Holiday Magic

The holiday season can be challenging. This year is no exception. Third dimensional reality displays unsettled feelings about the economy, terrorism, and political infighting around the next election. If we aren’t careful, we can easily get pulled into the drama. In fact, many of us on our path to higher consciousness unconsciously allow the thoughts of the masses to influence our emotions. How many times to you find yourself sad or depressed for no obvious reason?

This time of year should be a time of joy and a time of renewal. Almost every spiritual tradition supports this, but where is this joy? Are you having difficulty decorating your house or buying holiday gifts this year? There seems to be a pervasive sense of lethargy hanging in the air. Even the sales figures for Black Friday weren’t up to expectations.

Let’s use our thoughts to become the change! We can create a truly great experiment together. Set aside a moment to go within to that place where love resides inside you. Look in that safe place where you store your treasures, right behind your heart. This is where you find the joy that can light up this holiday season for you, and when you flip that switch, you send your light out into the world so that others can see it and remember the truth about why we are here. It can become a domino effect. When we remember that joy is a vibration it becomes easier to connect with and activate that within. When we forget that joy is a vibration, we tend to forget that we have a choice in creating it.

The real purpose behind this holiday season isn’t the giving of gifts or the fancy parties. It is the remembering and rebirthing of your own personal truth. Who you are really is light, a reflection of Spirit who shines through you.

You are both unique and powerful as the creator of your reality, and this season offers you the opportunity to use your personal gifts to do just that. The magic of this season lies in our ability to create JOY. As you remember the feelings of joy, they become contagious, and you are able to share them with others. As you share joy, it grows within you, multiplying the energy of it. Enjoy this grand experiment by taking a moment each day simply to become joy and observe how your joy spreads.

Jean Adrienne is the developer of the InnerSpeak Breakthrough Coaching Method. She’s an author, teacher and talk radio host.

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My Holiday Gift

During this time of year, many of our thoughts turn to gift giving—Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwaanza—we make our lists and choose our purchases carefully. This year I decided to focus on something different. I spend a lot of time writing, teaching and talking about looking within to find our answers and to connect with our power to create our reality. So this year I decided to give a gift to myself rather than giving to others.

It became an interesting challenge. I really don’t need anything material, because I basically have everything I need, in fact, lately I have been ridding myself of excess. Anything that hasn’t been worn or used in the last four years has been given away or sold, with the exception of a few family things that have particular meaning to me. I wanted my gift to be meaningful and special. I thought and thought about what this unique gift might be. Maybe a piece of jewelry…no, I already have too much jewelry. What about a something really huge like a new car? I just couldn’t justify that in this economy. I was really at a loss.

Some holiday music was playing on the radio, and as I sat half listening, half dozing, I heard “The Little Drummer Boy” and the verse where he decides to give the Christ child his drum. It occurred to me that the best, most appropriate present I could give myself might be to give away a part of myself to someone else. Remember the words of Jesus when he said, “What you do to the least of these, you do also to me.” Then I realized once again the true meaning of this holiday season. It doesn’t matter what religion you belong to or what philosophy you espouse, this is a universal truth. If you take the time, effort and love to do something for someone else, you give yourself a far greater gift than anything you could buy.

My gift to you is deep gratitude and love which knows no bounds.

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