Envision a Bright & Beautiful 2023!

Another holiday season has passed, and a new year is approaching.

Over the last several years, I’ve made New Year’s resolutions, set personal intentions, and tossed rocks to release that which no longer serves. But this year, I feel the nudge to do something different. Something bigger and more meaningful; something that will benefit not only me, but all of humanity.

In prior blogs, I’ve written about vibration, about like attracting like and how we are creators of our own individual world and that of the collective.

Visualizing is a powerful process that leverages the laws of attraction. Research has shown that the human mind doesn’t know the difference between a real or imaginary thought, event, or action.

What one imagines affects one’s life—positively or negatively—it’s your choice!

If your mind can’t tell the difference between a real or an imaginary event, why not put your attention on the things you want in your life? And while you’re at it, why not consider the kind of world you wish to live in?

Studies have demonstrated the positive benefits and increased effects of people praying, meditating, and/or visualizing individually within the same timeframe or together as a group. Given this, what if we all envisioned the world we want to live in? Imagine the impact if each of us take time at the end of this year (or in early January) to imagine a new, beautiful world!

What would this world look like? How would we feel? What would be new? How would the world be different? 

My vision for 2023 is....

• Inner peace
• Peace in the world around us
• Endless hope and faith
• Compassion and care toward one another
• Clean air, food, and water in every corner of the world
• Healing, including new technologies to naturally heal cancer and every disease
• Unity and embracing / celebrating our differences
• Abundance and prosperity for every person on Earth
• Reverence, connection, and care for Mother Earth
• Love—unconditional and everlasting—seeping into all that we are and all that we do

I invite you to create your own vision and contribute toward the collective creation of a bright, beautiful, and unified world in 2023!

Happy New Year!

Peace, Love, and Joy,

Chris / Sedona

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Transformational New Year’s Practices

As the year draws to an end, people begin pondering New Year’s resolutions. Unfortunately, most resolutions aren’t successful. According to Business Insider, 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail by the second week of February.

Given the dismal success rate of resolutions, below are three alternative practices designed to transform your life in 2020.

Transformational New Year’s Practices

 

#1 - Define Your Purpose

Forget about losing those last few pounds or taking that long trip. Instead, dig deeper to uncover your true purpose in life. To do this, ask yourself:

·       What are my deepest desires?

·       Why am I here?

·       How can I serve?

You can ask yourself these questions anytime, however, I find an added lift when I do this just before meditation.

Once you understand your true purpose, prioritize your goals in alignment with your purpose. Jack Canfield describes this in his best-selling book, The Success Principles:

“Decide upon your major definitive purpose in life and align all your activities around it.”

Imagine if we did just that! What if we knew our purpose and aligned every goal with that single purpose? This simple, yet profound wisdom offers the key to achieving our deepest desires.

#2 – Let Go!

Now that you know your purpose, what are you doing that sidetracks you and/or takes time away from your purpose? What behaviors, habits, or beliefs do you have that no longer serve you? Examples might include fears, doubts, negativity, judgment, or attachment. This practice is designed to help you let go of anything that no longer serves you in order to focus your mind, body, and spirit on your true purpose.

This simple three-step process will help you start 2020 with a clean slate!

Let Go Process steps:

1.     Identify those emotions, beliefs, or habits you wish to release.

2.     Write them on a rock (one per stone.)

3.     On New Year’s Day, go to a location of your choice, and release your rocks.

Tips:

o   A mountain, field, stream, lake, or the ocean are great locations for releasing your rocks.

o   An alternative is to write your releases on slips of paper and burn them.

#3 – Create A Vision Board

A vision board is a collection of words and images that represent your deepest desires. It taps into the power of visualization and is a great tool to help you manifest your desires. You can create a vision board using these 5 easy steps.

1.     Make a list of your deepest desires.

2.     Select pictures, words, and/or affirmations that represent your desires.

3.     Make a collage of your pictures, words, and affirmations. This can be on a display board, white board, or compiled into a digital image.

4.     Display your vision board in a prominent location. If you created a digital version, use it as the screensaver on your phone, tablet, or laptop.

5.     Look at your board on a regular basis throughout the day. Feel and fully experience the images and words you’ve put on your board, and believe that these desires will manifest in your life!

Use these three practices—Define Your Purpose, Let Go, and Create a Vision Board—to transform 2020 into the life of your dreams!

Wishing you peace, love, joy, and purpose in the New Year!

This blog was written by Sedona Hutton, author of contemporary romance and women’s fiction blended with new age spirituality. 

Nora's Promise, A Racing Hearts in Serenity Romance— Reader's Favorite 2019 Bronze Contemporary Romance winner and 2019 NIEA Bronze winner: She trusts animals more than men. He races through women like checkered flags. Can one orphaned boy bring them both to the finish line? https://amzn.to/2OktquX 

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The Success Principles by Jack Canfield: https://amzn.to/2QlG9vp

The Secret by Rhonda Byrne: https://amzn.to/2GwSGJc

The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire by Deepak Chopra: https://amzn.to/2C9BF5k

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New Year Intentions & Releases

Years ago, I gave up New Year’s resolutions after becoming frustrated with the cycle of making and breaking my goals. Sound familiar? Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions even though research shows that over 90% of resolutions are broken, most within the first month.

Over the years, I’ve found two processes that work better for me—a New Year’s Intention Process and a New Year’s Release Process. Below is a recap of both.

New Year’s Intention Process

In this process, I write down my top three to five intentions for the year. This may sound like a resolution process, but it differs greatly. When I used to make resolutions, they were tied to specific, tangible things like losing weight or exercising more. I use the intention process to focus on more spiritual qualities like peace, love, joy, kindness, and connection. On January 1st, I write my intentions and post them on a wall where the words will be in my line of sight every day. When I look at my intentions, they cause me to ponder how I can spread more kindness or how I can generate greater inner peace. This process helps me set a positive vision for the year and it benefits not only me, but others as well.

New Year’s Release Process

I use this process to rid myself of emotions, beliefs, and habits that no longer serve me. Examples include: Fears, doubts, negativity, and attachment. This simple three-step process helps me start the new year with a clean slate!

Process steps:

1. Identify those emotions, beliefs, or habits you wish to release.

2. Write them on a rock (one per stone.)

3. On New Year’s Day, go to a location of your choice, and release your rocks.


Tips:

o A mountain, field, stream, lake, or the ocean are great locations for releasing your rocks.

o An alternative is to write your releases on slips of paper and burn them.

Regardless of whether you make resolutions, intentions, releases, or use no process at all, I wish each of you great peace, love, and joy in the New Year!


This blog is written by Sedona Hutton, author of women’s fiction/romance novels with spiritual and New Age twists.

NORA’S PROMISE, a contemporary romance: She trusts animals more than men. He runs through women like tires. Can one orphaned boy force them to change gears? Purchase link: https://amzn.to/2OktquX

CLOUD WHISPERS, a contemporary novel: The daughter she gave away. The family she always wanted. The journey to redefine her fate. Purchase link: https://goo.gl/N9aC38