028_ Holiday Mindset

How do you feel about Christmas season? Like there’s magic in the air? The feeling that miracles are happening all around us?

This feeling belongs to us. This Holiday magic feeling can be a point of reference for all year round.

 Albert Einstein once said, “There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

This ‘everything is a miracle’ mindset seems to come alive at Christmas time — like it’s more readily available for us to give ourselves permission to lean into faith and trust and goodwill toward all.

But it’s a choice of how we want to see.  How do we see our choices? As mistakes or wrong in some way? Mistakes are really just experiences. Judging the experience as wrong invites a mental narrative to play on a negative loop of judgement and regret. The situation you’ve called a problem is already past, but you’re giving it free play in your mind. While life is still moving forward.

But we can pause the moment we notice the icky feeling inside or the negative spin in our head. Notice we’re noticing and celebrate noticing. Doesn’t that feel good? Use the breath. You can’t focus on your breath and listen to the negative narrative at the same time. So pausing and taking breath, placing your full attention on your breath, is like a reset button. 

Give yourself an inner hug for noticing and choosing presence over regurgitating the so-called mistake one more time. Find one thing you see right now that you can appreciate and feel the shift inside ... keep going, one present moment at a time shifting your entire energy field from fear (regret) to love.  This is the miracle available at all times. 

This is our Holiday Mindset.