Ritual for a New Year

On Introspection

A Meditation

Paper

Make a timeline of the last year of your life. Plot the events — highs and lows — with corresponding lines reaching to the top and bottom of the page, with the mundane and so-so time spent scattered in between.

Gratitude

Carried through another year.

Pray

Thankful for the highs, may we learn our lessons from the lows.

Celebrate.

On Embodiment

Ground

Listen to your favorite record that makes you feel like yourself.

Mine is here

Outside

Do something that makes you feel physically strong.

Pedal or sprint as fast as you can.

Hurl the heaviest rock you can carry into the ocean.

Pause.

Release the last year.

Remember your loved ones.

Walk

Walk and walk and walk.

Celebrate.

On Realization

Visualize

What do you want the next year to look like?

Who do you want to be?

Where do you wan to go?

Write

Goals. Plan. Strategize.

Grow through it.

Celebrate.