Time is something so amazing and challenging. It is a very limited resource. How do you want to spend your time in these weeks before Christmas?

168 hours a week! 56 hours for sleeping leaves 112 each week for all the things that require you to be reasonably awake and active. 

Neuroscientists estimate we think somewhere between 12000 and 80000 thoughts a day which includes perceptions, feelings, decisions, doubts, fantasies, desires and a lot of other cognitive activities. 

How many of those hours and those thoughts are devoted and designed to bless you with the great gifts of self-knowledge, self-compassion and self-expression?

Advent is four weeks at the end of the year ... 224 waking hours, I won't put a number on your thoughts as there are too many zeros. 

Inner Advent takes about 4 hours of listening thoughts to the audios for the Year of Light and 2 hours for the Year of Darkness. Then there are the recollecting thoughts, the reviewing thoughts and the releasing thoughts which can take 2-5 hours. (I spend about 3 hours in various blocks of minutes)

So you can give yourself the gift of Inner Advent by spending 4-8 hours with yourself over the next four weeks. 

Knowing the questions to ask yourself, finding creative ways of celebrating, mourning and forgiving your year makes the process beautifully organized. You won't be uncertain or unfocused. You will confident and calm.

Inner Advent is worth your precious moments. Whether you enroll in Inner Advent or create your own process, you will be blessed by the process.

Inner Advent Courses

by The Imagine Self Academy

Inner Advent guides you through a creative and powerful process for recollecting your year.  You will learn ways to review your year and discover what it was all about.  You will then release the perceptions and energies of 2017 like a sweet celebratory exhale and a kind forgiving sigh.

Celebrating Inner Advent prepares the soul, cleanses self-doubt, cultivates self-awareness, nurtures self-discovery in a way that allows us to enter into the mystery of the twelve Holy Nights with real openness. Working with your past year is working on your future year.

Inner Advent brings creative closure to your year

• makes sense of your year on many rich levels – work, relationships, changes, difficulties, emotions.
• provides a surprisingly objective knowledge of your truth
• forms an evolving picture of your feeling life
• acknowledges your accomplishments
• helps free you from limiting identities, stories and reactions 
• reveals the love and freedom of your soul’s year
• gives you a feeling of completion and liberation 
• encourages inner development and inner maturity
• opens you up to receive the gifts of Inner Christmas

Here are  two comments from Inner Advent participants:

Lynn, thank you so much for this. this audio content is as a vessel through which flows profound healing; it encourages me in an inviting way to live the processes of releasing the inner year gently and with love. I am so thankful for the way in which even small steps, beginning gestures - whatever had been possible - are actually far-reaching in effect... The work of celebrating, mourning, attending to regrets and awakening self-forgiveness are described so beautifully. I also cherish the inclusion of the shadow in a 'just right' way - in an honouring way. Lynn that you have deeply meditated and pondered on anthroposophical insight such that it bears fruit in this way moves me and awakens wonder and thankfulness. It is living. It is as grace. It enables my inner process. Anne D.

I've learned through this process that what happens in my "outer world" or contexts is important and is fun to reflect on but that the rich stuff is what's been going on in "the deeds" or my inner world :) I'm really enjoying creating my mandala. I too am using photoshop for the work. I love this class Lynn! It's excellent!! Melissa M

Your Choice

If you want to do the work of Inner Advent this year, you have a choice: The Advent path through the light of your soul over the year or the Advent path through the dark of your soul over the year.  (Or you could do both.) Either Advent path offers a profound preparation for the Holy Nights and the ongoing challenge of self-knowledge and inner development. Trust your heart to make your choice.

The original Inner Advent:

 The Path through the Light of Your Year

Learn more and register here.

Inner Advent: Your Shadows, Sorrows and Sufferings

 The Path through the Darkness of Your Year 

Learn more and register here.

Thoughts on Traditional Advent Practices

I also want to invite you to listen to my audio describing the traditional Advent practices…they are all beautiful and meaningful. I recommend this to those with young children. 

Do you wonder how to prepare for your Inner Christmas?

Are you curious about the meaning of traditional Advent Rituals?

Would you like to imagine new ways of celebrating traditional Advent?

Are you curious about Inner Advent and want to know more before you register?

In this free audio, I will share many perspectives on both traditional and Inner Advent. 

Advent – A Beautiful Preparation. Listen here.

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Any questions about Inner Advent. Ask me by replying to this post.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering. St Augustine