After an intense experience before we can integrate it we first need safety. We don’t need to understand what happened, that will come later. We don’t need to think about what we could have done differently or why the thing happened. We don’t need to become better people immediately. We need to feel safe.
This time of year when we are shutting down for winter is a time to create that safety for yourself.
Can you take a breath and reflect on the last year without judgment? Permit it to be what it was and what it wasn’t. Permit yourself to be what you were and what you weren’t.
Take it up like a hug, lay it down like a baby. Can you find that level of acceptance?
Maybe you failed at some things. Maybe you lost some things. Maybe you didn’t measure up to the idea you had in your head of a “good” version of yourself.
Here I am same old me.
Maybe the opposite you tore through the year like a blaze of glory crushing every goal and becoming a new version of yourself.
Can you lay that down too?
Can you lay down the year before too? Can you lay down your whole past? Hug it close and then relax that tension.
The new year may already be marketing to you but see if you can stave it off for another minute. It may tempt you to skip this moment to take a breath and the following moment of assessing and integrating and making sense and getting clarity from what you have lived. See if you can hold that off for a little while. Tune it out and stay present.
Let the little bit of light that shines on this season shine on the present moment. Rest in the present moment. I am only me. I am only here. I am only now.
Can you give yourself a safe place?
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