January is a time for new beginnings ; we look to shape the year ahead and perhaps modify or change old habits. It is a time to reset. Resetting is an important mental action that perhaps is one we could consciously engage in more often. We can bumble semi consciously through our lives, living in the status quo and thinking and reacting in familiar patterns of thought and action.
I am as guilty as the next person for this but if we want to actually make the most of this year then perhaps we need to challenge ourselves just a little. We might have a list of things we would like to do, achieve or create in many areas of our lives. We are multi faceted beings and our range of conscious creation can come in all shapes and sizes and places.
Sometimes, though, it is difficult to see how we can bring into being the the things we aspire to, whether it is a more peaceful eco friendly world or a personal achievement like creating and making a music album. Goals are all very well and strategy is sort of useful too but then there is the secret realm of energy and potentiality from which all things spring.
So, today, I want to examine the notion of Increase as a live and throbbing life force. Spring is full of increase; you can feel it zinging through the earth and in the bursting of a vibrant leafy bud. A pregnant woman’s tummy is full of Increase. So much so, that when I was pregnant I was surprised at how many random strangers just wanted to to give my burgeoning belly a quick pat! A kind of natural honouring of life force. If we look, abundance and growth is everywhere, from the hairs on our head to the skin cells in our bodies to the leaves, flowers, animals, the droplets of water. Our world is a bursting myriad of beautiful increase.
But, somehow, humans have quantified life, stripped back abundance, created profit and loss margins . We have created lack and smallness. We create competition, winners and losers, rich and poor, the have’s and the have nots. And, by doing so we have shaped our created world in a small, mean and avaricious way, counting out all the means of life like a hoarder in his counting house.
I don’t think this is very wise of us and because it is just the way the world is, we continue it without thought, reacting in societal patterns that ignore nature’s fundamental principle of Increase.
I have no idea how my personal wishes and goals can be shaped into being in a world such as this. But, what I can do is use each day in a particular way where I am conscious of the energy of abundance and increase. Of course there will be days of forgetfulness or when my best is just putting one foot in front of each other. But, in general I can lean into increasing my positive qualities, increasing my actions of thoughtfulness and kindness, increasing my awe and wonder of the natural world. I can stretch in small ways into being a limitless being, being brave, being more loving, being more creative. I can do this simply by listening to the beautiful quality of stillness that throbs with all possibility, by smiling and following whatever whispers of potentiality manifest on my personal horizon. I can follow it through love- as this is an expansive golden nurturing mind that is generous and selfless.
Somehow I will follow my flow of Increase, mostly in small humble ways but remain aspirational for my bigger picture.
I will follow the path of Chi, for that is where Increase lies…..happy 2025 folks.
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