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It wasn’t that many years ago that the beloved resident of Sesame Street, Elmo, made a wish that everyday could be Christmas. When his wish came true, life on Sesame Street dramatically changed as no one ever worked again. Sesame Street focused on the fact that Christmas is usually a non-working holiday, like Labor Day, and therefore all city services would have to cease-forever! Well, Elmo’s heart was in the right place and Sesame Street did have a point but the extraordinary magic of Christmas is not really about that one day but is rather the amassed energy of the entire season.
No matter where you live in the United States, especially if you have access to satellite radio, the holiday music begins streaming 24/7 right after Thanksgiving. If you happen to love the holiday season, this kicks off a very exciting time of the year. However if the bustle of the festivities are enough to drive you out of your mind, you are in for a long haul. One thing is certain; you can either participate in the expression of the season, ignore it altogether or get really frustrated by all of the fuss. After all, you have free will and the ability to focus your attention wherever you like.
If you are more like Elmo, the advent of the holidays is one of life’s recurring treasures. How lucky for you that the season brings with it thirty days (in some cases sixty) of music, lights, ornamentation, parties and forgiveness from all of those self-imposed dietary restrictions. You might even be one of those people who watches every holiday special, has holiday cards posted and mailed weeks in advance and find the malls to be as thrilling as an amusement park. Ah, the sights and the sounds of the season are a month of tiny miracles each and every day!
On the other hand, if the holidays fill you with derision, similar to the Dickens’ character Scrooge, then December is probably the one month that you tear out of each calendar in your house. To rub salt into the wound is that you have constant reminders all around you that your least favorite time of the year is actually heralded by crooners and revelers alike as “the most wonderful time of the year”. What did you do to deserve this kind of torture? What did you do to attract all of this happiness to be forced upon you?
More than a century ago, Ebenezer Scrooge went out of his way to show his contempt for the holiday season by avoiding family and the ambivalent memories from his past during the holiday. Through a series of ghostly visitations, Ebenezer is forced to take a long hard look at the images of his life and confront some of his own internal ghosts. One has to wonder if he attracted this experience as the Law responds directly to the larger balance of thoughts and emotions. Dicken's let's Ebenezer off the hook such that instead of lingering in history as the most curmungeonly of all storybook characters, he finds redemption by the end of the tale. We are surprised to learn that for all of his bah humbugging, underneath Scrooge's icy exterior was a beating heart encased in pure gold. **Caution: Please do not let the tale of Scrooge influence your perspective and begrudge the Universe of your healthy holiday scorn. In order to really appreciate the difference between holiday cheer and holiday jeer is to have experienced both to some degree in your life.
To be sure, almost everyone has someone like Elmo and/or Scrooge crossing their path over the holidays. The objective is not to judge either point of view as better than the other. The idea is to realize that this period of the year is an opportunity to gauge how the Law of Attraction operates in your life. For better or worse, holiday preparations are similar to the amount of attention given to other significant occasions in your life; the kind that capture a good deal of your time and energy for an extended period of time. Many people enjoy or alternatively dread these holidays because they consume weeks of exposure. The Law of Attraction responds to focus, attention, momentum and emotion so your experience of the energy of the season is therefore heightened specifically due to the energy behind your point of attraction.
The reason why the holiday “blues” follow the joy of the season is that many people have no exit strategy from the non-stop frenzy that has been building in their mind for a month. When there is no new point of focus after such an extended period of thought building it is the equivalent of an emotional freight train being ground to a halt. One of the principles of The Law of Attraction operates is that the faster things get, the faster still they will remain spinning in motion. The more your thoughts are in alignment and moving in the direction of that fast flowing energy, you will feel absolutely exhilarated. The moment that you reverse your attention from that natural flow, you feel it emotionally and physically. You will also feel the loss of momentum if you do not have something in mind to replace with the ending of the imaginative creative energy of the season.
If you are more like Elmo, your imagination about the holiday’s arrival is filled with hope and expectation. Your excitement for all of the season’s festivities grows with each day as the celebration continues to unfold. For a month, your thoughts are directed at those you love and choosing some special gift that will demonstrate how dear they are to you. Elmo would be focused on Santa’s big arrival and all of the terrific gifts that he would soon deliver. For weeks, Elmo would hardly be able to think of anything else. If you have children in your life around this season, you know how sincere this playfulness truly is. For many young children, the days and nights during the month of December are given to flights of fantasy about magic, love, and anticipation.
The Law of Attraction is profoundly at work here for these children. This Law responds to the creative energy of the imagination and emotion. It is fueled by the direction of both and either flows toward the inspired dream in the natural flow of the energy of the Universe or in opposition to it. For those who are captured with delight and enthusiasm by the energy of the season, they are being exposed to a marvelous gift of insight into the power of the Law of Attraction. These individuals feel the impact of the holiday season as the fever builds to the actual day of opening gifts. For many who love the holiday season, the culmination of the gift opening is experienced with a bit of a let down. It is a natural feeling as it is akin to grinding a speeding train to a sudden halt.
For many children, the holiday season is an extended period of unwavering expectation. All of their thoughts are singularly pointed towards that one big day and the moment that their toy filled dreams will manifest into a reality beneath their decorated tree. If anything, it is a true training ground for the process of conscious creation: purely driven thoughts filled with expectation and belief that the dream is on its way. The holiday season and the thought shaping tools that are being developed in the mind of a child are the most significant gifts received. This amazing period of perfect conscious creation exists as long as their belief in the magic of the season exists. After that, it takes a bit more work for them to hold their thoughts in a steady state of pure expectation in contrast to what once came so easily.
So, what can be said about the Law of Attraction and its effect on Elmo and Ebenezer? Surely they can not be exempted from its pull. Well, here are some thoughts about both and perhaps some clarity on the depths of their characters. Elmo purely wished his heart to be satisfied with an extended Christmas season or rather a permanent one. But, the community of Sesame Street rather wisely helped Elmo to see that a perfect world without strife or longing might signal the end to dreams. Most of the planning and preparation for Christmas is done in the thinking about it rather than in getting what was wanted. The bigger picture was in the prolonged fun of dreaming about that special day and the “day” itself was really the end to a passionate dream. For the sake of the Street, Elmo was confronted with a table of broken toasters that Maria could not fix due to the shop being closed for the holiday. Somehow I think that Maria knew that broken toasters would be the best way to convince Elmo to reconsider his wish but in truth, Elmo already knew this instinctively. He was letting us in on his wisdom.
As for Ebenezer, it must be said that these ghosts could not have come out of thin air: he must have been at a point in his life where his past pure self was in direct contradiction with the man who had deliberately shut out the world. This period of internal conflict is often called the “mid-life” crisis and Ebenezer must be held accountable for bringing on this range of events. The wonderful part of this story is that many people do not undertake such a period of self-examination until they have no other choice and Ebenezer was no exception to the rule. Although everyone is an expression of unconditional love, it sometimes requires an introspective overhaul before it is reclaimed. Dickens’ portrait of a selfish man gone absurdly generous is no trivial message; it is the kind of lesson that is offered to all of us that we can all change our perspective overnight. Ebenezer’s transformation was certainly extreme but was not outside of his true, innate self. His point of attraction was a desire to change, but, it needed to be a profound look at how far he had strayed from the center of his extended self.
There is much to be said about this, but, at the moment, I am being pulled in a couple of different directions that have holiday deadlines. Tivo is set to record Elmo’s Countdown to Christmas so all is right in my little corner of the world. And for now, this very quick entry must come to an end, but I fortunately do have an exit strategy for this holiday season! That is, I am looking forward to the power of the Law of Attraction drawing us together such that we can both be a part of each other’s lives. May you enter 2008 with the firm intention of reclaiming the innate power of your mind towards the construction of a life filled with abundance, prosperity and joy.
It wasn’t that many years ago that the beloved resident of Sesame Street, Elmo, made a wish that everyday could be Christmas. When his wish came true, life on Sesame Street dramatically changed as no one ever worked again. Sesame Street focused on the fact that Christmas is usually a non-working holiday, like Labor Day, and therefore all city services would have to cease-forever! Well, Elmo’s heart was in the right place and Sesame Street did have a point but the extraordinary magic of Christmas is not really about that one day but is rather the amassed energy of the entire season.
No matter where you live in the United States, especially if you have access to satellite radio, the holiday music begins streaming 24/7 right after Thanksgiving. If you happen to love the holiday season, this kicks off a very exciting time of the year. However if the bustle of the festivities are enough to drive you out of your mind, you are in for a long haul. One thing is certain; you can either participate in the expression of the season, ignore it altogether or get really frustrated by all of the fuss. After all, you have free will and the ability to focus your attention wherever you like.
If you are more like Elmo, the advent of the holidays is one of life’s recurring treasures. How lucky for you that the season brings with it thirty days (in some cases sixty) of music, lights, ornamentation, parties and forgiveness from all of those self-imposed dietary restrictions. You might even be one of those people who watches every holiday special, has holiday cards posted and mailed weeks in advance and find the malls to be as thrilling as an amusement park. Ah, the sights and the sounds of the season are a month of tiny miracles each and every day!
On the other hand, if the holidays fill you with derision, similar to the Dickens’ character Scrooge, then December is probably the one month that you tear out of each calendar in your house. To rub salt into the wound is that you have constant reminders all around you that your least favorite time of the year is actually heralded by crooners and revelers alike as “the most wonderful time of the year”. What did you do to deserve this kind of torture? What did you do to attract all of this happiness to be forced upon you?
More than a century ago, Ebenezer Scrooge went out of his way to show his contempt for the holiday season by avoiding family and the ambivalent memories from his past during the holiday. Through a series of ghostly visitations, Ebenezer is forced to take a long hard look at the images of his life and confront some of his own internal ghosts. One has to wonder if he attracted this experience as the Law responds directly to the larger balance of thoughts and emotions. Dicken's let's Ebenezer off the hook such that instead of lingering in history as the most curmungeonly of all storybook characters, he finds redemption by the end of the tale. We are surprised to learn that for all of his bah humbugging, underneath Scrooge's icy exterior was a beating heart encased in pure gold. **Caution: Please do not let the tale of Scrooge influence your perspective and begrudge the Universe of your healthy holiday scorn. In order to really appreciate the difference between holiday cheer and holiday jeer is to have experienced both to some degree in your life.
To be sure, almost everyone has someone like Elmo and/or Scrooge crossing their path over the holidays. The objective is not to judge either point of view as better than the other. The idea is to realize that this period of the year is an opportunity to gauge how the Law of Attraction operates in your life. For better or worse, holiday preparations are similar to the amount of attention given to other significant occasions in your life; the kind that capture a good deal of your time and energy for an extended period of time. Many people enjoy or alternatively dread these holidays because they consume weeks of exposure. The Law of Attraction responds to focus, attention, momentum and emotion so your experience of the energy of the season is therefore heightened specifically due to the energy behind your point of attraction.
The reason why the holiday “blues” follow the joy of the season is that many people have no exit strategy from the non-stop frenzy that has been building in their mind for a month. When there is no new point of focus after such an extended period of thought building it is the equivalent of an emotional freight train being ground to a halt. One of the principles of The Law of Attraction operates is that the faster things get, the faster still they will remain spinning in motion. The more your thoughts are in alignment and moving in the direction of that fast flowing energy, you will feel absolutely exhilarated. The moment that you reverse your attention from that natural flow, you feel it emotionally and physically. You will also feel the loss of momentum if you do not have something in mind to replace with the ending of the imaginative creative energy of the season.
If you are more like Elmo, your imagination about the holiday’s arrival is filled with hope and expectation. Your excitement for all of the season’s festivities grows with each day as the celebration continues to unfold. For a month, your thoughts are directed at those you love and choosing some special gift that will demonstrate how dear they are to you. Elmo would be focused on Santa’s big arrival and all of the terrific gifts that he would soon deliver. For weeks, Elmo would hardly be able to think of anything else. If you have children in your life around this season, you know how sincere this playfulness truly is. For many young children, the days and nights during the month of December are given to flights of fantasy about magic, love, and anticipation.
The Law of Attraction is profoundly at work here for these children. This Law responds to the creative energy of the imagination and emotion. It is fueled by the direction of both and either flows toward the inspired dream in the natural flow of the energy of the Universe or in opposition to it. For those who are captured with delight and enthusiasm by the energy of the season, they are being exposed to a marvelous gift of insight into the power of the Law of Attraction. These individuals feel the impact of the holiday season as the fever builds to the actual day of opening gifts. For many who love the holiday season, the culmination of the gift opening is experienced with a bit of a let down. It is a natural feeling as it is akin to grinding a speeding train to a sudden halt.
For many children, the holiday season is an extended period of unwavering expectation. All of their thoughts are singularly pointed towards that one big day and the moment that their toy filled dreams will manifest into a reality beneath their decorated tree. If anything, it is a true training ground for the process of conscious creation: purely driven thoughts filled with expectation and belief that the dream is on its way. The holiday season and the thought shaping tools that are being developed in the mind of a child are the most significant gifts received. This amazing period of perfect conscious creation exists as long as their belief in the magic of the season exists. After that, it takes a bit more work for them to hold their thoughts in a steady state of pure expectation in contrast to what once came so easily.
So, what can be said about the Law of Attraction and its effect on Elmo and Ebenezer? Surely they can not be exempted from its pull. Well, here are some thoughts about both and perhaps some clarity on the depths of their characters. Elmo purely wished his heart to be satisfied with an extended Christmas season or rather a permanent one. But, the community of Sesame Street rather wisely helped Elmo to see that a perfect world without strife or longing might signal the end to dreams. Most of the planning and preparation for Christmas is done in the thinking about it rather than in getting what was wanted. The bigger picture was in the prolonged fun of dreaming about that special day and the “day” itself was really the end to a passionate dream. For the sake of the Street, Elmo was confronted with a table of broken toasters that Maria could not fix due to the shop being closed for the holiday. Somehow I think that Maria knew that broken toasters would be the best way to convince Elmo to reconsider his wish but in truth, Elmo already knew this instinctively. He was letting us in on his wisdom.
As for Ebenezer, it must be said that these ghosts could not have come out of thin air: he must have been at a point in his life where his past pure self was in direct contradiction with the man who had deliberately shut out the world. This period of internal conflict is often called the “mid-life” crisis and Ebenezer must be held accountable for bringing on this range of events. The wonderful part of this story is that many people do not undertake such a period of self-examination until they have no other choice and Ebenezer was no exception to the rule. Although everyone is an expression of unconditional love, it sometimes requires an introspective overhaul before it is reclaimed. Dickens’ portrait of a selfish man gone absurdly generous is no trivial message; it is the kind of lesson that is offered to all of us that we can all change our perspective overnight. Ebenezer’s transformation was certainly extreme but was not outside of his true, innate self. His point of attraction was a desire to change, but, it needed to be a profound look at how far he had strayed from the center of his extended self.
There is much to be said about this, but, at the moment, I am being pulled in a couple of different directions that have holiday deadlines. Tivo is set to record Elmo’s Countdown to Christmas so all is right in my little corner of the world. And for now, this very quick entry must come to an end, but I fortunately do have an exit strategy for this holiday season! That is, I am looking forward to the power of the Law of Attraction drawing us together such that we can both be a part of each other’s lives. May you enter 2008 with the firm intention of reclaiming the innate power of your mind towards the construction of a life filled with abundance, prosperity and joy.
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