Dear friends,
We all want the New Year to be different than 2020. But that begs the question: are we different? Have the challenges we faced made us bitter, angry, afraid, or are we more aware of the need for community, shared resources, equality and compassion? Have we been changed at depth by the suffering of others that we have seen? Will we enter 2021 resolved to be involved in solutions, rather than ignore the problems? It seems that many of us might have been playing the game of pretend. Pretend all is well when it is decidedly not.
While it is intelligent and necessary to notice and appreciate all the wonderful things humans have done and created; the beauty, the art, the music, the science; it is unavoidable that we also admit to the inequity humans have created for themselves with greed and fear. As a New Thought teacher, I feel the two overriding causes of many of our injustices are the belief in Lack and the fear of difference. But the worst thing we can do is to think we are incapable of creating a world of fairness and prosperity for all.
As we prepare to release this year and embrace the possibilities inherent in the new one, let’s not forget that consciousness creates everything. What we believe is the energy behind our choices, our actions our expectations. It is up to us to identify those limiting ideas in ourselves and to consciously choose to change our own mind. Instead of resolutions, let’s make some serious intentions.
Affirm: “I leave behind what does not elevate the human condition. I take the transformation of human consciousness personally. I am a full participant in it.”
Stay tuned in,
Carol Carnes www.carol-carnes.com
