"Keep Your New Year New"
By V. Stanford Hampson
Let's admit it! Whether or not the happy new year we are welcoming will deliver to us its load of blessings is mostly up to us. Life is what we make it, and our own thinking governs our daily experience. If 2014 gradually turns into the same kind of year as last year, we can be sure it's no fault of the year but of the same old thinking. As someone has said, “The year will be new but what about you?”
Charles Fillmore cofounder of Unity, wrote a long time ago,”Thoughts are things”, and we know they occupy space in the mind. For a new year we must be new ourselves. To be new requires new ideas, new thoughts, to fill our mind space and new actions to fill a life space.
Resolve to wash your mind of all the old, familiar ways of thinking and be new. Affirm for yourself, “I am open and receptive to the inspiration of new ideas.” Say it over and over. Soon new original ideas will fill your thinking, and you will probably look 10 years younger besides! Read at least five new books this year, books on subjects you never before considered. Try new foods, especially dishes you have formerly shunned. Expand your consciousness to new interests by asking more questions, subscribing to magazines, taking lessons in bridge, cello, surfing, orchid growing or hiking skills. Cultivate friendships you formerly have ignored or overlooked. Once you set your mind to receive "the inspiration of new ideas" the entire unified universe is your supply.
Take it from here have a wonderful new year. And keep it new all the way through by constantly being new yourself. Think new, original thoughts. Do new and different things. Climb every mountain, ford every stream. Wonderful, wonderful, fortunate you, this is the year your dreams come true.
Your assignment this week: Remain centered in Spirit, and discover wonderful new ways to make your new year New!
Love
John |
