Setting the Energy for 2012-1

Happy New Year/Happy New Cycle!

A big shift in perspective often happens around the turn of the year, especially around the turn of the decade or century, or in this case, the ending of a major cycle in the evolution of consciousness. This is a time when we often try to prepare for the coming year by examining the year falling away behind us. Some of us set goals to accomplish what could not be done in 2011, or what we want or hope to do and have in 2012.

I would like to share a simple method of “goal setting” that seeks to honor you as spirit having a human experience. Goals for BEING, to prepare you for the doing and having.

This one comes from Mike Dooley. To boil it down, get HAPPY. Sit in a quiet place, eyes closed, breathing deeply, thinking “Happy”. Feel happy. Think of a person or a happy event to get started if you must, but your focus needs to be on the feeling of happiness, not the event or person. Let that feeling of happiness grow within you (a great exercise in itself). Allow your whole body and being to feel happy.

Now considering that you are overflowing with happiness, become aware of the feelings that flow, the feelings that tell you your are happy: joy, excitement, peace, enthusiasm, and so forth.

Allow these feelings, the emotions of happiness, to fill you to overflowing! Let the overflow of positive emotion radiate into some area of your life. Think broadly. For example: Health, Work, Relationships, Abundance…and let those happy feelings spill over into those areas of your life. If you notice a particular aspect within that category, you can have a secondary spilling over into that area of your life.

For instance, while filling the idea of relationships with positive emotional energy, you may become aware of a particular relationship, such as “my partner” or “my children”. You then allow the glowing, flowing positive energy to spill into the thought of “my partner” or “my children” rather than attempting to give energy or fill up the other person. Keeping your mind on generalities allows your energy to shift without your control, a good thing!

While radiating positive emotion into these broad areas of your life, you may also become aware of specific goals and ideas to follow in 2012. Write them down, yes. And know they are a consequence of being happy. The achievement of these goals will not make you happy, rather, these goals are a natural consequence of you BEING happy and pouring positive, creative emotion into your life.

Sometimes setting specific goals for amounts of money or numbers of things or the specific job at this or that company, can cause us to try to control the outcome of our actions or control the unfolding of the events that deliver what we want. Then, when something we want is coming into our field of reference, we don’t recognize the form it takes, and we may reject opportunities too soon. Working with positive emotional energy  is a way to get out of the way of creation, allowing a bond of trust to form between you and the universe, allowing you to be the universe you live in; to determine the emotional form of what you are creating while you revel in the mystery of how it comes. In this sense, Mike Dooley says, “HOW is none of our business!”

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