Happy new year…..
Is ‘happy new year’ an apt phrase to usher in the new year? How about ‘I welcome the new year, one with love, laughter, loss, sadness, fears, excitements, triumphs and gains… and I welcome it all’.
In reflection of the previous year, I honour everything that occurred. I have been fortunate to have tremendous things occur in so many areas of my life that I give thanks to with a full and loving heart. I also have room in the same valves of my heart for an appreciation of the harder experiences that have allowed my supposed edges get pushed even more expansive.
As I embrace the new year, I have a tendency to want to start the year perfect. Perfect words, perfect actions, perfect intentions and perfect results. Life’s too playful for this. Forgotten what it feels like to play freely in the mud? Without knowing that this was considered dirty. Free from judgement, labels or a desire to wash right away. The unknowing is part of what I honour with the new year.
I am more thankful for my vulnerabilities and insecurities as I remember my humanness and thus this opens me up to relate to others humanness. We all have dark crevices within, however it is not our defining feature. Nurturing the self is the remedy to soothe these unwanted insecurities. By doing so, offers an invitation to others to also help with the remedy for ourselves as well for others to soothe theirs.
What are your intentions for the new year? Grand, abstract or lack personal fire?
Fresh winds will come and let you know what is right for you. Press your face against them, that is all that is needed. It knows your beautiful face from sight, feeling and an inner call.
Silence, pausing and allowing which can be considered inaction are essential to hearing your wind call your name. Like pollutants to the environment , our frustrations and negativity need to be turned into lasting renewable energies to light the world with love and peace. What else is there really?
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