So here we are again, at the end of another year.
I often take time to reflect on the year as it reaches it's conclusion. One thing that seems to be a common theme, it's that every year really is a big old mix bag of good, bad and the ugly. What's also been an observation within myself and when engaging in others is the fact that the hard times stay with us. So much so that it is often highlighted in these kind of conversations.
Why is it that we want to hang onto the hardship story? Because, if you didn't know already, when we hang onto the hardship or stress of an experience our body's chemistry will also respond the same as when it happened. So you can just be talking about it, and your body releases the same stress responses as when it actually happened...all the stress hormones and feedback pathways react the same way. We get caught up in the story of it all. We can unconsciously play back into the drama of it all, doing ourselves no favours and not coming from a place of healing and acceptance.
Our ego loves drama. It loves to play the victim. It loves to retell a hard story over and over again. It loves to pull others in......Unless.....we have processed the event and there is no longer any emotion attached to it. But then, why would we feel the need to tell it over and over again if it had no power over us. See where I'm going here?
And I mean WOW ... how much does the month and a half leading up to xmas excellerate.!? It's been a wild ride of go go go, fun, fun, fun and exhausted, tired...please make it STOOOP ;). Talk about busting a beed before you get to go on holiday. That's been my reality anyway and I know many others feel the same. These are all lessons in balance aren't they :)
So ... be sure to take a moment. Reflection is a great way to accept & heal. To look back and see how events played out, what your role in it was, would you do anything differently?....AND what did you achieve? What's different in your life from this time last year? What is there to celebrate!!??
In short, this year for me was a BIG lesson in rediscovering who I am, boundaries within how much I give to work & others, letting go of control and following my intuition.
After discovering that the house we had been planning to build for well over a year and were only a moment away from starting, suddenly couldn't happen. To then within 30mins of that news deciding to quit the job that wasn't serving me well and sucked my energy. To then focus fully on setting up a business with photography & marketing...that was a trip for me, and life really felt like a whole lot of fateful lessons looking back (as my life often does). This all finally started to pay off in November after launching studio space. Feeling the blessings. In the later part of the year I won a partial scholarship with Heath Myers - Align Your Destiny. For star seeds to tap more their into their intuition & guides through different meditation tools to allow for impact driven businesses. Thus assisting to make choices that are true for you & our highest purpose. So so powerful. One thing I noticed as I finished up this course, is that from day one when I said yes to this to the last week of completion....things had come full circle for me. Energy is EVERYTHING! I have so much to share about this over the next few years around this, so stay tuned.
In conclusion, I'm celebrating you, celebrating me, celebrating the future & counting the blessings. All I know about the future is that, if we follow our heart, trust our pings of intuition .... you can't go wrong.
Merry Krimbo!
