This year is ending.
Whew.
“It’s been real”, as my friends and I used to say when we were teenagers,
I have witnessed SO much big change happening, in my life, my clients' lives, my groups – and of course in the global arena this past year.
At year’s end it’s natural - and useful - to pause and take a moment to review the year just passed and contemplate the year ahead.
"How did it go? What do I want next year?"... you know, that sort of thing.
And when we do that, many of us feel moved to make some declarations of how we will do it all oh-so-differently in the new year.
“I will lose weight. I will meditate daily. I will be kinder to my children…”
Now, I don’t know how you feel about New Year resolutions but I find they're often just a sneaky way of declaring how little you love yourself just the way you are.
"Next year I promise to be less of who I am now and more of who I think I should be so that I can get approval and feel like I have worth."
Ugh!
Luckily our resolutions are mostly forgotten by mid-January, but still...
I’m a stickler for making whatever you do be as self-loving as possible.
And sneakily criticising yourself in the guise of ‘motivation’, ‘growth’ and ‘improvement’ is not self-loving to me.
If I might recommend a resolution to you, it would be;
“This new year I intend to love myself better and accept myself more for who I am.”
Now THAT’S a resolution I can get behind.
I hope you have managed to love yourself well this December season and that this Bootcamp helped you.
I hope you feel proud of what you have achieved and who you have become this year.
Think of who you were in January and think of who you are now in December.
You have grown and stretched and learned SO much this year. You deserve to feel really good about yourself no matter how you feel things have turned out.
Because you walked through many challenges this year and here you are. Reading something about self-love and wanting good things for yourself. There are so many good things waiting for you in the new year.
In case you need to hear it, let me say this.
You are already enough.
You don't need to be anything other than who you are.
Who you are is wonderful and we need your beautiful heart and spirit here on earth.
Thank you for being you.
May the year ahead be a time of coming home to yourself in a deeply loving and harmonious way.
Most of all, I wish you inner peace and self-love. Everything else will flow from there.
Thank you for journeying with me this year. I really appreciate you being here, reading my books, joining my courses and being part of my community. It makes my heart full.
With great love and light to you
Eilat
