Take a few moments to settle into yourself,
To lean back into yourself and sense that feeling with your entire body of coming home into stillness.
Allow your lungs to rock you into that effortlessly peaceful state of being that is your true nature.
Slip into the undercurrent of silence,
Not by forcing yourself into it,
But by softly dipping yourself in,
Below the mind matter,
Below the turbulence of thought.
Don't demand stillness but sink yourself further into it.
Take a few full breaths and listen to the following restorative intentions for the new year.
Allowing the words to sit upon you like bubbles,
Some disappearing at the surface while others permeate deep into your being.
Allow whatever resonates with you,
Fill you,
Soothe you and heal you in those places that have been hardened by pain.
This is the year I lean back into myself.
Do not want a new me.
I do not want an upgrade or a faster version of myself.
I want to nurture the tools within me that slow down time and enrich every cell in my body with awakened presence.
I want to learn about how incredibly capable I am,
Just as I am,
And unlearn all of the unworthiness.
I will forget who I've been told to be in order to remember who I truly am.
This year I will give myself the time I need to get to know myself better,
To foster the love that allows me to reach into every stitch of who I am.
No more seeking,
No more filling myself from shallow waters.
I offer myself the deepness of my being.
My emotions will guide me through this year.
They will be the pillars and posts to where I stop,
To where I'm still and to where I listen to their needs.
I will investigate with curiosity what they are asking of me.
I will hold them when they are filled with rage or emptied through loneliness,
Choosing to be gentle and kind with them because I know they determine my life's experience.
And so shall I become the creator of worlds and the reaper to all that does not fill me with love.
I know that when I am in my most centered and expansive point within myself,
This sensational energy seeps into every part of my life like a mandala reaching towards opportunities and experiences that were made to endow my life with purpose.
How I choose to feel about myself,
How I choose to validate myself,
How I choose to love myself and the kindness I choose to apply to myself is how I take back the power I too often gave away to others.
I will let go the need to control the outcome of my efforts,
For I know that when I flow,
When I run with the moon and the tides,
I'm no longer chained to an anchor that keeps me from discovering what is actually best for me.
This year I trust.
I trust the process.
I trust the pain and I trust the path that is always showing me the way back to courage.
This year I ask not about the wheres and the hows,
For I know if I focus on the here and the nows,
All will be created from the humbleness of my surrender.
I'll do more of what I love and what I love will remind me of who I really am.
It may lead me to places that I am uncertain of,
But I will embrace this unknowingness through living life fully,
As if I were to remember that I am not to survive it.
This year I choose nourishment over comfort.
I choose to give myself what I need over allowing habit to create a disconnection.
I choose the light of awareness with gentle and forgiving compassion.
All shall be made soluble through the eyes of love.
This year I follow my heart.
I stop.
I listen.
I allow.
And I follow.
The mind has been a master too long,
But this year we call mutiny.
We call for a shift in power,
And so shall heart reign over this body,
Loving herself into each and every pore.
With heart comes boundaries,
Comes discipline,
Comes intention,
For I know my freedom is dependent upon the strength to stand up for what I hold dear.
This year I choose to spend time in my own remedial waters,
Tending to my own wounds that no other can bear,
And I will keep letting go of all the parts that weigh me down until I am truly me again.
I know my inner peace requires saying no,
Stepping back and walking away sometimes.
This I shall honor.
This I shall make sacred work of.
I will be mindful of what and who I have outgrown,
Choosing to flourish in ways others may not understand,
But with kindness I choose me.
I choose to nurture my own needs,
Knowing when others start to do the same,
We will create a new paradigm not only for ourselves,
But for our children and all the earth bearers beyond our time.
This year,
Gratitude is how I come back into alignment,
For nothing has ever made me feel smaller than the forgetting of my place in this world.
I choose to embody all that is effortless and good in the world,
Ticking in with what I spend my energy on,
Calling upon my inner northern star for guidance.
This is the year I unfurl myself and fan out each and every unique feather that has been created in reverence to my freedom.
And every time I seek for love,
I will remember that I am denying its presence from the here and now.
And every time I seek validation,
Seek ease,
Seek silence,
Seek calm,
Seek rest,
Seek freedom,
I will remember that I am denying their ever-present existence in the here and the now.
It is all already in perfect existence,
In me,
In the here and the now,
So it's time to lean in,
To lean in and to lean back into the ever-present goodness that has always existed within me.
It is time for the great return.
This is the year of remembrance and reverence to the greatest journey of my life,
The journey home.
Take a long connecting breath to the words that have infused into your bones.
Let them rest there for a moment.
Let them soothe you.
They are imprinting themselves within you until you need them again.
Just be still and they will find you.
You may open your eyes.
I wish you a restorative,
Nourished and reminiscent journey throughout the new year.
May its experiences bring you closer to the immense power you hold within yourself.
And may we journey together again.
