The Holiday Season is upon us ...and we are coming to the close of 2008. 2008 was a ‘1’ (2+8=10=1+0=1) year of ‘New Beginnings’ as I wrote at the start of last year on this blog (January 2nd/2008). It was a year of letting go, of completions, new starts, shedding of old patterns and habits, looking at fear and letting it go, a year of expansion, clarity, integrity, truth and freedom. I am touched by all the changes in my life, all the growth, all the new awareness I have gained. I am moved by where I am in my own heart now – freed from old emotional shackles, self-doubt and judgment — a place I could not have conceived of and a journey I did not know I would take at the start of 2008. I am mostly humbled by my greater ability to navigate the tides of ‘not knowing what is next’.
I have learned from the magnificent Howard Wills* to speak a simple daily prayer: ‘God, Lead me, guide me, direct me.’ And, from my friend and healer Jin Quan*, to live ‘ in the wonder of uncertainty.’ And from the brilliant healer and protégé of Howard Wills, Laurie Goldstein*, to free myself of old energetic patterns and be far far far more compassionate to myself and others.
I am moved by all the ways I am reaching out to others more and sharing my experience with strangers. I do not have to walk this ground, alone. I know I know nothing and that I am here to learn everything. As I wrote a few months ago on my blog, I am on a need-to-know basis with the universe. When I need to know something, the universe lets me know. It is in the unknown — the sea of Infinite Possibility – that the magic of our destiny lies.
I am touched by the changes on the political scene, joyous about the arrival of the eloquent humanity of President-Elect Barack Obama and of all the changes on the economic scene that are causing us all to come together into pools of love, unity, sharing, support – and creativity - like never before. We are being called to be who we have come here to be — fully creatively expressed, now, without delay. I hear the voice of an ancient wise one ringing in my ears, ‘it is time, Child, it is time.’
And so, I have actually begun to call the so-called ‘Recession’ -- the ‘Expression’ -- a powerful opportunity to express who we really are and to choose big Creative dreams that pull us forward, grow us beyond our comfort zones (yeah baby!) and allow us to acknowledge our fears – breathe -and move through them anyway. Fears are just desires disguised, remember that. In the hero’s journey, every great life or story, has a great adversary or opponent. Our greatest adversary is often our greatest ally — because of how it causes us to grow and evolve.
We are here at the threshold of 2009 —- the year that some are calling, The Year of the Heart - and it is truly a new day. May it be a year of celebration as we all learn to step out into our full creative power and manifest our highest intentions. I am excited for us all. I recently returned from a trip to London, England – my birthplace – and I have to say it was an awakening. London — in the midst of one of the greatest economic downturns – is a city of great expansive energy, joy and opportunity. Yes, there are many people who speak fearfully — but I saw and felt only opportunity.
You can read of my adventures in London on this blog . I led The Prosperity Circle in London to great success — a great joy and a dream come true. It has been my dream for many years to be in London and bring my work there. I will be back there in the New Year — with bells on! I have many creative plans for 2009 — and much to share.
Upcoming Events: I will be speaking to First Tuesday (LA) women’s group on the evening of January 6th on the Power of Breathwork and on Cultivating a Prosperity Consciousness; I will be leading The Prosperity Circle at Agape in Culver City on Sat evening January 10th, 2009 for the LGBT group and The Prosperity Circle at a private home on the Westside (LA) on January 13th (7:30pm). I will also be leading a day long workshop in early January on Completing the Past and Launching Your Creative Life in 2009 and I will also be re-launching ‘Create Your New Love Story workshop’ — please stay tuned. I will be in Toronto, Canada from Dec 21st through 31st and will be available for personal coaching and rebirthing sessions and The Prosperity Circle.
I have launched – in partnership with The Garden – a new gathering called ‘Inspirational Lives, Inspirational Stories’ , designed to feature and celebrate anyone with an inspirational story to tell of triumph over adversity and contribution on a local or global level. If you are an author or speaker with an amazing story to share – please contact me. Our launching event was on Sunday Dec 14th and featured the motivational speaker and producer-storyteller, Fauna Hodel (www.onedayshelldarken.com) and her fascinating story. Our next event will be in February. Stay tuned. If interested in attending any of these events, please email me christiane@christianeschull.com or call 310-592-0943.
As I meditated this morning, my eyes fell on the beautiful words of one of my favorite writers, Daphne Rose Kingma. I believe her words are a perfect reminder of the truth — that the best comes to us in life when we stay open and’ AVAILABLE to the MYSTERY’. I share her words with you in the hope that you receive all the gifts you dream of, and all the unexpected gifts of good fortune the universe longs to give you as you open your heart....and make yourself available to the mystery......! Yes! Yes! Yes! Love! Love! Love!
Infinite Love love love, Light, appreciation and gratitude to all!
May you be blessed with Peace, Love, Joy and Abundance this holiday season!
May you Give and Receive with great Joy and Fearlessness!
Christiane Schull www.christianeschull.com; www.theprosperitycircle.blogspot.com – cell :310-592-0943.
***My recommendations for healers: Howard Wills (www.howardwills.com); Jin Quan in the Marina: 714-883-5433; and Laurie Goldstein: 310-729-5542. Avail yourself of their wonderful work!
‘BE AVAILABLE TO THE MYSTERY’
@ from The Book of Love, by Daphne Rose Kingma
“Love of the heart and soul is mysterious. It takes chances. It believes in miracles. It is breath, movement, magic, music, the evanescent moment, the blissful surprise.
To be available to the mystery means that you are open, expectant, waiting – continually poised on tiptoe, prepared to be illumined – not locked in your own
expectations of how you think it should happen. In life and in love, this means living free, with your mind set loose from its gears, not
endlessly chattering inside, ‘but it has to be this way’ or ‘I thought it was going to be that way.’ Our own ideas, those tidy little constructions of the intellect and psyche, just serve to limit our
reality, shut down the possibilities, create a universe only as rarified as the busy minds that invent it…..
When we set out to prove our presumptions, we scotch our chances of falling toward the miraculous. That’s because being available to
the mystery means being willing to believe that something more or different – something we literally cannot imagine – could be lying in
wait for us. Indeed when you surrender, you may step into an experience so huge and splendid and grand, that, truly, you may feel as if you have stepped right out of this world.
Yet miracles, await us at every corner. To be available to the mystery…therefore, is to be willing to be surprised. To be open to the miraculous is at last to be bountifully blessed. It is to move with
grace, as you sweetly conduct your life from the mountains of the mind to the rivers of the heart.”
Love love love !
Yes yes yes!
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