Podcast for January: Season 3 #101 The Seasons of Our Lives: Creation, Dissolution, Transformation.

Happiest of New Years to all my readers, clients and students! As I reflect on 2022 and look forward to the new year of 2023 I realize that the many challenges of the past year for me personally and us collectively, though difficult and painful at times, have been the seeds of transformation in my life. Each unexpected event, be it my health challenges, the mold in our home and need to demolish our house of 40 years, and all the financial implications of these events have led to change, transformation and unexpected blessings. My wife Michael’s poem “Creation, Dissolution, Transformation” says beautifully what this year has been for us:

“CREATION, DISSOLUTION, TRANSFORMATION” published September 2020 by Kind Over Matter
We laugh, we cry,
Our tears turn to jewels
And decorate the sky,
Displaying a creation of wonder.

We breathe in Life
And transform the strife
Of a nightmare
To beauty and thunder.

Evolution is the game,
All is the same
As it twists into reality,

How fortunate to see
What it is to be free
And wander without judgment or blame,

To welcome change
And appreciate the range
Of experience the mystery holds,

As we reach the summits
And plummet to the depths,
While unwrapping our Divine nature.

The atom so profound
Changes all around,
Wearing many masks of reality,

Underneath we are the same
And that’s the whole game
in the phases of coming and going.

No need to be afraid
To release what we’ve made
in order to fulfill our potential

Break the old mold,
Transform lead to gold,
We are alchemists
In the dance of creation.

—Michael Bailey

As in nature, when things die, they decompose through mold and other fungi to break down the current form and transform it into nutrients for new life forms. This is the process of transformation we see in nature when leaves lose their green color and turn into the colors of Fall; they fall, decompose and become the nutritious dirt that feeds the trees and all of nature—creation, dissolution, transformation.

The new book was a surprise to me. I thought I was done writing after “Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane” was published a year ago. But to my surprise, in a dream, I got a “download” of a new book: “My Magic Carpet Ride” which is part autobiographical and part teaching the Principles behind following our dreams and inspirational insight that has guided each phase of my life, whether I knew it at the time or not. In hindsight, I see the perfection of all the challenges and opportunities that have taken me into worlds I never imagined and creating programs, books, and travels I never thought I was capable of. It has felt like the “carpet,” knew where it was going and I just had to let it take me into the unknown to all the blessings of my amazing life experience.

I will keep you posted with short video blogs as I go forward and give you glimpses of the book as it unfolds. Feel free to write me if you have comments or questions.

My book "Thriving in the Eye of the Hurricane" is currently on sale for 30% off on Mango.bz @mangopulishinggroup until January 31st. Grab a copy for yourself or as a gift for the New Year!
All the best to you in the New Year,

With love, Joe