Family Health Personal Growth Bioneuroemotion Couple My space Blog > Personal growth New Year New Life? December 24, 2020 4.5k Veces compartido Have you ever wondered what significance these dates have had throughout history? Why do we start the year in January? What exactly are we celebrating? As with virtually everything we celebrate today, understanding it requires traveling several thousand years back to find its origin. The first month of the year was called Ianuarius (later derived to Janeiro and Janero and, from there, later to January) in honor of the God Janus, a Roman god with two faces, one looking towards the future and the other towards the past. He is the god of beginnings, of transitions, of transformation. In January, two processes take place in parallel: the exit of the old year and the entrance to the new. We know that mythology represented parts of our own nature in the form of gods. It was a way of metaphorically manifesting our internal processes through deities onto which we project human attributes. In this sense, the god Janus symbolizes the transition process that we experience, inviting us to observe the stage that we have just finished and to reflect on everything that happened to use it in the new phase that we have just begun. We do not celebrate a lap of the earth around the sun, we celebrate the end of one stage and the beginning of another in our life. Even today, what do we do at the turn of the year? Look back, see what the year left us. We see in the media compilations of the best and worst left by the cycle that has just ended, what changed the world we knew. We also define the resolutions for the new year, setting new objectives and goals for the new stage that we are beginning. This is what this moment of transition consists of, in living a full stop, stopping for a moment, observing the stage that is ending and using all the learning that it offered us to develop an improved version of ourselves in the next one. We all have to choose whether we want to live this transition from fear or from trust. From the point of view of neuroscience, both feelings share the same brain areas to function and, therefore, cannot be active at the same time. In a way, in every life situation we have to assume the responsibility of deciding to live it from fear or from trust. It is a healthy and necessary turning point, a delimitation that we apply to the continuous space / time in which we live in order to be able to perceive ourselves in perspective. This was an ideal year to become aware that we live in a world of uncertainty. Everything can change from one moment to another. Far from being a pessimistic or dramatic statement, it is the basis of our freedom and the greatest virtue of all that lives. As Mel Schwartz says in his book "The Possibility Principle", "When we become addicted to the need for certainty and predictability, we live life in a formatted, structured way, we are less present and we are not aware of what we could be" . Just as thousands of people from different cultures did, let us continue the tradition of experiencing this time of year as a rebirth that manifests the triumph of light over darkness. Let's celebrate this transition as a tribute to our nature, to the deep and wise part of ourselves, to our ability to reinvent ourselves, to be reborn. That a new year implies a new life only depends on us. If 2020 is the year everything changed, let's make 2021 the year everything new began. "The man who has lived the longest is not the one who has reached the longest, but the one who has experienced life the most" Jean-Jacques Rousseau Claves para superar el miedo al cambio Ver curso También te puede interesar Salud, Bioneuroemoción Fármacos con amor Crecimiento personal, Bioneuroemoción Sin emoción no hay tiempo Salud, Pareja La eyaculación precoz Enric Corbera Institute Cursos y eventos Diplomado en Bioneuroemoción® Máster en Bioneuroemoción® Todos los cursos Conferencias Bioneuroemoción® Qué es Bioneuroemoción® Bioneuroemoción® I+D Sesión en Bioneuroemoción® Biodescodificación El instituto Enric Corbera Institute Enric Corbera El equipo Medios y prensa Empleo Soporte Contacto +34 935 222 500 info@enriccorberainsti tute.com Calendario Alumni Blog Institute of Emotions Aviso legal Política de Privacidad Condiciones de uso Política de cookies Grabación de llamadas Canal de denuncias Configuración cookies © 2021 Enric Corbera Institute. All forms are protected by Google Recaptcha. Check here the privacy policies and terms . Utilizamos cookies Podemos colocarlos para el análisis de los datos de nuestros visitantes, para mejorar nuestro sitio web, mostrar contenido personalizado y brindarle una excelente experiencia en el sitio web. Para obtener más información sobre las cookies que utilizamos, abra la configuración. Acepta todo Solo las necesarias No, ajuste