GIVE THE GIFT OF INSPIRATION, THE GIFT THAT CHANGES YOUR LIFE.  YOU CAN ONLY GIVE THAT WHICH YOU LIVE.

When in a state of gratitude it is impossible to feel fear.  In a state of love it is impossible to feel hatred and anger.

Do the obligations and stresses of the holiday take you off guard? Do they throw you off?  Do they keep you from finding a reason to be thankful?

In our world ruled by status, money, obligation and demands, it's easy to take things for granted and fail to feel the real sense of the season.  It's easy to lose a genuine sense of gratitude for what we have. If we stand aside from all that is expected of us and our ego, away from the obligation to follow a seasonal protocol, we can begin to shift into a place where real meaning prevails.  A space where time distorts, where we feel a great sense of gratitude, it's here we can realize what matters. Real gratitude is especially fitting during our holiday season as we feel for those who have shared our journey with us.

How many times have you followed the expectation to make your holiday rounds from friend to family, to distant cousin to in-laws?  To follow a holiday schedule of presents and cordial sentiments, and the gift of the season is lost in a whirlwind of stress and disillusion.

Have you ever seen a child with the stresses of obligation during Christmas?  Have you witnessed a smiling child filled with excitement fearing being politically incorrect by even publically acknowledging the word Christmas?

If anyone has found stress during moments of pleasure, during expressions of love and giving, then we have read the story of another and made it our own reality.  The freedom we have as a child is the freedom to express, the freedom to feel, and we have it all born within us.  It is the obligations and responsibility, the expectations of others that we follow and place upon ourselves that destroys the childlike enjoyment and beauty. 

Have you ever decided to wake up on this holiday at what ever time feels best?  Have you ever given yourself the smallest gift of freedom to follow what feels best, the most free, the simple pleasure of what ever works in the moment?

Give a gift to yourself and begin to believe in a more compelling future.  Begin to create a sense of gratitude and heart.  It takes little to find meaning and richness, and happiness in even the most difficult times.  It's easy to allow ourselves to be fearful at this time, the negative press is everywhere whether it's real or implied.

Fear is energy without motion; it's a programming to remain stagnant.  Develop your own emotional muscles by allowing yourself the freedom to express what really works for you, to go against the grain of expectation.  Place yourself in a position where you can live for something beyond yourself, or beyond your immediate position in society.  Bring contrast to your present circumstances and experience, read the stories of so many that have been to hell and back and stood high from the inside out.

Allow the freedom to be you, to be a child again, freedom to feel and to experience… not with responsibility, but with the wisdom of an adult.  Bring forward one of the most powerful energies that exists, and that is gratitude for all you have, all that you are, all that you are capable of, and not all that you wish to possess.

If you have everything and you are without gratitude, you live a life of poverty.  There are many that are considered poor by society standard that live a very wealthy life.  When we are in an attitude of gratitude, we are incapable of feeling fear.  Think about what you are truly grateful for, all the things that make life actually meaningful.  Focus not on the feast, not the computer games, not the technology, not the obligation that is expected of you or of your ego… rather focus on what really means something to you.

We invent concepts of so much that we think we need to have.  There are many wealthy and successful that are unfulfilled and even complain… we forget what our real needs are.  What we really need is love, the freedom to make our own decisions and choices that reveal the greatest expression of us.

Bring back the freedom to feel what means the most to you, and the freedom to enjoy that which makes you smile, and that which makes you shine from the inside out.  And the gifts you will bring to another is the gift of yourself, and your heart.

Peace, and happy holidays to you and yours.
Peter Wolf CHt.

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Peter Wolf Cht
Counsellor and Trainer / Clinical Hypnotherapist
www.feelingdifferent.com
info@feelingdifferent.com     905-960-2112
"If you're not living with your heart, you're living someone else's dream"