It’s the season for us to celebrate and evaluate the year that is about to close. How many things from your list of intentions for this year did you accomplish? If you feel any disappointments or frustrations those are clues that something needs your time and attentions. I hear so often people say that they haven’t been able to implement with consistency or even start a self-care practice because of one situation or another. There is a wonderful bumper sticker quote I love: “BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE.” This has been attributed to Gandhi but what he actually said was more complex:

“We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.

As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness.

We need not wait to see what others...