Align your year with clarity and sound
Perhaps your new year will begin quietly. Much remains uncertain, leaving room for spontaneity and space for you to develop. And that is precisely where the special power of a quiet new beginning lies.
Instead of setting your goals or making plans, you can also start the year mindfully in the present moment and consciously take it slow. The first few weeks of the new year invite you to find your inner direction—with sound, rituals, feelings, initial images, and a clear connection to what is truly important to you.
What is important to you for 2026?
Before you get lost in to-do lists or plan big projects, we would like to invite you to give space to something more fundamental: consciously perceiving what you really want. Is there something you want to achieve in 2026?
Some wishes may already be quite specific and close at hand, for example:
- Redecorate a room in your home and feel truly comfortable there.
- Set up a meditation or ritual space where you can pause and reflect whenever you need to.
- Attend a concert you've been wanting to go to for a long time – experience music that moves you.
- Slow down your everyday life and consciously take more time and space just for yourself.
- Bringing more depth to a friendship or relationship.
Other desires may feel bigger or even further away, for example:
- A longer stay in another place or a trip around the world.
- Give your life a new direction.
- A new start in your career or slowly settling into a new role.
- Become more courageous and try new approaches.
- Let go of something old that has been with you for a long time but no longer serves you.
Everything is allowed to be there. Nothing has to be immediately tangible or fully formulated.
Journaling: Your wishes for 2026
Grab your journal or a piece of paper and a pen. Without thinking too much, write down everything that comes to mind about your wishes and visions for 2026. Keep writing even if you can't think of anything specific. In this case, you could write something like:
"I can't think of anything right now, but I'll keep writing anyway..."
It is important not to think too much, but to trust your writing. Keep writing until it feels complete and finished to you.
Then underline a wish that seems particularly important to you at this moment.
Visualizing your wishes for 2026
Read your wish aloud once more. Then close your eyes and imagine that this wish has already come true.
These questions can help you to better visualize your topic and really bring it to life:
- Where will you be when your wish comes true?
- What does this place look like?
- What colors, shapes, or lighting moods do you perceive?
- What are you wearing?
- Are there any smells, noises, or voices?
- Is there someone close to you who says something or is close to you?
Let your inner image slowly grow and become more tangible.
How would you like to feel in the coming year?
Once you have a clear picture of your desire, try to find a word that describes the feeling that arises within you when it is fulfilled.
Then consciously put yourself in this feeling: What do you perceive? How does it feel in your body? Where do you feel this feeling in your body? It may also help you to imagine situations in your everyday life in which this feeling is already beginning to emerge. Even if these everyday situations have nothing to do with your wish for 2026.
Possible feelings could be:
- wideness
- vitality
- lightness
- Arrival
- courage
- Peace and quiet
- connectedness
- joy
- heat
You may experience mixed feelings and emotions. Excitement, silence, doubt, or fear—be aware of these feelings without getting attached to them. The important thing is that you ultimately choose a word that best describes your feelings.
Solidify your desires with sound
The next step is where sound comes into play. Sound can act as an inner anchor—it connects your thoughts to your body and gives your desires depth and presence.
Instructions: Sound ritual for consolidating wishes
- Place your Singing Bowl, gong, or other sound instrument in front of you. If you Therapy Singing Bowl a Therapy Singing Bowl , you can place it on the palm of your hand.
- Strike your instrument and consciously perceive the resulting sounds and vibrations.
- As the sound unfolds, connect—in your mind or silently—with the feeling you associate with your wish. You don't have to try to manifest or force anything. Just let the sound accompany, deepen, and remind you of your feeling.
- If possible, also focus your attention on the sensations in your body that arise during this process.
- Repeat this five to seven times.
Your Singing Bowls Ritual for 2026
Throughout the year, you can return to this sound ritual again and again to further solidify or realign your wish.
If you like, after the ritual you can write down a first small step that will bring you closer to your wish. As you do so, ask yourself:
What is a first, feasible step in this direction?
You don't need a big plan, just the next small impulse. For example:
- buy a paint bucket
- book a ticket
- call a friend
- Consciously greet someone by name in everyday life
This step can be very small—so small that it feels easy and natural. The smaller the step, the more genuine the movement becomes. And that is often where its special power lies.
Once you have taken this step, you can use the sound again: to trace what has changed or to clarify the next step.
This creates a cycle: sound – perception – action – sound. A year that does not arise from control, but from connection.
Create your "dream schedule" for the year 2026
If you want to take bigger steps and have several specific concerns in mind, you can dedicate a quarter or even a single month of the year to a particular topic.
Here's how it works:
- At the beginning of the year, assign your wishes to the respective time periods (month or quarter).
- At the beginning of each period, perform the visualization and sound ritual once again.
- Repeat this process for a wish as many times as feels right for you.
Important: It is not about your wish coming true within this period. The only thing that matters is that you focus on it internally and, if possible, take the first small steps in this direction. Once the month or quarter is over, you can let go of the issue and move on to the next one.
Trust that what you desire will unfold at exactly the pace that is right for you.
Which Singing Bowl accompany you during the ritual?
Sound rituals can be simple. You don't need a big setup, just an instrument that feels right and accompanies you reliably. For your sound rituals in the new year, the Peter Hess® Therapy Singing Bowl Beginner's Set can accompany you, for example. It offers you a good foundation for intuitively integrating sound into your practice – for meditation, relaxation, or small rituals in everyday life.
The Universal Bowl different sound qualities depending on the mallet used: soft and warm with the double felt mallet or slightly clearer with the vegan onyx mallet. Complemented by a singing bowl bag and accompanying book, the set invites you to experience sound as a reliable source of support throughout the year.