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Magic exists. Who can doubt it, when there are rainbows and wildflowers, the music of the wind and the silence of the stars? Anyone who has loved has been touched by magic. It is such a simple and such an extraordinary part of the lives we live. – Nora Roberts

Let’s end the year on a magical note.

Imagine someone in your life who could use a dose of loving kindness or healing energy. They might be ill, depressed or going through a challenging time.

Picture them in your mind as you meditate and simply imagine offering them some love. Imagine that love is a color. Visualize offering someone in need a ball of this colorful luminous love energy.

Maybe you see love as soft pink, or sea foam green or majestic blue. Or maybe you see love as ribbons of various colored energies all interwoven in spectacular geometric shapes. Gold is the highest frequency of energy so place some gold within this ball.

And then take that ball and visualize sending it to them, just as you would blow someone a kiss.

Make sure your love energy is not tinged with pity or sorrow as you say, “I wish you love”.

Whether they accept your gift is up to them. They may or may not. Detach from the expectation or need of validation and just present from your heart.

Then do the same for yourself! There’s enough love to go around so fill yourself in from head to toe with this colorful, fanciful energy of love.

Do you believe in magic? I do!

Make this a New Year’s Eve tradition. Much better than doing resolutions, don’t you think?

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

I used to feel disconnected from the magic and miracles of life until I made a commitment to the practice of being in an (almost) constant state of gratitude.

What I’ve learned in my daily practice is this: When you shift your focus to seeing the magic and miracles in the little things, you open the door for your whole life to transform.

Long ago, I kept a gratitude journal. Every morning I would list five things I was grateful for. But after a while I stopped journaling lists. Because everything I listed was a thing, not a feeling. It began to feel like a young girl’s night time prayer: “I am thankful for Mama, and Papa and of course the new baby brother that I don’t even like.”

My gratitude journal became a chore. And of course that’s not what gratefulness is all about. Gratitude is a feeling – a deep gut level acknowledgment of beauty, magic, miracles, grace, and love.

So I stopped keeping a list – and just started living from this feeling state as much as I could each day, every day.

Most days it is pretty easy to come from the state of wonder and magic, seeing the beauty in the most simplest things – ocean waves pounding the rock wall, a friend’s smile when you walk into the room, or a baby’s joyous laugh and gurgle .

And, I find that I can be in gratitude for even the hiccups of life. Even on the most tumultuous days such as today -when a close friend loses a son – and all the old sorrows of my son’s death come tumbling to the surface.

If I stop and allow the deep emotions of my loss and hers to intertwine in a dance of grief, longing, sorrow, and compassion, I find the magic and miracles – there – right below the surface. The magic of having someone else who understands the deep searing pain of losing a child. The miracle of knowing that my son and hers are alive as soul-brothers in another realm. The gratitude that I can walk by her side as she navigates this year of becoming something else – something more – something deeper and wiser and oh so exquisitely beautiful.

Every day there’s a chance to step into, and live from, this state of gratitude. Even on the darkest of days, such as today.

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