What are you a yes for for 2022? As you build your intentions for the year, focusing on the feeling that you want, you want to truly be aligned in that energy. To be in alignment, we need to feel good, we need our energy to be high. To be in alignment, we need to release the fear that is holding us back; which comes in all types of ways. Fear doesn’t always show up as a blinking neon sign, sometimes it is more subtle. Our resistance to something can be more like, “I don’t know what to do, so I won’t do anything.” Our resistance can show up as always going after the next shiny thing without really finishing something else, getting distracted. Our resistance can show up by perfection or people pleasing. Our fears show up in a lot of ways, and our ability to become aware of what and when we are resisting and in the grip of fear will allow us to release that resistance. Once we release, we go back to feeling good. We get back in alignment with the energy of the universe and become more open to manifesting our desires.
We have to be open and feel good to receive. Figuring out what you are a “yes” for in your manifestations will help you feel good. When we say yes, we feel great! When we feel great, the universe responds. In developing my intentions for this year, I am a yes for love, for being seen and heard and giving someone else that same space. I am a yes for feeling worthy and feeling joy. I am a yes for mutual effort in a relationship. I am a yes to a new space where I feel calm and at peace. I am a yes for feeling abundance, peace and play. I am a yes for feeling lighter, filled with joy. I am a yes for impacting more people with my life’s work.
I am a yes for co-creating my life with the universe. I have intentions set and I am ready to manifest all of my desires. Yesterday, during my meditation, I asked the universe to share with me the sign it will send to me that I am in alignment and on the right path. I received 2 answers; a cardinal and the color yellow. I knew immediately that the color yellow would have to be specific, I would know it when it happened. As Gabby Bernstein says, the sign should feel as if you are seeing a billboard, it should be that obvious. You will feel it and if you don’t it isn’t your sign. That stuck with me during the day. The color yellow seemed so mundane and ridiculous that I didn’t really think about it much and focused more on the cardinal as the sign.
I went to spend some time with my Aunt and then went to my childhood home that we are cleaning out to look for my mom’s ceramic Christmas Tree. Growing up we never had a tree in our house, it was a decision my parents made when they were married. My dad grew up poor and never had a tree so he really didn’t care. My mom, being Jewish, didn’t want one. The compromise for us kids was to have a fake fireplace that said Merry Christmas on it as our decoration. We didn’t know any better. In 1972, my mom made a ceramic Christmas tree for us. It went into our Living Room window during the holidays and was really the only decoration along with the fake fireplace. I wanted to find it before Christmas and did not. Finally, yesterday, I found the tree on the top of a linen closet. The tree was tightly wrapped in a ShopRite bag, a YELLOW ShopRite bag. I sat down on the steps and began to cry. The tears flowed as I was thrilled to find this tree intact. The tears flowed thinking of all the Christmases this sat in the window. The tears flowed as I remembered Christmases with my nuclear family, the one I truly miss. The tears flowed as I thought about my parents and my brother and how much I miss the three of them. The tears flowed as I realized that this sign was a billboard, the color yellow. The tears flowed as I thanked my mom for this wonderful sign that I am on the right path, that my energy is aligned and that the Universe is conspiring for my highest good.
I used to believe and follow signs a lot. I haven’t of late. I had lost some faith in the universe and the signs I thought I had gotten. I had so many signs at one time that I truly thought that I was heading for THE relationship of my life and more recently the new space of my life that I want. Neither worked out so I figured signs weren’t real. The Universe wasn’t really working with me, some of my friends who believe differently than I were right. Lost faith.
No longer. This sign, the yellow bag, along with stronger self-love and self-compassion have helped to realign my beliefs and my energy.
I am worthy and I am ready to receive all that the Universe is ready to deliver. Thank you Mom, and the Universe for the yellow bag and all it signifies to me. What are you a Yes for? What sign will help you know if you are in alignment and ready to receive?