It’s popular in some circles to denigrate the New Age movement.
And I do think there are some things missing from its positive facing approach.
But what if we recognized that what we can do – and in fact are doing – is growing it into something else?
It’s useful to see what’s missing from something.
It’s helpful to recognize what’s not working.
That’s how we can understand what to add or change.
And it’s often more efficient to take what is useful and add to it, make it better, stronger, and more robust, than to start all over again.
I think that’s what we’ve been doing for years. I think that we’ve been evolving the New Age ideas and making them better. The work of people like Brene Brown on shame and vulnerability, Mark Manson on choosing your struggle, Bronnie Ware on regret and many, many more, add a welcome balance.
I’ve found it helpful to do my New Age inspired vision board, and in that process reflect and feel into not only the beautiful things I want to create, also into ‘whats getting in the way’ à la Brene Brown and ‘what struggles go along with them and are those the struggles I want?’ à la Mark Manson?
For example, if I want to be more successful, why am I not already? Am I scared that people won’t like me? Am I ashamed of myself somehow?
Also, I’ll have to work differently to be more successful. Is working differently something I want to do? Is that a struggle I want to have?
It’s not that any of these ideas are new. It’s more that I’d like to point out the progression… We’re evolving The New Age. We’ve been evolving The New Age. No need to push it away. We’ve been adapting it for years, and we can keep doing that until whatever we’re making is so different we don’t even recognize any “New Age” in it.
Brene Brown said something like hope is the knowing that when you fall you can get back up. This is a pretty powerful statement because it implies 1. that you’re consciously aware that falling is a part of the process, 2. that you’ve gotten back up and 3. that you’re willing to do it all again. Eyes open.
You accept the challenging along with the good.
I think we’re evolving the beautiful New Age ideas into a more robust from of hope. Hope that includes the challenges.
Beautiful creation. Hope added.
Happy Hoping,
Elena
