It’s that time.
This calendar year is coming to a close.
2025.
With all of its:
Hopes, dreams, realities, regrets.
Successes and failures.
The highs and the lows.
All of it.
Precious.
Sacred.
Your very own unique life.
Take the next breath to be with yourself.
To appreciate yourself.
An intrepid traveller through time and space.
Now, look back over the year and breathe with the whole of it.
Perhaps you’re experiencing a sigh of joy and relief. Perhaps fighting off a wave of rage or panic.
Perhaps you’re feeling fully satisfied. Or excited for what you’ve got planned. But you might be feeling sad, exhausted, worried.
Whatever you experience, remember it is temporary.
One experience among many.
Each moment, arising and passing away.
Appreciate yourself for being present.
Being present with it all.
Invite yourself to find the bright spots
As you reflect on your journey through 2025, invite yourself to look back and find the bright spots.
Invite yourself to search for the bright spots of the last year – big or small.
A conversation that moved you to tears.
The courage of people standing for what they believe in.
The generosity of reaching out across a divide and finding common ground.
A really delicious dinner.
Invite yourself to welcome and feel these bright spots as gifts from your past self.
If any disappointments come up, give yourself a burst of love for navigating the frustration, the stress, the challenges. Feel and welcome the bright spot of making it through.
Your past self survived difficult experiences and gifted you with resilience and the confidence of experience.
Feel the uplift and generosity of hard choices, determination and discipline, as well as all the lucky breaks that made up your year.
Make some notes about the bright spots.
Take yourself forward
When you are ready, take yourself forward 12 months. Imagine yourself into your best possible future.
Feel yourself in December 2026, fully satisfied, content and uplifted by your travel through time.
What gifts from your past self will you be grateful for?
Invite yourself to offer a prayer of gratitude now, for the gifts your future self will receive.
Experience the gratitude of your future self, receiving the gifts of 2026.
Make an investment now
Finally, give yourself a moment to consider: what can my present self contribute today, tomorrow or next week?
What small deposit can I make in the present that will earn compounding interest toward that future?
Make a note of an action you can take.
Connect to your breath and feel the joy of future gratitude.
You’ve got this.
And the world needs you.
Love
Hellene