WHAT CAN WINTER TEACH YOU ABOUT YOURSELF?

There are days the lake is fluid with ripples that unfold gracefully. Other days, you wake up and notice the same lake becoming frozen with no expression covered in a sheet of ice. The trees have let go of their leaves and have purposely become dormant. Night and Day seem like they’ve become two equals appearing to carefully share the day with no daylight. The energy seems to become slower. What does this say about ourselves?

    It’s no surprise to anyone that we are all connected. We all serve a purpose to each other whether we can help it or not. So, how does Winter do this for us? If the earth itself is going through a specific season, how foolish of us not to consider that it may have an effect on us. Winter for the majority of us may be a time for family and holiday-fun. For nature around us, it’s a time of preservation and preparation. Harvest will purposely slow down their flourishment and conserve their energy for new growth. Some animals will migrate to different areas, others will hibernate and several will just adapt. 

Now, it is true that our winter is different from others and that this season affects others differently in other places of the world but I think it’s still wise to consider how this season affects us individually. For instance, how do we align or better yet connect to it in this current space of our life? I believe we are always being guided by life and a higher-power you may believe in which for me is God. This energy guides us, pulls us, and has given us this beautiful world to use for pure motives. Let's observe and see how we are connected to help each other through this journey we call life. 

    As we look at our life, I challenge you to ask how winter is showing up in your current path? What is winter pushing you to do? Whether it’s adapting, letting go of something, or even just slowing down, it’s time for us to prepare for new growth. There can be much more meaning to this season than we think. I think there’s power in the fact that January became the first month of the new year, during one of the peaks of winter (for many). Wikipedia.com states “In order to realign the Roman calendar with the sun, Julius Caesar had to add 90 extra days to the year 46 B.C. when he introduced his new Julian calendar. He also changed New Year's Day to January 1st. Caesar wanted to honor Janus, the two-faced god who looks backwards into the old year and forward into the new year”. After having read this, I am blown away by how important it is to acknowledge the seasons in nature as we live the seasons in our own life. We are two of the same, nature-earth and nature-beings. Let's take a moment to look back for the sake of reflection and re-evaluate on how to move forward. 

I have thought of questions for a moment of reflection. I invite you to sit down, pull a journal out and start reflecting!

REFLECTION

• Are you preparing yourself for any new changes or goals in your life?
• Are these goals solely focused around your exterior life (business, school, fitness, etc) or have you also considered internal goals (habits, behavior, personality etc)? 
• What do you feel you might need to let go of during this season? 
• What should you adapt and adjust to ?
• Evaluate your energy and where you are placing it, how could you preserve some of that energy? Are you stressed? Are you over-thinking? Are you over doing some things that are taking up too much energy? 
• Do you need to slow down in certain areas of your life? For example, have you been fantasizing things that haven’t yet manifested? Have you been rushing through your days? Have you not been mindful throughout the day? 
• Lastly, having considered all of this, how do you foresee this benefitting this present moment in your life?

Resources: 
Wikipedia 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January#:~:text=Although%20March%20was%20originally%20the,BC%20(Roman%20writers%20differ). 
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