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As we approach a new year, it is a time for reflection on the past year, and for many a recommitment to the visions, goals, and dreams we wish to make a reality in our lives. As you reflect on this past year, acknowledge your accomplishments, big and small, and most of all accept yourself as you are right now. Deep change only occurs when we love and accept ourselves and then from that place seek to create change with no need to prove ourselves, but just out of a desire to do something different or differently. Give yourself this gift as we enter into 2012. Support yourself in creating the changes you desire for the new year. Fully love yourself and open the door for an abundance of possibilities to arise.

Wishing you a glorious 2012, and may all your visions become a reality!

Susan

Have you ever felt trapped, whether by situations in your life you feel are unfair, or perhaps your own inner doubts and limiting beliefs. Watch this video. Gratitude frees us to be our best self.

LINK >>>  http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2568

Read more about it >>> Dewey Bozella was locked up for 26 years - a lifetime - for a crime he did not commit. This story is about the triumph of human spirit and living proof of the maxim: “never give up”. One man’s journey to reclaim his life, against all odds; a man fighting his biggest fight outside the boxing ring without any hatred or bitterness towards the system. Dewey Bozella - courageous, persistent, human and finally…free.

Finding Joe, a new documentary based on the wisdom of mythologist Joseph Campbell, will be opening this Friday. I highly recommend it to anyone seeking to discover their life’s work, and “follow their bliss” as they express their talents in meaningful ways that serve the planet. Playing at Riviera Theater in Santa Barbara. Read about it below (from their website):

Finding Joe is an exploration of famed Mythologist Joseph Campbell’s studies and their continuing impact on our culture. Through interviews with visionaries from a variety of fields interwoven with enactments of classic tales by a sweet and motley group of kids, the film navigates the stages of what Campbell dubbed The Hero’s Journey: the challenges, the fears, the dragons, the battles, and the return home as a changed person. Rooted in deeply personal accounts and timeless stories, Finding Joe shows how Campbell’s work is relevant and essential in today’s world and how it provides a narrative for how to live a fully realized life - or as Campbell would simply state, how to “follow your bliss”.

Featuring: Deepak Chopra, Mick Fleetwood, Rashida Jones, Tony Hawk, Catherine Hardwicke, Laird Hamilton, Robert Walter, Akiva Goldsman, Sir Ken Robinson, Robin Sharma, Lynne Kaufman, Alan Cohen, Brian Johnson, Joseph Marshall III, Rebecca Armstrong, Chungliang Al Huang, David L. Miller, Gay Hendricks, David Loy and Norman Ollestad.

Was pondering a discussion I had with a client about being guided from the heart, believing in ourselves, and recognizing our gifts. These excerpts from How to Find the Work You Love by Laurence Boldt sum it up:

Love gives us the courage to believe in humanity and in ourselves. The word courage means, literally, “with heart.” It takes great heart—great courage—to believe in humanity in the face of what sometimes seem like overwhelming problems.

It takes courage to affirm that the possible world that many of us have experienced in glimpses, moments of imagination or spiritual insight, is more than an idle fantasy. It takes the courage to say, like Martin Luther King, Jr., “I have a dream”—to affirm against all evidence to the contrary that one day, we shall overcome our fear, doubt, hatred, violence and pettiness.It takes courage to commit yourself to building bridges between the world that could be and the world that is—the courage to say that you believe the world will one day be a better place and that today you are ready to do your part to make it so.