Something New For The New Year

Starting a new year, let alone a new decade, sparks hope. There is a sense of new beginnings. We feel things are going to be different. We have a chance to start anew. Things can only get better. This is the time to change or move our lives in a new direction. But past experience shows us that the vast majority of “new plans” or “best intentions for the New Year” never get past the thinking stage. And yet, when we look back through our lives, have not many of the good things to come into our lives come about through a seemingly natural progression of events, not through planning.

In my case this is true. I came to T’ai Chi Chih (or it came to me through an advertisement) needing to fill up the space that an ending relationship left. Two years later I took the teacher training course,absolutely never intending to become a teacher. (I took the training because it was the only way to learn from Justin at that time.) Six months later I lost my job, and about this same time, my teacher moved. Having time on my hands and being comfortable in my teacher’s classes, as I had continued to attend them, I took them over when she left. I never intended to make TCC my life’s focus but it seems that is what has happened. I just liked attending events where other TCC teachers were gathered. The thought of being a teacher trainer never entered my mind until I was asked, and then I thought “the gods must be crazy.”

So today being January 1st, I start the New Year with a TCC practice. I invited the connection with the life force to fill me. I know from my past history that there will be changes in my life this year but not of my making. My job is to do my TCC practice and be carried along by the Cosmic Rhythm and trust that the universe knows better than I which direction I will move in. Already from my practice this morning I have learned something new about Pulling Taffy. That means one-fifth of my TCC will change. It wasn’t exactly the change I had in mind, but then that was the me thinking.

What changes will being in the flow with TCC bring you this year?