The end of the year fills most men’s heads with new goals and dreams but sadly few do enough thinking, reenvisioning and rethinking. What if the activity before we leave 2025 is to become more instead of getting more by the end of this year point? I find it interesting how each year we get into the same rut — the pressure, the plan making, the promise making — but what a man’s life changes with is not what he resolves to do January 1st. It is what he resolves upon before the end of December 31st. Here are 10 things that you can do before we leave 2025 and plunge into the year 2026 with vigor, perception, and self-respect — the things backed up by the facts of science, wisdom and practicalities. 1. Audit Your Life, Not Just Your Year Before you set new goals, sit with your journal and ask: What drained my energy this year? What made me feel truly alive? This kind of reflection helps you align your direction with your truth. 📘 Inspired by : “ The Mountain Is You ” by B...
Healing is often misunderstood as a process of reinvention, where one must shed past selves entirely and emerge unrecognizable. However, true healing is not about becoming someone new but rather about peeling back the layers of pain, conditioning, and trauma to rediscover the essence of who we have always been. At our core, beneath wounds and masks, resides an unbroken, authentic self that knows love, peace, and wholeness. Therefore, healing is a homecoming to our truest nature, not a transformation into something foreign.
🧩 The Illusion of Self-Reinvention
Society frequently promotes the idea that healing necessitates drastic changes, new habits, new thoughts, or a new identity. While growth is essential, the belief that we must erase our past to move forward can be misleading. Healing involves integrating our past, not rejecting it.
We don’t need to fix ourselves. We need to find ourselves.
📖 As Michael A. Singer says in The Untethered Soul,
“You are not the voice of the mind—you are the one who hears it.”
The parts of us that have been hurt, ashamed, or afraid are not obstacles but pathways to our wholeness. Many spiritual and psychological traditions emphasize that healing is a return, not an escape. It is about remembering what was always within us, recognizing that our essence is already whole, and clearing away what obscures that truth.
🌱 Healing as Unlearning, Not Just Learning
Much of our suffering originates from beliefs we have absorbed, such as feeling unworthy, unlovable, or broken. Healing involves unlearning these false narratives and recognizing that the critical inner voice, shame, and fear are not who we are; they are accumulated layers. We are not broken; we are simply buried beneath expectations, traumas, social conditioning, shame, fear, and self-doubt. We do not need to fix ourselves; we need to find ourselves. Healing occurs when we remember that we are the awareness behind negative self-talk and our mistakes. It is about unlearning the lies we believed about ourselves, such as not being good enough, our worth depending on productivity, needing to earn love, or vulnerability being a weakness.
🧘♂️The journey back to wholeness
It can be achieved through several practices:
1. Self-Compassion: This involves treating ourselves with kindness and meeting our pain with tenderness, rather than fighting it. -Kristin Neff, in Self-Compassion
2. Presence: Reconnecting with our true selves happens in the present moment, free from past regrets and future anxieties. -The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
3.Authenticity: Freedom comes from releasing the need for external validation and embracing our genuine nature. -The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi
Ultimately, healing is remembering that beneath any perceived cracks, you were always whole. You do not need to become someone new; you only need to return to the love, wisdom, and wholeness that have always resided within you. Changing yourself means dropping the armor and letting your true self rise.
💬 Some gentle reminders for your healing journey include:
●You are not behind; you are on your own unique path.
●Healing takes time; be patient with yourself.
●There is no "ideal" version of you to become; there is only the real you to return to.
●Everything you need is already within you.
●Don't chase light; be still, and the light will find you.
●Your wounds are not the end; like kintsugi (a Japanese art form that involves repairing broken pottery by mending the cracks with lacquer and dusting them with powdered gold, silver, or platinum.) , your cracks can become the most beautiful part of you.
●If you are in a season of darkness, confusion, or stillness, you may simply be growing underground, forming your roots. Just because no one sees the progress doesn't mean it's not happening.
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