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How Does Winter’s Darkness Inspire Your Inner Genius?

Winter NightThe darkness of the winter season brings an opportunity to reflect on your life’s journey by taking a closer look at who you are – underneath the layers of life. It’s a time to turn within and write about your inner thoughts and feelings.

By looking for the “light” – and knowing that it’s there, somewhere, waiting to be discovered – you can reach a place where your personal reflection begins to shed its own light.

It’s a time to ponder where you’ve been, how you got to where you are now – and where to go from here. It’s an opportunity to explore new ways of thinking and to prepare for a new path of travel. It also marks an ideal time for connecting with your inner self and your true heart’s desire.

How will your “inner genius” be inspired by the darkness of winter?

What magic will be created within you – as you move through the winter season and into spring?

And how will this magic be expressed through you – and brought into full bloom?

Mother Nature knows that a certain amount of darkness is always needed in order to see – and to truly appreciate – the “light” of possibility.

It’s often at the darkest point in any process that you have the insight you need to see your situation from a new perspective. These new insights open the door to new ideas, solutions, and directions.

As world-renowned artist, Vincent Van Gogh once proclaimed, “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” 

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How will your “inner genius” shine during the darkest season of the year?

What great thoughts and ideas will come to mind as you receive the gifts of the winter season?

These are great questions to ponder as you navigate your way through this darker period of the year – and make your way into the light of spring.

Tina M. Games is the author of Journaling by the Moonlight: A Mother’s Path to Self-Discovery (an interactive book with an accompanying deck of 54 journaling prompt cards). As a certified creativity and life purpose coach, and a gifted intuitive, she is the “Moonlight Muse” for women who want to tap into the “full moon within” and claim their authentic self, both personally and professionally. Through her signature coaching programs, based on the phases of the moon, Tina gently guides women from darkness to light as they create an authentic vision filled with purpose, passion and creative expression. She lives on Cape Cod in Massachusetts with her husband and their two children.

4 Comments

  • Bonnie Nussbaum

    I love, love, love the quote “Let us love winter for it is the spring of genius”. Gonna make a pretty picture to go with that quote to post! Thanks for the reframe on winter as I sit here in -4* without wind chill…LOL!

  • Christine

    Lovely post, Tina! Nature is such a beautiful model of how to live and conduct our lives. If only we are wise enough to follow her lead. Winter is a beautiful time to go inside and re-orient towards the light. I look forward to pondering the questions you pose throughout the rest of the season. 🙂

  • Teena

    Tina such a timely post. I found my self struggling recently with the shorter gray days of winter. I was fighting it and could feel the tension building inside of me. I realized I had to make a shift or I would continue to manifest my own internal suffering. I started to let go of the tension and became open to what miracles would happen today. The light swirled back in warmed my heart and soothed a deep part of me that allowed me to open to the love of winter perhaps this is a touch of my inner genius 🙂

    Teena
    http://www.coupletherapyconnection.com

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