One big thing to do before setting visions and plans for 2020...

LETTING GO

Can mid January be the start of the new year? A bit late according to our Gregorian calendar, on the other hand apparently spot on with the cosmic timing and the beginning of The Age of Aquarius - 12.1.2020, so why not. It can always be the right time to start new.

End of the year was busy for many with looking back at 2019, reflecting and making plans and visions for 2020 – plus this year even for the whole decade. I saw it all around me but I had a feeling that I cannot move into 2020 yet, though physically I was already there as it was 5th of January. Maybe some of you felt or still feel the same.

It’s been a big year for many, December is often a busy month and I felt full - kind of heavy full and ready to rest rather than adding new plans, goals or ambitions. There was simply no more space.

A message of ‘letting go’ has come up a few times and this is a theme many of us can find challenging. And quite rightly because it holds a lot – it refers to mental, emotional, physical and spiritual level too.

If we try to tell our mind ‘let go’ – for example let go of your anger, let go of this thing you really REALLY want – the mind is likely grip even more.

So letting go is definitely a concept beyond our minds.

One way of getting around that is asking a question:

HOW CAN I LET GO OF WHAT’S NOT NEEDED ANYMORE?

This will open up a space of possibilities and ways, and the answer will be very different for each of us. Open to anything.

For me showed ‘simply’ as cleaning up. This is a quite common way of letting go and also easily understandable to the mind so I would like to share some insights on what might be behind this seemingly simple action.

My "old stuff" was at my parents place. I had planned to do a clean up and took a few days off for it but it wasn’t intentionally about letting go on a deeper level, and definitely not in the sense my mind would imagine letting go. However it did the job super well.

I knew there was some old stuff I didn’t even know I had and it bothered me.This I perceived on a physical level but turned out this was super deep in my subconscious level too. And I probably sensed it – felt lots of resistance to start, procrastinated so vividly that I had to laugh at myself. I was going around the closed cupboards the whole afternoon like a leopard around a pray, observing it from all angles. I knew I would get angry with myself if I don’t do this so tasked myself to do at least something that day - only 20 minutes, just to start. That did the trick.

At the beginning I really struggled and didn’t want to get rid of anything. In that moment I encouraged myself that:

The more I can let go of now, the more new can come to me.

And I do want a lot of new in 2020 so I went for it! :)

Literally feeling like I am shedding some parts of myself. Some of them even felt like they had a sticky glue and I had to peel them off slowly.

On a funny side, I certainly did find some treasures.

For example a collection of napkins with a very socialist country looking designs

or an odd glove, just in case the other one appears one day...

I had done big clean ups before but what really worked this time was different. Because we wanted to move some furniture around, I took everything out and then decided what goes back and what doesn’t, rather than looking into the cupboard and only picking some easy bits out (like I had done previously).

One tricky part were books, articles and some wisdom I had been keeping. Feelings as though I still need these to remind me of some of the knowledge and wisdom I am trying to learn and embody were coming up but I also sensed a bit of clinging undertone that I didn’t like – and had a thought that helped to move on: Maybe I already know this and can let them go so I can receive new books with new information and knowledge I need now! NEW SPACE APPEARED.

And some of the wisdom will be kept.

Wishing everyone to feel lightness in the coming years.

Another theme coming up was home and what creates it, safety and belonging. As the base I had at my parents place got smaller and moved, I suddenly felt the ground under my feet crumble a bit.

It felt kind of scary, kind of confusing and also kind of opening and expansive somehow.

Once I managed to make some sense of it, old beliefs about safety and attachment were going away and the love staying in – MORE SPACE!

To be honest, it really wasn’t much stuff I had to get through but those were the things I had been holding onto for the longest and more importantly what they actually represent.

Lots of air in the room and some time in nature seemed like the right thing for grounding.

So here you go – and you would say just a clean-up!

Retrospectively, when we create space, we don’t only create it for us to receive something new but at the same time as we move on we create space for others that is available for them to stretch, grow, move into and let go of their old space.

And once we have some space, we can ask the next key questions:

WHAT DO I TRULY AUTHENTICALLY DESIRE FOR 2020 – IN MY WORK, BUSINESS, RELATIONSHIPS, HEALTH?

AND WHAT ARE THE EXPERIENCES I WANT TO BE HAVING?

Have a brilliant year, decade and beyond.

Veronika

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