How to Change Your Life With Winter Solstice Celebrations

I know you want to change your life, or you wouldn’t be here. We all do. Only an ego-maniac, feels that their life is perfect. Here is a way to combine winter solstice celebrations with your desire to change.

Sunday was Winter Solstice Eve. My wife and I have celebrated Winter Solstice Eve for three or four years. Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year. The ancients used to celebrate this day as the beginning of the New Year. Why we celebrate the New Year when we do, I am not sure; solstice seems to make so much more sense to me!

We have created our own little celebration or ritual that we celebrate whenever we are home. If we are not home we do something similar but I think you will be able to guess which parts we don’t do out in public. No! It doesn’t have anything to do with SEX!

Our ritual is much like New Years resolutions, but much more personal and sincere. This is what we do.

We light a fire in the fireplace, we do have to be home for this, and then we sit quietly. We both think about the things we want to lay down in our lives, the things we want to leave behind, and then those things we want to take up.

When we have those things decided, we write them on a piece of paper. We fold the paper, and then seal it with candle wax. Once the paper is sealed, we toss the paper in the fire.

Usually we sit in silence for a bit with the things we wrote on the paper. Sometimes we share what we wrote and other times, like this year, we do not.

Combining the ritual or celebration with the desire to change makes the whole process more sincere and we both stick with it much better. It is much better than waking on New Year’s Day swearing you will never drink again!

It doesn’t have to be on Winter Solstice, it can be anytime, but I think it needs to be a time when you are alone and not in the middle of a party.

I encourage you to pick your own time and to develop your own little ceremony. Do it this year and see what change you can make in your life.

Here’s to You!

P.S. Tell me about your rituals or celebrations that help you change your life!

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