Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) DEC 2016 / JAN 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue A Miracl | Page 20

Soulful CREATING YOUR RESOLUTIONS IN A WAY J BY MARCI SHIMOFF ust as predictably as the ball drops in Times Square as we greet the 1st day of January, people around the world will be using the fresh energy of a new year to set their resolutions. And just as predictably as the Valentine’s Day cards will appear in the stores on the 1st day of February, over half of all resolutions made will have already been broken. You might be thinking, well, if that’s all it takes to achieve my resolutions, I’m happy to switch my angle of creation, but how do I know when I’m creating from the ego and when I’m creating from the soul? Why do you think it’s so hard to stick to and to fulfill our New Year’s resolutions? I believe it has to do with how we create them. To increase the possibility of fulfilling any resolution or intention, it needs to be created from the soul rather than from the ego. The answer is stunningly simple: When we make choices from the realm of the ego, the feeling in our body is that of contraction, anxiety and fear and what manifests in our life is struggle. We feel like we’re always pushing, forcing, and over-efforting, and that we need to manipulate and control in order to get the results we desire. When we try to create from our ego, it’s always an up-hill battle because we’re living outside the Miracle Zone. When we begin to create all of our intentions from the soul, we’ll not only be more likely to achieve the individual intentions but we’ll start living a much more effortless flow in what I call “the Miracle Zone.” When we set our intentions from the soul, the experience is completely different because the realm of the soul is the realm of love, expansion, effortless flow, all possibilities and miracles. 20 www.AspireMAG.net | December 2016 / January 2017