daily om

January 25, 2009
Apprehension Tension
Aries Daily Horoscope

Today you may be feeling apprehensive, worrying about the outcome of your plans and making yourself tense. It is natural and easy to worry about the unknowns and unknowables of the future, but this unease doesn’t help—it restricts. You certainly know from experience that muscles tense, headaches make it difficult to think clearly, and your stomach may become upset. These are physical manifestations that reflect the energetic response of what is happening within you. Instead of putting yourself through this when life gets hectic, allow your worry to point you in the direction of affirmations that you can use to keep your focus positive. By keeping your thoughts on uplifting words today, you direct your energy in an optimistic direction, starving the fear and worry until it withers away and feeding wonderful possibilities instead.

When we invest our energy constructively into positive thoughts of possible outcomes, we can affect the material world. We can even influence the event we are so concerned about, either positively or negatively. Once you remember that the power of creation is partially in your hands, you can make the responsible choice to be supportive of your projects rather than being pessimistic about their success. Then when we think of all the possible wonderful outcomes, we switch from worry to excited anticipation, looking forward to the outcome like a child waiting to open wrapped gifts. By reinvesting your energy into positive thoughts today, the shadows of worry will no longer be able to survive in your light.

Snow Day

Rikki Ducornet, 'The Monstrous and the Marvelous'

Rebecca Solnit, 'Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics'

Sam Shephard, 'Hawk Moon','Motel Chronicles'

Amy Clampitt, 'The Kingfisher'

A.J. Liebling, 'Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris'

Library of America, 'American Poetry: The 20th Century: Volume 2, E.E. Cummings to May Swenson