We can look at this number from many perspectives. But today, our focus is on the transition from one year to the next, the cycle where December 31st turns into January 1st.
By the activation of our neocortex 300,000 years ago, as Homo Sapiens, our thoughts found its voice and we started to communicate. These early thoughts, shaped and molded by their contemporary level of consciousness, crafted our current reality and conceptualized the notion of time we live by today – a construct deeply rooted in Chronos.
However, the universe doesn’t operate in our language or concepts. In the universe, we aren’t really moving from 2023 to 2024. Unaware of the true nature of time, we witness life through the definitions we’ve created. The meaning we assign to the transition from one day to the next is actually quite meaningless.
We’ve burdened ourselves with obligations – to celebrate, to be with loved ones, to give gifts, to prep up, and to send messages to those not with us. However, in truth, it’s just one day ending and another beginning. Each new day is a blank canvas, and just like today, tomorrow will be a compilation of moments.
These questions we often reserve for New Year’s Eve should actually be our daily practice:
- To what do I want to contribute today?
- What and how do I want to serve?
- How do I choose to respond to life?
- Which version of myself do I want to bring into life today?
Our choices create our reality, and each day 7.9 billion realities unfold worldwide. Each person is the hero of their own story, writing it with their personal choices. Our reactions and decisions trigger the Universal Law of Action/Reaction. Our choices in response to circumstances initiate a chain reaction in life. When we react automatically, we set in motion an energy cycle that manifests a probability in the quantum realm. In contrast, when we observe and respond from a distance, we contribute to the creation of a different reality. And amazingly, these choices are continuously available to us. Life continuously offers us moments to reshape, redirect our lives.
One of my lovely companions, reminders on the path to truth, İrem Orhon, puts it beautifully:
“The reasons that trigger our actions are our decision-making mechanisms, the state of our mind. As the internal factors, that is the reasons, change, the external ones, that is the results, change as well.”
When we transform our perceptions, illusions, and judgments – the reasons behind our reactivity – we briefly get the chance to observe life from a distance. This allows us to slow down our stream of judgmental thoughts and witness moments when we’re closer to seeing reality as it is. And, as we face what life throws at us, the person in front of us, or any situation, we can slow down the cascade of thoughts (which are somewhat judgmental) awakening in our minds and get closer to witnessing moments when we perceive reality as it truly is.The more we can stretch the distance between these two thoughts, the more clearly we can read reality.
As stated by other laws of our universe, like the Law of Vibration and the Law of Attraction, we are beings who vibrate and emit frequencies with our emotions, thoughts, and states of being. The frequency at which we vibrate invites the corresponding manifestations into our lives. Practices such as expressing gratitude, evaluating the past with today’s consciousness and a broader perspective, and interpreting it virtuously, as well as articulating our intentions for the next cycle, are tools that help increase our individual vibration in life. The things that come to light when awakenings find voice after each introspection, also set the frequency and the expansions for the next cycle.
What remains for me from the concept of New Year that we’ve been taught and that I cherish is the desire to reach beyond our comfort zones to our loved ones and ecosystem, sharing the epiphanies, hopes, and wishes that resonate within us at the completion of an ending cycle.
And here’s my deepest hope, my wish for all of us for 2024…
May we have more days where our minds don’t rule over us, where we use them as tools for the tasks they’re meant for. When faced with challenging situations, may we find ourselves more grounded and centered in our breath. When life hits us, challenges us, may we not burn with the desire for revenge and hit life back. Instead, may we choose to see life’s challenges as opportunities for correction. An opportunity to evaluate ourselves, our processes, and our choices. And we should never forget that the courage to redesign our lives always resides within us. May we accept ourselves, each other and the occurrence that is taking place and be thankful for the lessons. Grow more conscious and be more aware on our journey of evolution. May we choose life. Every day and every moment.
May we intend to observe life through the perception of universal laws and truly intend to feel reality. Knowing that we’re in the school of life, may we choose our companions more consciously. Surround ourselves with the people and frequencies of those we aspire to be. May our fellow travelers on this path to truth, our soul friends, be with us on this journey.
And let’s never forget that when the year 2025 arrives, we won’t be the same as we are today. Whether we want it or not, we will transform in response to life’s events. Depending on how we respond, we will either expand and find relief or contract. This great power of choice given to us by the creation is simply ours.
In response to what life brings, what version of myself will we present today?
Will I be part of the solution or part of the problem?
May you stay with love
Eda
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