May I learn to look at myself with the eyes of understanding and love.  ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Personal transformation can and does have global effects.  As we go, so does the world, for the world is us.  The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a personal one. ~Marianne Williamson

Becoming the Next Best Version of You in 2008

As the New Year begins, we have an opportunity--an obligation to yourselves really--to reflect on the past year, to take an inventory of what we have created and consider what we would like to create in the coming year.  The real question is who do we want to be-since what we create always comes down to who we're being in the world.  To create all that your heart desires in the coming year, I invite you to take some time to reflect and assess, and then to step into the next best version of yourself.  It's essential to first look at who you are and love what you see.  That means you love your beauty, your grace and your divine spirit, but you also love your blind spots, your faults, your weaknesses-all that you'd rather not even see much less admit to.  Accepting that you are both divine and human, perfect and flawed, eternal and impermanent means accepting the grand paradox of all paradoxes.  Once you accept all of your beauty and all of your imperfections, you can truly love yourself, and with this love, you can transform your flaws into your gifts, your struggles into successes, your weaknesses into your strengths.  I invite you to use the following steps to reflect, accept and love, and then recreate yourself. 

Step One: The Old You

Take some time to think about and write down the following on a piece of paper:

• What you see as your weaknesses.
• Any regrets you have from the past year (or even before if you're still holding onto them.)
• Any ways of being that are no longer serving you.
• Any beliefs about yourself that are preventing you from having/being what your heart desires.
• The negative self talk or stories you have about yourself (For example, I am always saying the wrong thing.  Or, I won't ever learn to manage my money.)

Step Two:  Accepting, Loving,  and Learning from Who You've Been:

Sit with what you've written and review it carefully.  Then close your eyes and begin to breathe long and deep. With each exhale give your heart permission to open.  From this open-hearted place, ask yourself what life lesson you needed to learn from these weaknesses, from these regrets, these beliefs.  Let your Higher Self provide you with the answers.  See all that you have not liked about yourself as a loving mother looking at her child.  Accept that you had to be these ways in order to grow into a better you.  Love all these ways that have brought you to the desire for change.

Now, open your eyes and write in your journal about these lessons.  Write about what you have learned from these. Ask your Higher Self to support you in reclaiming your true Divine nature and letting go of your real or perceived weaknesses, your negative self talk and all your regrets.  Once you feel fully supported.  Tear up the paper you wrote in Step One.  As you tear it up, see and feel it as a past version of yourself.  See this version of yourself as the one you must sacrifice in order to become the next best version of yourself.

Step Three:  Stepping into the New You!

From this meditative place of love and support from your Higher Self, write a description of the best version of yourself that you can imagine being in 2008. 

• Who do you want to be? 
• How do you want to use your gifts?
• How do you want to treat others? 
• What kind of you do you want to be. 
• What do you value?
• How do you want to spend your time? 
  

Be as specific as you want and include anything and everything that you would like.  What do you look like, sound like?  How do you behave?  What impression do you make on others?

Step Four:  Solidifying YourTransformation

For the next 30 days, make a commitment to spend some quiet time each morning reading what you wrote in Step Three.  Each time after you read it, take just a few moments to close your eyes and see yourself being that person.  Allow a vision to come to you of yourself fully being the person who is exactly what you described (or even better!)  You may envision yourself in a situation that you anticipate, for example a talk with your spouse, or a meeting with your boss.  Whatever comes to you, let it evolve naturally and be with it 100%.  Feel the feelings that you feel as this best version of yourself.  It's very important to feel these feelings and sit with them for a few moments.  Then simply release and know that this is you. 

Also spend some time each night as you're falling asleep to think about and feel the feelings associated with this new version of self.  Just drift off with these thoughts and feelings.

 
I invite you all to join me in making 2008 your best year by becoming the next best version of yourself.  We are all here to grow and to give the gift of ourselves to the world.  If we make this conscious effort to let go of that smaller version of ourselves that is no longer serving us and step into the larger version of our Divine Self, if we allow a little more of our light to shine, we enrich our lives and the lives of everyone around us.  One by one we can make the world a better place by simply loving ourselves enough to grow into more of who we really are.

I wish all of you a magnificent year of living authentically, truthfully, creatively, passionately and purposefully.  I wish you all the courage to become the next best version of yourselves!

With love and blessings~

Pamela

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