Angeles Arrien

Thanksgiving

As the light emerges and comes into winter (the winter solstice), we open to the holiday season of celebrating diverse “holy days” from different spiritual traditions in order to prepare for the blessings and learnings of the new year. Families gather, as we pause from work schedules, to experience and re-connect to the season of love and generosity. It is also a time for reflection-reviewing our year and preparing and setting goals for imagining new possibilities for the new year. Hope and anticipation of starting anew in the new year, offers us ways to regenerate and open to the blessings that await us.
                                              
 
Monthly Practice:

• Each year from Thanksgiving through the holidays to the New Year, we are given unlimited opportunities to connect with friends, colleagues, and families in new ways and open to possibilities of increased closeness, forgiveness, and happiness. Notice the progress you have made from last year to this year. What has changed within you this year? How have you strengthened, softened, opened and deepened this year?

• What is deeply meaningful for you during this holiday season? And what provides a sense of comfort, solace, and peace for you that touches you spiritually?

• What specific hopes, dreams, and possibilities do you see for yourself and loved ones in the new year?

Happy Holidays and New Year filled with abundant blessings!

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