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CC: My Annual New Year's Ritual

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Christine Hassler has listeners write “this or something better for the highest good of all concerned” and record a spoken intention.

1. Life Coaching with Christine Hassler uses “CC: My Annual New Year’s Ritual” to frame a two-part New Year process around reflection, release, and intention. 2. Christine Hassler is the host and guide, and she presents the ritual as something she has been using with listeners “for many years.” 3. The episode asks what a New Year process should be for, and she answers with a year-in-review, a release list, and a receiving meditation. 4. She recommends doing part one on December 31st if possible, but she says it can happen later because part two airs next week. 5. Christine tells listeners to set aside about an hour, get comfortable, light a candle, and use a journal or a piece of paper. 6. She says the year-in-review should include month-by-month memories, people met, places visited, lessons learned, accomplishments, blessings, struggles, and funny moments. 7. She suggests using a phone calendar or photos to jog memory and writing the items down instead of only thinking about them. 8. Christine says the review builds gratitude by showing how much growth, abundance, and learning happened during the year. 9. She then asks listeners to write a separate list of behaviors, beliefs, or habits to leave behind, including examples like an ex, phone use after 8 p.m., bad eating habits, social media overuse, road rage, and codependent patterns. 10. She recommends burning or ripping up that list safely as a conscious choice to let it go. 11. Christine says the release list should focus on the “biggies” rather than every tiny thing that could change. 12. She says the ritual works better when it is not driven by self-criticism, because the point is not to list everything that is wrong. 13. Christine rejects New Year’s resolutions because they often come from wanting to get away from a body, money situation, or other unwanted reality. 14. She contrasts that with “toward inspiration,” such as moving toward better health, greater abundance, and more joy. 15. The second half of the episode shifts into a receiving process that uses meditation before any writing begins. 16. Christine asks listeners to write a present-tense intention page with feeling words, an example of a relationship that feels like “home,” and the phrase “this or something better for the highest good of all concerned.” 17. She says a million-dollar business goal may be possible but not probable in the first year, so the intention should be believable and specific. 18. The meditation uses a grounding cord to Mother Earth, a hand on the belly, a hand on the heart, and the repeated lines “I am safe” and “I am loved.” 19. Listeners who like structured self-reflection, guided meditation, and New Year intention-setting will likely use this episode. 20. Listeners who want a quick entertainment segment or dislike ritual language will probably skip this episode.

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A structured New Year's ritual built around reflection, journaling, and guided meditation.

Christine Hassler opens a two-part New Year's ritual that she says she has used with herself and others for years. The episode leans on reflection, journaling, and a guided meditation, all framed with a beginner's mind.

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Give your New Year a slower reset with a two-part ritual that pairs breathwork, meditation, and space to write.

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