The New Year is here and a new age is about to come. In order to create a new age in the world, we have to make an effort to renew ourselves. To renew means to remove, to merge everything that happened in the past – even things that happened two hours ago. Say goodbye to the old year. Remain in the present, and you will understand what is you need to do for the future.

But how can I possibly even try something new, when I’m already so busy?” Answer: Use your mind. Visualizing your newness and plans for spiritual change in your mind helps to achieve them in real life. This mental rehearsal helps us to completely believe in our ability to achieve a desired goal in real life. In fact, as Harvard-trained psychiatrist, Dr. Srini Pillay, puts it: “It’s now a well-known fact we stimulate the same brain regions when we visualize something as when we actually do it.”     

Here’s a simple 3-step visualization method to accomplish anything we put our minds to:

1. Start by looking within on the screen of your mind. Create your own movie and your own silent and positive script. Visualize you as the main actor on this inner stage in this movie. Clearly picture yourself in vivid detail achieving your specific goal.
2. Note the feelings you get when your goal becomes your reality
3. After watching your movie, write down your goal in a notebook to cement it in writing. Repeat this process every day as many times as you wish!

This time in history is most valuable. Have deep, fervent interest to use time in a worthwhile way. The best time to practice and connect with Godly power is in the early morning. We are fresh, in solitude, and the vibrations of the world are at their calmest. Look within and meditate in soul consciousness. Pay attention to the quality, and diminish the quantity of your thoughts. Having the thought “I am a soul’, concentrate and stay in the awareness second after second of being a spiritual light, and invite the Spiritual Supreme Sun to shine into your heart and mind. This first half hour of soul conscious awareness will be the foundation of your day. You’ll be surprised by the difference it makes.

In the new year celebrate by having good wishes for one another. Accumulate acts of charity and inculcate divine virtues in your lives. Internal criticisms and sarcasm must finish. Instead count your blessings and congratulate others for efforts made to renew their life and benefit the world. Wherever we are, we need to continue to create a spiritual atmosphere that spreads in the world.

    
Sister Chirya is a student and teacher with              
the Brahma Kumari's World Spiritual University              
for over 40 years. She is published globally.