Usually as another year comes to a close I am so filled with hope for the new year that I don't really reflect upon the closing year - well at least not in a positive manner. I generally think "good riddance - that was a painful year". Then I saw that one of my favorite yogi (@kathrynbudig) jumped out of a plane for her first solo skydive as a thank you gift to 2011. That got me thinking.....
At first I was pretty convinced that it would be much easier to write my intentions for 2012 than it would be to find much to be thankful to 2011 for....NOT SO!!!
I found so many big - huge - things that happened this year that made me so filled with joy and hope and inspiration. I took joy from friends having excellent years - getting new jobs, having babies, buying their first home (some doing more than one of these in 2011). Then I realized that there were as many small things to be thankful to 2011 for - including being able to sit outside in the warm sunshine while I wrote down my thoughts!!
I hope this is an exercise that you will consider. It was a very uplifting experience. Gratitude is so precious and as 2011 ticks away, I am profoundly grateful for so many people, experiences and opportunities to learn. I defined this year, when all was said and done, as the year that I moved more fully into who I am. I am calling it metamorphosis. So to each of you - many thanks for 2011 and continued blessings for 2012.
Namaste,
Julie
At first I was pretty convinced that it would be much easier to write my intentions for 2012 than it would be to find much to be thankful to 2011 for....NOT SO!!!
I found so many big - huge - things that happened this year that made me so filled with joy and hope and inspiration. I took joy from friends having excellent years - getting new jobs, having babies, buying their first home (some doing more than one of these in 2011). Then I realized that there were as many small things to be thankful to 2011 for - including being able to sit outside in the warm sunshine while I wrote down my thoughts!!
I hope this is an exercise that you will consider. It was a very uplifting experience. Gratitude is so precious and as 2011 ticks away, I am profoundly grateful for so many people, experiences and opportunities to learn. I defined this year, when all was said and done, as the year that I moved more fully into who I am. I am calling it metamorphosis. So to each of you - many thanks for 2011 and continued blessings for 2012.
Namaste,
Julie
