Hey Lioness PRIDE,
Happy NEW YEAR!
May this magical year of 2022 be filled with all your hearts’ desires.
My process of entering into a New Year is very intentional. After what often is a very busy Festive period, I choose to start my year by going off the grid and going WITHIN.
And by going off the grid, I mean off all forms of outside stimulation that doesn’t serve my best and highest self.
I turn off e-mail and mobile phone notifications, switch off from all social media, limit my TV viewing to maybe one main news bulletin per day, limit my general TV, movies and series binging to almost none existence and sit quietly and comfortably in my own space of truth.
This period of self-imposed time out and deep reflection is for a fixed time of 21 days because it is said that it takes 21 days to break any habit (usually bad habits of course). So whatever habits I picked up from my previous year that most often need to be let go of, the beginning of a New Year is the time I use not only to clear them all out but to give myself some time to work through why I had picked them up in the first place.
Because the process of letting go, needs the clarity and wisdom of understanding why, we truly and consciously need to work hard on breaking the habits that don’t allow us to move forward with our incredible and blessed lives, and really see our growth at the end and beginning of each New Year.
But don’t let this process overwhelm you. Commit to what you can handle and transform honestly from within your own understanding. It could be as simple a task of filing that’s gathered up during the last months of the year that I now make time for to document and put away in its relevant place.
It could be a time to reflect on that relationship (friend, family or lover) that hasn’t been sitting well with my soul and deciding how I want to move forward with it in the New Year.
It could be reconnecting with a health plan and exercise regime that I let go of sometime during the year when stress levels went out the roof and I got caught up in the madness of it all.
I am a firm believer in the words of the poem INVICTUS by William Ernest Henley that clearly state…
“I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE: I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL”…
And over the years, I have come to the personal realization that each year brings with it its own challenges and triumphs but the most important way in which I can take on a New Year is to decide and ALIGN with what I want to see manifest into my own reality and do all I can to make sure that I attract mainly my beautiful desires throughout the year. Since after all, ‘I am the captain of my soul’.
So once I have shut out the outside noise and created a beautiful moment of peace and stillness within my own spiritual home, I let go of old habits that no longer serve my highest purpose driven life. This I do through prayer and meditation while lying down on my special prayer mat, or in a quiet corner I have found in my house to sit and write in my journal.
Surprisingly, I find that during times I am doing my house chores such as washing the dishes and sorting out the laundry I can also achieve great moments of clarity on an issue that I have been needing to gain my own directive on.
Once I am clear of the old that needs to be let go of, I align with the new energies I want to bring into my space. And my first point of spiritual alignment is my home clearing routine.
I light my candles, burn some white sage, frankincense incense and Palo Santo sticks and have myself a private clearing and aligning ritual in my own home. I have done this for many many years, and make sure to do it at different times during the year when I feel a little off course and needing to re-centre with my inner compass.
And the message that came to me this New Year and a theme I would like for us to all make sure we stick to as we head on into the coming months is ALIGNMENT. Let us please all line up with our dreams and deepest desires Lioness Queens and living our most honest truths – whatever that looks like for each of us.
In this New Year, I pray we all align with our most happiest, joyful and peaceful states of being and ensure we are flowing in the best and authentic direction relative to all our hopes and dreams.
With Love & PRIDE,
Nthabi Taukobong
