Resolutions – I’ll Start on Monday
Resolutions
by Cori Savenelli
The holidays are over. The bills are not paid. The ten pounds you lost in June are back and hanging on for dear life. The sunny days help you get out of bed, and the rainy and snowy days make you fall in love with your flannel sheets.
You hear through the grapevine that your ex–you know, the one who you so desperately wanted to call on New Year’s Eve?–does something to remind you why you dodged a bullet by lounging on the couch watching that one last holiday movie and passing out in a half-gallon of ice cream or surrounded by the remaining alcohol carnage. The nerves about holiday parties, how we will look, and what our families will think of our significant other (and what he or she will think of our families) fades into a dim shadow of confusion about why we were so concerned in the first place.
The resolutions are made–lose weight, be nicer, spend more time with family and friends, get a new job, quit smoking/drinking, start to meditate, take a class–you get the picture. Every Monday, for the next three months, is that “new day;” that time in your life to begin again, to start over and make yourself better.
What is it about a new year that makes people question the very essence of who they are, or their habits, lifestyles, or daily lives? Is it the fact that we are told that we can reinvent ourselves, take those parts of us that we feel are lacking and make them socially or personally acceptable? That is one way to look at it.
Perhaps, it is because every new year is the universe’s way of reminding us to keep moving forward. We remain so stagnant in our day-to-day that we forget our existence is always evolving. It needs us all to participate to make it progress and change.
If not for a resolution, who among us would think to plant a garden, or join a spin class, to feel better, make new acquaintances, or work on our finances better, thereby relieving stress and putting good positive energy into the world! A new year is a mark of progress, and of continuity.
As we move forward, maybe we can view those extra ten pounds as a means to use new energy for healthy living. We may choose to make our bodies a temple for our light, rather than a distraction from it, so to enlighten the world with our new vibes. By starting to budget better, we may find ourselves able to donate five dollars a week to our favorite charity.
Taking a foreign language class might enable us to be qualified to work with a larger population of people. Finding a way to stop smoking or some other unhealthy habit will, undoubtedly, add vitality and spunk to our daily lives. Tend to the spiritual–making it a point to pray, for example, and give thanks for all that is given us–before our feet touch the floor in the morning or rise from it at night.
We can choose to see the New Year, not as a reminder of our blunders, but as a milestone to show us that we are all a work in progress. The world is counting on us to provide it with the best of ourselves– mind, body, and soul!
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About the Author
Mystic and Spiritualist, Cori Savenelli, is a practicing reader and spiritual healer, with clients across the United States and Europe. Having had an awakening at 33, her gifts have expanded to healing and awakening the mind, in addition to divination practice. She is on Facebook: “Cori Savenelli, Mystic and Spiritualist.”
