The holiday season offers us time for reflection—an opportunity to review our year and recognize the patterns shaping our lives. Yet, as a collective, we often struggle to slow down, digest, and integrate our experiences.

But we need this reflection time so that we may transform life into a process of learning, wisdom, and expansion of the inner self. When we’re grounded in creativity, actively participating in our communities, and making space for reflection and witnessing, we are truly engaged in a spiritual practice.

This is also a time to envision, feel, and tune in with the new year. You may ask yourself: Where do I want to go? What’s essential in my life? What needs my attention? Where do I need to grow?

Furthermore, the holidays are a time when the message of love and compassion can be heard and felt very deeply. What if we allowed these things to more fully saturate our lives—who would we become? What ecosystems could we create with others? Where can love deepen in our lives? Where does love seem absent?

Exploring these questions in a non-judgemental way can bring more love and self-compassion into our lives and how we show up with others. We should stop demanding that the world should change and become the change in the world, creating the ecosystem that we want to live in.

When trauma makes hope feel distant and unattainable, love is the force that returns us to our agency in this moment.

The holidays can serve as a gateway for transformation, with energy flowing from an ancient stream that illuminates the power and presence of Divine Love as the base of our lives. I wish you and yours a loving holiday season.

Warmest greetings,
Thomas Hübl