Throughout our lifetime, each one of us will carry valuable and meaningful lessons learned in life — little gifts of enlightenment that we decide to take with us along the way. And the lessons we choose to embrace in our lives will determine how we grow and develop emotionally and spiritually in this lifetime.
In this post, I’ll be sharing with you 4 life lessons that you can choose to adopt and carry with you towards the new year and make a vital part of your daily waking life. These will guide you in choosing a more positive energy vibration within yourself as you move forward and embrace this new world we’re living in right now.
1. Choose Love Instead Of Fear.
This coming year, instead of filling your mind with fearful and negative thoughts about things not working out, about problems getting worse, and about bad things happening around you, choose to fill yourself and your mind with thoughts of gratitude, optimism, happiness and well-being. Choose to embrace the life-giving energies of love, peace, harmony, and joy. Rather than focusing your energies and talking about things that you dislike or things that you fear, practice moving more towards things and topics that enliven your spirit and lift you up internally. Choose to focus on what you want to happen, what you enjoy most about being alive, and what you are thankful for in every day, rather than feeding the energy of fear and negativity. Become a heart-centered person and make it a habit to create a space for love to permeate in your life, and close any doors where fearful energies might come in.
Now is the time to become aware and recognize what energies you are feeding into in any moment. Choose to vibrate in the frequency of love instead of fear. Choose to think thoughts that are in harmony with happiness, satisfaction and appreciation, and move away from energies of hatred, anger, blame and powerlessness. The thoughts that you are choosing to think right now are adding momentum either to love or to fear. A very helpful statement or question you can ask yourself on a regular basis is: “Is this a loving thought? Or is this a fearful thought?” This can serve as your guide to determine what momentum are your practicing, or at what frequency are you vibrating with your current choice of thought.
Affirmation: Today, I am choosing to be the energy of love instead of fear.
2. Choose To Trust Instead Of To Worry.
This coming year, instead of spending your time worrying about what bad might happen in the future or stressing over pessimistic scenarios you’re creating in the mind, choose to relax and trust that whatever you need will come to you when you need them, and that the solutions will be provided for you at the right timing and order it’s meant to come on your path. Worrying will just rob you of your present moment, as you are spending your precious time now to overthink things that are not serving you. Realize that worrying actually gets you nowhere, as it rarely solves the problem. It just makes you feel worse and drains your energy as you are continuously doing it.
Instead of worrying that things will go wrong, why not put the same energy in the opposite direction and begin trusting that things will become better for you, and that the right things will appear in the right places, without you needing to know how it will happen right now. Trusting instead of worrying will make you flow calmly and peacefully with life, and not carry any burden or heavy load in your heart. You are keeping the faith that you are eternally guided and taken care of always, just like how everybody else is. And this trusting energy will make you an open gateway to receive whatever you need in the best way and the most opportune time for you.
Affirmation: Today, I am choosing to trust life instead of to be in endless worry.
3. Choose To Let Go And Surrender Instead Of Controlling.
This coming year, instead of trying to figure everything out in your life and control every circumstance around you to make yourself feel better, practice letting go of needing to control external things and to have all the answers in your life figured out. Practice getting comfortable with not knowing everything, and surrendering to the perfection of life as it unfolds for you, just the way that it needs to. Instead of trying so hard to control the timing of things coming into your life, let go and surrender to the process, to the perfect timing and order of your life’s unique path.
Having the habit of controlling all the details in your life will always make you feel very tired and unhappy in the process. Realize that you didn’t come into this world wanting to control things. But rather you intend to learn the power of letting go, and letting life move through you and carry you towards the things that you want and desire. Instead of becoming attached to things being a certain way, practice detaching from the specifics, and let life show you the right path and the right people that are meant to be a part of your divinely-orchestrated life.
Affirmation: Today, I am choosing to let go and surrender to life’s process instead of controlling every circumstance.
4. Choose Allowing Instead Of Judging.
This coming year, instead of reacting and making judgments about the different events happening around you and looking for the faults in them, practice allowing the present moment to be exactly what it is right now. Find that quiet and peaceful place of just allowing and not judging anything. Allowing means becoming at peace and in acceptance of whatever is happening in the present moment, while carrying the knowing that it is happening for the highest good of all, regardless of how it may appear at the moment. It is knowing that everything is in perfect divine order and is perfectly orchestrated, otherwise it wouldn’t be happening right now.
Practicing this habit of allowing instead of judging will create a mind that is free of unnecessary chatter. You are not fighting anything, nor resisting anything. Without the need to change people and circumstances that are already in the present moment, your mind will be clearer and calmer, instead of having to endlessly argue about what is good and what is bad. Allowing also applies to your relationships with other people, letting them be how they choose to live their lives, and not forcing them or judging their choices and the path they decide to lead. Instead of resisting them, allow them to exist in the way they prefer to, so you can also be free to become who you are choosing to be.
Affirmation: Today, I am choosing to be allowing of people and things, instead of judging them.
I hope these 4 lessons learned in life have been very enlightening and inspiring for you. May these life choices lead you to a more positive and loving atmosphere around you for the many years to come!
Let us now embrace the new year full of gladness and cheer, and spread the good vibes and positive spirit for all of humanity.
Wishing you more Light, Love and Happiness 🙂
P.S. Here’s more Inspirational Life Wisdom from this Youtube video on Hellohappie Channel:
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Words that really hit their mark with me. Well done.
Thank you Rebecca! I feel many can relate as well, as these are lessons we all go through at some point 🙂
You have a beautiful way of presenting profound truths to reach people. Your writing weaves compassion and wisdom in a way that inspires spontaneous insight, sets a heart at ease, disarms a defensive mind.
The Buddha said, “better than a thousand verses is a single verse upon the hearing of which one’s mind is set at peace”. Your writing is like that!
Thank you for the wonderful feedback Caelan! Appreciate the way you describe the tone of my writing. I’m glad to hear this has brought you some ease and peace of mind. Happy to be of help!
I see we are kindred spirits. Thank you for choosing to follow my blog, Bobbing Around. I hope my words will be of service to you for a long time.
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Bob
Hi Bob! I’m sure it will, thanks for writing in!