The Closing of the Soul's Year - An Opportunity to Find Meaning
Published: Fri, 11/12/10
Dear Friend,
The year is in its last weeks. There is only one more new moon (December 5th) before the end of the year.
Before the new year arrives what newness will your soul experience? Do you want to think new thoughts, have a new imagination, walk a new path, feel a new joy, know yourself in a new way?
Before the new year arrives what newness will your soul experience? Do you want to think new thoughts, have a new imagination, walk a new path, feel a new joy, know yourself in a new way?
How to Remember Your Soul's Year
Whether it is the long hours of darkness or a date on a printed calendar, we all know outwardly and inwardly that the year, your year and my year, is coming to a close. It is time to plan your yearly review - to recollect, consider, and celebrate what unfolded in the course of the year.
Perhaps you have never thought about reviewing your year. Or you may have thought about it but not done it.
Reviewing your year brings many benefits. Yes, it can be a scrapbook of sentimental reflections filled with feelings of sweetness and regret. Or it can be a gathering of gained wisdom and the recognition that you are not the same person you were a year ago. It can be a summing up, an accounting of additions and subtractions to your sense of self.
The yearly recollection lets you bless and release the energies that built up over the four seasons. You feel an inner closure and cleaning out of your soul. It is a preparation for the coming year - a creating of the sacred emptiness that calls in the future.
Now is the time to plan your review. What will be your process of recollection? When and where and how will you imagine your inner and outer year?
Will you devote time and attention to this meaningful activity? How much time? Does your year deserve an hour of recollection? Several hours?
What are the questions you want to ask yourself? What made a difference? What gave meaning? What was different? Who did I love and how did I love them? How did they love me? What did I learn? What was pure fun? What was difficult or painful? What do I need to forgive?
Will you share what you gathered over the year with anyone?
Perhaps you have never thought about reviewing your year. Or you may have thought about it but not done it.
Reviewing your year brings many benefits. Yes, it can be a scrapbook of sentimental reflections filled with feelings of sweetness and regret. Or it can be a gathering of gained wisdom and the recognition that you are not the same person you were a year ago. It can be a summing up, an accounting of additions and subtractions to your sense of self.
The yearly recollection lets you bless and release the energies that built up over the four seasons. You feel an inner closure and cleaning out of your soul. It is a preparation for the coming year - a creating of the sacred emptiness that calls in the future.
Now is the time to plan your review. What will be your process of recollection? When and where and how will you imagine your inner and outer year?
Will you devote time and attention to this meaningful activity? How much time? Does your year deserve an hour of recollection? Several hours?
What are the questions you want to ask yourself? What made a difference? What gave meaning? What was different? Who did I love and how did I love them? How did they love me? What did I learn? What was pure fun? What was difficult or painful? What do I need to forgive?
Will you share what you gathered over the year with anyone?
Inner Advent
This time of the soul's year is Inner Advent. Advent begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Christian Churches each Sunday is a preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. Inner Advent is a preparation for the new birth of self, a renewal of creative innocence.
My Inner Advent teleseminar of four sessions offers a guide to your awakening to and capturing of your recollections. I take you through four levels of reflection and suggest the making of a personal mandala of your year.
Looking back at the year can feel daunting and confusing. Participating in Inner Advent makes the whole process clear, creative and results in a beautiful and meaninful closure for the year. Even for me, the idea of doing this on my own seems too easy to ignore. If I wasn't teaching this course, I could imagine finding the demands of the season and daily life an excuse to not do this important inner work. Yet I know the Inner Advent process really celebrates the year and prepares for the very special time of Inner Christmas and the Twelve Holy Nights. My inner life becomes richer and my relationships to all the other aspects of my life in the course of the year have more vitality and beauty.
Do join with a group of other evolving souls to celebrate Inner Advent and a year of living life and becoming you.
Register for Inner Advent today.
http://www.store.lynnjericho.com/Inner-Advent-IYIA10.htm
Inner Advent begins the Sunday or Thursday following Thanksgiving.
With warmth and interest,
Lynn