This Is How I Start The Year Feeling REFRESHED & Ready For SUCCESS

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You know it’s funny. The universe has set up its own little end-of-year / new-year routine for me (unsolicited, might I add). It is very common for my Christmases to pass objectively badly — fighting with my partner, at the emergency room with my sister’s cat, trapped in a heatless/waterless/powerless cabin in a snowstorm, or simply being completely, utterly alone. There have also been three years now that at the beginning of January, I catch the flu or covid — 2024 was one of those years included.

And I don’t just “get covid” — I get get covid, as in I’m in such terrible pain from the soreness all over my body that I can hardly stand up to go to the bathroom. The muscles aches occur even in my eye sockets, so that opening my eyes just to watch tv becomes painful. As my incredibly sweet roommate stays home to take care of me (her second time going through this with me already), there’s nothing left for me to do than to literally lie there like a vegetable and let my body do its thing.

But, I know something at this point.

After all these experiences of shitty endings and sick beginnings, I know exactly what comes next, which is why I feel no disdain for the situation I am in. I know not to fret or be upset, and that I am merely undergoing the usual mind and body cleansing process that the universe has me do at this time of year. Because what always comes right after is a state of absolute clarity — an utterly amazing, blissful, energized state of wholeness.

I consider the two to three weeks prior as my cocoon stage. I have to undergo a splurging of all the bad and really to a mental and physical detox (apparently, again, I did not ask for this). But I can always rely on the incredible feeling of rebirth right after.

I don’t know what it is or why it is, but just as expected, I’m feeling like a whole new person already (currently kicking off the last bits of my sickness). My mind feels as sharp and clear as an ice castle and my heart is flickering warm with love and strength for a new year to come. I know exactly who I am, where I stand, and what path I am meant to walk on, and it’s the best feeling in the world.

No, sorry, this was not a “how-to” story. But I wanted to close out this season’s cocoon process in an article and thank whoever is in charge for letting me have it. I’m ready for 2024.