Hello Reader,

As 2025 comes to a close, I've been pondering the past years. My successes, my struggles, how far I've come and which direction I would like to take in the year to come.

Here's my conclusion and perhaps my greatest lesson of 2025...

It’s astonishing how easy it is to dismiss the small things that we do for our well-being. Small rituals with powerful impact that we often undervalue and often set aside for what we deem to be a more productive use of our time.

As the year comes to a close, I find myself reflecting back on my life over the past twelve months… and more.

I find myself confirming what I have known for quite some time now: It’s the small things that have the greatest impact. The small things that help us reconnect with our soul, that allow us to realign with our core, our truest and most authentic selves. Those are the things that create the greatest transformations and breakthroughs. Ironically, these are also the things we tend to skip when time runs short. And time always seems to run short. So, we set our small things aside, on the back burner, to focus on more pressing matters.

After all, journaling, meditating, gratitude rituals, exercising, visioning, and planning out a desired future can wait. There are more immediate needs, more pressing matters to attend to in the moment.

Here’s the thing though… Attending to the more pressing matters only provides temporary relief, not permanent change. Solving a pending problem, resolving a problematic situation is simply responding to life as it is. It doesn’t change our vibration. And if our vibration doesn’t shift higher, doesn’t elevate, we continue to attract life events and circumstances that are a match to our current vibration and we create a future that remains pretty much the same as our present day life.

Nothing changes. Everything stays the same.

There is no transformation, no shift, when life is happening to you and you are constantly and continuously responding to it. The shift must happen on the inside first. And that means doing things that help elevate our vibration, things that move us into alignment with our soul.

That’s what all the small things do. The habits we choose, the rituals we practice, the being present in what we are doing, that allow us to align with our divinity. It’s in those small things that we can tap into the voice of our soul and allow it to sing.

We live a fast paced life. Over the past few years, I have found myself being pulled in every direction, feeling like there just wasn’t enough of me to go around. There wasn’t enough of me to meet the increasing demand on my attention and my time.

• My kids need me, requiring my time, energy and presence.
• My friends want to spend time with me.
• My aging parents require my attention and energy.
• My business requires my focus, sustained efforts, energy and time.
• And the list goes on…

An endless list filled with “must dos” that leaves very little room for the “should dos”, and much less time for the “want to dos”. Sound familiar?

It's easy to skip the small stuff.

Viewed in this light, it becomes easy to see how the small, but mighty, things in life take a backseat to more pressing life matters. It’s easy to skip the small stuff because it isn’t essential. And it’s easy to repeatedly skip the small stuff because other things have taken precedence. It’s also easy to forget to come back to the small stuff because we get caught up in life and all that we have been required to take care of. We get caught up in responding to life and life responds by giving us more to respond to. And there is no more time to do the small things that bring joy, elevate moods and shift our vibrational frequency. Things like writing, reading, singing, cooking, exercising and sports, arts and creativity.

Over the past year and some, I have found myself constantly chasing my life, trying to catch up with it. I was trapped in a constant and perpetual state of doing, doing, doing. Without a moment to breathe, without a moment of rest or respite. Running purely on adrenaline. And yet, prior to the past few years, life had flowed. It was easy, graceful and fun. Things were happening for me. Life always seemed to go my way.

So, what had changed? – Alignment!

A few years back, my highest priority had been to maintain the highest level of alignment I could with my soul and with Source. I was keenly aware that my vibration is what I was attracting into my life and if I wanted to attract all the good things, I needed to maintain the highest vibration I possibly could. So, I did everything I could to align with the frequency of the Creator, the Energy of Source, the vibration of unconditional love. Alignment was my priority and I lived my life in alignment, doing many small things daily to ensure I remained aligned with my soul.

• I meditated daily: I have particular appreciation for Dr. Joe Dispenza’s morning and evening meditations.
• I used Thetahealing as a daily manifesting ritual.
• I channeled the daily wisdom of my spirit guide team – Elderon
• I did a morning gratitude ritual for things I wanted to manifest. I learned this one from Bob Proctor. EAch day, I write at the top of a page: “I am so happy and grateful now that…” and list 10 things I am working on manifesting while feeling grateful for it as if it were already done.
• I did an evening gratitude journaling ritual, writing one thing I am grateful for in my day, one thing I am thankful for and one thing I am blessed with.
• I exercised regularly – almost daily.
• I learned daily.

All these things contributed to raising my vibration, elevating my frequency to match the frequency of Source. These seemingly small and unimportant things are what kept me aligned through each day. None of them felt like a chore. I was happy to do these things. Until life got busy, and one by one, I put these things on the back burner.

As the year comes to a close, I am sad to say, the only one of my rituals I still do daily is my morning gratitude for manifesting. It feels like I’m hanging on by a thread. It is the only thing anchoring me to my alignment. I feel like I’m barely hanging on.

The thing with alignment is that it isn’t black or white

You are never aligned or misaligned. There are many degrees of alignment. The more aligned you are, the better it is and the better you feel. The less aligned you are, the worse you feel. So, that feeling of barely hanging on is telling me that I’m not all that aligned with my soul.

Becoming aware of this is the first step to making a shift. The second step is making a choice. Choosing what I want to do about it. Personally, I want to move myself back into alignment. It isn’t difficult. It just requires awareness and constantly choosing alignment over everything else. I already know what to do. I’ve done it before and the results were undeniable. So, I’m going to do it again. Without waiting for the new year to start.

Starting today, I will begin to incorporate some of my small rituals back into my life. Not all at once. That is a recipe for overwhelm. One at the time and the one that makes the most sense. The idea is to shift into a higher vibration slowly, daily and consistently, until I reach that frequency of unconditional love. Then it becomes a question of maintaining it.

It’s about doing the small things that get me aligned and help me stay aligned. And it’s about making those things a priority over what life throws at me.

Life will throw you curve balls, that’s for sure.

But no one ever said you have to catch them. My greatest take away of 2025 is that my alignment is my greatest priority. In alignment, I am able and open to receive the most amount of Source Energy and channel it into my life. This means more creative energy for me to manifest the life I really want. It means attracting more of the good things life has to offer. Ultimately, living in alignment means living a life of ease, grace, flow and fun.

Who wouldn’t want that?

Wishing you all the best that 2026 has to offer. May you find your alignment and enjoy the flow of Source energy as it elevates your life to its highest potential.

Much love and blessings, May Dr. May Baydoun, ND Spiritual Journey Facilitator & Energy Healer @ Ascend Holistic Healing Helping humans connect and align with their soul so they can create a life they love to live. ​​​​ ​ ​

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