Each New Moment

Every day you wake up, you truly do have a new day. Sure your clothes in the closet may look the same, the dog may still pee on the same spot on the rug, and your boss might still have an unwarranted grudge against you, HOWEVER, you have a brand new day to create what you want.
Take for instance the movie Groundhog day. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107048/  Haven't seen it? It is a must for this year's February 1, 2, or 3 couch break and snack time. Watch it and we'll chat about it on Feb. 4th.
It makes sense that you think you are trapped in a life that circles endlessly around petty and inconsequential things. That was the old paradigm thinking. That was when we thought we had to morph ourselves into some odd contorted shape to win praise, accolades, and earn successful rewards from the world. Yep, that is when we thought we had to NOT be ourselves to fit in.
GUESS WHAT?! That is all changing! We are slowly realizing there is no big boss that determines what is of value and what is not and how to determine that value. The system of value judging is a farce, my lovely friends. (check out the film Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwiojZsVdo&noredirect=1)
That means there is no big boss that determines WHO is of value and WHO is not and how to determine the value of people.
If there is NO big boss and no absolute rule of value system AND if we have freedom each day, more so each moment, to start new...then we actually can choose to find our Truest Most Authentic Happiness. Why not? What is the fear? What is the downside of being who you really are?
Each new moment does not have to be laden with regrets, negative judgments of ourselves, and just plain old feeling lousy about who we are and what we've done. Each new moment can be abundant with joy, hope, pride, and happy feelings.
Last Sunday the Healing Embrace Spiritual Community had a theme of Counting Our Blessings. In one hour we tried to get up to 5,000 collective things that we were grateful ,for in our lives. We ended that hour with 5 big newsprint sheets loaded with things we were so happy to experience and know about: mangoes, eye glasses, volcanoes, apple pie, worms, love, cars, Ganesha, Kahunas, rain, Sweat Lodges, teeth...the list went on and on with the group shouting, laughing, jamming off what others said, doubling up on things like "Shirley Temple! The person AND the drink!!!" No matter what was happening in our individual lives, in those moments, we were happy and creating happy energy in our bodies, our minds, and our world. I personally realized how often something happens, like I perceive someone has let me down or an outcome I was attached to is not going to be realized the exact way I wanted, and I can get really grumpy. My whole day from that moment forward can become overcast with some weird dark shadow that spirals out of control until I detest the world. I then can find everything wrong with everything. WOW...what a sad way to spend even 1 minute of my life...especially when I now have 5 huge newsprint papers of Blessings pasted around my dining room!! All I have to do is replace that 1 crummy thought..."This sucks" with "Elephants are cool" or "so happy I have floss" or "nail polish comes in like 10 thousand colors". Why do I, why do any of us, have to waste one more moment in those lower, heavier, low self esteem, the world stinks, moments?
We don't! By Golly..not one of us has to default to some old paradigm thinking and feeling of fighting, strife, feeling less than in our worlds.

Each new moment is truly ours to do with it what we want. You can choose how you experience your day. Now go to it! Count your Blessings in each new moment...start with the beautiful truth that you have a new moment in which to count those blessings. ENJOY!