A Prayer For New Beginnings

Starting something new is exciting... but also scary. In this prayer we honour the transition of new beginnings and step forward into the new with presence, love and a fresh perspective. Use this prayer whenever you need a fresh start!

Transcript

A prayer for new beginnings.

As I stand on the threshold of this new beginning,

I feel torn,

Bittersweet.

Ready to step into the new,

But afraid.

Ready to say goodbye to the old,

But sad.

Excited.

Intensive.

Relieved.

Grieving.

All my feelings mixed together.

Stand with me as I take my first step into the unknown.

Whisper courage in my ear as I prepare to speak the words which must be spoken.

To take the actions which must be taken.

Stepping forward and sometimes stepping back.

Speaking the truth and sometimes staying silent.

Always listening,

Always learning.

Help me to be present to those around me.

To listen and to love,

To support and to encourage.

Help me to be present to my own self.

Listening to my body.

Observing my thoughts.

Asking the right questions.

Give me courage to seize the day,

But not grasp it.

To engage wholeheartedly,

Without undue attachment.

To build strong boundaries and work to maintain them.

Even at great cost.

Give me the joy of knowing I am taking my rightful place,

Centre stage of my own life.

Part of the great universal plan.

Give me the peace of knowing what is my part to play.

Where that begins and where it ends.

Give me love and respect for those with whom I live and work.

Give me vision to see that though we are many,

We are one.

Give me awareness of my own privilege and blind spots.

And make me sensitive to the experience and the perspective of others,

As fellow travellers on this road.

Above all,

Keep me safe in the universal embrace.

Loved beyond measure.

Seen and known and understood by love itself.

So I ask and so it is.

Namaste and Hallelujah.

Shanti,

Shanti,

Shanti Aum.

Reviews

Perfect for my new beginnings in a new land. From Ireland to Spain via my Czech homeland. At an advanced age, I am taking a big step with hope, courage and love.

So beautiful - and for so many reasons it is perfect for starting the day. Isn’t each day a new beginning? This prayer manages to capture the many complexities in my life and somehow hugs each one. Thank you so much for this!

Preciosa!. El final es mmmmm…, tan bonito. Muchas gracias y Feliz entrada al Nuevo Año! 🙏😁

I come back to this beautiful prayer often. With gratitude.

Your meditations are heart-touching and so precious to me and so short in the morning. That's good, I start the day with you with little ideas. It's good that you remind me to wish others well and to be respectful to everyone, we all have human feelings and it's good to think a little about what we do with these feelings and I thank you for being here and I love your voice and all your meditations.

I am going to add this to my prayer list. Absolutely beautiful!

Wow, lovely! 🙏 Thank you so much for this beautiful prayer. Bookmarked!. 💮🤍🌸

So helpful as change continues and I evolve. Sometimes fear is an ally sometimes not.

So much wisdom! I will listen to this again and again.

This has become part of my daily meditations . My life has changed since the passing of my beloved dog and it’s a lovely reminder that life is a series of new beginnings . Thank you .

This is my new daily morning start. The words feel as if the universe is acknowledging and validating what I desire yet have feared stepping forward to become. Thank you for creating such an insightful, balanced and meaningful meditative prayer 🙏🏼 I am grateful to have found it. ~Love, light and beautiful embracing positive energy to you❤️

Nice perspective to begin my day as I weigh my course of action to deal with life’s challenges.

Oh how this spoke to me, I’m moving for the first time in 45yrs and I’m scared to death at 67. 🙏

Out of work, out of love, out of beer. But This gives me Hope. Cheers !! 🙏

This is just what I need. Probably broken up into segments because I got a lot of work to do right now. 😊

Grateful the universe put this before me today. Namaste 🙏🏻❤️✌🏻

So helpful. Brilliant. as someone on a healing journey from cancer, this was a wonderful, soul nurturing encouragement, as I begin the uncertainty of the new year.

A brilliant meditation as I move into a new life after separating from my wife of twenty years and the trauma she inflicted by how she brutally handled the breakup. This meditation captures the many feelings within me and leads me to more complete healing.

This prayer is to me utter beauty, truth, and a gift filling me with everything I needed, at the exactly right moment.
And—just like that:
In what now seems to have been an unbeknownst haze that was clouding my view, I have a sparkling clean new lens to step forward into a fresh and crystal clearing, to see a life that has been beckoning me to behold all this time.
Thank you 🙏

Perfectly said, this is a beautiful start of a new day. Thank you!!