“We are the promise of one people, one breath declaring to one another: I see you. I need you. I am you.”—Richard Blanco
As we come to the close of 2020, how will we hold it in our hearts and memories? There is no question that part of that will be how we met with changes and happenings beyond our control.
We’ve all faced the changes, but in what way? Will it be filed as one of hardship and challenges, or will we think of it as a time of rising resilience and fortitude? Of greater awareness of our shared being, our global community as one organism, and of opening our limited view of personal safety and opinions to include how our choices impact the whole?
Will we look at it as one of loss or growth? What have we gained?
As we say goodbye to 2020 and say yes to 2021, what do we need to let go of, grieve, forgive and accept the lessons born of change and challenge?
In so many ways, 2020 has been a rebirthing of a new paradigm of living, of connecting and experiencing creativity in new ways. Like Marvel’s character, daredevil, our senses have been heightened.
Perhaps we’ve become acutely aware of the little joys that we’ve taken for granted in the past with new appreciation, and have learned the art of appreciating the moment before us just as it is, now. Choosing to practice mindfulness — accepting and appreciating our aliveness, seeing how we can extend that energy forth.
We’ve learned to pause and turn within, to be more deliberate in questioning our automatic resisting and reactions to what happens. To let go of our resistance and remember we are love. Taking the seemingly broken pieces of our lives and filling them with gold.
Like the art of Kintsugi; where we recognize our shared history and visibly incorporate the gold or love repair into the new piece instead of disguising it. Our 2021 container will be woven with the attitudes we’ve chosen. Let it be golden with honesty, love, and union.
Our so-called flaws are our gateway to creating the beautiful diversity interwoven in the universal tapestry of life. This is perfection. Not the good/bad, right/wrong judgments. But the transmutation of them to see our universality.
If we just feel into the energy of the changes in which we’re invited to participate, we see where our judgments limit us. As we open and accept, allowing ourselves to transformed by it, we become gold artisans.
Each moment is precious. 2020 has given us the gift of presence in a new way. Time and routine have slowed enough for us to feel our truth as well as our self-assigned limitations and translate those moments through love.
Think of three things; attitudes, fears, judgments you want to leave in 2020. What are three gifts you’ve received in 2020; accepting and loving, more fully appreciating? The small things, the way you’ve become more mindful, generous, and aware.
Let’s lay 2020 to rest, awake to new possibilities and interconnectedness born of our shared experience accepted and loved.
Check your yummy-stat as this season makes it into our homes and warms our hearts. Can you feel the miracle of love all around you. I can. I love that feeling, which is poignant this time of year.
You know what I’m talking about – that feeling so many of us have around the holiday season. The sense that despite whatever else might be going on, there is something magical happening. That behind the scenes, miracles are being woven into the fabric of our daily lives. We feel buoyant with the feeling of giving and loving and joining — a recognition of our beautiful shared being and aliveness.
How do you feel about Christmas season?
Like there’s magic in the air?
The sense that miracles are happening all around us?
This feeling belongs to us. This Holiday magic feeling can be a point of reference for all year round.
Albert Einstein once said,
“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
This ‘everything is a miracle’ mindset seems to come alive at Christmas time — like it’s more readily available for us to give ourselves permission to lean into faith and trust and goodwill toward all.
But it’s a choice of how we want to see. How do we see our choices? As mistakes or wrong in some way? Mistakes are really just experiences. Judging the experience as wrong invites a mental narrative to play on a negative loop of judgement and regret. The situation you’ve called a problem is already past, but you’re giving it free play in your mind. While life is still moving forward.
We can pause the moment we notice the icky feeling inside or the negative spin in our head. Notice we’re noticing and celebrate noticing. Doesn’t that feel good? Use the breath. You can’t focus on your breath and listen to the negative narrative at the same time. So pausing and taking a breath, placing your full attention on your breath, is like a reset button.
Give yourself an inner hug for noticing and choosing presence over regurgitating the so-called mistake one more time. Find one thing you see right now that you can appreciate and feel the shift inside … keep going, one present moment at a time shifting your entire energy field from fear (regret) to love. This is the miracle available at all times.
This is our Holiday Mindset. We are each a miracle. The yummy way is choosing to live in this awareness as often as possible and be part of the miracle of life.
“Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.” ~Rumi
This Rumi quote is basically the same as my life mantra “Everything goes my way.” — I just need to stay open to seeing through a new medium if that’s what is required to experience our oneness.
Even if I can’t see how at the time — life is bringing me the best possible circumstances to grow, and love — to let go of resistance, to forgive and see things differently. To choose love over fear, trust instead of worry.
2020 has been a year where the importance of choosing to see the miracle behind circumstances, and gratitude where heartache seems to prevail, has been like a breathing organism.
The choice to see everything as a miracle is to trust. To find joy in each opportunity to connect in new ways where we can extend a little kindness, gratitude, and love.
2020 has been a year that will go down in the history books; globally, as well as personally. How will you frame it in your memory bank?
In today’s episode, we share some of our favorite moments in 2020. The things that inspire us and things we’ve relied on, gone back to for joy, understanding and guidance while navigating the winds of change and setting sail in the seemingly choppy waters on this ocean of life we all share.
We talk about the Matrix trilogy, martial arts and the greats like Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee and how we let media open us and inspire us to look more deeply at our belief system, push the bar and free our minds so we can open and see things differently.
What are some movies or other media that have inspired you?
What are your yummy take-always? How do you integrate the joys and lessons into going forward from 2020 into 2021?
No matter how you’ve framed 2020, this year has transformed you. All of us have been transform. The world has been transformed.
As we wrap up this year, let our hearts be alive with miracles. Thanks everyone for joining is in The Yummy Way. We love you!💞
THANKS 2020!
Have a Yummy Holiday filled with Christmas Miracles!!
