Wow Happy New Year and happy new moon!!! Lots of energetic and real beginnings and endings!!! 

A New Year is certainly a time of contemplation and reset for many of us and Sunday we had a new moon which is also a time to set intentions and launch new projects. Since new moons happen once a month and signify the beginning of a cycle, you can think of them as a cosmic reset.  Now all of this seems to place an awful lot of pressure on ourselves - what should I be adding to my life? Letting go of? Doing differently? Yikes, does this assume our life was crap last week lol?  How about we use this months intention and the 5th Niyama to give us a more, let’s say gentle, guideline for resetting.

 

The intention this month is:  I trust the good orderly direction of my life and I let it unfold and the Niyama is : Ishvara Pranidhana - surrender.  This Niyama reminds us that life knows what to do better than us!!!  Through devotion, trust, and active engagement we can receive every moment with an open heart. Now this presupposes there is a Divine force working in our lives so this also implies that we have some kind of trust in our Divine.  Can we trust that God, grace, life - is a force that is greater than we are and cares deeply about us?  This month we are invited to surrender our egos, open our hearts and accept the higher purpose of our being, to release rigidity and any need to control.  In other words, Stop fighting life.  Together lets find a gentler 2022 reflection and reset by surrendering and trusting the good orderly direction of our lives and just let it unfold!

 

A few Questions to start off the New year and new month:

-Can you watch you attitudes and responses to the moment? Are you fearful, trusting, fighting, judging, or annoyed?  And is this a pattern of your attitude?

-Can you notice this week any tension that arises in your body when you need the moment to be “your way”.  Consciously choose to relax your body and shift to trust.

-Can you watch yourself this week and try to practice welcoming each moment and grow yourself into the opportunity of what is being offered and asked of you.  When you find yourself shrinking away, trust that life is giving you a chance to step into a fuller, more skillful you.  Become a skillful, worthy student of each moment that life presents to you.

-Can you wake up and “let God in”?  Believe in something that is greater than you are and let your actions, your thoughts and your heart line up with that greatness.

 

Happy 2022!!!!