The physical act of moving forward requires challenge as well as change. Raise your hand if such a subject inspires the depth of your personality. Great books of wisdom, motivation and inspiration always seem to be picked up when the next step is fed by personal desperation. I'll never forget where my life was before bumping into the pages that make up The Artist Way from Julia Cameron. I was in Santa Barbara, California wandering around my creative space asking God for any direction available. I needed something other than taking up too much space. No book has been so open to creative minds than The Artist Way. She helps all people understand their avenues of expression without weighing down your spirit to want to move forward. For many, the month of December is a very difficult time because in a matter of days it's going to be a new year. Who wants to kick off a new set of numbers feeling like a loser? On this podcast we explore your right to be in control of now. Your past has already been written and yet we spend more time in it then what actually took place. I learned in the 1990's that for every five years you're married it takes two years to heal. Wouldn't the same be true about your job or a friendship that's gone crazy? I'm not a visionary but I do spend a lot of time preparing and predicting what's being shaped by the future. That's still not a place of control. It's gambling. A guessing game. The prime spot to open your heart to be let down again and again. Mindfully we are in the present but do you appreciate your present place of now? To maintain a path of personal growth requires the energy of where you are now. As out of control as it may feel you have complete control of how you feel, think, speak and react to. It's a choice. A difficult discussion with the self inside but only if you've allowed that inner you to be heard. Lift your foot off that past and allow it to be seen only in the now. Grow with your present place by simply saying, "Clear your heart. Clear your mind." When the voices of doubt try to crank up the volume keep saying, "Clear your heart. Clear your mind." Yoga Nidra teaches each of us to be present by separating ourselves from the grooves of the record we keep playing over and over. The only way to remove the groove is to clear your heart and clear your mind. It's you moving forward.