Don’t Start The New Year Without These Gifts!

No matter what your holiday experience has been like, can you be at peace with your human experience and ALL it gifts you with? In my yoga class this morning, the teacher asked us how many of us had moments of absolute joy this year. Everyone raised his or her hand. Then she asked us how many of us had moments of struggle and incredible pain. Again, all hands were up. That is the human experience – it’s joy AND pain.

Now that you have wrapped and unwrapped the physical gifts you have given and received, it is time to bring your gift giving to another level. From a place of gratitude, I’d like to offer you two gifts to give that are an absolute must to give at the start of the new year.

The first is a gift to give yourself that is the gift of an inner experience that cultivating this year would be a total game changer for you. What could you gift yourself with that would create different results in your life? What could you gift yourself with that would free you from your old story and the struggle and suffering that goes with it? Perhaps it is the gift of self-acceptance. Or the gift of embracing and expressing your creativity. Or the gift of positive thinking. Or the gift of being in the present moment instead of obsessing about the past or worrying about the future.

There are infinite gifts of an inner experience that you could give yourself – think of the one that would be most transformational. I noticed this year I indulged in comparing myself to others in various aspects of my life and it did not feel good! So I am giving myself the gift of freedom from comparison and truly owning and enjoying my unique gifts.

The second gift to give is an inner shift that would alter your relationship dynamic with the most challenging person in your life. Think of who really pushes your buttons and ask what inner experience you could cultivate that would transform the way YOU show up. Maybe it is forgiveness, which will free you from the resentment you carry into your interactions. Maybe it is a sense of humor that will lighten up how seriously you take the other person. This isn’t a gift to tell the other person about – it’s something you do inside yourself. I am giving a challenging person in my life the gift of unconditional love. Instead of expecting and wanting this person to be different and avoiding them because they are not, I am gifting them with truly accepting them for who they are. And I can tell you this has already created a shift in my interaction with them.

As this new year begins, being LOVE each and every day is the most important gift you give yourself and others.

Many blessings,

Christine

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p.s. Come see me in New York!! I’ll be hosting a special workshop on January 4^th and speaking at an awesome FREE event called the Intuitive Warrior on January 5^th (scroll down the page and click on New York event).

Christine Hassler is an author, speaker, life coach and spiritual counselor dedicated to helping people answer the questions who am I, what do I want and how do I get it? You can check out her website here: http://www.christinehassler.com/

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Katie

This was great. Thank you. My best friend and I….we are having a rough time. I’m emotionally dependent on him, and I know it’s draining him (and me). I am constantly not happy with how he “treats me” or “avoids” me, and it’s stupid Facebook, etc. I get jealous easily (I’m working on that, too). I’ve always had VERY monogamous friendships (really 2 best friends in my life time — I’m 38). I treat them like significant others (and I don’t have an SO of my own). So I expect a lot from them and I know that’s just added pressure. And that pressure leads to impatience and defensiveness. I think if I shifted everything — really just love him unconditionally — I can shift things. I just have to be cognizant of my actions. This post has been very enlightening and I plan to practice it everyday.
http://twitter.com/Mademoiselle_O Lindsey O’Neill

Gorgeous message, Christine. What a gift to ourselves it truly is to allow for the powerful possibility of transformation. It can be scary to step away from the usual filters through which we typically see the world, but hugely liberating as well. When we allow ourselves to step into that unfamiliar space, and challenge our inner belief system, we truly can revolutionize our relationships to both ourselves and others as we continue to cultivate acceptance, compassion, and loving kindness for the reality of what exists within the present moment. This is a process, for sure, and it takes patience both with ourselves and those around us. In my yoga teacher training, we talked about this concept of present moment living, and our innate ability to recreate the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves in order to live with freedom, love, and total acceptance. Not to mention, create possibility for ourselves and our lives that we never imagined possible. I found that message echo within the depths of my soul with profound resonance. Thank you for reinforcing the seed of that inspiration.