Don't Make Resolutions this New Year | Messages for the Empath Soul Podcast
How can you start a new year if resolutions no longer work for you? Enough is enough, no more new year, new me energy. Let’s actually honour this time of year for what it truly is.
I’m coming back to you with episode three for Messages for the Empath Soul - A Podcast. In this episode I’m exploring the topic of new year’s resolutions and what to do instead.
As a Spiritual Mentor and Intuitive Guide I see so many people around the world wanting to create their dreams and desires, but completely unaware of how to start a new calendar year in the best way. The energy of New Year’s Resolutions is all wrong because it’s not the energetic new year until Spring Equinox.
Press play to listen in on the key problems of resolutions, what you can do differently, and how the energy of Capricorn season is impacting you.
The third episode is called Don’t Make Resolutions this New Year.
Listen here, or scroll down to read more on what this episode is all about!
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Back to the blog - Don’t Make Resolutions this New Year
Here I will share the basics of the podcast episode, and I highly encourage you to give it a listen for the deep dive into each topic.
INTRO
This is your soul journey and I am here channeling messages from the Universe to help guide and support you.
This is Messages for the Empath Soul.
If you’re new here, I’m Sydney a ⅖ generator, with a deep intuitive connection. My mission is to empower as many spiritual empaths in this community, creating a ripple effect of compassion and peace that is felt around the world.
TOPICS
Instead of Resolutions Try This
What’s Happening in the Sky Right Now
Self Reflection Creates Soul Connection
INSTEAD OF RESOLUTIONS TRY THIS
We are starting to realize as a society, that doing things differently than the way we did them in the past is necessary.
A new year's resolution became a societal norm… but what happened every year is the majority of people would lose sight of their resolutions and fall off track. We didn’t learn from this pattern… we kept pushing forward, pressuring ourselves each new year to try again with a resolution.
Of course, some people learned and stopped the practice. Some people didn’t even start the practice because it never felt aligned.
I’ll tell you why it’s not an aligned practice for our growth and expansion.
We may have entered a new calendar year, but we haven’t begun a new energetic year.
Energetically we start a new cycle with the Spring Equinox in March.
That is the time to start something new, and dream for your future.
We are in the middle of the Winter Season in the Northern Hemisphere.
Winter season asks us to slow down, reflect on the past year, gather the wisdom from the lessons you learned and through introspection you can let yourself find a solid foundation before you begin anew in the spring.
Instead of making all these new plans and new solutions for your 2024, I want you to remember to slow down and tune into the feeling, the vibration you hope to embody in 2024.
For the last few years I have asked my Spirit Guides for a mantra for my year. In 2022 it was Leaving Pressure and Finding Purpose, and in 2023 it was Trust the Fun in Life. This year it is Seeking Harmony.
How can you determine your Spiritual Mantra for 2024?
Follow these steps.
1 - Reflect on 2023 and become aware of the main lesson for your year.
Example - I shifted from my hermit healing phase into a more social experiential phase. I was called to step back into the human experience, surrounding myself with more people, and embracing life in the old paradigm. In this I forgot my spiritual connection. I was so caught up in everyday life, including the fun times and witnessing the weight of the world that I lost a sense of purpose. Or I didn’t feel as connected to my purpose.
My lesson was seeing the importance of being in the human experience as an awakened spirit and how to prioritize my soul connection.
2 - Ask for Clarity from Your Guides
You can do this a number of ways, whether in meditation, pulling oracle cards or asking for signs/messages.
Example - I did a tarot reading for myself and received clarity in meditation.
3 - Sit in introspection.
Allow yourself to sit with what came up. Without trying to plan your 2024, ask yourself how you can embody this mantra.
Your spiritual mantra is not about accomplishing something or reaching an end result. It’s a guide on how to be aligned. It’s a reminder to tune into a certain feeling or embody a vibration.
Your spiritual mantra is not about what you are doing, it’s about who you are being.
New Year’s Resolutions are often focused on action or what to do.
Whereas now is not the time to take a bunch of new action steps or direct yourself down a new path. Instead, now is the time to ask yourself “who have I become and who do I want to be?”
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN THE SKY
Capricorn Season started December 21st and will go until January 20th.
Themes of Capricorn Season:
Taking Your Life More Seriously
Adoptive Productive Habits
Working Extra Hard
Resistance + Blocks you may notice this season:
Self-judgment around your productivity
A focus on acting from a state of pressure or feeling stressed rather than acting from purpose and feeling passionate
Living in your logical mind more than feeling into your intuition
The Moon Cycle is passing through the Third Quarter Phase in the first week of January.
This is a time to reflect on your habits and feeling a sense of purpose in your life. It’s not a time to change all your habits or let yourself feel critical and resentful of where you are currently.
Reflect on:
Your daily habits and what small shift you may want to make moving forward
A lesson you’ve been avoiding that you finally want to take seriously (being honest about your fears and desires, finally listening to the calling of your heart and soul, seeing that the relationship, job or environment is no longer supporting you)
The words you speak to yourself, shifting from critical affirmations to supportive affirmations
A New Moon occurs on January 11th.
Come January 11th you’ll feel an uplifting energy leading you forwards. This week will feel more like the fresh energy you were hoping the new year would have. After a couple weeks of slowing down for reflection, you’ll have a clearer sense of how you want to move forward
SELF REFLECTION CREATES SOUL CONNECTION
I’ve already talked a lot about reflection in this episode because we are in the depths of reflection season, being in Winter and passing through the Third Quarter Moon Phase.
When you grab your journal and write out the inner workings of your thoughts and your emotions you better understand your patterns, turning your unconscious into consciousness.
Here are 4 journal prompts for you to reflect on over the next couple weeks.
1 - What are the biggest challenges I faced in 2023 and what can I learn from them?
2 - What do I want to embody more of moving into 2024?
3 - What is my relationship with productivity? How does it affect my feelings of being worthy?
4 - What is my spiritual mantra for 2024? What does it mean to me?
GOODBYE
Remember, your life is happening right now. There is not some future moment you need to rush forward to. Be here, take a deep breath, know that you are meant to be in this moment.
Life will always bring more lessons.
Your soul will always guide you to more healing.
Your mind will always require support to see from a bigger perspective.
You will always desire to be seen, heard and understood.
Be here now for yourself. In time you will feel the call to share more light and compassion with the world.
I’m Sydney, signing off and saying thank you, thank you, thank you.
Being an empath is hard, and continuing to avoid or suppress your emotions actually makes it even harder for you.
This is why I created a membership community called The Soul Care Space where we focus on emotional healing, nurturing your feminine side, and connecting with your soul. There is enough messaging in society trying to tell you who you should be in order to feel worthy and enough. The Soul Care Space is about coming back into alignment with your true, authentic self and learning to feel worthy in your own self-perception.
Whether you are wanting to release and heal the layers of ego/false self that limit you, or you are wanting to awaken and connect with your soul and the Universe, The Soul Care Space will guide you on your journey.
Until next time, sending love & light on your spiritual journey,
Sydney Smith
Spiritual Mentor
Founder of Adventuring with Poseidon Wellness
