Taking a moment to reflect on 2017. It was a year of many lessons, shifts in energy (whether you realized it or not) and overall challenges for everyone. The ascension (click on this link to learn more, and scroll down on the webpage) has been very challenging for some. There have been times that the experiences I have had were challenging to not get caught up in the emotions and simply see things for what they are.
My business went through a metamorphosis from two days a week, moving to a new location and sharing the room, to having my very own office. Lots of changes, challenges, adjusting and allowing. I learned that the Universe truly has my back. As I’ve shifted my energy and thinking, I am in a space of expansion, allowing all the goodness to come to me and to live with intention. This has been a dream of mine since obtaining my Reiki II certification in April of 2013. Along with having my own office, I also dreamt of having a place for stones and crystals, supporting others with their dreams and to be able to stand in my light more so that others too will feel comfortable in standing in theirs. I also took time to create sacred space for myself, go on a solitary retreat, create a lot of art, drink lots of coffee, spend time with friends, and lots more laughter and smiling.
My word for 2017 was Dream. I believe I fulfilled the word in so many ways!!
On Christmas Day I traveled to Watertown (my hometown) and I stopped to see my father at the nursing home that he just moved into the end of November. He turned 93 the end of September and just a year ago was living on his own in the house I grew up in. Upon reflection of where his life is at and what challenges he’s facing I realized he is teaching me and the rest of my family about choices. We can’t always know what the outcome is on the choices we make. I believe if he could have seen in the crystal ball a year ago he may have made a few different choices however, that is not the case and so we need to look at things the way they are. I was thinking about my mother (who passed away in 2008) on the drive back to Sioux Falls and her motto was Your Attitude Rules Your Life. This too has been my motto and am reminded often to adjust my attitude if I don’t like the way things are. I may not be able to change my circumstances but I do know that I can control my attitude and the way I view things. I can come from a place of understanding and to open my viewpoint to realize that people are not against me, they aren’t out to get me, that instead, each of us are just trying to get through this thing called life.
What choices are you making today that will affect your life down the road? Are there positive choices that you could make to impact your life in the long term? Impact in a way to make your life more positive, uplifting, healthy, strong and allow your body to move in whatever way you choose? I am more of a sitting and creating art type of person rather than the adventurer of walking and hiking. I am learning that I get to become more of an adventurer to move my body, to make it stronger and healthier so that my body will be able to do what I want it to do many, many years from now AND I can also be a creating art type of person. It’s not one way or another, it’s both.
So, here’s to 2018. May it be a year of discovery, understanding, depth and self-love!
