12/31/2017 2 Comments New Year's IntentionsI prefer to set New Year's intentions rather than to make resolutions. It may seem like a matter of semantics, yet I believe it is deeper than that. Resolutions, to me, have a sense of immobility, of rigidness. It feels like something placed on me from the outside, rather than something coming from within me. I feel resolutions as something I have to do or should do. I don't know about you, but when I am told that I should do something, even if the message comes from myself, I feel a wall of resistance rise up in me, a sense of pushing away. When that happens it removes the joy from the path of action towards the goal of the resolution, and also diminishes the amount of joy I feel when I reach the goal, if I ever even get there!
An intention, on the other hand, feels like an invitation, an offering, something given to me rather than demanded from me.
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