New Year Is Not Merely A Custom.
Often on the eve of new year we sink ourselves in the same repetitive practice of fireworks, pompous parties, hilarious dances and extending greetings. Of course these activities prove a break in our monotonous routine and infuse energy in us to stride in to next year.
How To Turn “Next Year” Into “New Year”.
The “next” may become “new” also, if the thing called “internal you” also becomes renewed. New is the year when the mindset also replaces its old attire with new. Unless you have a fresh mindset how can you think of new ideas.
My house has a good comfortable lawn in its front. It has an extensive strip of rose bed. Every year in the month of October pruning of its branches is done. This follows replacing exhausted layer of soil with manured soil. Result is luxurious blooming of big sized, deep pink hued thick petaled roses.
This analogy of renewed soil holds true in case of mindset also. Your mindset also needs to be renewed. This renewal means getting rid of your mental garbage – the garbage of bad old memories, the garbage of bitter experiences, the garbage of fear of failure, etc. Till the shadow of this garbage remains cast on your eyes, you can not have flawless vision to introspect immaculately.
If you want to visualise the life you are living, then just don’t let words interfere. Just visualise, and that too , heartily. Such visualisation will refine your sight. Secondly, live in the moment that is present and current.
Suppose you see a person , see him the way he is at present. If the person is one of your acquaintances , don’t bring the old memory related to him in your mind now. Just see him the way he is now and now. Nothing else. May be you will find in him a new individual.
To see newness in a person, you yourself need to get morphed into a new entity. It is quite an iridescent and interesting experience. By practicing this, you everyday will turn fresh. Thus blending your thought with the present and current, can make it possible for you to make this “next year” a really “new year” too.
So How To Connect With Present ?
Everyday for sometime give rest to your mind. It is like leaving an agricultural land fallow for sometime so as to recoup its fertility. No TV, no talk with anyone, no reading, only keep sitting with yourself. Just feel and observe the waves of your mind. Soon the waves will calm down and settle down. And you will feel cool, calm, and stable. This coolness will morph you in to a confident and strong person. This will help you feel your days and year, really new.
Positivity: A Life Mantra.
The havoc of Corona pandemic, which had started two years back is still showing no sign of slackening. ‘What does it mean having family and friends in life? ‘How valuable are our owns? ‘What a companion is? ‘Why there is need of life?’ ‘What is needful for life?’ All such fundamental questions were well answered by this pandemic itself. Actually seeing positive aspects of even a deadly pandemic is the kind of attitude we need to be equipped with. So what a better lesson than this would be for this next and new year!
Control Your Mind.
Every time You can not label a person or thing as good or bad. Many times your attitude towards that thing, object or relationship makes them good or bad. And you know it well that your attitude is determined by your mental setting.
Hence control over mind is a lesson of absolute importance, to be learnt and applied for sure, in this next and new year. Prejudiced mind is polluted mind. Its renewal and reboot will make you a fresh new person, who is conditioned enough to make his year – a truly new year!
