New Beginnings By Dr. Coleen Andruss, Healthy Lifestyles
Amazingly, it is that time again. A new year is approaching right on schedule. The New Year is one of the world’s oldest celebrated holidays. Since 2000 BC, society has commemorated New Year’s Eve, which started as an eleven-day festival. If you are struggling with one night of celebration, imagine eleven days! Some think of the New Year’s holiday as an opportunity to dress up or attend a party, but it is much more than that. It is a significant holiday because it symbolizes a new start. We celebrate the end of the old year because it precedes a new beginning. No one can really go backwards and make a new start, but everyone can start now and make a brand new beginning. This is the time of year when many of us start making resolutions in certain areas of our lives. These may range from simple desires to 44 www.sghealthandwellnessmagazine.com
extensive life changes. We may want to say goodbye to old habits, problems, or difficulties. We may want to lose weight or become healthier. The beginning of a new year is the perfect time to leave things in the past and embrace changes and challenges. The new year does not contain some kind of do-over magic, but because of the turn of the calendar, it inherently allows for a mental reset. Rather than create a resolution, start a new beginning. The best days of our lives have not even happened yet! A new beginning can mean trying something that makes you happy, but it also can mean giving something up that makes you unhappy. What all of us have in common is the hope that something will change and that life will be different and better in the year ahead.
