s impossible to be upset when we are giving thanks. Gratitude has always been the number one way for me to make a shift. I think my Gratitude list was even more powerful than my vision because it’s based on acknowledging what’s real for me now. Maybe it’s because it’s past and that conveys a more solid reality for me where my vision is a want in the future that I believe I can manifest. Maybe it’s my scientific or egoic mind that wants to base things on what’s concrete, what’s transpired. In reality, both my vision and my reflection of my past and what I’m grateful for all come down to the filters and judgments I place on them. It’s all still a perception that I make real or more real.

Whew- when I see what’s shown up for me in just 2006, I know I am blessed. Gratitude, time and again, squashes all of my insecurities and self doubts. I decided to post my list on the wall behind my computer screen (along with my Bootstrapper’s Manifesto- Seth Godin, Massive collage/treasure map of what I want to manifest and my success meditation by John Randolph Price).

We completed by reading the success meditation. I’m reading it daily. You may want to include in your New Year too.
OK, 2007, BRING IT ON!

Success Meditation
John Randolph Price

All that the universal presence of God has is mine, for God and the expression of God cannot be separated.

I live in the Eternal Now with the Infinite All and nothing is missing from my life.

I am the power of God to have.

I am the fiery strength of God, the living force of vitality that goes forth with divine intention and authority.

My creativity is love in action and everything I do is victorious.

My divine power is the thought that I will and every door swings open before that power.

I have divine aspirations to fulfill my highest destiny, and with enthusiasm I move forward, forever illuminated by my higher vision. I see that which is mine to do and I do it with ease, devotion and gladness and I am blessed with the treasures of the divine for that is what I see.

I walk in the footsteps of my Self and my path is sure. My ideals have been formulated in the crucible of my mind and are forged in divine design in my heart. In joyful freedom I now follow my heart for I have seen my destiny and what I see I know.

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