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What’s your word for the New Year?

Writer's picture: donna conleydonna conley

Updated: Jan 30

Choosing a word as a mental mantra can help you bring clarity and focus to the energy you want to attract and what you want to create. Wild Moon Healing is about creating a life you love. Choosing a word or small phrase as your mantra or theme for the year is a gentle reminder that you are focusing on positive change in your life—centering on you.


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While creating a New Year’s resolution is wildly popular, I encourage everyone to ditch that habit. Besides, in relation to harnessing the energy of lunar cycles, the start of the calendar year doesn’t support the energy for planting seeds and creating massive change in your life because this time of year mimics the waning lunar cycle. The energy of the New Year also matches the season, winter, for a reason. The days are shorter, and the nights are longer to remind us to go inward, be kind to ourselves, and catch up on rest.


This isn’t the time to go big or go home. But you can start to prepare for the Lunar New Year when the energy for massive action begins by choosing your word or mantra for what you want to create next year. In deciding your word or mantra, be gentle with yourself and nonjudgmental. Here’s the process I suggest:


Step One - Reflection.

Look back at the past year and honestly reflect on what you need more and less of. Then, compare how you feel now to how you want to feel.


Step Two - Meditative Visualization.

If you feel comfortable, you can close your eyes as you take three deep breaths and picture your future self. Everything you want out of life plays in your mind’s eye as if you’re watching a recorded movie because it’s already happened. Focus on how you feel… don’t stop watching your film until you feel it in your body. Your expression and posture may change because it’s real. Bring the energy of that feeling back with you as you open your eyes.


Step Three - Journal.

Write out the life you envisioned and how it made you feel. Focus on the feeling because you can reach that in unimaginable ways, not just how you saw it in your visualization. When you are done, without thinking, just start writing words that come to mind. They don’t have to make sense. Keep writing until you’re out of words.


Step Four - Review.

Read aloud what you’ve written to reinforce your narrative. Highlight or underline important things. Circle a few of the words that jump out at you. Is there a theme forming? As you envision creating positive change, this can entice fear. If you feel afraid, remember that scared and excited can feel the same way in the body.


Step Five - Commit to your Word.

It boils down to how important it is to bring this new energy into your life and how committed you are to embracing the change. If something is significant to you but you’re unsure how to commit, journal, reflect on it, and see if you come up with different words that you feel you can commit to. Contemplate all your accomplishments in life and how you can apply your strengths in your current situation.


Maybe if you don’t want to change but want to learn about something, try something new, or travel. Whatever word you settle on must be meaningful and add value to your life. A helpful tip is that if you are focused on what you need to, should, or have to do… that’s not your mantra or word. That is outside forces telling you who you should be and how to do you. If it’s a dreaded to-do list, it’s not your theme. You need to quiet those forces to find your true, authentic word.


I’m still choosing my word, but healing my physical body is a priority. When my word comes to me, I’ll share it in the comments!


What’s your word for for the new year? Please leave it in the comments.

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