You are Wintering (don't set new years resolutions)

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, it would be unwise to set New Year Resolutions.

Winter is the yin-est of the yin. So in a yin time of year, the element for winter is water. And this time of year is meant to be a time of year when you go inward. Where you slow down, where you cozy up, and where you go inside. So it's meant to be more reflective.

You're meant to be more introverted, meant to sleep more, meant to cozy up more, um, and to be more reflective. And so winter is the perfect time to get out journals, read books, you know, drink tea, stay warm, sleep more, rest more. Go inward and actually notice as you go inward, start daydreaming and checking in with your soul.

So when we're in the winter season, we want to be wintering. And New Year's,

On the Western calendar (solar), is still very much winter. January 1st is winter time.

So it is not the time to be doing spring-type energy things like planning, envisioning, and goal setting that's for springtime.

So in traditional Chinese medicine and Taoism springtime is the time when we have this burst of energy where we can envision and we can create new things and we can plant seeds and we can get really active and start setting goals and we can hustle a little bit more.

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