New Year, Same You

A New Year brings articles and advertising about "a whole new you".  Join this gym, start that new diet, declutter your house, find a new career, rearrange your whole life. In other words, don't be you. The "old you" makes mistakes: you eat too much "bad" food, you don't get enough sleep, you sleep too much, and your desk is a mess! You need to be different, new and improved, Where does this leave you emotionally, spiritually, physically?  Feeling that you aren't good enough, that you haven't measured up, maybe you never will. This is definitely not a great way to start anything.
​Discarding any part of the self is impossible: every thought, every experience is part of you, body, mind and soul. 

Rather than trying to disown parts of your physical body or life experiences, try embracing it. ALL of it!  By recognizing all parts of yourself, by welcoming all that you have been through, you give yourself room to breathe and space to acknowledge all you are, all that you have become and all you are willing to grow into. This is a practice--not a perfect.  And like me, practice doing this, day by day... or minute by minute, if necessary.  Through it all,  allow You to be You: that's one way to start everything.

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