One of the things I appreciate about this time of the year is that many of us tend to be a little more reflective than usual especially as we take note of the fact that a new year is right around the corner.
We may no longer be into the ‘new year resolutions’ thing but we do wonder how we’d like the next year to be, or at the very least, how we’d like to start the year. How we’d like it to set us on a new track, a more more joyous, easy and peaceful track. How we’d like to put the unpleasantness, all the disappointments and big scares of the past year well and truly behind us and how we’d like to be ready for a heck of a lot more good things.
I was at a Christmas party last Sunday when the person sitting beside me said as she closed her eyes as if trying to shut out all the bad memories, “I’ve had a fucker of a year so I’m really looking forward to a better year”.
Somewhere in us, no matter how tiny its voice may be, we can’t help believing that a new year has got to offer us something new, something good or better for a change. And so, we might give ourselves permission to reflect on the past and imagine a future.
I love this emotional stock-take that we do at this time of the year. I love that so many of the 7 billion people on this planet are doing it at about the same time so that collectively, the planet experiences a vibrational shift. I love that we can, if we choose to, more consciously align with this vibrational shift and add our intentions, personal and collective, to it.
Of course, we can do this individually at any time of the year, but I do believe that when we do it collectively, we enhance the focus and thus the magnitude of such intentioning. Indeed, this is why I introduced Prayerful Intention into our Mindfulness practice.
So, my dear friends, at this time of the year, as we give and receive gifts to and from one another, why not take a few moments to offer Prayerful Intention over some of the things that we know are happening around the world. Below is a small sample.
Abuse of women, young girls, children, animals, ecosystems
Abuse of authority by politicians and those in the media, armed forces, economic institutions and industrial organizations
People who believe they are helpless or powerless
People who insist on punishing, ‘seeking justice’
People who have committed crimes and face the wrath of others
People who feel lonely, abandoned or isolated
People who have lost loved ones
I’m sure you’ll have other things that you are aware of, some of them much more ‘local’ and others a bit more ‘global’. Some more significant to you than others. Let me remind you however, whether ‘personal’, ‘local’ or ‘global’, ‘trivial’ or ‘significant’ everything affects all of life since we are all of the one Life.
Let us acknowledge these force fields of suffering that impact all of Life. Let us bring prayerful intention to all these situations, intending that the grace, the goodness, the wonderfulness, the abundance, the grandeur, the limitlessness, the peace, the rapture, the kindness, the tenderness and the power of Unconditional Love shine its brilliant Light on these and all other forms of darkness, of lovelessness.
Let us see in our minds eye, this Light and its effect on all living beings on this planet and beyond.
Let us take stock also of the darkness within ourselves – our fears, our regrets, our shames, our anxieties, our resistances, our demands, our judgements, our attachments, our unforgiving, our grievances, our doubts, our despairs, our unworthiness, our guilts, our neediness, our waiting for the world or other people to change and be as we insist they should….
And when we have done this, let us bring Prayerful Intention over these. Let us feel in their place, Love’s Light and its wondrous effects on us. Let us feel it in our body. Let it fire up our imagination so that we are able to visualize and especially FEEL the wonderfulness of the life we hope to have in the new year. (We cannot intend for others what we do not feel and know within ourselves).
And so dear Friends, with that, I wish you a beautiful and blessed Christmastime and a New Year so wonderful as to exceed your wildest dreams! 
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