As we collectively pause to slow down, enjoy the holiday season, and turn over the New Year, we are offered an opportune time to meditate, reflect, and query where we are in our season of growth and development. The Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, invites us into the stillness, the darkness, a quiet place, to turn inward to intuitive understanding and Indigenous wisdom about the needs of mind, body, and spirit. A turn inward to find the spark of light to guide us forward and lead us to the next healing lessons of our lives. As we orient ourselves to a life cycle of nature and revel in the Winter Solstice moment, the sun's rebirth creates a new life cycle where each day gets brighter and brighter. It is easy, however, to get caught up in the season's business; gift giving, socializing, the magic of the holiday season, which provides joy during this time, but the stillness of the Winter Solstice provides a reprieve from the madness. A time to reflect, pause, and take inventory, see learnings and lessons behind you, and see new opportunities in front of you full of growth and possibility; the ultimate life cycle to nurture, from a little spark of light to manifestation. This is a season of daydreaming, resting, reveling, rejoicing, and asking what the darkness can teach me? If this invitation to stillness resonates with you, here are some tips to draw in the energy of the Winter Solstice and work with it as you turn toward uncovering some of your deepest heart desires and intentions for the New Year.
Create calm, aesthetically pleasing environments in your home that invite rest. Ignite your senses, smell, sight, touch, and taste. Give yourself all your favorite things, tis’ the season.
Unplug from the world, limit social media engagement, take a break from answering emails, unplug from work and productivity. Slow down.
Go off the grid, take a long hike in nature, get lost in the book you have wanted to read all year, journal by sun or candlelight
Connect to your inner wisdom, guidance, and spiritual invitations. Daydream, sit with your dreamscape, write in your journal, commune with your ancestors, hum your favorite songs, cook nourishing meals.
Meditate, reflect, repeat: sit with lessons, resist impulses to rush
Begin the process of setting intentions
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