How to celebrate the New Year
Let’s take this opportunity to ring in the New Year with good friends, family and the Science of Deliberate Creation calendar, which you can start any time of the year and is also a study guide for the Abraham teachings.
Resolutions
Give yourself a break and go with the flow of energy if you are planning on making New Year’s resolutions. Winter’s energy is one of hibernating, resting and introspection. It’s a great time to renew our energies and go within to decide what we want for the rest of the year. Resolutions and starting new things works best in the Spring, which is when the New Year used to start.
Weight loss
If your resolutions have to do with weight loss than going with full gusto in the Spring will inspire you even more and make it much easier for you to lose the weight you want since our metabolism slows down in the winter (self-survival mechanism from millenniums of there not being enough food in the winter months). So, not only will you have Spring helping you with it’s energy of starting new things but your body will also shed those extra pounds more readily. Now that doesn’t give you permission to pig out until the Spring, just go back to the healthy eating you were doing before the holidays or start changing your diet slowly (oh, and check with your doctor if you feel you need to, because I’m not a doctor, nor do I play one on television.)
Setting goals
With all this time to go within and decide what you want you can make your lists of what you want to have in 2007. I set my own goals in the following categories: personal, relationships, house, work, vacation, volunteer, financial money, health, family and spiritual. If everyone takes the time to do this, we are creating deliberately instead of haphazardly.
So take this time to set your goals for the coming year and fine-tune them from now until Spring when you’ll implement them and all of nature will be behind you supporting your efforts to make them happen. (If you don’t want to wait and decide to get started anyway, go right ahead. If you succeed, great, if not just do what you can do now and begin again in the Spring.)
Happy New Year!