This opening of a new page is blank. I can choose now to fill it with thoughts and words, offering a beginning. I am sharing a glimpse of possibility into the knowing that the light is revealing the way. The path does not concern my past, nor does it condition my way forward. It is rising precisely from a flow of consciousness inside me now. The answers lie, as always, within me, at this moment, just as I am. The answers are not my future; they’re not in the past; they’re here, now, and the moment I choose to embrace and connect to them is found within my greater self. I am choosing to live from this space of awareness in the NOW, transforming my future as my past is finished.
As we move into 2025, please do not carry all the worries and doubts of the future. We cling to the past because we know it, and the future offers uncertainty. The little self wants certainty. It is addicted to a desire to control and organize to cling to an idea of certainty. We only know what we know. But LIFE is uncertain. To experience any chance of peace and contentment, we have to embrace uncertainty. The only way is to let go of the little mind’s addiction to the habits that keep us stuck in the familiar. To experience this quality of peace, there must be a desire to connect to the union of what is happening now.
Take a breath, take two more breaths..now just feel. Feel the effect of these breaths..they are happening now..you are alive now. Unfortunately, our minds are looking for some payoff. Some outcomes are more significant than just being enough now. Sit and experience whatever is being revealed. Stay present. It might not be pleasant. The chatter might get louder. Stay and feel the awareness that we are constantly feeding the mind and fixing the unpleasant. Just surrender into the moment, let go through the breath, and first relax into the body. Take a few more breaths and link the focus to your belly, whether pleasant or unpleasant. Inhale, feel it expand, and then exhale, feeling it contract. It’s happening..your aliveness is being observed. Please do not look for or seek an outcome. No goals, no need to fix but experience this moment. Invite yourself into your life, exhale, and say, “Thank you.”
Let us commit to a year of not reacting to issues; act instead from a state of surrender in which mind and emotions are released. Liberate yourself from your defensive routines and absorb information to have a greater capacity to serve the interest of the whole. We are part of the collective of humanity. We are each a spoon of water that is dropped into the ocean of water. Create a new beginning of not fixing nor flighting your past with the need to control the future. It all comes down to the simple path of coming inward. Keep your mind and heart open and focus daily on your inner work and its expression. Let us participate in this practice in love. We know what truly nourishes and sustains us is a state of peace. The world around us might not reflect this, but something pure dwells within all of us. No amount of striving in the world will make this experience a truth. I’m embracing infinite uncertainty from what the mind thinks is a scary place to an experience of completeness and beauty in feeling this profound protection. This trust rests in us. Forget everything except what is possible NOW within you. May you live and thrive this year, knowing something greater is guiding us home. 2025 offers a crack for the light to come through. Let us crack open and let the old fall away to be present in the inner peace. No setting New Year’s resolutions nor creating goals for the future. Love this moment and share the smile of loving-kindness. Within this space, more will be revealed!
Love and light,
Laura Jane