Dear Reader,
For today’s post, I want to suggest a very worthy use for your intuition…
What gift would you like to give yourself for the end of 2011? And no, I don’t mean a toaster or a DVD. Although if you want to – why not? No, what I am actually thinking about is a quality or a feeling. Is it courage? Empathy? Forgiveness? Persistence? Inner peace? There are so many possibilities! What are you ready and willing to receive?
Take a moment first (even though you may spend more time later) and think back over the year so far. Think of all the expected and unexpected things that have happened, all the ups and downs you have experienced. After all of it, what quality would you like more of to top off 2011?
We are approaching a time of giving and receiving. It is important to be generous with yourself, as you would be with others; we tend to leave ourselves out of the giving/receiving equation sometimes.
So what will it be? Get quiet, go within and find an attentive, relaxed awareness – what is your gift to yourself? Your intuition will tell you if you let it. It knows. And why does it know? Because chances are that whatever you think you need – you already have. It is just waiting inside for you to claim. Allow yourself to receive, and it’s yours. Go ahead; try it now if you’d like.
Quiet. Present. Open to receiving. Now.
You may not feel it right away, and you may have to keep reminding yourself of your gift, but December is young. How will it feel on Christmas Day to wake up in the morning and realize that your gift is with you? On the other hand, it may come in a flash; allow yourself to be surprised, because it may be something you didn’t expect at all.
This gift is what you make of it. It may well stay with you for the rest of your life. After all, it has been with you all along.
I honor your loving heart,
John
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