It’s 2014 and I started the year with a
most horrendous and inconvenient flu! I spent an entire seventy two hours
confined to soft and comfy places only, with lots of time to contemplate New
Year’s resolutions etc.
And I have discovered the healing power of ginger
shots! Just juice ginger and down it as quick as possible! When you’re sick
enough, you’ll do anything! Complete recovery after three days!
I feel good about this year! Fantastic in
fact, and there are many reasons why. Here are a few, interspersed with glimpses of where I go when I need to close the door between me and world
with kilometers of wide open spaces and the constant sound of a willful ocean
pounding its fits into rock and onto sand.
- The first day of the year fell on New
Moon! The beginning of a new lunar cycle.
‘It’s a strong moon, a bossy moon, one with determination to build a secure and
stable world’, says Sharron Toop in her amazing and at times disconcertingly
accurate blog on the stars and astrology.
-More people are aware of Monsanto now than
ever before. Many countries around the world have banned Monsanto since the
world wide March Against Monsanto in May 2013 and farmers are finally fighting
back in a wave of backlash lawsuits against Monsanto, alleging that Monsanto’s
genetic pollution has financially damaged crops. Consumers are asking, what's in this food? The world is changing.
-Pope Francis made a speech criticizing anti-gay and anti-abortion sentiments which
have come to dominate the Christian fundamentalist view. Saying ‘Such
ideological extremism is dangerous, not only to Christianity, but to the world!’
I generally refrain from passing comment on politics, religion, etc, but this
shows the kind of progressive thinking from one of the most influential people
in the world and even though it may be nothing more than a ‘repackaging
exercise’, I can’t help but Whoop, whoop at that!
- If the amount of visitors
we’ve had in the little town of Plettenberg Bay
this holiday season is anything to go by, the economic situation in South Africa Crystal
- I hear more talk now about
conscious eating, self-sustainability, self governance, pollution management,
upliftment projects, sustainable energy, gardens, strength, anti-nuclear energy
movements than ever before. I feel a wave around me of people ready for
positive change. Its exciting!
On a personal note, I have
many changes on the horizon which happen to coincide with the advent of 2014
and some deliberate New Years changes too! I did some reading on New Years Resolutions and why the fail!
Leo Widrich from, http://blog.bufferapp.com/the-science-of-new-years-resolutions-why-88-fail-and-how-to-make-them-work,
explains that the willpower required to stick to New Years Resolutions is
generated in the prefrontal cortex of the brain which is also responsible for staying focused, processing short-term memory, solving abstract
tasks etc. The amount of sheer willpower required to achieve a bunch of
abstract resolutions is simply too much for the brain to handle, especially, when
the brain is not exercised in the art willpower.
The good news is that if you set
those resolutions like you would goals, in a clear concrete realistic way, you’ll
have a better chance of succeeding!
Here’s to (holds up Ginger shot glass) an
amazing, inner-self supporting and bright light manifesting 2014!
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