Happy New Year
Wishing you a very happy New Year. I hope you had a lovely break and the new year has got off to a gentle start.
I’ve been mulling what would be a helpful nudge to kick off 2025 having been inundated with New Year’s resolutions and social media posts on everything from setting goals for the year and losing weight to all the ways we’re supposed to change our lives or fix ourselves in some way!
New year fresh perspective
Thank goodness I no longer feel the need to change or ‘fix’ myself since I learnt that we all have an innate wellbeing and inner wisdom we can rely on. That and the inside out understanding I share in my work that we’re all only ever living in the feeling of our thinking, not our circumstances, and that when we’re just showing up to life as it is free of all our habitual thoughts and concepts, life just naturally gets a whole lot easier.
Living more from our knowing not our thinking
As I shared in my last nudge on dropping your shoulds, we’re made to live in the moment, not to live in our thinking. And when our minds settle down we have access to a space that opens up for a quieter, common sense of knowing and wisdom to show up that invariably brings us what we need.
A good example of this is what happens when a crisis occurs, something that in advance we can’t imagine ever being able to handle … and yet, in the moment, in real time, we rise to the occasion and find an inner resilience that gets us through. As I often say in my work you don’t need a pros and cons list when something really important or urgent happens. You just find yourself moving, taking the next step, then the next with little thinking required. And yet we can get so caught up in overthinking the day to day stuff of life, innocently pressuring ourselves or ratcheting up the stress levels to find answers instead of trusting in that quieter knowing to come through.
Life happens, but ‘thought’ creates our experience of it
That quieter inner space is only ever a new thought away, and our wellbeing is never up for grabs regardless of circumstances. So, this year, instead of ‘thinking’ you might need fixing, or it’s all on you to make something happen, or try and control an outcome, my wish is that you let go of all of that, and just see what occurs from a quieter mind. I’ve come to see that quieter wisdom is 100% reliable, even if it might only be 98% predictable, but it invariably brings us what we need … even if we might have imagined otherwise!
As always, please don’t take my word for it, just see what rings true for you.
Wishing you a magical 2025 and more living in the flow showing up to what shows up and just being yourself.
All the very best for now
Tamsin
PS I know this time of year can be difficult for many and if you find yourself in that position, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
If you’re drawn to the idea of living more in the flow of life as it shows up, more living in the moment, and freeing up a heap of headspace and time in the process, I share more in my ‘Living in the Flow’ insights. And even if you’ve checked it out before, it might just resonate differently this time…😉
“Looking back now, I can see how far I’ve come; how much easier and less stressful life has become living in the flow. I’ve moved from problem-focused, frustrating indecision and procrastination to easy, dynamic, motivated flow in all aspects of me and what I love to be and do.”
Cathy, Gloucestershire, UK