2012, A Year of Decision — Will We Go Forward or Back?

Happy New Year!

I want to thank you, and all of my read­ers, for your tremen­dous sup­port through­out the past year!

Your responses to my blog posts, and other writ­ings inspire me to keep writ­ing about the prin­ci­ples and tools of aware­ness that have helped me and those around me to bring greater har­mony and more peace into our lives by free­ing us from the vic­tim con­scious­ness that oth­er­wise threat­ens to take us over.

Many of you have shared with me the tremen­dous progress you have expe­ri­enced in the past year in all of your relationships, with your­selves, as well as with those around you. I trea­sure hear­ing that you are suc­cess­fully apply­ing these prac­ti­cal insights to your life, that you are mov­ing away from blam­ing oth­ers for your unhap­pi­ness and find­ing instead a deeper appre­ci­a­tion for, and an inner accep­tance of, Reality.

Let this new year be the year of Deci­sion, a time when you choose to make a real com­mit­ment to a lifestyle that will fur­ther your life and consciousness.

The year 2012 has been slated for decades as a time when big change will take place in our world. As a date, it car­ries vary­ing degrees of sig­nif­i­cance to var­i­ous peo­ple and groups of peo­ple — and per­haps right­fully so.

Per­son­ally, I think of 2012 as being a time of deci­sion on many lev­els. When I think of the year 2012 I see an image in my mind of our planet, our peo­ple, and our­selves stand­ing in the mid­dle of a path, which is often the hard­est part of any jour­ney, being asked to decide whether we will choose to stride for­ward towards our goals, our hearts desires, or whether we will turn back, retract­ing into our old, famil­iar and unhappy patterns.

After all, when we add the num­bers in the year of 2012 together (2 + 0 + 1 +2 = ), we get the num­ber 5 — the very phys­i­cal out­line of which sug­gests the notion of fac­ing two direc­tions at once! The upper angu­lar half of the 5 faces for­ward and the lower curve of the 5 seems to look back.

Which direc­tion will we choose as our own?

When we con­sider that the 5 is the mid­dle num­ber in the row of num­bers 1 — 9, we can see that the 5 stands in the place of deci­sion. Its very posi­tion and shape seem to ask, “Will I move for­ward into the free­dom of the future, or will I retrace my steps and return to the past?

I find 5 to be an appro­pri­ate sym­bol for where our world, and our species, seems to be at the start of this new year, 2012. Will we stride con­fi­dently, or not so con­fi­dently, forward, or will we retreat into our old ways, back into our habit­ual pat­terns of victim consciousness?

The choice is always ours to make.

Will we slide back into our vic­tim pat­terns and the neg­a­tive think­ing that prompts us to believe that we “can’t” make progress? Or are we deter­mined to use the tools we have learned through our grow­ing under­stand­ing of observer con­scious­ness to trans­form our lim­it­ing, unhappy expe­ri­ences from the past into a life filled with peace and harmony?

Again, it is our choice.

Will we go for­ward or will we go back?

There is no need to judge either way. Either way is valid. Whether we move for­ward or back, we will progress, for it is often true that we must slide back into old pat­terns, know­ing that is what we are doing, to get really moti­vated to pick up the tools of ques­tion­ing our unhappy beliefs and to use the prin­ci­ples instead that bring us back to Real­ity and peace, so that we can move for­ward again.

It is doable. We CAN com­mit to for­ward. Progress for­ward is a sim­ple choice, although not nec­es­sar­ily an easy one, for we often tena­ciously hang on to our vic­tim ways of per­ceiv­ing the world and, of course, we suf­fer the con­se­quences of that choice every time.

Stand­ing in the light of this new year with its cli­mate of choice and change, which will you choose?

Bless­ings,

Lynne

By the way, I dis­cuss this deci­sion mak­ing process in detail on the next Group Online tele­con­fer­ence sem­i­nar that is com­ing up this week. If you want to learn more about Group Online click here: http://www.lynneforrest.com/special-new-year-resolution-group-online-session/