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Perhaps it is our very tendency to feel bad about what we 'shouldn't' be doing which is driving a compulsion to keep doing it. Experience has taught you that the best things in life require effort and energy. But another part of you wonders if this tendency is not just a self-punishing streak in you. Right now, you should not be looking at what's easy or hard but at where the paths actually lead.Know your priorities well! Stand back from your own strong impulse to do one thing and not to do another, think carefully about how you really want your life to alter. lf to recall experiences and encounters that took place years, perhaps even decades, ago. How have your priorities changed? To what extent have you become obliged to forget about activities that once gave you great pleasure, there is chance to rediscover a lost art and reawaken an old passion. In the process, you will gain power over a situation in which you currently feel helpless. As we grow old...
Stand back from your own strong impulse to do one thing and not to do another. Most of your reasons are flimsy. You could just as easily argue against them as for them,there's a strong chance that resolutions made tonight will prove almost surprisingly easy to adhere to. That's all the more reason to think carefully about how you really want your life to alter. Don't forget, as you enter the new year, that a successful person is someone who is not afraid of failure! . Cast your mind a long way back. Allow yourself to recall experiences and encounters that took place years, perhaps even decades, ago. How have your priorities changed? To what extent have you become obliged to forget about activities that once gave you great pleasure, because new commitments have taken up so much of your time and energy?
People used to say 'What you don't know, can't harm you.' What they didn't know was that they were wrong... and they did themselves a lot of harm in attempting to lead their lives by this maxim! Ignorance is not bliss, it is just trouble waiting to happen. Knowledge, on the other hand, is power. You may not like knowing all that you now know, but the fact that you know it is extremely encouraging. It means you are in a position to make a very wise choice as you enter what looks set to be a surprisingly positive moment. You may or may not feel pleased about what you're learning but you can only benefit in the long run from all you find out during this exceptional period. And isn't this the right time for identifying things that need to change and resolving to do whatever it takes to make those changes occur? Keep looking and you'll find a way to move forward that need not be a problem to anyone.
Your short-term plans, your long-term goals and your need to allow yourself to evolve as an individual are all gloriously well aligned. Small adjustments in attitude have started to add up to a bright vision of what's attainable. In following your intuition so closely,you have taken significant steps. Now, as you continue to distinguish the inner voice of wisdom from the inner voice of fear, you can free yourself from a problem that needs to be seen as part of the past, not the future. We tend to think of our feelings as finite. We imagine we have to be careful with them lest we run out of irreplaceable emotions. Yet it is only when we are sparing that we end up despairing. Only when we try too hard to protect ourselves that we end up becoming vulnerable. In all areas, be as giving and trusting as you can.
From an early age, we are encouraged to develop adult views and attitudes. By the time we reach the age of seven we are worldly wise and sophisticated. Perhaps this is why, by the time we hit fourteen, we are jaded and cynical. It is all the more ironic when you consider that, during the rest of our lives, we are going to wish we could be more childlike. In an emotionally charged situation, you now want to ask a question. A part of you feels that you daren't. It might be rude or inappropriate. Never mind. Ask anyway. Hercules once had to battle a monster whose head grew back, every time our hero tried to chop it off. You may not feel like some mythical character with legendary strength, but you certainly know how it feels to be up against an impossible challenge. The harder you try to solve a problem, the more you seem to be creating a new set of troubles. The solution involves getting closer to the root cause of a syndrome. Don't attempt to fix what seems to be wr...
Feeling tense? Restless? Agitated? What's wrong with any of that? Of course, some things are not as they should be. Naturally you are struggling in an area of life where success is essential, yet maddeningly elusive. That's just proof that you are a fully paid-up member of the human race and not some suspiciously efficient alien invader. Humans have hard times, sometimes. It's part and parcel of the roller-coaster ride that we call life. Handle it. Be philosophical. And your emotional life will soon improve.
One of my ancestors was a wise religious teacher who was once asked, 'Wouldn't it be great if an angel were to touch you and show you all that there is to know?' Apparently, he replied 'No, because the finding out is more important than the knowing.' We only ever value what we have worked hard to get. Much of your wisdom about a sensitive emotional process has been hard won. Lately, you have been wondering why so much that ought to be simple is difficult. Soon, you will attain some inspiring answers.Charm is in hard work.
Nothing lasts forever. If that's a sad thought with regard to some aspects of life, it is a comforting one with regard to others. You can now draw inspiration from the inevitably temporary nature of a situation. It may go on longer than you want it to - but it cannot go on ad infinitum. Accept this and become philosophical about what you may just have to put up with for a little while longer. One day, sooner than you think, current trouble will be nothing but a memory. Recognising this will help you to bring forward that day. Treat yourself now and prepare to take on in the best way possible.
Things are getting better. You can't see any evidence of this? That's because it's all happening behind the scenes. It's as if you are in front of a curtain, putting on a performance and playing for time whilst a crew of stagehands dismantles one set and puts up another. Even if you try to lift the veil now, you will merely reveal a situation that is in some disarray. It needs a little more time to sort itself out - but it is definitely moving in the right direction. Just do your best with confidence and all will be fine.
What does the phrase, 'feeling at home' mean to you? It might be simpler to consider the whole world as your home, which in the most literal sense is true. If you are going to follow your calling to explore ideas, places and people, you need your feet and your ideas about life to be a little looser than normal and to move more freely. You are not looking for anything in particular, but you will know it when you find it. And in January, you will find that wherever you feel love is where you can call home. .
'No news is good news'. They also say, 'What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve'. Mind you, they say too that, 'knowledge is power'. They say far too much, whoever 'they' are. Who cares what they say? Your first priority, is to decide whether there is something that you believe because you know it to be true - and not just because 'they' say it is. Why should you bother what 'they' say, or think? Why would you try to remain ignorant of a fact? Don't be afraid. Be sure of yourself.
Things are getting better. You can't see any evidence of this? That's because it's all happening behind the scenes. It's as if you are in front of a curtain, putting on a performance and playing for time whilst a crew of stagehands dismantles one set and puts up another. Even if you try to lift the veil now, you will merely reveal a situation that is in some disarray. It needs a little more time to .sort itself out - but it is definitely moving in the right direction. Just do your best with confidence.
No matter how successful we are or how blessed we may be, we will always go through fretful, fearful, phases. The trick is not to avoid these; it is to learn how to handle them. You are now starting to wonder what you have done wrong. You keep encountering uncomfortable reminders of an unfulfilled ambition or a regrettable situation. But your story is not yet over. What's done is done. It cannot be changed. Sooner than you think, though, you will realise that it has all happened for a reason.So go forward without resentment.
Why does life seem to contain so much drama? Why does it seem as if everything, no matter how small, is somehow so big? When are you going to get a holiday from pressure? Soon you'll start the next, less stressful, phase of your life. You don't think you can hold out till then? Well then, don't hold out. Give in. Let go of whatever you are clinging to. Stop trying to control so much, to understand so much and to be so endlessly wise.
Our fears all stem, to some extent, from a tendency to subject hypothesis to hyperbole. Even if we have good grounds for nervousness, we rarely allay it by giving it too much attention. If something is going to happen, it is going to happen. If it is not going to happen, it is not going to happen. You can try to influence the outcome of a drama. But to alter its course you will require a clear head. You won't get this by dwelling on some big idea about how you think things 'ought' to be.
Our most valuable insights grow slowly like plants. We have days on which it seems as if these ideas have suddenly burst into flower but such moments of revelation are the result of much contemplation. Until the moment that a bud blooms or a subconscious impulse becomes an awakened recognition, we can only wait and wonder. But once there's real understanding, why should there be further delay? All will be well as long as you wait for sufficient light to dawn before you pick out a new path. There are times when you wonder if you ought not to be more assertive. You watch other people acting belligerently and, though you find this behaviour distasteful, you have to concede it gets results. People take notice. Things change as a consequence of all that noise and fuss. You are quite capable of making an emphatic gesture when you need to and you are wondering if this is a good time for it. It may be. If you are going to speak out, think carefully first about what it is that you actually...
Women y ou probably don't need to do much. A tricky situation looks more daunting than it is. The more you think about it, the more complicated it will become. Try something simple. See what that does. You may find no further action needs to be taken. If you still don't have the result you seek, attempt yet another gentle modification. Nine out of ten problems will solve themselves if you play your hunches. Your imagination is either your greatest enemy or your best friend, depending on how constructively you employ it. What would it really feel like if you were able to know, down to the last detail, what lay ahead for you? Extremely useful though this might be in some respects, it would remove a great deal of the magic from your life. It would render you powerless, too. Faced with a future that you had no influence over, you would be like an actor, reading lines that someone else had written with no ability to alter the outcome of the drama. Be glad then of surprises that can...