Forget Resolutions

Happy New Year.

Breathing deeply into this new day, I feel confident, focused, ready to reap the fruit of last year, committed to planting new seeds in fertile soil.

I’m not setting resolutions (and I don’t recommend you do either).

Resolutions come from a place of lack.

The word itself assumes there’s a problem to solve in a new way (re-solution).

There is no problem to solve.

Everything is happening perfectly in the journey of your soul.

Life is a dance between breathing into the truth of life's perfection and taking intentional action.

Between the opposite polarities of masculine and feminine energies.

Between giving & receiving.

Between relaxing into floating downstream and setting your sights on a destination and swimming towards it, (even when you have to swim against the currents).

Instead of resolutions, I am meditating on what I will create this year, and I recommend you do the same.

Connecting to myself at the end of 2023.

I am breathing into the outcome and allowing myself to feel it in my body.

I feel curious about what this future version of me is feeling, is breathing, is being?

-Regulated in my nervous system
-Resilient to stress
-Consistent with exercise
-Focused on service
-Connected to my breath

Then I ask myself, what’s the next thing I can do to align myself in the present to this version I am becoming?

Here are a few answers that came through:

-Begin each day with meditation
-Commit to physical movement everyday
-Ice baths 3x week
-Following a plan for my business
-Daily slow breathing practice
-Time for music and play

Some of these I'm already doing. Some are things I am growing into.

Here's how you can do this practice yourself.

Give yourself 5 minutes

Drop into your breath

Connect to yourself

And ask: what’s the next thing to do?

The answer will come to you in an instant.

Notice how it feels.

And then act on it.

With Blessings,
Jonathan