Happy New Year every one. I love new beginnings. Don’t you? I was at a meeting at noon today and our topic was new beginnings and starting with a clean slate. To have learned that the past, whether the memories are good or bad, needs to be left behind is empowering and freeing, at the same time.
I used to drag all the baggage I could with me every where. I was bogged down by it and never managed to glean the message that was trying to get my attention in the moment.
My life is much simpler now and my experience of peace is so much greater since having learned that this minute that stands before me is all there is and it is clean of the past, that is, unless I smudge it up with memories that ought to be discarded.
My husband and I had dinner with friends last night and we talked about the inevitable: new year’s resolutions. As I considered mine, I was surprised and pleased to announce that I intended to do more of what I was currently doing. I am content with my life. I love the writing I do. And the workshops and lectures. I have a list of topics I want to turn into books over the next few years and I will quite likely complete one of them this year. I expect I will meet many people who will affect my life in important ways throughout 2010. And I am intent on bringing my best self into every encounter.
I can only count on doing these things, of course, if I keep myself spiritually fit and fortunately I know how to do that. What good lives we have if we claim them. I am delighted that you are a part of my life. I hope one of your resolutions is that you will occasionally drop a comment to one of my blogs.
Have a wonderful 2010. Begin now!
Matthew C. Kriner
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peggy
Bought your daily meditations book (“by mistake”) and decided to google you.Have just been enjoying reading all your wonderful insights and the positive energy that leaps from the screen. I would like your comments/suggestions on this one:
I started working last year with senior residents of an assisted living facility who are struggling with dementia, mostly alzheimers. I love it, but am always feeling frustrated that I can’t do more to add more joy to their lives. I always believed, and I hear you say, that we should live for the moment; that the past is gone and the moment is all that we have. Would we still feel that way if it were literally true, as it is for my residents? I recall one of them telling me one day “You have no idea what it’s like to lose your mind: to forget who you are or what you were, or what you’re supposed to be doing. It’s horrible”. Sometimes they get so angry and all I can do is agree with them and then try to show them that they still have choices; that they still can have some control over what they do… but that’s another story. Anyway just curious to know if you have any insights on how to talk to them during those difficult periods when they are lucid and they seem to know what is happening to them.
Thanks so much. Peggy
karencasey
peggyThanks for writing Peggy. I wonder if talking to them about “The Power Of Now” might be helpful. Perhaps say that the most spiritual of all people seek to be present to this one moment only and tell them how truly lucky they are that they can experience it with ease. I’ll give this some more thought and try to blog about it one day. Thanks for being one of the readers.
xoxo Karen
Debs
Hi Karen,
Sending you a great big Happy New Year from New Zealand!!
It was really inspiring meeting you last year at the White Plains Women’s Healing Conference. You are in my thoughts often as I play the meditation cd to the women in our women’s group. They love it as do I. Let me know if you do another one as the way I’m going I’ll know it off by heart before long.
Also let me know if you have any plans to make it to the South Pacific and visit New Zealand we would love to have you!!
Does the travelling women’s conference make it this far?
Anyways I’m off to facilitate womens’ group now.
Have a great day.
Love Debs x
karencasey
DebsHi Debs,
How I wish we’d get to New Zealand. I do a new guided meditation each year for the conference. I have thought about having them all put into one album. Perhaps I will explore this now. thanks so much for writing. Happy New Year to you too. And particularly, thanks for visiting the blog.
xoxo
Karen
Helen
Hello, Casey. I am a reader from China. I ‘m a 14-year-old girl. So please excuse my poor English. I don’t know how I got the book and I don’t konw how I get your blog address. Can you see my comment? I think I really need someone to talk to and I don’t know who will be suitable. I like your book very much and can you be my friend?
karencasey
HelenHi Helen,
I am not sure which book you refer too but I am glad to hear from you. I have written many. Happy New Year.
Karen