Lessons Learnt & Bigger Takeaways of a Year Gone By
The doors I am closing and the lessons I am choosing to carry through into the next 12 months ahead. Let’s close and choose together?
I did say in Monday’s post addressed to those of us who weren’t feeling all the hype and motivation of a new year that I wasn’t going to share any of my end of 2025 reflections, but this one keeps whispering to me.
The power in this practice has created such an energy shift that it’s one I want to pass on to you.
On New Year’s Eve my partner and I cosied up our living room with candles and blankets and took part in a 3-hour online ceremony. It sounded like it might be long but it went really fast for all concerned.
As part of the year’s completion element to it, we reviewed our most important lessons and takeaways, the lessons we were choosing to carry through 2026 and the doors we were closing on the lessons we were leaving behind us.
We were deep in meditative/shamanic journey and so some of these surprised me.
What is the most important lesson or takeaway for 2025?
What came through for me was:
You know what you are doing.
Belief is the most powerful ally and support you can have.
How to love.
I don’t have to burn out to be successful.
Even when I think I’ve done something or said something wrong, when I look back I usually haven’t.
What lessons from 2025 am I choosing to carry through in 2026?
Presence.
How to be here now.
Dissolving mental state in honour of the whole.
How to get on with life in peace, ease and abundance.
The power of new beginnings.
What doors am I now closing on all that I will not be carrying into the new year?
The door of disbelief.
The door of not enough.
The door of not knowing what’s coming.
The door of disharmony.
Why not create a cosy space in your room, light a candle or a selection, snuggle up in blankets or whatever feels relaxing to you and meditate on the following prompts:
What is the most important lesson or takeaway for 2025?
What lessons from 2025 am I choosing to carry through in 2026?
What doors am I now closing on all that I will not be carrying into the new year?
Come back and share anything that surprised you in the comments?
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I loved this post very much, it’s very inspiring ♥️
I love that you and your spouse did this reflection together! And I resonate so much with what you’re taking with you in the new year and leaving behind.