Many “good intentions” for the new year!

The nice idea of ​​the “good intentions” ...

Since childhood we have been used to starting the new year with a lot of “good intentions”. According to tradition, this New Year's Eve goes back to the Pope New Year's Eve , which was also the namesake for the day of the turn of the year. This Pope had on December 31. Birthday, and on this personal day of honor it was also common in his lifetime (4th century AD) to give good wishes to a birthday child.

Pope New Year's Eve was one of the first popes of the still young church, re -organized it in the 4th century and was therefore of great importance for the development of the young faith association. He was soon worshiped as a saint and with his birthday to the daily saint of December 31, from 354 this day will be celebrated as a “New Year's Eve”.

As we know it from church shepherds, New Year's Eve had not simply accepted the good wishes for his birthday, but also used his office as a church moral man to promise all the congratulations for the forgiveness of sins of the past year - but only if they promised to improve.

The “good intentions” had already been created, as we know them, with a crucial catch. If you take the usually "good intentions" of people under a closer look, it quickly turns out that it is actually anything but "good" resolutions.

... and their pitfalls

In the spirit of the demanding Pope, the person always tries to fulfill duties does not actually hold “good” resolutions, but above all and primarily the intent to torture themselves even more than before.

There is talk of regular physical exercise, daily gymnastics exercises and lunch breaks in the swimming pool, from Easter, only in Spanish should be communicated at home and until then the necessary vocabulary should be learned, a daily evening round with the bike is planned, after an dinner that only consists of self -cooked, healthy food.

It remains to be noted: As a rule, we tend to make something terrible, something we actually don't want or do not like, which is associated with a lot of do without or is associated with a lot of effort. The fact that this custom has not been going on long ago is probably due to the fact that it is simply too tempting to personally plan a new beginning at the beginning of a new year.

Such “good intentions” can only be observed with tricks

No wonder that this kind of “good” intentions is kept so rarely, you can hardly be able to motivate yourself to motivate yourself in the direction of failure: to choose the worst weather in the year for the beginning of daily sports exercises, to burden reasonable food with efforts that give him a continuous unappetional painting, to structure learning tasks so that the fulfillment is impossible from the start ... lets shudder.

Even the resolutions of this not so sympathetic could be adhered to - but only if they showed a minimum level of care in the treatment of their own self when it was set up and the resolutions are designed in such a way that at least the beginning appears to be temptation and that it is allowed to go through (and every pause in between) without any conscience.

The rapprochement of new useful habits without any compulsion works most effectively, by the way by "tricking yourself out" yourself. You could z. B. Integrate some sport to integrate into their everyday life until these few muscle movements have become lovely habit, the body then shows lust for more.

You could get a few useful information about healthy food and look for the dishes that every gourmet would lick your fingers, perhaps a series of Spanish tapas, with whose preparation you learn the first Spanish vocabulary (and half a year later many more motivates because you absolutely want to translate a very specific Spanish recipe).

But you could also easily rethink:

Good resolutions that really bring you something good

You could hold resolutions that are really good, good resolutions with which you always reward yourself a little. For this kind of good resolutions, the wide field of art is ideal:

You could treat yourself to a walk in the forest in January and collect exciting forest finds in memory of the Holy New Year's Eve (whose name comes from Silva = forest) to make small works of art for your home. Perhaps there is even a forest art path or forest art hiking trail in your area, as in forests near Darmstadt or in Berlin (information on iWz.waldkunst.com, www.waldkunst-berlin.de).

You could not look for relaxation in front of the television, where you can find angery that the supposedly new film will be repeated for the fourth time, but rather research on the Internet for interesting art exhibitions near you (and then really visit them in the next few days).

You could start with any kind of artistic activity, with teachers or without, for many people the most beautiful form of relaxing free time ... It is likely that you enthusiastically conquer new horizons, in this sense Kunstplaza .de wishes you a wonderful new year!