Setting Soulful Intentions for the New Year

Twenty, twenty-four is quickly coming to a close. It is often the week between Christmas and New Years that we begin to reflect on our intentions for the upcoming year. What lifestyle habits, environments, people, and behaviors do we want to leave behind in 2024; and what would we like to continue or begin in 2025? When mapping out our intentions for the upcoming year, it is common for us to overlook what actually matters to us. Meaning, we create our intentions based on what we think we should be doing, rather than what actually aligns with what we want. To support you during this process, I have created a formula so that you can successfully set your intentions for the year 2025. Lets dive in >>

Soulful Intentions are Built with Intent

When mapping out your intentions for the new year, ensure that there is a purpose – or a why – behind each intention. The purpose behind each intention is the driving force that will hold you accountable to stick with it. This will also help you filter out the intentions that are not driven by self-love. If you decide you want to sign up for a Pilates membership because you dislike your body, you will have to reconsider your intention. Intentions that are driven by poor self-image won’t make it far past the first few weeks of the year.

Soulful Intentions are Backed by Passion

I want you to think back to a time when you really wanted something – like really wanted it to the point that you would stop at nothing until you had it. How did you feel? What did you do to achieve it? That is passion, my friend. When you really want something, you will go out of your way to make it happen no matter what it takes. When designing your intentions for the new year, consider the things you truly want out of your life; not what your husband wants, your mom wants, or your friends want. What do you want?

Soulful Intentions Align with You

Who are you? Without the job and family titles – who are you? Give yourself time to sit down with your journal and write this down. We identify so much with the outside world, that who we are internally is easily forgotten. It is common practice to design your intentions around the external world–  Jen, Mom of Three or Liz, Nurse Practitioner. But what if you sat down and designed your  intentions for just you – Jen, Spiritual Being living in Human Form? How different would your intentions be? When mapping out your intentions for 2025, consider who you are outside of the external noise. Who are you?

Soulful Intentions Lead to High Vibrational Living 

Have you ever spent time with someone who’s energy feels so fucking good to be around? That person is most likely living at a high vibration – meaning that they occupy their energy with things that genuinely make them feel good + release the parts of life that cause them to feel like shit. When setting your intentions for the new year, consider the things in life that make you feel good – not the things that mask your feelings or help you to hide from the truth. Reflect on the aspects of life that genuinely make you feel alive. If a plant-based diet helps you to lose weight, but results in a more painful menstrual phase then a plant-based diet is not leading you to a higher vibration. 

I believe it is important to note that if you follow the astrological planetary system, the new year does not begin until March 20th. We are still in the dead of winter with some of the longest and coldest days of the year. If you do not have your intentions set in stone by January 1st, give yourself grace. Allow yourself the next two months to rest and reflect. What would you like to continue in 2025? What would you like to begin? What needs to be released in order to create space for your soulful intentions? I wish you all a peaceful + healthy new year. Please feel free to share this with someone you love. Thank you for sharing this space with me.

xx

bree