Title: Release Old Energy
 

Get out a 2004 calendar. Close your eyes and point to a day on that calendar. (When you select a day while closing the eyes the subconscious makes the selection for you and not the conscious analytical mind)

On a piece of paper write down the hours in the day or evening that you would have time to do the exercise without being interrupted.

Close your eyes and point to an hour listed on the paper. Start the exercise on the day and the hour that you selected.

For three consecutive days at the hour you chose sit quietly for 30 minutes and ask yourself what events affected your life during 2002. These events should be of a personal nature, something that made an impact on you.

Once you have discovered an event that affected you in 2002 write it down on a piece of paper. Don’t spend time reviewing it, simply write it down and continue to add things to your list.

Do this for 3 consecutive days for 30 minutes each day.

At the end of the 3rd day review your list and ask yourself what the hidden gift was that the event offered you. If there are no immediately discernible gifts, then continue down the list until you find a gift in at least one of the things on your list.

After reviewing your list take a moment and ask yourself the following questions.

How would my life be different if the event hadn’t happened?
What did I gain from the event or experience?

Now take a moment to give thanks for the gifts that came your way in the past year. Make a commitment to stay focused on those gifts so you can fully appreciate what life has to offer.

We often remember things that happen that are negative in nature. This exercise helps us view things from a different perspective and shows us how to see things in a more positive way. It also gives us the opportunity to make conscious choices as to where we choose to place our awareness. Remember, your reality is directly related to where your attention lies.

Most of us don’t spend enough time giving thanks for our life and the simple pleasures it holds. We often choose to dwell on the dramas we are involved in. How many times have you bumped into someone you haven’t seen in a while and ask them how there life is going? After a moment of pleasantries they start telling you all the problems they have. Seldom do they speak about the wonderful things in their life because their consciousness is consumed with the bad. In fact if you ask them about the good things they really have to stop and think about it.

One way to break this pattern is to start each day by acknowledging at least 2 things in your life that are beautiful to you, a colorful bird flying by, the sound of the wind, a sunrise etc. When we plant a thought we harvest an action, when we plant an action we harvest a habit, when we harvest a habit we plant a character, when we plant a character we harvest a destiny.