If you were expecting yet another article about Ten Surefire Ways to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions. Or Top Three Manifestation Tricks. Or New Year, New You, better click past.
Spoiler alert: You’re about to be reminded of why the heck you chose to be here in the year 2025. Spiritually, that is.
Now that I have your attention, let’s start with my experience of New Age techniques that have gone viral these last few years. Decades ago, as a confused, frustrated, looking-for-answers young adult, I desperately wanted the magical New Age understanding of life to be true to its claims. Especially the central doctrine: Maintaining a positive outlook will attract positive experiences.
Trying to manifest all my worldly desires, I practiced the various techniques – positive thinking, setting intentions, affirming, visualizing, vision boarding.
You name it, I tried it. Committedly, I might add.
After following the ascribed methods, not achieving any of the promised results, I intuitively sensed there was something missing. It became my Mission to discover what that was.
And I sure did.
First, it encouraged spiritual bypass techniques. “It’s all good” as well as “fake-it-until-you-make-it” results in “toxic positivity.” Yes, optimism and look-at-the-bright-side thinking is beneficial, but overemphasis can easily shove down emotions and cause numerous issues.
Clearly, attempting to put a layer of positivity over lifetimes of programming beliefs and suppressed guilt will not, cannot, succeed. No matter how many affirmations are chanted.
Based on that, I learned some important spiritual truths, which is actually the intention of this article.
Reminders Journeying into 2025
If your self-development journey influences a lot of your actions, you make choices from intuition more than concern for profit or fame. Rather than trying to impress others with how spiritually “cool” you are, your ethics come from understanding karma. Being authentic and loving is your intention, even with those who don’t share your political persuasion or life choices.
That’s all good.
However, does it sometimes feel like you’re walking a tightrope trying to integrate spirituality into your Real World? It’s challenging to unify your primitive consciousness, logical mind and spiritual truth since they aren’t the best of buddies. To say the least.
So, I gently encourage you to meditate (or at least chew on) these spiritual truths as you welcome the New Year and all that unfolds during this “interesting” time:
1. Create meaning. Everything you do is as significant and meaningful as you choose it to be. Even if you think you’re here to do something huge, trust the ripple effect -- you are changing your corner of the world constantly just by giving and receiving love in the way you are meant to.
2. It’s all mirrors. Whatever happens that triggers you is reflecting denied aspects about yourself. Your soul wants you to get in touch with those negative beliefs and things you’ve done in the past that caused pain and/or loss. Be grateful for the lessons you are presented by noticing when your buttons get pushed. You are attempting to clean up and balance out karma and ultimately raise your deservingness.
3. Be the Love. No matter what path you are on, coming from love is your spiritual practice. Each person presents lessons to assist you in being authentically loving, accepting and compassionate by accurately reflecting when you aren’t.
4. Everything interconnects. The Universe is trying to reach you all the time. Ask your higher consciousness to guide you where you are supposed to go, awaken to what you’re supposed to remember, prod you toward your True Higher Purpose. It may not show up as expected, but, as the saying goes, be careful what you ask for since you will get it!
5. You can’t fake the Universe. Going through the motions of being spiritual (AKA being a fraud) will not work. Your lack of personal integrity will be revealed in some way, so notice what happens and you just might be the Truth next time.
6. Give a hoot. Most spiritual practices emphasize the importance of tithing, not just to feel good, but for energetic balance. If you feel strongly about causes, situations or a person, give ‘til it doesn’t hurt, as the expression goes. You will be officially ‘paying it forward’ -- if your motives are pure.
7. Walk the talk. You contribute to the spiritual growth of every person you meet just by being an example. Coming from compassion, true caring and forgiveness influences others in more ways than you may ever know.
8. What ifs? Spirituality emphasizes an attitude of non-attachment. What if something important to you went away tomorrow? What if something you try hard for never occurs? Truthfully, would your level of joy and inner peace be affected?
9. Be present. Appreciate and celebrate each moment, especially those difficult ones. You don’t want to look back with remorse and a list of should-haves.
10. Trust the process. Navigating constant surprises that life bestows, trust there’s always a reason for something happening. Things may not make sense until seen in retrospect, but eventually they will. Really.
Yes, the New Year does make one certain promise to you: You chose to be here during these challenging times since you knew you were up for it.
Now, it’s time to wake up.
Royce Morales is the founder of the Perfect Life Awakening, a spiritually-based, time-tested program that allows a permanent soul connection to awaken joy, a life of meaning, a true sense of deservingness and consistent, authentic self-love. This profound, empowering, inner journey opens doors to discover, unravel and neutralize the true origins of those hidden inner obstacles, self-sabotage and subconscious triggers holding back your life. Find out more at https://roycemorales.com/.
Article published in The Relatable Voice Magazine - January 2025.
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