How Do You Want to Be This Year?
January often arrives carrying a quiet question beneath the noise of resolutions and fresh starts: How do I want to be this year?
Rather than focusing on goals or outcomes, let's choose one quality of being we’d like to practice and embody.
This could be trust, confidence, courage, self-belief, calm presence, or being a person of gentle, aligned action.
This isn’t about becoming someone new but about consciously practising a quality that already lives within you.
FROM INTENTION TO EMBODIMENT
A simply way for us to embody this new quality is to place our hands on our heart or lower belly, take a few slow breaths and gently sense what our chosen quality feels like when it’s present. Not what you think it should feel like but how it actually shows up for you.
You might also explore this through journaling and asking questions like:
How would I move through my day if I trusted myself a little more?
What choices would confidence make in my body?
Where am I already living this quality, even in small ways?
Seize opportunities to practice this new way of being as they come up.
REIKI AS A PRACTICE OF BECOMING
This is also how Reiki supports us. Reiki doesn’t push us to change; it helps us become steady, resourced and present enough to respond differently when life invites us to, so each moment becomes a place to practice who we're becoming.
If you’d like to explore this kind of embodiment, my monthly Live Online Reiki Teaching & Self-Practice gatherings offer a gentle, supportive space to reconnect, practice and deepen your relationship with yourself and Reiki.
May January be less about fixing and more about remembering, and may the quality you choose unfold naturally, breath by breath, moment by moment.
With love and light
Gwen x
