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Step 1
Know that if you don't like where you are now, then it's just a place you were meant to go through.
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Step 2
Give thanks. Light expands with gratitude. Giving thanks draws positive energy and light into your life, pushing out the darkness and replacing it with power to manifest your dreams and heighten your awareness of life.
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Step 3
Give the light your hurtful memories, including any victimhood weighing you down. Since light is magnetic, it pulls everything you give it out of the darkness and towards itself. As these negative thoughts dissolve, watch as space is cleared in your mind for more positive thoughts to now occupy, since nature abhors a vacuum. See those positive thoughts take root and grow!
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Step 4
Offer encouragement to others. Your consciousness of the light inside you not only sensitizes you to your own need for encouragement but also makes you aware that others need support, too. Ask yourself, "Who needs a helping hand today?" The Talmud Baba Batra states: "One who gives a coin to a poor person is rewarded with six blessings, but one who encourages that person with words is rewarded with seven blessings."
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Step 5
Forgive someone this New Year. Nelson Mandela, when asked why he forgave his jailers in Robben Island who kept him prisoner for 27 years, said, "When I walked out of the gate, I knew that if I continued to hate these people, I'd still be in prison."
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Step 6
Self-care honors the self and sparks illumination. How are you holding yourself in right regard this season? Are you resting enough, laughing enough, smiling at yourself enough? When we give ourselves the gift of care we can then and only then fulfill our higher purpose here on earth.
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Step 7
Watch your steps daily and always try to see the great Light in everyone else.
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Step 8
Your New Year's gift to yourself must be to intentionally affirm that it is the Universal Light in you that magnifies the greatest possibilities. As you do, you will function from faith and act from consciousness. Know that you are the outlet of the Universe's protection, provision, and power. The powers of peace, truth, and love are within you! This New Year, let the splendor of your light shine forth and light the path before you!
Comments
pchester said
on 8/19/2008 Love the article. I practice seeing the light of God in others.
max2611 said
on 7/5/2008 Excellent !
DUSTYMILLS said
on 5/7/2008 Thank you for a very thought provoking article....I enjoyed it...........~Dusty
mchapman said
on 5/6/2008 Kudos! to you for another interesting article. I believe in going outside every morning to greet the day and listen to nature. Positive Thinking, Mary
AudreyBrown said
on 3/10/2008 Thanks for your positive thoughts. I grew up in a Unitarian Universalist home, and I struggle to accept new age type thoughts sometimes for a lot of reasons, but a lot of your suggestions line up well with a lot of my beliefs, so perhaps I should start to open up a little.