San José, Costa Rica. December, 2015.

A new year is near and with it, an awakening of a new beginning, leaving behind twelve months overwhelmed with experiences, pleasant and desired moments, circumstances that marked us on way or another, learning, roads with new exits and others where the previously drawn route changed.

And then… How to get rid of the ingredient that went out of control in the previous recipe? Where can we obtain new components for the new dish which we will enjoy this 2016?

It is time to review, reflect, explore, think and recapitulate but not to back-up or “whip up mud” but rather, to open up to learning and growth. Bring out fork and spoon and carve out a route where one can see what was missing and what ingredient was perhaps added in excess. How much should the measures of perseverance, tolerance, that truce with ourselves, patience, active listening without judgment and even love itself, be changed or increased?

Maybe one should reduce or even eliminate entirely some pinches of pessimism, rancor, mediocrity or selfishness? Season the new recipe, improve the previous one, and boost those flavors that resulted this year in some marvelous days, moments or souvenirs. Combine those flavors so that pleasant feelings arise in your body and you feel life sprout from what is simplest to the most complex.

This spice or special seasoning which you doubted (project, a new professional or personal mission), try it. Explore with what other ingredients it mixes with, resulting in an unmatched flavor. That flavor that you rejected before without trying it, enjoy it, visualize it and feel it. Trace the route and the steps to reach over and over that same taste.

Before sharing your dish and serving it on the table, taste, appropriate each flavor. Pay attention to how your body vibrated when it felt pride, joy or illusion. But also check those unpleasant times, those moments loaded with pain, sadness, arrogance or anger, feel them and try to merge them with the memorable and pleasant flavors so that you can build your own recipe, tracing that special seasoning with which to accompany every moment of this new year. Bon Appetit!!

The private hospital in Costa Rica, Clínica Bíblica Hospital offers, in order to obtain further information or to request an appointment in any of the medical specialties with the best doctors of Costa Rica, the telephone line 2522-1000, the email address citas@clinicabiblica.com or via chat at the website: www.clinicabiblica.com

MPsc. Verónica Castro C.
Psicóloga Clínica/Hospital Clínica Bíblica