"Light Tomorrow With Today": A Meditation for the New Year

​“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

​In this moment, I pause to be fully present in all that I Am.
 
The anguishes and achievements of my past, and the questions and possibilities of my future, are dormant in this  precious place of breath and solace.
 
In this moment, I am Peace. In this moment, I am Love. And in this moment, I create the Joy that is to come.
 
I notice my breath, light and easy. I notice my heart, steady without my worry. In this moment, I am Light.
 
The Light begins in my Anahata, my heart chakra, glowing brighter with each inhale and releasing with purity on each exhale.
 
With this light, I illuminate my life, and I see that all is so very good.
 
With this light, I breathe compassion and well-being to all beings who share this moment with me.
 
With this light, I see the kindness, authenticity, and easy brilliance of all that I Am.
 
I breathe in the rhythm of I Am. I breathe in soft Love and I breathe out soft Light.
 
With the light of this moment, I bright illumination to tomorrow, and I face my future with easy peace.