Is Santa Claus Real?
Do you remember when you asked this question?
I was about 6 when I first had my doubts. My mom and sister tried to keep me believing for years after, but I had come to know the myth of the man in the red suit.
I remember feeling ashamed for being wrong. Ashamed for writing to “Pixie” the elf to find out my older sister was the one answering in elf-like handwriting.
If I’m honest, being told Santa wasn’t real created self-doubt that followed me into adulthood because, well, what I was so sure of at one time in my life turned out to be something totally different. How could I be sure of myself in the future?
Like muscle memory, my body held self-doubt until I understood the true gift of Santa and his hidden lessons of empowerment. Total relief followed when I finally understood we haven’t been told the whole story of Santa Claus. You can gain this empowerment, too!
After all, what children’s story ends in despair? Nope… my heart told me there had to be more to it.
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There’s great benefit to sharing the story of Santa Claus with kids. I realize some parents don’t want to put their children through the pain of finding out. Like with me, there can be residual effects.
However, believing in Santa is one of the fastest ways to allow a child to feel such wonderfully amazing emotions. In some circumstances, it may be the only way a child can be taught the magnitude of their heart’s ability to feel love, joy, magic. Santa is a great teacher for us to learn the power of our heart.
The awakening to Santa as a myth is no doubt painful, but what if it’s also a powerful gift? A lesson to experience what happens when expectations for happiness are placed in the hands of others? That being loved isn’t a condition of being good?
Santa’s gifts are more than presents. They’re evolutionary thoughts for self-growth and self-love. There are deeper lessons in the “big reveal” of man to myth.
Santa knows all emotions are teachers, doing their best to help us learn. First through emotions that ignite the heart to show what you’re capable of feeling. And then through pain, to show the repercussions when your happiness is contingent on others or the promises they make.
With these experiences comes his most empowering lesson: Peace comes to you when love and joy are generated within you, by you, and for you. Never again can someone else take the love and joy from you because it’s infinitely within. In fact, Santa himself gave us that clue, for he is an infinite character, and he is the embodiment of love.
As a result, belief in yourself will grow because you aren’t attaching worth to what others think of you or if they “gift” you with their love or acceptance.
Santa is real because Santa is you.
Yes, Santa is real. He’s real because he is a personification of the power already within you, if you claim it.
Even Santa’s magic… being able to manifest every child’s most wanted gift? The capability is also yours to attract what your heart truly desires.
The truth is, when your heart is fully aligned to feel your most vivid imagination and dreams without hesitation, magic happens! Santa teaches us it takes more than the power of the mind—more than belief—to bring you happiness. It takes feeling, which is the power of the heart, and then manifestation is available to all of us.
Generations upon generations have passed along the tale of Santa, but we’ve unknowingly been taught to stop at what we thought was the end. As you can see, there is so much more when you learn to read between the lines!
I encourage you to look for more; read between the lines in your own narratives. Because if your ending isn’t happy, it’s not the end.
Merry Christmas!
Karen