So the New Year is long gone and almost forgotten, but before we let go and dismiss it completely, let’s take a moment to look forward.
The final meditation blog included a reminder to reassess and be ready to go forward with the insight of hindsight beside us.
Today it is a case not of ‘setting goals, but of ‘letting go’.
Meditating with your eyes open is not a new concept, which has been touched on previously. This meditation is done with full and deliberate intent.
Using the knowledge you gained by reassessing your progress since we began the series of meditation blogs, you may have a clearer idea of what has annoyed, disrupted your progress, and has had a generally negative impact on your personal progress last year.
Letting go of the negativity, in the same way you’d throw away an old pair of slippers when they start to trip you up they are so decrepit, is a must to move on.
Are there people in your life who hinder, block or generally hold you back? Take a look at how you can change that and whether you have to go to the ultimate length and drop them from your life.
Do you have old habits and beliefs that are detrimental to where you want to go this year? This one may sound innocuous but in reality is a whopper to deal with. It is so easy to beat ourselves up for what we perceive as ‘failings’ which, with a slight tweaking of perspective, could be called ‘learning curves.’
Take your time with this meditation, as it can have an enormous impact on you and your environment. Come back to it when and as often as you feel you need to throughout the year; this way you prevent new negative habits from taking route.
One of the best and easiest ways of doing this is to physically write a list of the negativity you wish to remove from your life. Read it through carefully, with intent, and when you are ready, take it to a sink and set fire to it.
Watch all that negativity burning away, knowing too, that fire is one of Nature’s cleansers.
Acknowledge the release of your list of negatives, and have fun in 2012.
6 comments:
Thanks, Sherry - I'll sit with this meditation tonight. the exhoration to "have fun" is key. You can't beat yourself up and have fun at the same time . . . well, unless you're a masochist, and I'm not going there. Smile.
Thanks Sherry, that gives us all something to think about. Just reading it I thought of some things I really need to take a good hard look at! Happy New Year.
Ashantay, thanks for coming by, and I'm glad the 'have fun' grabbed you. It's far too easy to get too 'earnest' and serious about meditation.
I'm looking forward to your next post.
Jinny, I'm delighted you connected with this. Have some fun with it and when you release all that old garbage, see what funny shapes you can turn it into as you watch it 'go'.
Happy New Year to you too.
Another good one. I'm a big believer in trying to let go of the negativity. It can be tough sometimes, though.
'Tough' is not the word I use to describe trying to boot negativity, Sandra, but as I can't print it here, I'll let you use your imagination! LOL.
Just when I thinkI have it licked, it morphs into something else and pops right back up again!
guess I'm just a slow learner! rofl.
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