It is an inevitable part of American culture. Year after year after year.
Diet foods marketed - fasts, cleanses, detox methods.
Gym membership promos, the latest tech, gear, clothes, and subscriptions thrust up on us in the name of the "New Year, New You". What does it all really mean? I think it means that a lot of us are a little lost, a little vulnerable, and a little insecure. I am more in favor of the resolutions which emphasize adding to, or enhancing our lives - such as " I will start a new activity", or "I want to learn something new this year" - things that enrich us and make our lives fuller - over the tropes that allude to stopping, ceasing, restricting, forbidding, and punishing ourselves for past mistakes and indulgences. Why don't we make 2025 better, bigger, and fuller of a whole array of emotions and experiences, opening up ourselves to new possibilities and choices and ways of showing up in the world? Sure, good health is what allows us to have all these things - and we need to do the work to see the results. Without our health we cannot be open and available to the abundance around us. The work of achieving good health can be the means through which we can enjoy life - it should not be regarded as our daily grind, our cross to bear, our burden. In fact, may I be so bold as to say that the work we do toward good health - the food choices, the exercise, the meditation, the self care - be carefully curated so as to count toward these new and wonderful opportunities we seek. Can't all "resolutions" take the form of joyful, inspirational energy for our body, mind, and soul?
Cheers!
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