Two Choices That Can Make Next Year The Best Year of Your Life
What if there were just two choices you could make to ensure that next year would be wonderful? There actually are, and these choices are quite simple in concept, yet not easy to do. They are not things you do on the outside, such as exercising your body (which is always a good thing to do!) but ways of thinking and being on the inside. These have to do with your attitude and your intent.
GRATITUDE
I’m sure you’ve all heard of the attitude of gratitude. Studies show that the happiest and most successful people in the world are those who consistently live their lives with an attitude of gratitude, who see their cup as half full rather than half empty.
Let’s look at an example:
Alan and Mick are both firemen. They are both married with children, but this is where the similarities stop. Alan's life seems to always be filled with joy and success, while Micks life always seems to be in turmoil. What is the difference?
Alan is a very upbeat person who always sees the good in everything and is always in gratitude for what he has. He is thankful for his work, his health, his family and his friends. When difficulties arise, he faces them head-on with an attitude of gratitude for the opportunity to learn and to help others. He believes he is spiritually guided and accepts challenges as opportunities for learning and serving. As a result of his openness and caring, people trust him and have come to him with opportunities to invest his money in ways that have created a passive income for his family. He continues to work because he likes it, not because he needs to financially. But do things always work out so seemingly perfect for him, well actually no. Sometimes the timing and the experiences he faces challenges his resolve. How does he handle that? Alan deepens his gratitude practice.
INTENT TO LEARN
God, Source, Life whichever wording you prefer, has given us the free will to choose our intention, to choose what is most important to us in any given moment. In our relationship with ourselves and others, we have only two intentions to choose from:
1) The intent to learn, with our spiritual Guidance, about what is most loving to ourselves and others;
2) The intent to protect against the pain of rejection, abandonment, plunging without control, or failure through some form of controlling behavior.
Be mindful when we are connecting to our spiritual guidance that it is of the light. There has been some artificial light, dark guidance and some trickery that has occurred. If you want to know how to distinguish this for yourself, so you are clear and getting guidance that is purity in light too, send us a message at robyn@robynhodgecoaching.com or robynandkarla@gmail.com
Our intent to learn or protect determines our experience in any given moment.
A short story such as the following shows why:
Hilary and Alice are both married with children. Both women work as nurses, but, as with Alan and Mick, this is where the similarity ends. Hilary and Alice have similar life challenges in both work and family, yet to look at Hilary you would think she doesn’t have a care in the world.
Hilary embraces all of life’s challenges from a solid knowing that she is on a spiritual journey of the soul a journey of learning to be the most loving person she can be, both with herself and with others. She accepts responsibility for her own feelings and behavior and opens to learning with Spirit and others when conflict occurs. Rather than shying away from conflict, she welcomes it as an opportunity for learning about herself and for healing any blocks to becoming a pure instrument of Gods, Source, Life's work upon the planet. Hilary feels much peace and joy in her life.
Alice, on the other hand, is locked into the earthly journey of control. Instead of learning from conflicts, she avoids them with giving herself up or getting angry to have control over the outcome. Rather than taking responsibility for her own feelings, she often numbs out with food and wine. Control is her God. Alice is often anxious and depressed as a result of her intent to protect and is on medication to deal with the resulting anxiety and depression.
Why Alan and Hilary Experience Opposite Outcomes to Alice and Mick:
It is not life’s circumstances that are causing Alan and Hilary to have so much more peace and joy than Alice and Mick. Choosing gratitude and the intent to learn, as opposed to complaining and the intent to protect makes all the difference in the world.
Make this coming year in 2020 the best year of your life by making these two choices - gratitude and the intent to learn.
We hope you have enjoyed this blog and message. We love hearing what resonates with and for you.
From our hearts to yours
Love In Light
Robyn and Karla
robynandkarla@gmail.com
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