The Year of Hope is ON.

I sent out the email with the link to the classroom yesterday - you can find it here.

Since I'm doing my Year of Hope as a daily practice, in my giant daily planner, and the planner started on Monday, Dec 30 - I started early. I don't have photos yet but I did share a quick video of my first day on Instagram.

It's been soooo good. The first day was awkward and vulnerable in the ways first steps can be. But it also felt a little.... glowing is the only word.

Which is very appropriate since the hope alchemy meditation is about practicing glowing hope in your body and mind.

The second day was soooo good. It felt EXACTLY like I had hoped it would feel, to show up and practice hope. To have this solid container to support me to keep doing this.

I know that giving myself this time every morning to be with hope (or to be with my hopelessness when that's what's there) is going to be deeply alchemical. I can feel that already.

Hope is so foundational to our ability to dream, heal and grow.

If we have hope, we can easily take it for granted and only notice it later on, in times when hope isn't as strong.

But having that foundation of hope beneath your feet changes how you see the world, your self, and your possibilities.

So PRACTICING hope shifts the ground beneath you and opens up new possibilities in front of you....

AND, to do this, practicing hope may move us to explore new territory. It might get scary or painful or....

We might have to summon more courage than we are used to. We might have to find new ways of handling our doubts and hopelessness. There may be a TON of inner work involved here.

The Year of Hope is Dream Work (in the Dream Work, Inner Work, Outer Work system we use in Creative Dream Alchemy).

So it's good to remember: going deeper with the Dream Work can push us into deeper places with the Inner Work and can create new options in the Outer Work.

 

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