It’s been years since my wife Holly and I have gone out on New Year’s eve. Instead, a nice dinner with the family and the cats, maybe a movie, is more than enough.
After a good night’s sleep, New Year’s Day is, for us, a time to be with friends, and just enjoy the richness of community and love. We’re cooking up a big ol’ pot of chili, some gluten-free corn bread, and just hanging out with people we love. Personally we save retrospectives for birthdays, so the New Year is pretty relaxed.
However you celebrate the change in month and year, we here at Heart of Business wish you a joyful, nourishing, profitable, fun, loving 2014. We hope we get to spend of the coming year with you.
In some of our programs I offer a blessing in the tradition of Sufism. If it’s okay with you (avert your eyes if it isn’t) I’d like to give you this prayer that comes from the spiritual founder of my lineage, Ibn Mashish:
Alfu salaam, alfu salaam, Alfi salaamin fi qulubina.
“Thousandfold Peace, Thousandfold Peace, Thousand Thousandfold Peace in our hearts.”
We’d love to hear how you are celebrating the New Year, if at all. Any special rituals or traditions? Any special recipes that you like to cook?
With peace, and love, and appreciation,
Mark and the team at Heart of Business
Holly, Jason, Lincoln, Rachna, Steve, Susan and Yollana
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Thank you for sharing your Sufi words of blessings.
On New Years Day my ritual for many years has been to ask Spirit to speak to me about the coming year through the 3 “oracles” I use…The Runes, My Angel Cards, and a Deck of Kabbalah Cards. I pull one from each and it never cease to amaze me how all three are always in alignment with their message. The runes give an overall picture of the year, the Angel and Kabbalah cards give guidance to feelings and actions. Later in the day I prepare collard greens, black eye peas and cornbread, a traditional Southern dish eaten on New Years Day for good luck, health and prosperity. I’m 67 years old, in good health, with wonderful friends, doing work I love that helps other people as well as supports me. So something’s workin’ (THANK YOU GOD)!!
Loli- so wonderful! I missed your post, too- yet, so glad you shared this. Amazing how the Divine speaks to us, signs are everywhere around us, aren’t they? Friends of ours do the black eye pea thing, too. Delicious!
Part of our tradition comes from my Grandmother, we cook a big pot of vegetarian lentil soup for good luck. We invite friends and family to come and share in the feast. The last few years we’ve added making collage and vision boards to the fun. We relax and vision, cut and glue, eat and visit the present and future together. This year fell on the new moon, so we added our monthly fire puja meditation to the day. What a great way to start the new year, with a new moon! My heart is filled with gratitude for my divine master who has given us the knowledge and way to connect powerfully to the cleansing energy of the moon. Love, beauty and wonder abound! Blessings to you and your family, Mark and the HOB team. Thanks for all the great work you are doing. It matters!
Ami! I’m so sorry I missed responding to you. What you do sounds like such a nourishing approach to beginning the new year. And it’s always fun, I find, when the moon cycles work like that. One of the things I really like about Islam and Judaism is how linked they are to the cycles of them moon.
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Money and freedom is the greatest way to change, may you be rich and continue to guide other people.