Be free!

Another year passes and another is born, and with that no doubt many musings about what needs to go and what needs to be created instead and with that a dread and a hope, a despair and an inspiration. Always the yin and the yang, and in between all that a beautiful dance to seek and experience more of the balance.

If nothing else, each year gifts us another opportunity to just be OK with where we’re at, all of it, to let go of our ideals and quest for consistency and perfection and making everything known and instead to sit into the messiness of it, the uncertainty, and find peace within this…in the not knowing and in the presence of simply being…OK with everything as it changes and moves and shifts and ebbs and flows and wanes and waxes and shortens and lengthens, disappoints and elates…in a never ending cycle of change…

So here is to another year of more change, of more uncertainty, of more ups and downs, more moments of gentle bliss and moments of wondering if we might be able to face the world because it’s all gone very dark, and moments when the light returns, and moments when we question everything about the life we’re living and moments when we just feel at peace with absolutely everything and love and feel such intense joy and then the shift to a layer of pain, and more work to be done, more rest needed, and then out into the world and on and on…

It’s a fabulous experience this being human. Even better if we can watch ourselves and our minds as they move us from one narrative, story and drama to the next, when we witness old patterns popping up again and we see how much we create our own suffering, and to laugh at ourselves, gently, to be humble, kind, and live as simply, peacefully and lovingly as we can, respecting ourselves and this beautiful planet. To come home to ourselves. To know ourselves. To be ourselves and not care what anyone else thinks. To be free. And wild. And true.

Let’s make this a bloody amazing year with lots of laughter, lots of tears and lots of being deeply honest with ourselves and doing what we can to help our fellow man and woman and this beautiful planet we are lucky to live on. Be free!

Love Emma x