Happy New Year!
Our household is emerging from a solid month of sickness. Back-to-back viruses (COVID for Christmas! An interminable January cold!) that have me wanting to buy stock in Kleenex.
It's funny because I keep thinking, We've been sick for SO LONG. But then I look at the calendar and realize that a month isn't actually all that long. I mean, what's 'long,' anyway? Longer than I'd like? Yes, for sure. But, really and truly 'a long time'? No, not in the grand scheme of things.
Anyway, how are you feeling?
Are you finding yourself drawing any conclusions about how the rest of the year will go, based on the past three weeks?
When the new year starts off rough, superstition tends to creep up even for folks who say they don't believe in it. They get to thinking that a couple weeks of feeling kind of meh or blah in the new year means something.
Let me tell you what: It doesn't mean anything beyond a couple weeks of feeling kind of meh or blah. I promise.
(And besides, it's January. Who doesn't occasionally feel meh or blah about January? Or about any random month, for that matter. Our emotional landscape is changing constantly, so there's a good chance if you live a decently long life that you'll feel crummy at some point during each and every single month. This is okay! This is what it is to be a human being. Nothing is broken or wrong.)
Are you falling into any of that superstitious thinking?
Have you decided that what's happened so far this month (bad or good—watch out for both) means something about what will happen the rest of the month...or the rest of the year?
If this feels familiar, go gently. Smile for the fact of this new awareness. Remember to stay present to what is, to recognize the good- or bad-feeling moment for what it is—a single moment comprised of moving energy.