Synchronicity 01/02/2012
 
I wanted to sit down today and not only take my last blog, My wish for the New Year!, a step further but somehow tie it into how I don't believe in New Year's resolutions, as I touched upon in Why Spring is the best time for Resolutions of Renewal.  Well as synchronicity always seems to work for me, a newsletter I subscribe to arrived in my inbox today that mirrored the sentiments of what I wanted you all to consider for 2012 instead.  It also just so happens that I was discussing with my husband how I want to start sharing with all of you who some of the most influential and inspiring people are in my life.  This newsletter just happens to be from one of those people.

John Holland is the most gifted yet humble and down to earth psychic mediums I have ever had the pleasure of seeing in person.  I would not recommend him if I weren't 100% sure that he is for real.  I don't want to go into how he works and how deserved his reputation is.  What I did want to do is direct you to his latest newsletter which I know you will all enjoy immensely!

After reading it do visit his website, which I will list below, subscribe to his newsletter, which never disappoints and check out his calendar of events.  Bringing this entire blog full circle, one of the first blogs I wrote was after I went to the event he did with Brian Weiss in Boston.  (I see he is doing the event again this spring so register while you still can!)  You can read those blogs too if you haven't already:  The Psychic Housewife - Yep, that's what she called me! and part two Dr. Brian Weiss and John Holland in Boston


Here is an excerpt - please follow the link to read it on his site in its entirety:

     FINDING YOUR TRIBE IN 2012 by John Holland

     Happy New Year!

     Starting off the New Year, I didn’t want to write a newsletter about resolutions. I wanted to begin 2012 in the hope that
     you’ll find a group of link-minded people you resonate with. A group where the relationships are all about sharing, giving,
     and receiving energetically from each other.

     People who travel a spiritual path or who are just being awakened spiritually often find it difficult to follow their
     souls’ path alone; some people feel like they are the different one in their family or different from some of the people
     that are in their lives now. What do I truly mean by different? Let me try to explain.


To keep reading go to the web version of his newsletter :-)  Also visit John's website and register for his newsletter!

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A lot of you have asked what we have been up to and have had a bunch of homeschooling questions.  I will have to get to answering them another day. 

Today, I wanted to keep it simple.  A friend of mine posted this on Facebook and I thought it was a perfect thing to share.

Here is my wish for all of you this year...
(And if any of you can find who originally wrote this, do let me know!)

"Surround yourself with people who make you happy.  People who make you laugh, who help you when you're in need.  People who would never take advantage of you.  People who genuinely care.  They are the ones worth keeping in your life.  Everyone else is just passing through."

If you can do what it says above then your contentment will radiate and make you one of those people described above. 
You in turn will make others happy. 
You will then never take advantage of others; even inadvertently. 
You will then be someone who genuinely cares.

.... And all of this will happen not because it was contrived but because that is who you are and how you live.

I know people love to say treat others as you want to be treated but sometimes that really doesn't work.  That has been a tough lesson for me to learn.  If you get stuck knowing you didn't deserve to be treated a certain way because you treated someone else better, then you are owning someone else's issue.  You make yourself a victim. 

What I have learned is that if you are truly happy then people who don't treat you well turn out to be nothing more than a blip on the radar.  Even if they upset you, it's momentary.  Your default will be to be happy :-)  It all starts with gratitude for the people that do make your life richer through their presence.  Being aware of them and thankful for them is where it all starts.

I wish you all a safe and Happy New Year!!

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     First let me tell why I think that January 1st is the absolute worst time for resolutions for the new year.  We all just get through two months of holidays and all of the stresses that go along with that.  Those stresses include food that we may not normally eat and in the amounts that we may not normally eat them in.  Another source of stress is visiting with family that may include traveling or having family visit us.  And finally the shopping that a lot of us do that we may or may not have budgeted for.  Here we are just getting through all of this craziness and now we add a completely new stressor onto the mix called a New Year's Resolution.  No wonder most people can't follow through!

     Adding a resolution that causes more stress is not a good idea at this time.  There are no more stressful words that we can say to ourselves than the words Diet and Exercise.  The reason why these are stressful is because we are forcing ourselves into major life changes by following a "program" or by changing our schedule and paying some hefty gym membership fees.  We all should be getting more sleep and paying attention to eating better.  And by eating better I mean paying attention to what we eat and how it makes our bodies feel after we eat it.  We should also be focusing on any debt we got ourselves into during the holiday's and paying it off.  (Congratulations if you didn't!)  The focus should now be on taking care of ourselves and gently at that.  Have you ever noticed how many people end up sick during the months of January and February?  Don't you think it has as much to do with stress as the lack of vitamin D due to shorter daylight hours?

     So when is the best time for resolutions?  In my humble opinion, the best time is at the beginning of spring.  By the time spring comes, you have had time to recuperate from the holiday season and get back into your normal schedule and rhythms.  Instead of New Year's resolutions, I would call them Resolutions of Renewal.  Instead of focusing on fixing what's "wrong" or "bad" you should be thinking of ways to renew your life.  Now that has a much different energy to it doesn't it?

     Make your new resolutions things that will make you feel good both physically and emotionally.  It's time to get outside and think about the exercise you want to do.  You may decide that it's hiking, walking the neighborhood or biking.  You should have already been paying attention to the food you have been eating after the holidays and how it made you physically feel.  Any changes you made over the first few months of the year in your eating habits can be further refined by making new goals like eating more of the fruits and vegetables that are now in season, or even better, growing some of your own.  Even if you don't plant a garden, you can very easily buy a pot, some dirt and some seeds and plant something edible.  Or it just may be cutting out more sugar from what you eat.

     Changes we force ourself into never last.  Small changes repeated over a longer period of time are the ones that do.  So what Resolutions of Renewal are you going to make for yourself this year?
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