Subject: New Year's Blessing and Practice
From: "Inspiration Consciousness School" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 23:32:39 -0500 (EST)

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Begin 2017
with
Presence, Wisdom and Love.
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for all the love, wisdom and presence  you bring to life each day...
for all the caring you bring to each moment, each person, each creature, each possibility...
for cultivating kindness and compassion...
for being willing to learn, grow and develop yourself...
for envisioning a world in which all can be safe, loved and encouraged to flower
 their gifts into the world...

Here is a New Year's Day practice to EMPOWER our capacity to impact our lives, others
lives and the world to create a collective life of love, empowerment and wisdom.
Begin 2017
In each section take at least three slow deep breaths, and extend to as many breaths
as you like for that portion of the practice that day.  Some days some steps may
 speak more strongly to you than others.  Some days you may need to really keep 
contemplating a particular section.  The practice can be done in as little as 7 
minutes, and can expanded and relished to take as long as an hour or more.  Remember
to do it especially when you don't feel like it.  Remember that we can do it when
we feel afraid or contracted. Remember that we can always begin again each day, 
each moment, each breath.
As I breathe in I become aware of my body and direct my attention to a physical 
sensation.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and greet my body with tenderness,
appreciation, and respect.  I allow myself to receive and embody the experience 
of vitality, aliveness, and power in my body.
As I breathe in I become aware of my feelings and direct my attention to the emotion
that is strongest in this moment.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and greet
my feelings with tenderness, compassion, and support. I allow myself to feel the
  richness, preciousness and worthiness of life.
As I breathe in I become aware of where my attention is.  I take three or more slow
deep breaths and greet my thoughts, my awareness, my attention, with non-judgment
and wakefulness.   I allow myself to feel the joy of seeing, understanding, discovery
and vision of possibilities.
As I breathe in I become aware of a way that someone has been kind to me today or
yesterday.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and allow the feeling of kindness
to spread throughout my body.
As I breathe in I become aware of any ways that I am feeling pain or discomfort 
about something someone did in relation to me today or yesterday.  As I begin to
 breathe more deeply I soften into recognizing and remembering that most people 
cause pain because they are in pain.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and
 hold my pain and all peoples' pain with tenderness, compassion...and send love 
to myself and ALL.
As I breathe in I become aware of my desire to love and be loved.  I take three 
or more slow deep breaths and allow that awareness to spread through my body.
As I breathe in I become aware of how everyone and everything desires to be treated
with kindness, and experience value and meaning -- to love and be loved.  I take
 three or more slow deep breaths and allow that awareness to spread through my body.
As I breathe in I become aware of the potential, skills and gifts that dwell within
me.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and keep relaxing into this awareness.
 I use my breath to make aware contact with these gifts.  I allow the awareness 
of the gifts to spread through my whole body.
As I breathe in I become aware of the potential, skills and gifts that dwell within
the people in my immediate vicinity.  I take three of more slow deep breaths and
 allow myself to consider what these gifts could do for our collective life.  I 
take more deep breaths and relax into becoming aware of how I could support these
people in giving their gifts to life.
As I breathe in I allow myself to remember the joy I feel when I have accomplished
something meaningful or important...the joy I feel when I contribute something valuable
to others, to life...the joy I feel when I create something that supports myself,
others, life.  I take three or more slow deep breaths and allow the feeling of joy
to spread through my body and awareness.
As I breathe in I allow myself to contemplate the joy others feel when they have
 accomplished something meaningful or important...the joy they feel when they contribute
something valuable to others, to life...the joy they feel when they create something
that supports themselves, others, life.  I take three or more slow deep breaths 
and allow the feeling of joy to spread through my body and awareness.
As I breathe in I allow myself to remember the experience of joy I have felt playing
or working with others when it mattered or made a difference.  I take three or more
slow deep breaths and contemplate my life, and a world, in which I encourage this.
I take three or more slow deep breaths and allow creativity, joy, wisdom, power 
and love to arise and be received by every cell of my body, every feeling of my 
heart, every thought of my mind, every atom of my spirit...
and I dedicate every action of my life to this....
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