Letting Go of 2023: A Meditative Journey to Create an Awesome 2024

Are you lugging around the baggage of 2023 and ready to release it all?

 We guide you through a powerful reflection and intention-setting exercise to shed unnecessary weight from the past year and make room for joy and growth in 2024.

We reveal a potent timeline exercise that helps you highlight experiences that made you shine and learn from those that didn't quite hit the mark.

All while inviting you to choose an intentional word for the year to keep you energized and focused.
Now, let's light up 2024!

 We stress the importance of focusing on experiences that infuse our lives with joy and meaning while discarding those that don't serve us.
As we show our gratitude for 2023, we also guide you on how to set powerful intentions for the upcoming year.

This journey is all about mindfulness, positivity, and the power you hold to shape your reality.

Enjoy your 2024!!!

Resources & Links Mentioned:

• Decrease anxiety fast!! -Watch this video!
• Enjoy the Holiday Lights-mini-meditation and reflection 
• Create a word of the year -Free resource to create a word of the year
• Work with Cheryl -Hypnosis and Integrative coaching for all your needs. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can you believe it's almost 2024?
I don't even know where 2023went, but what I want to do on
this podcast episode is bringyou through a little journey to
make your 2024 even better,while releasing anything you

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don't need from 2023.
Let's get started.
Welcome to Mindful HypnosisPodcast.
It is time to change your mind.
Learn all about how to createnew, helpful habits and mindset
changes with integrativehypnosis Plus, with a sprinkle
of mindfulness throughout yourday, you can easily shift into a

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calmer state of mind.
I am Cheryl, your hypnotist andpodcast host, and I welcome you
to a better way of living yourlife, one minute at a time.
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Check it out.
Welcome to Mindful HypnosisPodcast.

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I am your host, cheryl.
We're turning the page again toanother year.
It's like the blank slate a newbeginning, a new timeline, a
new way to reset and rethink andreestablish maybe some new

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habits or behaviors or ways tomake 2020 for the best it can
possibly be.
To make it special, I want tobring you on a little journey.
This is a form of what we callthe timeline, and this allows us
to look at our previous yearand to kind of make some

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adjustments.
So we move forward to 2024.
We'll be all prepared and we'llbe better established at what
we want to do.
That being said, I also want toinvite you to think about maybe
a word, an intentional word ofthe year that you can come up

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with.
That will give you some focus.
Now, if you're not sure how todo that, I do have a free
resource.
You can go on over toCherylJRennalscom.
Forward slash word and I willguide you through that process.
All right, all you need to dofor this little journey is to
find yourself a comfortableplace and if you're driving,

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don't, and then listen to myvoice.
Let's get started.
Find a comfortable place.
Just take a moment, take a big,deep breath in holding it for
the counter to an exhaling twiceas long.
Just settle your mind, justlisten to my voice.

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I want you to lend me yourimagination and just notice
yourself floating high aboveinto the sky and you're looking
down and you see a timeline, andthis timeline goes all the way
into your future and all the wayinto your past.
But for this particularexercise, we're going to focus

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on the timeline of the past yearand I want you just to notice,
as you look down upon yourtimeline of the past year, any
wonderful events or situationsthat happened that light you up.
You may notice your timelinelighting up with all these

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wonderful experiences and justnotice, however you choose to
light these experiences up, andthen just notice them getting
brighter and brighter, to thepoint where any experiences that
weren't good for you, orhelpful or deemed not positive,

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get so muted by the light andget covered up.
They start to become smallerand smaller and from these
experiences you will take withyou to the new year the lessons
you've learned and the insightyou've gained.
Otherwise, you can giveyourself permission to let those

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experiences fade away and toallow the light and the
brilliance and the beauty ofthose wonderful experiences to
take over.
And just take a moment andnotice those experiences.
How did they make you feel, howdid they inspire you and what

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can you learn from theseexperiences?
And I want you to payparticular attention to maybe
one that was really big for youand it made you feel so good.
And when you feel thatwonderful experience, just

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notice how it lights you up.
And now I want you to look toyour future, your future
timeline, and as you look atyour future timeline, I want you
to also notice that there are awhole bunch of experiences that

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will light up that you have yetto experience.
And just notice, as you seethis timeline, a future event,
something you're looking forwardto.
You can't wait to experienceand notice on this timeline.
You doing just that notice howyou look, notice your expression

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, your energy level, how youfeel, and when you notice this
experience becoming so brightand so exciting and so
intriguing, I want you to floatdown into that experience and

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try it on.
And when it feels so good thatyou're actually smiling is when
I want you to float back up outof the timeline, but this time
bringing that wonderful feelingwith you, knowing, as you look

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down upon your timeline.
There are going to be so manymore beautiful memories to share
, so many more beautifulexperiences that will light you
up, and these are what you willfocus on from this day forward.
I want you to take a moment andbring your hands up to your

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heart and give appreciation forall your experiences, because
they brought you to where youare.
But you right now have thechoice to follow the experiences
that bring you the most joy andhave the most effect on your
life, and, when you're ready,you can take a big deep breath

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in stating in gratitude thankyou, 2023, for all you have
given me.
I will bring forth what mattersand what has meaning and leave
behind what doesn't, and I askthe same for 2024.
When you're ready, you can openyour eyes and go about your day

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feeling wonderful in every way.
I will see you in 2024.
Take a big deep breath in andexhale.
Thank you for listening to theend of this podcast.
Go on over to the show notes atCheryl jrennelscom for more
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Remember you have a powerfulmind and it can be change to
support the life you want tolive.
In the meantime, enjoy your dayone minute at a time.