The Deeper Function of the Holidays

The Deeper Function of the Holidays - Dec 11, 2018

Published: Tue, 12/11/18

Penney Peirce's

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"Feeling Into" the Holidays

I was just thinking how the holidays elicit the adjectives MERRY and HAPPY. It's so easy to think that means twinkling lights, presents with bows, tinsel, silver bells, noise-makers, champagne, and a cute array of decorated cookies. Perhaps I've been watching too many Hallmark Christmas movies? Anyway, nothing at all wrong with merry and happy. . . I just started to feel into a deeper function of this "turning of the year" ritual time, which we often forget to notice.

I have been interested in how we generally avoid dealing with endings, how we rarely allow ourselves to experience pleasure and satisfaction of a job well done before our mind leaps ahead to the next task on the "To Do" list. At the end of a cycle of creativity, our mind often panics as it thinks we are now facing "the Void." Thoughts of loss, loneliness, the undertow of the unknown, depression, and failure can loom large. It's natural to want distractions from this sort of anxiety. So let's eat, drink, and be merry!

Is this part of why these end-of-year/start-of-year holidays are so important? To ease the transition between creation cycles? At the end of a cycle of creativity, it's important to recognize what you've created and what you've been learning. Take stock. Feel the benefits. Feel good about yourself and the choices you made, the way life unfolded for you. See how you affected the flow, how you allowed the good, how you found the gifts in the garbage. Learn from what you did. Then: STOP! Take the pause that refreshes. That means a bit of quiet time, not necessarily partying!

Enter liminal space—that magical experience before a threshold and after a threshold, the place where the caterpillar transforms into the butterfly. Here is where you allow yourself to merge again with the imaginal realm, get out of your left brain and will power, and simply be. Remember you ARE the soul. You are connected. You know what you're doing and have lots of help. The right thing will occur next when it's ready. Meantime, you are a fruit getting ripe. Soak up what you need.

Thanksgiving (for those of us in the US) helps us enter the right frame of mind: gratitude is such a mind-relaxer and heart-opener. It prepares us for the end of the year, when ideally, we should take a little time to review the year, assess our accomplishments and the strength of our character, and celebrate the presence of love all-around.

And then, as New Year's Day occurs, we might want to take some quiet time to focus, not so much on resolutions we might not keep for more than a week or two, but on how we want to be, and feel, and act in the coming year. And it's nice that we have "a year"—it's a manageable amount of experience we can chunk and remember easily. After we determine our preferred attitudes and states of being, out of that frequency will come ideas for what we'd like to create. Hold these things loosely but feel your core enthusiasm for doing them. These things do not have the word "should" attached! No! It's "I want it! I love it! I want to dive in."

Ask for the first steps, the hints, the glimmers, the synchronicities, and make an agreement with yourself and all the beings who help us: "I will pay attention to what I'm noticing. I will act on those things that feel just right, that allow me to stay in my home frequency. I will act in each moment in alignment with what feels courageous and uplifting." The holidays, or holy-days, are times for remembering wholeness, or unity—your belongingness, your value in the scheme of all things, and for speaking of that, giving gifts with that in mind, and acting in alignment with that truth.

I wish you a sacred, meaning-filled, bright, self-affirming, luminous, laughterful, and warm-hearted time of yearly transition—into the new amount of yourself.

Love,

Penney

I Am Home!

I am not traveling for a few months, so I am available for private in-depth counseling. You can book a phone session with me at https://penneypeirce.as.me/. Read about what I do at www.penneypeirce.com/consultations.htm. It's a good thing to do as the new year begins: sum up the year and focus on what's coming. . .

Great Gifts for 2019

The word transparency has been in the news almost nonstop since our President was elected. I predict that 2019 will be The Year of Transparency! I've applied my special kind of deep-dive perception to the whole idea of transparency and why it's so timely—you may want to read what I came up with! My latest book (below) is available through all outlets. And, you might want to check out this new transparency twitter feed. . .

TRANSPARENCY

Seeing Through to Our Expanded Human Capacity

The 4th book in Penney's series of visionary guidebooks about personal and societal transformation is available at amazon, B&N, and many bookstores. It's also available as an ebook and audiobook.

In the tech and startup world, everyone is searching for the next big thing, the “unicorns” that will be multi-billion dollar companies. Look no further. Everything you need to know is in this book. Transparency gives you the tools to unlock your mind to make better, smarter, more intuitive business decisions. Whether you’re an investor or an entrepreneur, this is a must-read for unlocking a new type of intelligence and knowledge.
—Vivian Rosenthal, founder of Snaps and founder-in-residence of Google’s Design Incubator

Penney Peirce cuts to the chase in this book like no other. She helps you attain a pure perception of the world—where you see its true transparent nature, and enlightenment is not a fancy idea but an ordinary, living reality evoked by simplicity, honesty, and humility. Transparency ultimately helps reveal the genius that you are.
—Jason Gregory, author of Fasting the Mind and The Science and Practice of Humility

Here’s another in a series of leading edge books from a gifted visionary. With Transparency, Penney Peirce moves further into her detailing of personal and societal transformation, describing what real, radical transparency is and how we can embody it—both in our own lives and in our relationships and organizations. This material is timely and so necessary.

—Mike Dooley, NY Times bestselling author of Infinite Possibilities

Transparency is available through amazon, B&N, Books-a-Million,

and your favorite independent bookstores.

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Speaking of good books to give as gifts this holiday season, what better way to get off to the right, conscious start than helping your friends focus on personal transformation? Why not read the whole 4-part series: The Intuitive Way, Frequency, Leap of Perception, and Transparency? If you like eBooks, you might want to check out The Present Moment: A Daybook of Clarity and Intuition, and Be the Dreamer Not the Dream: A Guide to 24-Hour Consciousness.

Interviews and Podcasts

• Check Penney's Calendar for podcasts with an amazing variety of superb interviewers

• And don't forget to watch for the New Year's 2019 Oracle Letter!!

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