What if today is not a day for doing.
What if today is a day for remembering what you are at the deepest level.
Below is an expanded, line by line, contemplation for a New Beginning.
Find a pen and piece of paper. Or start a journal for the year.
Expand your experience: dance and/or meditate with music provided between each prompt.
enJOY the process
To be guided, step by step, through this contemplative experience, with Helen Terry, join the 365 day Hero Journey or sign up for the January “The Innocent” Hero’s Journey.
A day to NURTURE
Today you unify all aspects of yourself: your past cycles, your lessons, your desires, your inner child, your adult self, your future self.
Nurturing begins with re-collecting your scattered pieces and drawing them close without judgment.
Reflect on:
What parts of me have I abandoned or neglected?
How can I gather myself into wholeness again?
What needs softness, patience, or gentleness today?
This is an invitation to mother yourself.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/wholeness/1159825113?i=1159825191
2. simply be
What if today is about pure attraction, no effort, no striving.
What if you don’t need to fix anything or make anything happen.
What if being itself draws the next cycle’s (days, weeks, months, year) experiences toward you.
Reflect on:
What if simply being is my most powerful act today?
What qualities do I wish to attract for the next 365 days?
How can I sit in the fullness of who I already am?
Allow yourself to gravitate toward what feels nourishing, real, and alive.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/be-here-now-2014-remaster/1666653516?i=1666653524
3. Choose to Plant
Birth is messy, sacred, unknown—and full of potential.
Today marks the conception point of your next cycle, this new year. What if whatever you choose to plant now (an intention, an attitude, a prayer, a promise) will unfold over the next 365 days.
Reflect on:
What wants to be born through me in this cycle?
What vision, habit, or dream feels ready to emerge?
What must I let go of to create space for new life?
You’re not required to know the entire journey.
Only the beginning impulse.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/here-comes-the-sun/1441164426?i=1441164589
4. Align with your true center
What if today’s purpose isn’t accomplishment, instead orientation.
Reflect on:
What is my inner north star right now?
How do I return to my core purpose whenever I drift?
If I did nothing else today, what would keep me aligned?
Purpose today is felt, not forced.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/now-and-forever/1715730424?i=1715730429
5. be guided by inner wisdom
This is an invitation to trust your first impulses, your instinctual yes/no, and the wisdom that arises from stillness.
Reflect on:
Where do I feel my deepest, unshakeable knowing?
What would my life look like if I trusted myself twice as much?
In what ways am I ready to stand in my inherent power?
The cycle begins not by seeking outer guidance, but by listening inward.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/by-faith/1082253187?i=1082253188
6. CLOSING “ONE” Practice for Day 1 2026
Sit quietly and place a hand on your belly or heart.
Ask: “What wants to be born in me?”
Allow one word, image, or feeling to arise.
Let this be your seed intention for these upcoming 365 days.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/lifes-about-to-get-good/1440890530?i=1440890860
You don’t have to understand this process. You don’t need to understand the word, image or feeling that comes to you. You are simply invited to trust the process and honor what comes to you with curiosity and an open heart.