Start the Year Strong with an 'I Welcome List' (No Resolutions Required).

Ditch those rarely kept, guilt promoting resolutions and begin your new year this way.

Write an I WELCOME LIST

Pointers

• Think of all the wonderful things and experiences you would like to show up in your life this year. What would you like to attract to you or discover and move toward?
• Make sure to distinguish desire from attachment. Desire is awareness of what you would like to experience. That changes as new information becomes available. Attachment requires believing your well-being depends on the outcome you want. It keeps you stuck and unhappy. 
• Write them down. That makes it real, a giant step toward manifestation. 
• Do not be reasonable! If it could just drop out of the blue sky, what do you want? 
• Make sure it is what you really want, not what you think you should want.
• Share it with a friend and/or here in the comments.
• Be open to miracles.
• Watch what happens.

How it works: 

Your true heart's desire is the strongest motivation there is. It moves you and in mysterious ways, affects the universe and other people too. When you acknowledge a desire it you take the first step in making it real. You introduce first a new thought, then written and spoken words into reality as we know it. You literally create new possibilities.

The power of focus. What you focus on grows. So whether you dwell on what you do want or what you don't want matters. Have you heard the phrase, "what you resist persists"? In resistance your thoughts and actions aim at what you do not want. What you are fighting to overcome fills a growing part of your daily experience, your life!

Focusing on what you welcome works the same way, with the an added bonus. When you turn your awareness on how you do want things to be you will notice opportunities, connections and steps forward that you would not see if you were not looking for them.

Contrary to the misquote about causing suffering; pure, unfettered desire feels good and fosters creativity. The actual quote is "misunderstood desire is the cause of all suffering". 

Wishing you many blessings and happy new adventures.

With love,
Mandy

Author of

Emotional Options

Travelling Free: How to Recover

Holidays from Ho Ho Ho to Oh No!

The Holidays -- are you rejoicing, barely holding up or somewhere in between?

I move through the season this year with such a mix of emotions. There is a residual dread I've never been able to shake completely since my young Christmas days wondering if my father would show up. Would be be drunk? Would my mother be mean to him? Would I feel somehow in everyone's way, not quite welcome?

I've had sweet Christmas times since, many of them and some tough ones too. I guess most of us have.

These last days I've felt:

• Gratitude for my sweet home, family, friends and you
• The pleasure of finding just the right gift for someone
• Regret for the times I withheld a kindness
• Missing dear ones I used to celebrate with, a list that grows longer as I grow older
• Dismay at the cruelty of so many of my fellow Americans
• The fervent wish for food, warmth, shelter and love for everyone
• The lovely memories of those sweet Christmases past
• The warmth of love that pushes out dread
• Happiness at the sheer wonder of life itself and the beauty of our earth

Wishing you and yours Happy Holidays and love,

Mandy

Author of

Emotional Options

Travelling Free: How to Recover