Five Practices to Support Your 2023 Reflections
Twelve months of Gratitude. Reflect on 12 things you have been grateful for this year (one for every month)
Twelve months of Loving-Kindness. Who are 12 people you have loved and appreciated in 2023? What have you loved and appreciated about them this year? You can even send them a letter, write them a text or give them a call to let them know. Alternatively, you can focus on one person for this reflection - what are 12 things you appreciate about this person?
What went well in 2023? What challenges did you experience? For every challenge that you reflect on, take time to bring to mind two or three good things.
Write a love letter to your future self, and put it aside to open at the end of 2024. Your letter can include lovely things you want your future self to remember (we tend to forget a lot!), words of praise, encouragement, love and kindness. Write as if you are an angel coming to visit your future self and sprinkle some goodness and light.
Take time to reflect on the following questions. You can do this as a journaling exercise, as a conversation with loved ones, by sitting quietly or while on a mindful walk.
What lesson/s did you learn in 2023?
What gifts did you receive in 2023?
What healing did you experience in 2023?
Were there any relationships that you had a break through with? (not just human relationships - could also be relationship with work, food, substances, body etc.)
What do you have an openness or receptivity to in 2024?
What are you willing to practice or shift in 2024?
One thing to do before you set any intentions or new year resolutions
Connect with your heart-felt calling.
Your heart-felt calling is your own unique expression of what it means to live with love, beauty, joy and truth. It is your unique flavour of goodness.
Your heart-felt calling is never attached to anything external to you. And is always affirmed in the present-moment.
Your heart-felt calling is your anchor. Your inner compass. And you can align all of your choices, decisions, intentions, goals and resolutions with this.
I wrote more about Heart-felt calling here.
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