A New Year has begun. 12 months, 52 weeks and 365 days are ahead of us. They are pristine as a brand new white canvas. The possibilities are vast. What will we choose, what will we fill these days, hours and minutes with?

The choice is ours. We are eternally free to choose the directions of our life every moment anew. How truly liberating this can be, if we only remember our free will.

However, we have become accustomed to the illusion that we are bound by our past. Bound by the deals we entered into written or unwritten, spoken or unspoken, fully aware or unaware.

We willingly become slaves to what society expects of us, what other people think of us, because we want to desperately belong, be part of, be normal, be accepted, loved and included.

We happily sell our souls to be hip, cool, revered, in, admired, acknowledged, famous, rich and beautiful. We fit in, revolt, become intellectual, knowledgeable or play dumb. We dress to stand out or to hide. We meekly accept what happens around us or protest out loud.

We perceive ourselves as bound by the identity of who we are, by the image we so carefully created of ourselves, by the patterns, behaviors that we needed to survive and grow up, by the expectations we have of ourselves and that others have of us.

All these creations are but a fleeting moment in the eternity of a soul’s point of view. The beauty of waking up and becoming aware of our souls is that we are no longer exclusively identified with the material world and our short lifetime here on this planet.

Once we have embraced that we are spiritual beings having a human experience, a whole new way of perception takes place. We are no longer able to ignore our part in the divine comedy of life. And if we chose to, we can step out of any given situation by bringing this awareness and presence into it. By calling the enmeshment by what it is, by declaring that we are no longer willing to pretend that we are bound and by choosing a whole new way of relating and being.

In this way we shall begin this New Year of 2007. Aware of our fleeting existence here on earth. Aware of the infinite possibilities that each day holds. Aware that we can change the outcome of any situation in a single moment. Aware of how magnificent we really are. Aware of the responsibilities we hold towards this planet and our fellow humans. Aware that our presence, love, patience and understanding can shift an ordinary moment into a magical one.

May 2007  be filled with many happy new choices that liberate you and the people you touch. May you bring peace, love and light into all your actions and thoughts. May 2007 be a magnificent, magical year for all of us.