Sometimes time seems to go by SO fast right? You blink and weeks have disappeared and you can’t remember what happened or WHY it went by so fast, but it did and it does. There’s nothing like a new year to make you pause and think about the fact that an entire YEAR has gone by. One whole year.
The holidays are over, and if it’s one take away I ended up with, that I didn’t expect, it’s the reminder that one second things are one way, and the next second they are no longer that way, but a completely different way. All my anxiety and planning (read countless, countless hours) regarding the in-law visit, seemed very pointless after we got a last minute call the day of arrival saying there were health issues preventing the entire visit. A handful of days later, right before a ski trip that had been planned, John broke a rib and poof, entire trajectory changed. The unexpected is always right around the corner.
So as the new year arrives, and a whole new decade arrives, it makes me think about just how much has happened, not just in this last year, but the last 10 years. You can be in one place in 2009 (anxiously awaiting the new decade) and WOW what a different place you find yourself in 2019, awaiting the NEXT decade. Ipads didn’t exist in 2009, neither did Instagram. It’s two worlds apart, and yet that doesn’t necessarily take 10 years to create, that can also happen in an instant.
My yoga classes post-Christmas have all focused on the approaching new year, and as always offered so many wonderful concepts and things to remember. The first that comes to mind is a reminder that you can change the narrative in your head. New Year doesn’t have to be about beating yourself up for what you didn’t do last year, and making a daunting list of what you “should” do the next year. It can instead be about acknowledging all that happened, good and bad the year before, and just accepting and reflecting on that. We aren’t trying to “fix” ourselves, we are pretty awesome already. That doesn’t mean we don’t aspire to do new adventures, or new things to help us grow in the New Year, but why start out by beating yourself up.
The other yoga wisdom that stood out to me was the reminder to let go of the old, to invite in the new. Let go of things that don’t serve you, emotionally or physically, so that you have room to welcome in what DOES serve you. This is harder than it seems. We tend to clutch and cling to familiarities in our life even when they are toxic, unhealthy, or stagnant. Let the New Year be a great reflection point to release those things you are holding on to. There are endless possibilities that await to fill the space.
Here’s to wishing you all a wonderful welcome to the new decade. We hope that it’s filled with light and love, and all the lessons to be learned are as painless as possible.
Mad Love For You All,
Signed, ME {lv}
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