Every musical track or book I have created, started as an idea or an inspiration. For a musical track, there would be thoughts about a title. Or I would start to hear the sounds in my inner ears. Or the purpose for the track would be the beginning inspiration. For my book, there are thoughts about the title, the stories, the content, the structure, the energy. All these thoughts bring more clarity about what I am creating.
As more clarity develops, I will often share my ideas with my husband Ed, or a friend. Speaking my ideas out loud, seems to make them more real. It gives the ideas more energy and the musical track or book moves closer to the actual book or CD that I hold in my hands.
Holding that book or CD in my hands is one of the most rewarding experiences ever! To actually hold in my hands what started as a spark of inspiration fills my heart with gratitude and awe.
When you are involved in the process of creation or co-creation, you move through 3 stages:
- Thought
- Voice
- Action
One of the gifts the new year brings is contemplation of how far you have come in the previous year. What creations do you hold in your hands or see in people around you? What creations are still in process? I have at least two intentions from 2025 that are still ‘in process’ of becoming real. Some things have their own timeline.
Contemplating the previous year also brings more clarity about my intentions for the new year. If you are in business, you may be creating goals or intentions for 2026 also.
For Sound Wellness, Ed and I go through last year’s business plan to celebrate what we accomplished. 
(Celebration is essential!!!) And we discuss what is still in process and what our new intentions are for the year – personally and for the business.
The flip chart is brought to our living room and we list our main goals for the year. Then we break down the goals to quarterly plans then to monthly, weekly and eventually to our to-do lists.
This is thought and voice finding its way onto our 1-page business plan that we keep taped to our fridge all year. Keeping our business plan on the fridge keeps our thoughts and intentions in front of us.
One of the highlights of our 1-page business plan is the “word for the year”. This is also a favorite annual practice to connect with my higher self for a word(s) that become a general theme for the year. This year, the words that came through from higher self are “Aligned clarity”. What fascinating words for the beginning of a new 9-year cycle that began on January 1.
For each goal and intention, business and personal, I have a special ritual that I do as every New Year rolls around.
I have a little bag of popcorn seeds that have been energized with the high vibrations of my singing bowls and a special space on an altar. Here is an outline of the steps of the ritual if you would like to do this for yourself.
Seeds of Intention Ritual
- Have a list of intentions for the new year that you plan to co-create for the coming year.
- Gather enough seeds to have one seed per intention on your list. The seeds can be vegetable, flower, fruit seeds. Anything that will grow into a plant.
- Create sacred space:
- Light a candle
- Sing 3 oms
- Open the directions
- Say a special prayer
- Any other way you use to create sacred space
- Hold your seeds in your hand(s) and blow on them gently 3 times with the intention to clear them. This prepares your seeds to hold the energy of your intentions.
- Choose 1 intention on your list and 1 seed.
- Hold the seed in front of your heart as you feel gratitude in your heart for this intention completed.
- Now gently blow on your seed imagining that you are blowing the essence of your intention into the seed. Do this as many times as you feel you need until your seed feels ‘full’ with the energy of your intention.
- Repeat #5 to #7 with each intention and seed.
- What to do with your seeds following the ritual:
- Plant your seeds allowing your intentions to physically grow with the seed.
- Place your seeds on a special altar to honour their energy.
- Eat your seeds (if edible) to bring their energy into your physical body.
- Follow your intuition for what feels intuitively right to you.
- Gratitude for ‘it is done’.
I have been doing this ritual for many years and my seeds have bloomed into many co-creations that have filled my heart with gratitude and awe.
Here are links to two online events I did on January 1, 2026 that you can use to support your Seeds of Intention ritual:
Food for Your Soul Sound Bath, January 1, 2026. The crystal bowls are used to amplify the energy of your intentions planted into the seeds:
Seeds of Intention Ritual I did on January 1 for The Enlightened Network YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCdGsRauxeU
Human beings are brilliant creators! When you learn how to create consciously and co-creatively with the universe (God, Goddess, creator, etc), you align with your divine purpose. Those seeds of creation manifest in powerful ways to be of service to humanity and our beautiful planet.
I wish you brilliance and success as you co-create your amazing 2026!
In Health and Harmony,
