New year new love energy – resetting your heart for 2026!
Why reset our hearts now?
How do you want your heart to feel as we step into this next phase? In the beginning weeks and months of 2026 - or any transition period, we can use the potency of the transition to reset and open to joyous possibilities! I have definitely come to the realisation that I also need to reset my own heart to invite more love and connection into my close relationships – they can honestly be super hard sometimes and sometimes things feel really good. Resetting our heart is a potent way to end the old time period and start the new. It’s not about becoming someone new, simply coming home to yourself in many ways.
Here in Australia, the New Year has a different energy to what it does in the northern hemisphere. The atmosphere of New Year’s intentions or resolutions makes sense in the middle of winter because everything has died away and we’re hibernating waiting for the spring to bounce into new life again! Here in Australia in December and January, we are in the fullness of life and of summer. It’s an interesting time for New Year resolutions - not that I’m into resolutions, they imply that we use our will to take control of ourselves. Intentions and goals are much better because we can plan and work towards them step-by-step rather than something we hope or force ourselves to do. You can use the energy of this time of year to reset to help you attract love going forward. It doesn’t matter if we are not in the north hemisphere, we can use energy of the collective to help heal and reset our hearts. Change is not about forcing anything, it’s about creating space.
Why reset our hearts?
Resetting our hearts is clearing out the old energy, coming back into alignment with ourselves. When you press the reset button on a device, the entire digital blueprint gets erased and we get to start again. What if our hearts are similar? We can actually change the blueprint of our heart – but it’s unlike a digital device in that it doesn’t get totally erased. The scars, tears, rips and wrinkles make us who we are – and those are precious! When some scars, wrinkles and even what felt like breaks, are ironed out via some inner work, it helps us reset our hearts and start again because things become smoother, and easier.
Step by step Heart reset
1. Decide what you want the new love energy in your heart to be and feel like. Take a quiet moment with just your heart and how you feel about things. We can do this via journaling, taking a bath, reflection time before after meditation, on a bush walk or through playing music - there are so many ways! It depends how you like to tune into you. If you don’t know, just try a few things to practice. How do you want love to feel for this coming period?
2. Notice what is no longer serving you that you can let go of. Thoughts such as ‘I am not deserving of what I want’, or ‘it never happens for me’, perhaps you’ve got the one that says ‘I’m just not good at relationships”. If you don’t know how to release them, get in touch - that’s what I’m here for!
3. Clear the energy of your spaces. Our minds, bodies, energy fields, home environments are all spaces that we can cleanse. I’m big on energy healing and cleansing - one way is to visualise a gorgeous sparkly golden light coming down from the heavens down through the top of your head and transforming every single molecule of your body. I also love smudging with a sage or eucalyptus bundle – the smoke from these plants really does clear the way. We can do this as we transition into a new month, even a new week or new day – a new moment. We don’t need to focus on the only the New Year, however this time is particularly potent for a reset.
4. Heal for the collective. Do you have a sense heaviness in your heart? I know I sometimes mourn with all the war, violence, sadness, environmental degradation, and imbalance that we experience on the planet and within humanity. How can we shake some of that off so that we don’t take it forward into next year? Now is a great time to release these feelings. Even if we know we will feel them again as being human often comes with pain – releasing as we go is important.
There are patterns of thought and behaviour that can be damaging to our romantic relationships coming from the outside. Disrespect, harm and very uncaring words and ways to the feminine, masculine, to men, to women, non-binary people, people from different cultures or religions. How can we release these as we step into the newness of this next phase? As we meet human beings eye to eye, heart to heart, soul to soul it’s so good to arrive without damaging ideas and thoughts about them. Can we hold the reality that some of us humans are caught up in an aggressive mindset, especially when it comes to love and intimacy? Holding that at the same time as releasing that from our energetic space and reality going forward is totally possible!
5. Clearing aspects of dating/relationship history that were painful helps regulate the nervous system. Love comes more easily to those who are relaxed and confident! Perhaps challenging feelings have come from disappointments - the rollercoaster of dating. Connecting with someone where you get excited only to realise there are too many red flags. Or starting to enjoy a connection with someone only to be ghosted. Just because these experience have happened in the past doesn’t mean they need to happen again. Tune into where the feelings are in your body, send your loving presence to them. Go to the centre of the feeling. This is mindfulness but for feelings. I use the word feelings but it can also be an energy, a state which can get skewed from difficult experiences.
We can come into alignment with how we really want to feel when we keep sending that love and mindfulness to that challenging feeling. Keep doing so until things feel very different. We are not chasing their feelings away – simply acknowledging them. I use that sentence often in coaching. It’s profound when we feel the truth of that at a cellular level and it really helps shift things. Bringing ourselves back into alignment is everything - and I mean everything! It can really make the difference as to how we feel and what shows up in our lives. It’s so important – it will help us transform things for 2026 in a beautiful way! I am so up for that as the 2nd half of this year has been a rough ride for me.
What was 2025 like for you when it comes to love? Perhaps you spent some time in relationship with someone, but it was wonderful in some ways just not in others. What aspects do you want to hold onto from that relationship and consciously attract them again the next time you meet someone? What aspects of that connection were not in your best interest and you are choosing to consciously release them? Maybe for you it was a lot of solo time. What do you love about it? What don’t you love? Knowing these things means you get to keep what you love as you step into relating with someone again!
Practices to keep the energy clear
These can help you moving forward to keep things clear after your reset: regular journaling. It’s so powerful – I don’t always do it, but when I do I really notice the difference. Nature time can help greatly as will any your beautiful body/mind practices that keep you in a higher vibe and help keep the energy clear.
New heart blessings
May your heart feel light, confident, full, and open to the infinite possibilities of Love as we step into this newness! May all beings on earth feel safe, loved and happy!
Send me an email at shannon@welcomelastinglove to share two things. 1. What the biggest thing you are letting go of at the moment is and 2. What you want the energy of Love to be like in your life after you have consciously reset!