As you close the week, go and find a quiet place today. Sit there for a while, relax, lie down if you need to, shut down all the distractions, just be in silence and say your goodbyes. Say them not to be morbid, get sad or melancholic or to rummage through the past aimlessly, but to close chapters in order to open new ones, to release old energies so that new things can bloom not weigh down by the smudge of remnants of emotions and loose ends and because goodbyes are finalizations that allow for gratitude.

So, goodbye:

  • To people with whom your paths diverged for any reason. You traveled a part of the journey together and now it is over. Thank them for being there and teaching you what needed to be known and couldn’t have been known in any other way or through any other channel. No blame on either side any more, just goodbye
  • To situations, things, circumstances, drama and unfoldings that were empty spinning, stagnant places of no growth, pathological patterns and skid marks you got stuck within. They’ve run their course and came to their logical conclusions, it is as it was supposed to be and it couldn’t have been otherwise. Thank you for the ride and now I’m done.
  • To worries that got you nowhere, just robbed your days of joy by repeating as an unproductive echoes and reverberating through the lizard brain, seeding panic and anxiety. No amount of worry will accomplish as much as a bit of action will, thank you worries for showing me what was important enough for me to worry about, but now I move on in abundance and gratitude now.
  • To stress of busy – it showed me that I have things to do and people to do them with, that there are goals to be achieved which require work and that I’m a node in a network of people who value my presence in their days and projects. Thank you for building the structure of my life and keeping me on track, but i release you now, just working towards something the best i know how, not attached to the final outcome i cannot predict
  • To old stories of who I was, am or am supposed to be. Circumstance change and I change with them and so my story is constantly being rewritten. Thank you for serving me and carrying my through one era of life, I recognize now that we’re all in the process of becoming, dissolutions and reassembling all of the time. I’m free to be whoever I wish, unburdened by the old
  • To blame, guilt and shame – of not being enough, of failing to do something, of failing to be kind or opened, of retreating, of not paying attention to people while I was doing something else or vice versa or disappointing myself or others. Thank you for showing me that there is a limited amount of energy, time and attention at my disposal and teaching me to manipulate it to give the best of me I can give on that day. I will no longer be ashamed or feel guilty for “imperfect”

*** add your own goodbyes and thank you’s