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| Hats Off! by Anne LaBrie |
By the time each new year
comes around, I find myself feeling glad the old year is leaving. After all, it has been quite a journey –
the ups, the downs, the transitions in-between. There have been things that I am glad happened, and things
that I regret happening. For me, I
love to hang out on New Year’s Day and use the cosmic energy of the new year to set my intentions for the new year. This feels like I’m sort of
calibrating my intentions with the energy that will help me realize my goals. If that concept doesn’t resonate with
you, just know that after trying this experience for yourself, you’ll feel
better about moving forward into the new year.
Ingredients: Journal
and/or 5x7 mat card, colored pens/pencils/markers
For the first five minutes,
think about your favorite moments of the past year. The times that made you smile, or gave you a feeling of
accomplishment. You can either
write a few down – the big ones – or just use your pens and doodle your good
feelings in your journal or on your mat card.
In the next five minutes,
thing about the things that didn’t go quite the way you would have wanted. The things that didn’t get done or that
you were hoping you would have had more time for. Using your pens, draw a doodle that expresses that
disappointment. Don’t think about what you’re doodling, just let the pen take
you for a little walk. What is great about the doodle is that you don’t need to
spend much time in the regret part, but can just get the energy of the
disappointment down quickly. After
all, we’re trying to do this in only five minutes.
Take another minute and
feel compassion for yourself and your experiences for the year. Know that you did your best with what
you had for the time and the knowledge you had!
The last four minutes for
this experience are for what you’re looking forward to. How would you like to feel in the next
year? What do you think would help you get there? Write or doodle those few things down and as you do, imagine the feeling of
relief you will have as these few
things get accomplished. Let your
body take a nice big sigh of it. Whew!
As you can probably
imagine, this process can easily be expanded into taking much longer than
fifteen minutes. And you know
what? That’s okay. The important thing is that you can
measurably feel differently about your year and your Self in only fifteen
minutes. Anything longer is a
bonus!
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