🧩 Recognizing Your Samskaras 🧩
It can be difficult to see the #patterns that govern our lives. They surround us and are a part of us, a kaleidoscopic tunnel we walk through as we step out into the world. Some patterns strengthen us and pave the way for powerful forward momentum, but others weaken us, distancing us from our #power and #independence and making it difficult to maintain our forward motion.
The Sanskrit word #samskaras refers to these patterns, these emotional habits that our lives revolve around. Whether positive or negative, we get the best view of our own personal samskaras when we take a step back. Removing ourselves from the immediate desire to react, watching our thoughts, studying our behavior, and asking difficult and uncomfortable questions: Why did I do/think/feel that? Have I done/thought/felt that before?
Noticing both the helpful and harmful patterns allows you greater control over the path you walk. When we recognize the strengthening habits we already enact, it becomes easier to nurture and solidify them, so that we can gain even more from our natural tendencies.
Recognizing the patterns and emotional habits that are holding us down is also so #empowering. These are the patterns that keep up going in circles, dragging us under as we furiously tread water, reaching for the sky. These are the samskaras that result in the ‘same scars’, over and over again.
As always, coming from the #perspective of #love, understand where and why these patterns developed and what they were trying to protect you from. Be grateful for their #intention, but recognize that you don’t need them anymore. You’re ready to stride forward into your #truth, into your #purpose, into your #potential.
With the New Year coming in strong, hit the reset button on those patterns and #habits that have been pulling you down. Replace them with new patterns that build you up and bring you closer to the best version of yourself 😊 Then build on the patterns that have elevated you this far so that they can continue to lift towards your highest potential.
As 2019 winds down, it’s interesting to consider whether 2020 is the final year of the current decade, or whether this New Year’s Eve is ringing in the 21st century’s very own “Roaring 20s.” It was quite interesting to read the recent debate on my FB page when I asked when does the decade start, in 2020 or 2021?
Beyond numerical proof, the answer to this question impacts the #energy with which we’re closing down this year. What #intentions are you manifesting and focusing on? 🤔
Look back and see what has been working, what hasn’t been working, and release whatever is not helping you move forward. Fine-tune your intentions and goals to bring all of your projects, be they professional or personal, to fruition in the coming year.
Preparing to begin a new decade, set fresh intentions and #goals that will see you through to the 2030s. You can obviously see how far you came in the 2010s. Maybe you have a sharper understanding of what brings you fulfillment and satisfaction, and you know how you can bring yourself closer to your #truth and #happiness in the coming decade.
Armed with all the success and growth from the 2010s, this new decade is a clean slate, a fresh start, that strengthens what you’ve created and built so far. Release completely what has been holding you back—it has no place in your future steps.
Whether you see 2020 as the end of this decade or the beginning of the new one, bring the energy of #love, #positivity and #gratitude with you, and trust that whatever you set your mind to, you can #manifest it in the coming year. The end of one chapter always means the beginning of the next, a profoundly exciting time where blank pages are waiting for you to write the continuation of your story. Be receptive and open to the opportunities that will come your way, no matter what shape they reveal themselves to you in.
Close this chapter with #love and #gratitude for what it brought you, and open the new one with #optimism and #focus 🙏🏼