It is the year 2024. How do you feel about that?!
I feel it is the year of healing in preparation for 2025 and the words that have come to me that represent the foundation to heal this New Year are: Intention, Love & Acceptance, (both together as one), Judgment and Programming – so let me break this down:
It is with in·ten·tion, we create our lives,
- a thing intended; an aim or plan.”she was full of good intentions”.
- the healing process of a wound
I recently took a Reiki course and learned the simplistic version of understanding Reiki is to live with good healing, grounding, loving INTENTIONS. In discussing intentions with a client, she shared that she will often stir “clarity, etc.” into her tea….intentionally. It is with subtle introduction of good intentions individually that we can move mountains…even if it does take years. With every step you take, with every breath you take, begin creating intentions that align with what you want to attain. As you align, you will then take action, which then allows for healing. As in, the healing process of a wound and we are all wounded and waiting to be healed on some level.
The second grouping of words that are necessary for healing this year, is love and acceptance. The reality is, we are all born into a world that tells us we are not good enough and it may be further engrained through our family of origin. If it does not arise from our family of origin, most certainly society likes to tell us we are not good enough so that we can purchase precisely what will make us “good enough”. And with that purchase comes the ongoing reminder, that you are still not good enough and need to make your next purchase in order to become good enough…. And so the “sicklical/cyclical” cycle goes. Instead, if you begin every day with the intention of loving and accepting yourself first, (or at a minimum trying or intending to learn how to do so), then doing the same outwardly towards others – we begin our healing journey. By just loving and accepting ourselves and others, or attempting to, we will grow and heal wounds that run very deep within us and the world.
With regard to judgment, it is the second definition I have issue with.
judg·ment
noun
- 1.the ability to make considered decisions or come to sensible conclusions.
- a misfortune or calamity viewed as a divine punishment.
I feel that judgment, the majority of the time, is the opposite of love and acceptance. It is when we view others in a negative light because we believe the event or person is bad. When we do this, we are judging an event or person due to feeling we are “better” and have this “right” to do so. This promotes separation and separation leads to suffering. It is through taking a non-judgmental stance of self and others, we promote healing. You get to choose; to judge or not.
Lastly, the word that has continually entered my mind is programming. If we view our understanding that conscious life is based on all that has been “programmed into us”; what we’re “taught, told and trained” to do through our environment, then we most certainly can learn to “deprogram” or “reprogram” whatever we no longer want to embody within our day to day existence.
These are the ways to begin your healing journey. Giddyup.
Lisa Parani 