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By Jo Mooy 
I was thinking about 2012 and all the anticipation its brought to so many people. After reflecting on all the reasons that it's held us enthralled one simple thought rang out. 2012 offers a chance to really start anew with a blank slate. The more I thought about that blank slate, it seemed that like kids or casual golfers, we're looking down the barrel of a real-life Do-Over.
Life is so full of promise and opportunity, especially when you're young. Goals get set and each one seems achievable. You're invincible! You can do anything and conquer any challenge. Then something happens along the way. John Lennon called it life. He said, “Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.” He said that in a song lyric written just before he died.
But what about us? What about the goals and invincibility? As we get older, go off to college, get a job, assume more and more responsibility, perhaps get married and have children, the goals go dormant. All the promises and ideas we had sort of go into limbo; most of the time, even the dreams get put aside. Every so often we're reminded of them, but usually it takes a crisis – health, job loss, death in the family, or even age – to revive the old thoughts or ideals of our youth. As the crisis unfolds we finally take time to look back on the life journey and wonder how the choices of the past took us to this point.
But what if we took a moment at this stage in life to reflect on what's important now? Is what we're doing at this time in our lives different from what was important in our youth? Can the old goals be re-captured? What if the dreams aren't lost but merely shelved? We often ask “God” to help us out of the crisis and usually make promises that go for naught. But, what if there was a chance to “do over” our life? Would it change things?
Recently, I read an article about a hospice care-giver who spent most of her time with patients in the final stages of their lives. She noticed most people grow the most when faced with their own mortality. So she undertook a project of asking her patients what were the five things they most regretted in life or would have done differently. The patients, knowing they were in the final hours of their lives, wished they had done many things before it was too late.
Their Life Do-Over wishes were more than a list. The Do-Overs were really a philosophy of living. They spoke of being true, having courage, nurturing friendships, and expressing joy.
They said:
1) I wish I had the courage to live a life true to myself instead of the life others expected of me.
2) I wish I hadn't worked so hard.
3) I wish I had the courage to express my feelings.
4) I wish I had stayed in touch with my old friends.
5) I wish I had let myself be happier.
2012 opens the gateway to the new world prophecies. The opportunities are endless. We have a clean slate and can write anything on it. And, we have more than the hospice patients. We have the dreams, the memories, the friendships, the awareness; and, we have the time. It's not too late for us to choose the life we wish, renew old friendships and live in joy!
Jo Mooy – April 2012
About Jo Mooy
Jo is a visionary artist, lecturer, writer and a national award-winning photographer whose work has been published in magazines and books. She has a BA in advertising design & studied painting with the Cape Cod School of Art. Her landscape paintings and visionary mandalas are in collections around the world and carried at several galleries on Cape Cod and in Florida.
While spending 30 years in middle management at a Fortune 100 corporation, her spiritual studies & practices continued as she traveled worldwide and lectured across the US. She's studied with many mystery and esoteric schools including Builders of the Adytum — The Rosicrucians — Lucis Trust — The Association for Research and Enlightenment — Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship. She's studied with Drunvalo Melchizedek, Gregg Braden, Tom Kenyon, Jamyong Singye and is currently an initiate of Shahabuddin David Less of the International Sufi Order.
Jo's devoted more than four decades to meditation, dream journaling, writing and art. Her spiritual mandalas which come while in meditative states of consciousness are used by alternative healers, as well as allopathic dentists and doctors in their practices. Her soul-interpretation mandalas, which are like an intuitive reading, are available by private consultation.
As a visionary and community organizer, she and her life partner lead community ceremonial gatherings, teach spiritual workshops in Sarasota, including the highly acclaimed Purpose Presence & Vision and offer counseling. Jo writes & publishes a weekly online nationally-distributed newsletter called Spiritual Connections. She's a frequent guest on many radio programs and is founder of a very large Women's Meditation Group in south Florida. She's also Director of Spiritual Cinema at Unity. In her spare time she's working on two books: The Messages of the Mandalas and one with her partner called Synchronicities Out Of Time and Space.
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www.starsoundings.com
Latest articles by Jo Mooy in Spirit of Maat:
August, 2012: THE SILENT STONES
July, 2012: TRUST THE MESSAGES
June, 2012: A Million Flames
May, 2012: Snapshots of a Mother
April, 2012: LIFE DO-OVERS
March, 2012: Two disks One message - 2012
February, 2012: What's Love Got To Do With It?
January, 2012: Archangel Visits
December, 2011: Next year it will get Better
November, 2011: The Meaning of 11:11:11
October, 2011: WHAT IF THE WORLD ENDS THIS MONTH?
September, 2011: Leaving an Impression
August, 2011: The Georgia Guidestones
July, 2011: In Alignement
June, 2011: Each Position is North
May, 2011: Keep the Candles lit
April, 2011: Sound Healing a Tree!
March, 2011: REMEMBER MIKE!
February, 2011: Archangel Visits
January, 2011: A Matter Of Perspective
December, 2010: Ascension Revisited
November, 2010: The Carrier Waves
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