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BEFORE You Set Intentions for the New Year

12/31/2014

Taking time to look back at the year ending before setting intentions and creating visions for the year ahead can help clear the slate and prepare the soil for the new seeds.

This 4-minute video will get you started...

Make list of your accomplishments over the past year, including major categories of life such as your health and wellbeing, work, finances, relationships, authenticity, growth and learning, etc. Really let yourself see what you've done with your time and energy. Be careful not to judge the size or importance of the list - this is about seeing what you DID rather than what you didn't :) Create at least a few minutes of space for yourself to just bask in the glow and celebrate and appreciate all that you’ve done, all you're becoming, and all that you are.

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Buck the system - REST!!

12/22/2014

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Yesterday’s Winter Solstice marked the longest night of the year, but it’s at a time of year where many of us often get very little rest. Like much of life, the holiday season can be a giant contradiction: festive, beautiful, heartwarming, cold, peaceful, overwhelming, and confusing.

Within the span of a few minutes, we can be both the best and worst of ourselves as our kind and generous hearts are besieged by fatigue and stress. We may graciously wish joy and peace to total strangers in one moment, and then proceed to fight them in traffic the next. I’ve long said bad traffic and crammed parking lots tend to bring out the worst in people – it’s a particularly interesting juxtaposition during a time when people are (generally) at their most loving and compassionate.

Have you ever watched a child eat lots of candy, their mood and antics swirling and escalating higher and higher, louder and louder until they hit the inevitable peak of the sugar high, followed by the equally predictable crash? This time of year feels a little to me like the grown-up version of that scenario. Sometimes sugar is the culprit. Sometimes it’s a lack of sleep, too much social interaction, or too little authentic expression of our real thoughts and desires in an attempt to keep the peace. But the collapse is just as inevitable.

So before you find yourself screaming or cursing or crying (or all of the above), GIVE YOURSELF A BREAK. REST!!!!! The world won’t fall apart, I promise. Even if you take a bag of chips to your office potluck or ask your friends to skip exchanging gifts this year, or use gift bags instead of fancy wrapping, the world will keep spinning. Guaranteed. Or it won’t, and then all of that really won’t matter :)

To me, Child’s Pose represents rest - an opportunity to regroup, re-center, and take a break. Let go of the illusion of control. You can get down on the floor, or just visualize pulling into your imaginary turtle shell and breathe deeply for a few moments. In the stillness of rest, listen for the voice of balance. BREATHE.

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