As with all the previous years, I knew I wanted to pick my core desired feelings this year, too. If you want to know more about core desired feelings, please go to my post from 2016 and you can see the links there.
I usually pick words to sit alongside my olw. And to do that I follow Danielle Laporte’s Core Desired Feelings framework, but this year, the words came to me really quickly without even having to do any exercise. These words speak to me deeply at this moment in time. And they are all ways I deeply want to feel in 2024.
Slow: i would like to slow down and let myself move slowly and more intentionally. I’ve been thinking a lot about slow long walks, slow yoga, and other ways to move my body and build my strength slowly and gently. I tend to do everything fast, my brain works too fast and i speak fast, i listen on 2x speed to everything and it’s always go go go. I want to experiment with slowing down and seeing what happens.
Ease: this is a little like slow but it’s more about letting things be. Not taking on what’s not mine to carry. Not making things about me. Holding something momentarily and then letting it go. Allowing myself to choose ease. This is not always doing what’s easy. But choosing to let something be easy by not making it harder in my head.
Curious: this is a good partner to explore. I want to be more curious this year. Choose curiosity over certainty. Curiosity over judgment. Curiosity over cruelty. I want to be curious about myself and about others. This might be the closest word to “open” for me at this moment. Being curious keeps me open.
Release: This was to be my word for 2024 for so long that it had to be my companion for this year no matter what. Nothing has managed to ground me as well as restorative yoga ever. And this one particular pose allows me to release everything and completely empty my brain. That moment feels like the closest i’ve ever been to freedom and it’s a moment of fully being in the present moment with complete emptiness. I cherish it.
Kind: This is the feeling I want to hold on to the most in my life in general. I want to be kind to everyone. My people. Strangers. Workmates. And of course the hardest person of all, to myself. I feel the most myself when I am kind. I feel closest to my true authentic self and I want to hold on to that feeling forever.
So there you go: slow, ease, curious, release and kind are the group this year that will ride shotgun alongside explore. Here’s to hoping this year is abundant in its gifts.
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