Happy New Year, peaceful and loving 2009…Immediately what comes to mind is how is this year going to be peaceful and loving with all the stuff going on that is going on? Easy answer. We get to choose how we view it all. Throughout the late summer and fall, I made a conscious choice that I am seeing my world through the eyes of gratitude and love.

At the end of the summer after completing a yoga teacher certification, I felt as though at last I had found my track, my groove. I took 2 weeks off to visit my family out west, sampling a few yoga studios along the way. I came back ready to “take it on!” and I was back long enough to show my teacher the posture I had at last become strong and balanced enough to do. That was on Friday. On Monday I broke my arm doing too many things while riding my bike.

I’d never broken any bones before. My first and obvious thought was my yoga practice. I’d worked so hard and was it going to go away? After the shock wore off I made a decision that, though it may slow my practice a bit, it would continue and in fact I would use what I’d learned to help my arm to heal. I chose to look at it from a positive viewpoint. And I gotta tell ya, looking at the accident as a blessing rather than a disaster became part of my yoga teaching, my practice. There were times, even to this moment, that it wasn’t so easy. I had look outside myself and see that things could be much worse and find the gratitude for my life as it was rather than how I had hoped it would be. Purposeful action. One step at a time, one day at a time.

And now I find myself looking into a new year. What do I want to accomplish this year? What do I want to do with this valuable time? I’m pretty sure I know though before I write it here, I am going to sit with it and come back to you with what I come up with as an answer.

What about you? What if you only had this year? No guarantees for another? What would you do? Write and tell me what you choose. We’ll use this blog to take the walk thru the year together.

Wishing you a very peaceful, loving and joyfilled year…Breah