The Maya speak About 2012 at Lake Chapala Mexico

by Kristina Morgan

2012Unless you’re completely out of touch and don’t watch the news or read tabloids you’ve heard of 2012. There’s even an action-packed movie by Mel Gibson that promises to scare the heck out of you if most websites about 2012 haven’t already. So is 2012 the end of the world? The beginning of a shift in spiritual consciousness that heralds the Golden Age of humanity? Or just a bunch of conspiracy-theorist hype?

A History Channel program titled "Decoding the Past: Doomsday 2012: End of Days" says a galactic alignment or magnetic disturbances could somehow trigger a "pole shift."

"The entire mantle of the earth would shift in a matter of days, perhaps hours, changing the position of the north and south poles, causing worldwide disaster," a narrator proclaims. "Earthquakes would rock every continent; massive tsunamis would inundate coastal cities. It would be the ultimate planetary catastrophe."

Living in Chapala, Jalisco, Mexico makes the Mayan prophecies that originated here particularly fascinating to me but I wondered what the Maya really think of their prophetic date and about being at the source of all this hoopla, especially where it concerns a prophecy that may be ladled out in heaping mugs of fact-distortion and fear—or mean the end of the world. So what do the Maya have to say about these interpretations of their calendar?

Are you taking a risk by coming to Lake Chapala?

by Kristina Morgan

I had two very similar conversations this week. Both went something like ths:

“I’m old now. I can’t take risks like I did when I was younger. It’s very important to me that I feel secure and I really don’t like change. I have basically had the same life for the past 45 years and I’m comfortable as I am. I am intrigued by the idea of visiting Lake Chapala to see if I might like it there but I really can’t see myself taking a risk by moving there to a foreign country….even if I like it.”

Both of these conversations left me questioning what is it about change that to one person feels positive and empowering and to another feels dangerous and uncertain?

What are the benefits in taking a chance?

Focus on Mexico, Friends and Lake Chapala: A life changing combination

By Kristina Morgan

I just said goodbye to two of my favorite people, Brad and Mary. They are both Focus Alumni I met on the Focus on Mexico program here in LakeChapala during my very first group (February 2-9, 2008) after I came on board with FOM as their Public Relations Director. An irony I’d like to share regarding our friendship is that we are all from Colorado but we had to come to Lake Chapala to meet!

Since their time here, they have bought a house and have plans to move here and have visited several times. They were here for a week this time and I always tell them, “A week isn’t long enough!” On our Focus programs, it is long enough to know that this is a great place to retire. But the subsequent visits feel like teasers from past participants who have become our friends and long to be here permanently.