let life surprise you

I love rituals.

One of my favorite rituals is picking a guiding word for the new year which allows me to co-create the year ahead without all the New Year Resolutions. Because who likes New Year's Resolutions!

One year I chose the word surprise. I wanted a year full of surprises.

I remember my sisters' reactions to that word. They were so scared for me.

"Why would I pick the word surprise? What if the surprises are bad?" they wondered.

But what if what is in store for me is better than anything I can imagine for myself?

What if surprise meant that I am no longer predicting the future but allowing it to unfold naturally?

What if surprises are fun?

Could it be possible to let life surprise me?

One way we can know, really know, when we are still trying to control the outcome is relative to the amounts of surprises we experience.

So here's something cool to think about:

When we do the work of healing our history what happens is that our biofield starts to change. From my understanding, the biofield is the energy field that surrounds our body. Some traumatic experience from our past creates a glitch or tangle in our electrical signals forming. a pattern in our life that keeps repeating itself until it is detangled and released. This pattern keeps repeating itself so that it can heal. The act of being with the emotion that shows up for us when we react detangles that electrical current allowing our signature vibration to flow freely. That pattern, which is repetitive in nature, no longer exists. This creates space for you to experience something you have never experienced before. Or at least since it first became a pattern a long time ago.

Hence the word surprise. Allow life to surprise you. It's a good sign that you've been showing up to life!

With Love, Maria