<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>Happy New Year Archives - SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</title> <atom:link href="https://www.spaceclear.com/tag/happy-new-year/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.spaceclear.com/tag/happy-new-year/</link> <description>Home to Your Spacious Self</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 21:52:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1</generator> <item> <title>Spacious Contemplations to Inspire a (Clear) New Year</title> <link>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/12/spacious-contemplations-to-inspire-a-new-year/</link> <comments>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/12/spacious-contemplations-to-inspire-a-new-year/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Bennett Vogt]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:02:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contemplations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sensing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simplicity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Surrender]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Abraham-Hicks]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Happy New Year]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Leonard Cohen]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lightening Up]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Year, New You]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Pema Chödrön]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Personal Transformation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seth Godin]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simplifying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Spacious Way]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wellness]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaceclear.com/wordpress/?p=8626</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Enjoy these spacious contemplations to inspire a **clear** new year: “What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you’re wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there’s a way to create a project (on […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/12/spacious-contemplations-to-inspire-a-new-year/">Spacious Contemplations to Inspire a (Clear) New Year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-8627" title="hands heart" src="http://www.spaceclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/hands-heart.jpg" alt="hands heart" width="300" height="300" /></p> <p><span style="color: #4f3891;"><strong>Enjoy these spacious contemplations to inspire a **clear** new year: </strong></span></p> <blockquote><p><span style="color: #993300;">“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them the answer? I hope so. If not, you’re wasting away. No matter what your job is, no matter where you work, there’s a way to create a project (on your own, on weekends if necessary), where the excitement is palpable, where something that might make a difference is right around the corner. Hurry, go do that.” –<strong>Seth Godin</strong> from <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/what-are-you-working-on.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29">“What are you working on?” </a></span></p></blockquote> <h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">Anthem</span></h2> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">“Ring the bells that still can ring.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">Forget your perfect offering.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">There’s a crack in everything.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">That’s how the light gets in.”</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;"><strong>–Leonard Cohen</strong></span></p> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"> </p> <blockquote> <p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #556a02;">“When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it’s bottomless, that it doesn’t have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space.” –<strong>Pema Chödrön</strong></span></p> </blockquote> <p><span style="color: #cb16e8;"><strong><br /> </strong></span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #993300;">Thank you everyone for joining me here at SpaceClear… </span></h3> <p><span style="color: #ff6600;"> </span></p> <h3 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #556a02;">for your support, thoughts, and comments. </span></h3> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></p> <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">Wishing you a happy and</span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">super </span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">S-P-A-C-I-O-U-S </span></h1> <h1 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4f3891;">New Year !!</span></h1> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/12/spacious-contemplations-to-inspire-a-new-year/">Spacious Contemplations to Inspire a (Clear) New Year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/12/spacious-contemplations-to-inspire-a-new-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>New Day, New Year, Anything is Possible</title> <link>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/01/new-day-new-year-anything-is-possible/</link> <comments>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/01/new-day-new-year-anything-is-possible/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Bennett Vogt]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:18:15 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Contemplations]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Self-Care]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simplicity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clearing Journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Feeling Good]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Going With the Flow]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Gratitude]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Happy New Year]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Letting Go]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lightening Up]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Year, New You]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Simplifying]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Stillness]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaceclear.com/wordpress/?p=5079</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>January 1. 2010. Ten minutes past midnight. New Year’s Resolutions are not really my thing. My style is more like that of painter: broader brushstrokes, organic and impressionistic. I love to daydream; to imagine and feel down to my bones – in the BIGGEST way possible – what I most hope and desire. Here’s is […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/01/new-day-new-year-anything-is-possible/">New Day, New Year, Anything is Possible</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5085" title="happy-new-year" src="http://www.spaceclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/happy-new-year-278x300.png" alt="happy-new-year" width="278" height="300" /></p> <p><strong>January 1. 2010. Ten minutes past midnight. </strong></p> <p>New Year’s Resolutions are not really my thing. My style is more like that of painter: broader brushstrokes, organic and impressionistic. I love to daydream; to imagine and <em><strong>feel </strong></em>down to my bones – in the BIGGEST way possible – what I <strong>most hope and desire</strong>. Here’s is my bleary-eyed-it’s-too-late-to-be-up-writing-this <span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>partial</strong><strong> list for 2010</strong></span> [in no particular order]…</p> <p><strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">To cultivate EASE</span></strong>… <span style="color: #800080;">LAUGH MORE</span>…. <span style="color: #008000;"><strong>Giggle for no reason.</strong></span> … <span style="color: #ff6600;">Not care what people think</span>… <span style="color: #ff00ff;">Take naps </span>… <span style="color: #0000ff;">in a hammock</span>… <span style="color: #ff00ff;"><em>by the sea</em></span>… <span style="color: #993300;">Take myself much less seriously</span>… <em><span style="color: #0000ff;">Have fun</span> </em>… <span style="color: #000080;">ACCEPT imperfectio</span><span style="color: #000080;">n</span> …<span style="color: #ff0000;">Look people in the ey</span><span style="color: #ff0000;">es</span> … <span style="color: #008000;">ALLOW discomfor</span><span style="color: #008000;">t</span>… Allow that I have more fleshy layers around my belly than I did when I was thirty (love my love handles)… <span style="color: #800080;"><strong>Finish and publish my second book</strong></span> … <span style="color: #000080;"><strong><span style="color: #0000ff;">BE</span></strong></span><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong> on Oprah… </strong></span><span style="color: #008000;"><em><strong>Meet Ellen DeGeneres</strong></em></span>… <span style="color: #ff0000;">Take nothing personally</span>… LAUGH MORE…. <em><span style="color: #0000ff;">Trust that I am fully funded by the Bank of God in this elastic Universe of ours</span></em>… <span style="color: #003300;">Experience PURE EASE when I’m in the spotlight</span> … <span style="color: #008000;"><strong>BREATHE … <em><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deeply</span></em></strong></span>… <span style="color: #800080;">Keep writing and blogging my heart out even though it feels sometimes like no one is reading any of it</span><span style="color: #993366;">…<strong>TRUST in my own wisdom.</strong>.. <span style="color: #008000;"><em><strong>Receive </strong></em>more of those amazing <strong><em>waves of Grace</em></strong> that wash over me, unbeckoned, in the early morning … <span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong>Let go</strong>… of needing to be perfect, to be everything to everyone… and just…</span></span></span></p> <p><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong>Take one step at a time </strong>…<strong> <span style="color: #ff00ff;">fluidly and deliberately</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">… </span><span style="color: #ff6600;">with courage, compassion, and joy</span></strong></span><span style="color: #ff6600;">.</span></p> <p><span style="color: #ff6600;">That is what I <strong>self-FULLY</strong> desire for me this year (for now).</span></p> <p><strong>How about you? What does your spacious self most desire in 2010? Go for it. </strong><strong><em>Anything is possible.</em></strong></p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/01/new-day-new-year-anything-is-possible/">New Day, New Year, Anything is Possible</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.spaceclear.com/2010/01/new-day-new-year-anything-is-possible/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Happy New You</title> <link>https://www.spaceclear.com/2008/12/happy-new-you/</link> <comments>https://www.spaceclear.com/2008/12/happy-new-you/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephanie Bennett Vogt]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:20:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Articles]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog Favorites]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books & Book Excerpts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Inspiring]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Practices & Tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Space-Clearing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Journey]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Videos]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Medical Journal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dowsing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Happiness Study]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Happy New Year]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Year, New You]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Space Clearing]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.spaceclear.com/wordpress/?p=158</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>“It seems obvious that your closest friends might influence your mood, but the study found that…the happiness of a friend of a friend of a friend boosts your chance of being happy…” ––From “New Reason to Be Happy” by Carolyn Y. Johnson Boston Globe, December 5, 2008 [read article]   Well, it’s official. It’s been […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2008/12/happy-new-you/">Happy New You</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.spaceclear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/happiness_by_wint3r88.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-368" title="happiness_by_wint3r88" src="http://www.spaceclear.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/happiness_by_wint3r88-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em>“</em><em>It seems obvious that your closest friends might influence your mood,<br /> but the study found that…the happiness of a friend of a friend of a friend boosts your chance of being happy…”</em></p> <p style="text-align: center;">––From “New Reason to Be Happy” by Carolyn Y. Johnson<br /> <em>Boston Globe</em>, December 5, 2008 [<a href="http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/12/05/new_reason_to_be_happy_it_may_go_a_long_way/">read article</a>] <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p>Well, it’s official. It’s been scientifically proven and is now the basis of a new study published in the prominent British Medical Journal:</p> <p>Happiness is contagious.</p> <p><strong>So if you suddenly wake up feeling inexplicably joyous, it could be something in the air, or the water. Your neighbors’ neighbors’ neighbor’s happiness just might wind and waft its way over to you and catch you off guard, lift you up, and slap a smile on your face for no apparent reason.</strong></p> <p>And if you’re one of those eternally optimistic, upbeat, happy-go-lucky types, it’s possible that you’re doing more good for the planet than you even know.</p> <p>Truth is, the ripple effect of happiness––or any human emotion for that matter––is not new, at least not to me. It’s a dynamic I’m very familiar with in my line of work. Using a technique called <a href="http://www.spaceclear.com/sc_dowsing.html">dowsing</a> I can tune into and follow the emotional trails that people generate in their lives (and unwittingly leave behind in their houses).</p> <p>When I’m <a href="http://www.spaceclear.com/spaceclearing.html">space clearing</a> a home that has experienced stressful events such as a sudden or violent death, a painful divorce, a long illness, severe depression, financial troubles, for example, or, is influenced by stresses originating in neighboring homes or buildings, I can “read” (by feeling, smelling, tasting…) the energetic “stickiness” or “unpleasantness” of what went on there. Even if the events took place centuries before! Similarly, if there’s been a lot of love and the home is a happy one, I can feel the distinct yumminess of those patterns too. There’s a clean-burning coherence to energies that feel good.</p> <p>Good or bad, these energies affect us all the time no matter where they originate, even (and especially) when we’re not aware of them. They affect us to the degree that we react to, and personalize the “yucky” or “yummy” information that arises.</p> <p>As for the happiness study, I’m not sure we really need one to measure or prove that there is this invisible connective tissue of thoughts and feelings that binds us humans to each other. If you’re aware and awake in your human body and open in your heart, you will <em>know</em>.</p> <p>But you don’t have to take my word for it. <strong>Conduct your own study in the weeks and months to come: Notice if your sense of ease, peace, or joy has any effect on a friend or a loved one living on some other part of the world. Notice how your state of being affects the world around you, and how the world, in turn, mirrors you back to you.</strong></p> <p>With my very best wishes for a peaceful and HAPPY NEW YOU, <strong>I leave you with this very funny 2-minute </strong><em><strong>YouTube</strong></em><strong> video spoof</strong> <strong>of happy people:</strong><strong> </strong>“FDA-approved drug cure for the 20 million Americans who are insufferably cheerful…” Enjoy!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"> </p> <p style="text-align: center;"><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="425" height="344" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jd4tugPM83c&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jd4tugPM83c&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com/2008/12/happy-new-you/">Happy New You</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.spaceclear.com">SpaceClear | Home to Your Spacious Self | Stephanie Bennett Vogt</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.spaceclear.com/2008/12/happy-new-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>