Out with the Old, In with the New

Happy New Year my dear friends! This wish may feel a little delayed, though I have been living on a wave of all things happening with divine timing and so for me, it seems right on time <3.

What a year 2020 was! So much change, so much growth, so much healing. So many moments filled with themes of acceptance for what is. 2020 was a year of letting go of all I thought I knew to become who I am supposed to be.

At the end of 2019, I knew something big was coming If you read Where was I, What Happened, and Where am I Now? This is a pretty good indication of where I was at that time. Not only was I miserable within my own life situation, but I could feel the pull of something really big. I remember telling my sister and best friend about it. Like I couldn't put my finger on it but I knew a collective shift was on the way. Now here we are at the beginning of 2021 and so much has changed! Collectively and individually.

It has been a while since I set a "New Year Resolution", I often felt that every day should be a time that you are able to start something new, and not just at the start of a New Year. But this year I did set New Year Intentions, mostly because of the divine interventions occurring in my life that told me I should do so. This is why sharing this post now feels so relevant! Here we are, close to the end of the first month of 2021 (can you believe it?) and we have a beautiful opportunity to revisit our New Year Intentions to see how they are fairing.

For my New Year Intentions, I decided that I was done playing small, I was born to shine and that is exactly what I am going to do. I decided that this year I am going to make a sincere attempt every day to be fully present in the now of each moment. I decided I am going to work on deepening my spiritual practice so that I can really surrender my fears and step fully into the journey of my soul. I am going to reach for my own alignment and joy no matter what everyone around me is doing. And every time I fall out of alignment I am going to forgive myself and shift back as fast as I can.

Some days my intentions take a great deal of diligence in self-awareness to keep up with. It takes consistent monitoring of my thoughts and emotions and questioning my reactions to events. It seems that I can immediately tell when I have slipped out of alignment simply by how I am feeling and I can set the intention to get back into alignment as soon as possible. I have also been reminded that it is okay when we fall out of alignment! The best thing for us to do in these moments is to forgive ourselves, forgive the moment, and get back on track as soon as we can. For me getting back into alignment sometimes simply requires reaching for better feeling thoughts and other times it requires meditation, breath, and/or energy work.

I am thankful for the decisions I made at the start of the year, these New Year intentions set the stage for a pretty big shift to take place and helped me to hear my soul asking me to take a step back from being a Ph.D. student. I am so grateful that I listened to this nudge from the Universe. This step back is providing me with the space to be more present with my children and be a better system of support for them as they make their way through another semester of online school. Also, this step back has been allowing me the time and mental space to take a deeper dive on the path of my soul.

Whether you set New Year's resolutions/intentions or not, this is an invitation to remember that we have to opportunity to start over in each moment. Second by second we can begin again, we can start over, we can make a different choice. We don't have to wait for a new day, week, month, or New Year to make a change or to begin something new. So what this means is if you did set New Year intentions, you can reset them in each moment.

I have listed a few writing prompts below as a sort of New Year Intention/Reflection. If you feel called, grab a notebook, journal, or other writing device and ponder the following questions.

1. Where are you today that is better than where you were a year ago?

2. What New Year's intentions did you make at the start of this year? Have these intentions felt sustainable?

3. What can you do right now to revisit and reset your New Year intentions? If your intentions have not felt sustainable how could you rewrite them so they feel more achievable?

4. At the end of 2021, what creations and manifestations do you want to look back on?

5. Lastly, write down a few compliments and words of encouragement that you can give yourself to acknowledge the powerful presence that is you and the work you have done to achieve your intentions i.e. I am willing to let go of the blocks that are in my way of achieving my New Year Intentions, I am daily making progress to achieving my New Year Intentions.

Well, my dear friends that is all for today. I hope that you are feeling beautiful and blessed and as always know that you have a soul sister in me. Also, If you have not already feel free to check out my YouTube channel.

Peace, Love, and Blessings <3

-Khadijih

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Friends, Soul Family,

What a wild ride this year has been. I hope that you are all doing well and taking care of yourself during these changing times.

In these past two months, I have gone through an intense transmutation where I spent many moments in solace, surrender, deep fear, and even gratitude for the pain. I was gifted with the beautiful opportunity to surrender even deeper, to enter into the depths of my pain and fear, and to work through old stories that for so long seemed to be running the show (even if only from the sidelines). Through this excavation of self, through the moments where all I could see was darkness, and through my tears, I found myself becoming liberated, I found a form of freedom, and I found myself uncovering the courage I thought I had lost.

I know that there is still work to do and a deeper reflection is still in order, though what I wrote to tell you today is that I finally started my very own YouTube Channel!! This is a Transformational moment for me as I have been tiptoeing around it for some time. Bear with me as I get used to what it means for me to create and share videos.

So, without further ado, here is my first ever YouTube video, I hope you enjoy it.

I hope that you too have been able to find moments for yourself, to work with yourself as we have been move through the transformations of the year (personal, societal, energetic...). Know that if you ever need support, you have a friend in me.

Peace, love, and blessings to you my friends and soul family.

Transforming Fear into Love

This morning I woke up with deep fear in my heart. This weekend a fire erupted very near the town in which my school and my husband's work are. I woke up in a very deep state of fear, fear of what would happen if the fire made its way to the town, fear for what my students are going through, fear of what the next week will bring, just fear pounding in my chest. So I did a meditation and centered myself working to come into heart coherence. I called in my spirit guides, angels, my ancestors, and the ancestors of all those being affected by the fires. I asked them to come to our aid for the highest good. At first, I felt many in the room with me, but then I asked if they would go to the fire, surround it in a circle, release it from its path, and help to put it out. In my mind's eye, I watched hundreds of guides, angels, and ancestors encircling the fire and helping to keep it contained. This is a similar practice to the ones I have done for another fire that is raging ~100 miles from my home and for the fires burning on the west coast. Though this morning my fear felt as though it was raging in my chest, almost restricting my breath. With patience and through my practice, I was able to find my center and work through some of the emotions that were coming up for me. After my practice, I fell back into a soft sleep. When I awoke there were mist and moisture in the air outside. A true blessing at a time like this.

This year has been trying for all of us in our own ways, from the pandemic to the systemic racial issues that are being brought to the light, to the political war that seems to be raging in the US, and now the fires that have been raging across the western states. While this is all current, these really are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hardships that we face as a planet. Though something I have been so deeply reminded of today is that this is the moment, this is the time in which is it more important than ever to keep our faith. To have trust that what is happening has a deeper purpose and we are all connected within it. This is the time for us to truly come together. To help where we can. To do all we can to be of service to our neighbors and fellow brothers and sisters. We can all do something. If you don't feel like you can do anything, I want to suggest beginning your own practice of heart coherence (you can find more about it here with this FREE course). Coming into heart coherence is one of the most powerful things we can do for ourselves and others. Even if you do not believe that we are all connected by a unified field, coming into heart coherence calms your autonomic nervous system and stress response. Through this calming of your system, you will be more relaxed and more capable of taking on the challenges that arise, additionally coming into heart coherence will change the ways in which you interact with others and in effect the ways that they interact with you. It's simple, takes hardly any time, and is far more worth it than I can even explain with words, you just have to try it.

This is a short post today but I want you all to know I have so much love for all of you. I have so much love for all my brothers and sisters on this planet. I have so much love for all the life in the Universe and for our Mother Gaia. This is a temporary space in which we are all moving through, but what we do now really does define our future. So let us come together, come together in peace and harmony and be the change that we truly want to see in this world.

Peace, Love, and blessings.