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A New Years resolution is not something that will be found lurking in the corner of my mind. I’ve never been one to resolve to do something starting with a new year because when something needs changing or doing or inspiring…I do it in that very moment, when it counts. I feel resolutions set us up for disappointment. You know how it is, a few weeks into the new year and we are either struggling to maintain our promises to ourself…or we have completely forgotten what they were to begin with. Who needs that? Not I, that’s for sure. Instead I approach each year with intention. Focused intention.
Last year, I decided I really needed balance. Wow! Did I need balance. It was missing from many aspects of my life and I vowed to get it back. Um…that hasn’t happened. 
And while that isn’t completely true, because I have found balance in plenty of ways, it is true enough that I don’t feel ready to move on just yet. And so here we are, 2012, and I am again intending balance as my theme for this new year.
It’s so important for me that my child grows up surrounded by energy that is rooted in balance. Life can throw at us many curve balls that we are not expecting but being equipped to handle them is paramount. Healthy, nourishing food, plenty of sleep and appropriate exercise all help us to find our balance and to better understand and recognize when we have lost our centre. For me, meditation and pranayama (breathing exercises) are also tool I use to bring myself back to centre when I have ventured too far one way of the other. As him mama, it is my job to model for Isaac how it is we stay grounded and balanced.
There are so many ways I want this to unfold in my life and I have a list (because it’s what I do, making lists) and I will cross it off and see that things get tended to. But I am happy in this moment knowing that balance will again be seeing me through this upcoming year and that perhaps this time I’ll find a deep rhythm, with balance as my theme song, and we can dance our way through 2012.
Wishing you all the best in this New Year.
Namaste,
Debbie
yes. balance. what a beautiful goal for yourself and as a model for your boy. i’ve found myself so drawn to both meditation and pranayama as balancers and am working to incorporate those daily, where possible.
wishing YOU all the best in this new year! your perspective always fills me with light. thank you for sharing so much of yourself here!!
Hi Debbie: Finding balance is also my intention for 2012.
Balance, ease and joy.
Balance, ease and joy.
Happy new year, dear friend!
Balance encompasses so much. I look forward to another year of reading about your journey—moments of balance as well as the less than balanced times. Learning together….
Eleanor
that there knitting looks well on its way! bravo!
I don’t think there is a better way than to dance one’s way through a new year, Debbie.