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This month, we are invited to honor our strengths and weaknesses with love, detaching ourselves from our expectations regarding our career to celebrate the true nature of the service we offer to our community.
Embracing the shadow
This week, we are invited to fully appreciate our life and the stage we are currently at, in order to regain our joy of living by celebrating the moments that are dear to us.
At the level of the heart, we are invited to be vulnerable and honest with ourselves, to open ourselves to love by revealing our imperfections and what makes us unique, so as to consciously integrate our shadow into our life.
How can I show myself to be vulnerable?
At the level of the body, we are invited to welcome our judgments with love, without trying to change them. By accepting our difficulty in loving and accepting ourselves as we are, we give ourselves the space to discover who we truly are.
How can I accept my imperfections without judging them?
At the level of the soul, we are invited to welcome change with love, allowing ourselves to feel the sense of loss or failure as an invitation to evolve toward a gentler life, in alignment with our truth.
How can I welcome the feeling of failure as an opportunity for growth?
At the level of the mind, we are invited to carefully observe the evolution of our ways of thinking, our mental health, our view of the world and ourselves, to take stock of our strengths, in order to begin a new cycle on sound foundations.
How can I take note of my mental evolution?
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Putting into practice
To become aware of and celebrate the true nature of the service we offer in our life through our simple presence, we are invited to rediscover the joy of living that naturally dwells within us when we are truly present.
To do this, we are invited to stay attentive to the messages of the Universe, using our emotions as a compass that will allow us to calmly enter a new phase of life, in which we will learn to let go of our judgments, so as to meet the unloved parts of our being with curiosity.
This is a wonderful opportunity to face the feeling of mourning that accompanies every transition to new horizons, welcoming sadness, heaviness, and fear as an invitation to care for ourselves gently, rather than seeing it as a blockage.
Tutorial
To put into practice the advice offered in the holistic guidance, you can start by obtaining the Integral Mastery Journal 2026, a blank notebook or a voice recorder to follow the exercises, and if you wish to have an overall view of the energies of the coming year, you can also accompany them with the Integral Mastery Guidance 2026. Once this is done, you can follow this tutorial to fill in the integral mastery journal and put into practice the exercises proposed below:
- Start by filling in the Monthly Guidance sheet, noting the summary of the month and the week, indicated at the top of this article or in the integral mastery guidance 2026.
- Then fill in the Weekly Guidance sheet using the information provided in this article, for each life plane: heart, body, soul, mind. Summarize in the "Integral Balance" entry using the information provided for each plane.
- Once this is done, fill in the Mastery Tracking sheet, first noting in the first entry "Questions" the questions that resonate most with you in this article, or those that came to mind while reading.
- In the second entry "Inspirations", note the actions and ideas that the article inspires you to accomplish or implement in your life to answer these questions.
- In the third entry "Action Plan", write a list of simple actions you will be able to put in place in your life to develop your level of personal mastery based on the exercises proposed below.
- During the week, practice as often as possible, and note your results in the "Discoveries" entry, in the "Note" page available at the end of each week, or in a separate notebook.
- Finally, when you feel satisfied with the work accomplished, note in the "Summary" entry what you take away from this work.
Exercises
During the week, you will be invited to develop your level of mastery and awareness through the proposals that life brings to your path. By following the integral mastery guidance and the exercises proposed below, you will be able to face your path of conscious growth, develop your innate talents, support your weaknesses, and strengthen your strengths to nourish your balance daily.
At the level of the heart and soul, you will be able to note your emotions and feelings in order to express them clearly and sincerely in a safe space, which will allow you to put words to what you feel and to care for yourself consciously. Use the questions below to feed your reflections and guide your self-examination session.
When I feel sadness, loss, or mourning, what is its source? How can I honor my feelings consciously to move forward in my life? When I honor my emotions consciously, what do I feel afterward?
At the level of the body and mind, you can take note, in writing or mentally, of the judgments you hold about your life, yourself, and your surroundings without trying to change, reject, or distract yourself from them. Observe the feelings they trigger in you and the stories you build with them, then remember that your thoughts are not truths, but they always contain important information about you. Once you have validated your own experience without judging yourself, observe how these thoughts and feelings naturally transform. Note in your journal or say aloud the words below, after personalizing the proposals in parentheses.
When I think of [person, event, place, circumstance, object, etc.] it reminds me or makes me think of [memory, idea, desire, question, etc.], and I feel [fear, jealousy, anxiety, etc.].
It is valid to feel this, and even if it is hard to accept, my thoughts are not truths, yet they communicate important information about myself and what matters to me: [indicate what matters to you in this situation and what touches you personally].
This is important to me, and it has value because I find value in it. I honor this and make peace with all that seems to threaten this truth: it belongs to me alone and no one can change that.
Use the proposals above to meditate on your needs and the best way to express them while honoring your nature, your truth, and your current capacity, then take action at your own pace and with discernment. Finally, note your results in the "Summary" entry of your mastery journal, then continue your work in the following weeks.
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Holistic Guidance from January 26 to February 1, 2026 © 2025 by Anne-Lise Pollet is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
