Happy New Year! Here's a wish for everyone to have the best year yet! I'm not one for resolutions. So, around this time last year I was perusing the blogosphere and kept reading postings about finding your word of the year. Finding my word? At first I didn't get it, but after several readings, it finally hit me and I realized that this was something that was good for me to do.
So I began a journey to think of one single word to represent
me for the year. It took about a week for me to really narrow it down. I came
up with words such as joy, happiness, and peace but, I knew they weren't really
what I was looking for. After choosing my word, I realized it was much
like making a resolution or a goal, but to me it was more realistic.
I finally decided that the word to best
represent me for 2015 was cleanse.
I felt there were many things that needed to be cleansed out my life...negative people,
negative thoughts, the clutter building up in my spare bedroom. I felt so
discombobulated, and just simple lost. There was
so much going on in my life I felt like I was being pulled in so many different
directions that I was lost. I wasn't
thinking straight. At times,
it felt like I was running on a hamster wheel and getting nowhere.
I needed to
clear the air around me and cleanse myself of all the negativity around me that
cause me to feel so lost and confused. First thing I did was take a short
hiatus from Facebook. This is where I found most of the negativity happening.
The second thing I did was to pray for those that I viewed negatively
based on things they had said or done to me or around me. And lastly, I
did some self-meditation and/or journal writing to help clear my mind every
evening and allow my mind and body to relax.
I went back
to read my journal and found this piece that I wanted to share:
"With
this cleansing, I will be spreading more joy and happiness.
I hope to achieve more inner peace.
I believe it will allow me to find my inner voice again and clear away the dust that's
clouding my vision.
I am so looking forward to this cleanse. "
I'm happy
to report that my word followed me the whole year through and I felt a sense of
inner peace happening. The room de-cluttering didn't happen until after
Christmas, but I made it happen before 2015 came to an end. I wish I had
thought to take pictures of the room before I began. It doesn't make much
sense to show you the room now, but you would be so proud of me. I could
not start another year off with a cluttered life.
It is now
2016 and my word for the year popped up right away. I guess you could say
it found me instead. This year's word is...
Focus.
Focus
noun: a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity
verb: to concentrate: to focus one's thoughts or to direct one's attention or efforts
Last year, I had
difficulties with focusing. With 2015 being the year to cleanse,
I'm looking forward to 2016 and being able to center my
thoughts and actions as I focus on more positive living.
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