Wishing you a joyful and mindful Christmas.

How is it that we're already at Christmas? How can it be that the beautiful year of 2024, which just lay before us, is now behind us?

Did you see what you wanted to see? Did you do what you wanted to do? Did you hear your glorious melody? Did you feel bliss, your heart beating to the drum of life?

Soon, this remarkable year of 2024 will be gone, and we will welcome the new adventures of 2025. What dreams, intentions, and desires do you have for the coming year? Is it time to make some changes? Is it time to feel more love, more ease, to welcome simplicity? What are you excited to engage in?

This year brought significant changes for me, and I am so grateful that I set clear intentions, as it has brought so much joy and delight. But it also helped in a surprising way…

I want to share this new tactic with you for dealing with those pesky, nagging thoughts so that you stay on track for what is most important. My overall guiding intention is living with love and ease. At times, comments and thoughts sneak in that disturb and disrupt this state. I now recognize this as ‘habitual mind pollution’—thoughts based on something I do not want to nurture or give attention to. In this way, they fall away like little insects trying to get some attention, clearly not part of the main show.

We must always be careful not to give commentary thoughts too much gravitas. They are, as we know, always ‘afterthoughts’ and remnants of the past.

Once we are clear on our big sponsoring intention, the ‘habitual mind pollution’ becomes so very clear.

Perhaps over the break, you will become clear on your big sponsoring intention. How does the system called the ‘self’ want to be in the world?

This, of course, also helps when it comes to navigating the festive season with loved ones.

Thank you for this year, thank you for your kind messages and engagement, and the very best wishes for 2025.

Warm regards, Charlotte and Marissa

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