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Ooooo, What's in the Box?

By on December 1, 2014
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Written by Colette Baron-Reid

Dearest sparkle being,

Yes I mean you – I know some of you think it’s corny to be called that but I sometimes imagine all of you reading my blog, commenting and communicating with one another reminding me of thousands of brilliant soft twinkly lights from fireflies on a summer night that somehow manage to hang around until the Christmas tree is ready to be lit up and settle there as if by magic.

Sigh.. yup she’s getting in the holiday spirit!

Tis the season to get sparkly!

I live in the USA right now (although I’m Canadian) and I love how they make such a big deal about Thanksgiving here. It’s almost as big as Christmas and marks the beginning of the holiday season that flows through until the New Year.

It’s kind of like a canon of glitter is shot into the sky and the world is meant to get into the spirit of the season and keep it up until the year’s end. It’s an energy that also brings up a lot of expectation. We expect to eat turkey, ham (or tofurkey) and pumpkin pie, green beans with crunchy onions made with mushroom soup, see friends, see family, get along, have too much dessert, drink way too much, be grateful share the joy and celebrate. Some of us also expect to then rush to the stores and hopefully not get trampled for the special Black Friday sales where pretty much everything is slashed in price for this one special day.

Then we keep going to meet the demand of the next part of the season etc. etc. Consumerism at its finest.

There can be a lot of old stuff that gets triggered around now, old stories that play out even if we don’t want them. They are ours nonetheless- stories of belonging and not belonging, loving and rejection, understanding and denial, loss as well as celebration.

For some, it’s the beginning of a holiday of determination and ambition. Hence it can also be one of deep disappointment, bloating, argument and discomfort. It’s all quite the mix.

Of course I’m writing this having eaten one too many gluten free cupcakes myself restraining myself from checking out all the sales online for stuff I don’t need to add to the stuff I need to get rid of.

There are only so many glittery white bunnies and hedgehogs I can put around the house without appearing like a crazy person.

I was thinking of that today as I considered how many things have changed in my life since I made the commitment to surrender my need for certainty during the holidays.

I’ve always been disappointed when I let outer conditions determine how I would experience the season.

The minute I decide to be courageous and choose to be curious it’s amazing how everything changes.

So I’m wondering how you do around this time of year?

How are you affected?

How do your family stories play out for you?

Have you changed and if so how?

What if we all decided to adopt an attitude of curiosity for the entire season? NO expectation, no ambition, just choose to see each day as a gift that will reveal itself moment by moment as exactly as how it needs to be- an invitation for healing, love, and understanding? Each day we’d say “OOOO What’s in the box?” instead of “Did I get what I wanted?”

I think there really is a case for curiosity here. It works when we don’t try to predetermine our experience, and keeps us so strongly resonant in each moment fully engaged with all our senses asking the moment to show itself to us anew.

When we’re curious we have choice. History doesn’t have to repeat itself. So I’m going to invite you to a one week Curiosity commitment, (which sounds so much more manageable than a month, yes?)

Let’s see how we all do this week. Remain curious about everything. Your daily mantras are “ I don’t know”, “ Let’s see”, “ I wonder”, “that’s interesting! And of course “OOOO What’s in the box?” Then if you’d like to tell us about it in the comment section, you can write every day, or just when you have your curiosity AH-HA moment, share it with all of us.

Betcha there’s a miracle waiting in them thar moments 😉

Now that could be very, very interesting indeed!

BIG sparkly love from me,

Always
Colette!

Colette Baron Reid 3/2649Colette Baron-Reid is an intuitive counsellor and founder of the Master Intuitive Coach Institute. Her book, “Weight Loss For People Who Feel Too Much”  is available on Amazon and in book stores everywhere! colettebaronreid.com

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