New Year, New Universe

To those of you who follow a Solar Calendar (Julian, Gregorian, Bahai), may the power of your ever-changing Universe help guide your passage into the new year. New years bring new friends and relationships, new ideas, new opportunities. In the grand scheme of things, the first day of the New Year is a day like any other. But many of us choose that day to light a candle or raise a glass, to dream a little of what could be, perhaps to map a new course to a long-sought goal.

It is a moment of renewed resolve, when we look into the future and see ourselves as we want to be. We feel lighter. We declare that some of the weights we have carried belong to last year and we will not carry them into this new year. On this day we vow, we plan, we grow, we change. And this is as it should be. We all need that day, that time-stamp, when we say to ourselves “This will change.” It gives us an annual spark to make adjustments to our lives.

An adjustment, no matter how small, changes us. It might affect our priorities, if only for a little while. It might mean an addition to our routine…or a subtraction. It could just be a few steps out of our way, or it might be an entirely new path…one of those “untaken” paths that we can later say we took. Whatever the adjustment to our personal lives, the Universe adjusts with us. It acknowledges our new position. It understands our new attitude. A new year can create a new you, and a new you creates a new Universe.

When we make a vow or think of a plan we visualize a result. The power of the Universe can add a great deal of support to our visualization, because our Universe is a matrix of countless ingredients. It holds our experiences, relationships, environments, things, concepts, memories, thoughts, dreams, feelings and everything else that makes us who we are. At all times we have at our disposal the vast resources of our Universe. So when you make that wish, that New Year’s resolution, use the Universe. Write it down. Close your eyes. Visualize. Make it a part of you. The Universe is yours, it has enormous power and it will help if you let it.

Enjoy the journey.