Transformation Tuesday | 99 days till 2020

Friends,

Today is a very special Transformation Tuesday, because 99 days from now will be the first day of the year 2020.

>> Listen to the AUDIO of today’s Transformation Tuesday.

2020, I find, is such an iconic-sounding year in most of our minds because of what it represents or represented many years ago, really.

It sounded and felt so incredibly futuristic back in the day. 

And it might still sound that way to you now even though it’s only 99 days away.

And so I invite you to treat it how we in the School of Spiritual Strategy treat any future you want to intentionally create: with the knowledge that your future simply reflects your energetic, emotional, vibrational, spiritual now. 

So, and this part might be totally revolutionary for you, let’s approach creating your 2020 future reality this way: by totally ignoring what you don’t like about your now or would prefer to be different in your future. 

Instead, let’s tune into what you love about right now. 

This is not something we always do in Transformation Tuesday, but I’m going to ask you to do it today: it’s a little guided Practice.

Get to your favorite place to sit, and sit well.

Let your mind parts and your body parts all sink in and settle in, close your eyes, let gravity and these first few moments of time here work together to pull the tension and tightness or gripping or clutching out of your muscles and your joints.  

Release all the micro-muscles in your face and your jaw and around your eyes. 

Straighten your spine up as you sit, and lengthen up through the sides of your body. 

And take three delicious, replenishing, cleansing breaths, filling and emptying the entire container of your torso – everything below your neck and above your pelvis – three times before coming back to breathe at your own pace. 

One of my teachers once said that the language of this Universe is “More, please.”

Kind of like I’m teaching my baby granddaughter right now, in baby sign language to use her words and say, “more, please” instead of whining and crying about what she doesn’t like.

“More, please.”

As you sit today, I want you to let your mind wander a little bit more than you might normally be used to doing during meditation.

Scan through your body and your mind and your thoughts and your life, your relationships, your projects, your memories, your everything.

Let your focus be like dye that just sticks to and coats every element of the things that come to mind that you love…only the elements of those subjects that you love. 

Let your focus stick to a particularly beautiful memory of a particularly beautiful moment. 

Or let it stick to this thing you loved about that relationship or job, and then this thing you loved about that other one, and so on.

Catch this principle: that you can focus on different things you loved about different experiences and cobble them together on a spiritual plane to create one new season on that subject that has lots of things you love about it.

Think about it through the lens of relationships: you liked the playfulness of that relationship and the ambition of that one and the high-energy of that one, and the spirituality and grounding of that one. 

When you do this, focusing on just the elements of what you love and want more of in this way, you honor every one of those relationships and turn them all into this beautiful path of stepping stones lighting up, one to the next one, all leading to the next one.

And hey, when it comes to relationships, the next beautiful relationship you’re creating that you know is possible might even include the next season of the relationship you’re already in. 

So let your focus stick on the one wonderful memory or thing you love, maybe about a person who might otherwise be stirring up trouble, someone with whom you may be having a power struggle, but what’s one wonderful thing about them? 

Maybe once in a while bring your mind back to focus on the word MORE on your inhales and PLEASE on your exhales, when you want to bring your mind back to a point of focus. 

But mostly let your mind go free, unresisted, but with every new thought or topic that comes to mind, find something on the subject that you love about it and would like more of in 2020. 

And in that, note and name what it is you love and want more of on every subject that comes to mind, just lightly, touch the thing you love like a feature and then let your mind go. 

Then just let your mind sit on these things for a moment, just an instant, before you let it wander to the next thing or before you bring it back to focus occasionally on the words MORE on the inhales and PLEASE on your exhales.

MORE. 

PLEASE.

As you go, noting and naming what really works for you, what really floats your boat, what you love about the people, places and things and memories and experiences and activities and animals and trees and topics that come to your mind. 

Before we end this little inner retreat, and you can stay here as long as you want, but before you end bring your mind back to say to the Universe, to the Divine, the Infinite Intelligence and Limitless Love, the Creative Power that formed all worlds, to your own Inner Being, to the voice of the Divine that speaks to you, within you and to all the resources in the Circle: “More, please.” 

Keep your head up and your heart out,