Creating Sacred Personal Intentions for 2022
When I take a moment to look back on the intentions I set for 2021 I can’t say they all were met with clarity and action. I wanted this year to look different than 2020 and I don’t think I am alone in this and maybe secretly I wanted some things to go back to the way they used to be, knowing fully and completely this was not possible. I faced feelings of confusion and fear to excitement and joy. I can’t help but feel that I am continuing to ride the roller coaster that is now a present reality into 2022.
What I can say is that I continue to embrace the stillness and the discomfort knowing I can choose to step out of the chaos or off the roller coaster and step into peace at any time. To know in that place is where my answers arrive. To get clear on my own intentions and how I cultivate true meaning for my one precious life.
Should you have an intention for the New Year and how do you know that it is the right intention? What rituals or practices should you participate in and who should you follow?
Like many things in our world the idea of intentions have become overused and monetized. If you look around you will see this phrasing being used in the healing space as a way to bring people into alignment. I am not saying there is anything wrong with having intentions, I agree that intentions are important.
What I think it is missing is how we arrive at these intentions. Where are the intentions coming from and are they truly my own.
An intention that takes me further away from my own center or my own voice is not an intention that is mine. It could be a nice sounding intention or an intention that someone else created that sounds inspiring. Let me give you an example.
My intention in 2022 is to be financial abundant and manifest wealth. That sounds really good. I am sure you have seen it posted somewhere on social media and someone could probably sell you a course on how to manifest abundance and wealth, but is it really your intention?
The only way to know if this intention is true for me is to be still enough with myself to ask. This takes practices and continuous discipline. Being still with ourselves in observation is the most challenging practice we face. If I can’t know myself how can someone else know for me? And if I give my trust away to someone else to know for me, how will I ever know for myself?
I invite you to think about how often you are giving away your trust to someone else? How often you are looking for answers outside of yourself?
How often your intentions are truly your own?
Want to Hear more on this topic check out Episode # 52 on the Podcast!