After December 15th, I feel like the world invites us to inhabit a unique space - one that is between “no longer” and “not yet”. This “space between” is one that is not always comfortable. Many of us rush to fill it with things – holiday shopping, holiday parties, end of year school celebrations, dance performances…the list goes on! We find ourselves rushing from one thing to the next, many times so stressed that we miss what is happening right before us.

Even the more spiritual encourage us to consider what we need to leave behind from the year that is ending, so we can create space to receive what is coming to us in the new year. The very action of releasing what no longer serves is just that – it is an action. We need to reflect, to think about what happened over the previous year that we want to intentionally let go.

In this year’s space between, I am trying something different. I am choosing to trust that my soul knows what it needs to shed, like an old skin that is no longer is useful. I don’t plan to focus on the shedding. Rather, I am choosing to embrace the space itself that this letting go creates. I choose not to call in or manifest specific dreams or desires for 2025. Rather, I choose to believe that what is meant for me will never miss me and that it is in fact well on its way. I may not know what these things are, and I am working on being ok with that. Accepting and Allowing, instead of Envisioning or Manifesting.

Being home in Sri Lanka makes it much easier to step into this place of allowing. I cherish my annual visit home and I am so grateful for a life that allows me to take this trip each year! I will definitely write to you while I am home, but it may be called something other than Note from Nilmini 😉 For example, a previous missive was titled “Tales of a Travelling Bracelet”! Stay tuned for more of my adventures and learnings as I globe trot! I am grateful for each one of you and wish you a wonderful holiday season!

Warmly,

Nilmini