A new year. There is something so powerful and momentous about this time. Fresh in its promise of new choices and opportunities to do the right thing. I'm not one to make resolutions; from my experience personally and socially, resolutions are often strict and judgemental, and I don't particularily respond very well to that type of system. Instead I'm relishing in the freshness and promise of a new year, in its simplicity, sacredness, and fullness of promise.
Being things I want to work on, I know what they are; with that I am gifting myself of grace, knowing that everything works out in its time. Granted, what I focus my intention on expands, so my responsibility is to stay focused on my potential.
I don't spend money on this enterprise, but am enriched by the resource of spirit. I think I can accurately reflect that New Year's resolutions can often require financial resources in dominant, mainstream society of the resolver, issuing bundles of bills to big business for the promise of a better self. Accumulatively, so much money spent on the application of a potential band-aid approach to something that oftentimes needs TLC; and it requires a judgemental, superfical asthetic to a longstanding, deeper wound. Something a stricter resolution (this time!) will not promise to fix, and can alternately serve to exacerbate.
Recognizing the necessary flexibility to navigate this life course, choosing a much friendlier and economically sound approach in how I "deal with myself", inspires empathy and nurturing in how I approach and reproach myself. In my experience, compassion relieves a host of "problems".
Our len's colored by the world we live in, I reflect on the words of the Talmud, "We see things not as they are, but as we are." Principally, this reflects my worldview in that practicing conscious awareness lends itself to evolving in a way that humanistically supports my growth. Pivoting from various standpoints I can see that we are much more than we often limit ourselves to be, and/or are limited by the various sociological constructs in dominant mainstream society.
This new year, I want to say, "Yes!" to change, and growth at my own pace, with the right timing, whilst nurturing, compassion, acceptance, and love be my guiding pinciples. Resolving to focus on the potential that this attitude manifests, subsequently leaves me with abundance of spirit and monetary resources. Here's to doing the right thing. Cheers!
