Many “good intentions” for the new year!

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

Since childhood, we've been accustomed to starting the New Year with a host of "good resolutions." According to tradition, this New Year's Eve tradition dates back to Pope Sylvester , who also gave the New Year's Day its name. This pope's birthday was on December 31st, and even during his lifetime (the 4th century AD), it was customary to send good wishes to a birthday child.

Pope Sylvester was one of the first popes of the fledgling church. He reorganized it in the 4th century and thus played a significant role in the development of the young religious community. He was soon venerated as a saint, and his birthday became the saint of December 31st. From 354 onward, this day has been celebrated as "Sylvester Day."

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 him 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's talk of regular physical exercise, daily gymnastics, and lunch breaks at the swimming pool. Starting after Easter, communication at home will be in Spanish only, and the necessary vocabulary will have to be learned by then. A daily evening bike ride is planned, after an evening meal consisting entirely of home-cooked, healthy food.

The bottom line is: As a rule, we tend to plan something terrible, something unpleasant, something we want to avoid, something that requires effort. The fact that this custom hasn't died out is probably due to the fact that it's simply too tempting to plan a fresh start for ourselves with the start 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 way could be adhered to - but only if they showed a minimum of care in the treatment of their own self when the list was set up and the resolutions were designed in such a way that at least the beginning appeared as temptation and that there was a goodening (and every pause in between) without any conscience.

Rearing at new, useful habits without any compulsion works most effectively, by the way by "knitting out" yourself a little. 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 make excellent resolutions, good resolutions with which you reward yourself a little each time. The broad field of art ideal for this kind of good resolution:

You could treat yourself to a walk in the woods as early as January and, in commemoration of St. Sylvester (whose name comes from silva, meaning forest), collect fascinating forest finds to create small works of art for your home. Perhaps there's even a forest art trail or hiking path in your area, like in the forests near Darmstadt or in Berlin (information at iwz.waldkunst.com, www.waldkunst-berlin.de).

You could try to relax in front of the television for once, only to find yourself annoyed that the supposedly new movie is being repeated for the fourth time. Instead, search the internet for interesting art exhibitions in your area and actually 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 at all ... ... it is likely that you will conquer new horizons with enthusiasm, in this sense Kunstplaza .de wishes you a wonderful new year!