Be of Good Cheer

I’m looking forward to making a trip to a local greenhouse this weekend to choose my poinsettia. There will be blooms of coral and deep red and white as far as the eye can see. What a pleasure!

If you read my blog post last year, “The Irritation of Poinsettias”, you will know that I didn’t always like poinsettias. Quite the opposite, I hated them!

It’s a great story. Not because of the twists and turns or the engaging character development but because of the practice I introduce called “Finding Endearment” that shows you how easily you can change your relationship to people who rub you the wrong way, if you want to, that is. You have to want to.

I usually find the motivation to “want to” because the pain of judgment or disappointment or irritation becomes too heavy to carry.

Curiosity is also a great quality to call on to shift any long held habit of judging that has become burdensome. Get out your hoe and your gardening gloves and “Cultivate Curiosity” by enlisting your “hmmm…, “I wonder if”, “I notice that” and “could it be”.

Somewhere in the middle of your curiosity quest you’ll find that something that weighed heavily gradually shifted toward neutral and then without even knowing it, became more like delight when you find yourself saying…“Wow, I never thought of that!”

During this holiday season, if you feel your inner Grinch starting to rear its ugly head let the poinsettia (who’s name means “be of good cheer”) remind you to enlist your curiosity to shift your judgment to something more like delight.

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