Distraction Therapy Mix – New Year Shift of Orientation

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The turning of the year is not simply a change of date. It is a shift in orientation. A moment when we are asked, quietly but firmly, to decide where we stand in relation to what is coming, and what we choose to carry forward.

Hermetic traditions speak less of prediction than of position. To see clearly, one must have a vantage point. To endure turbulence, one must have roots. The work of renewal does not begin in movement, but in stance. A culture cannot be reborn through acceleration alone. It requires a grounded centre from which motion can occur without disintegration.

The New Year arrives in a climate of noise, volatility and competing narratives. In such conditions, stability is often mistaken for inertia, and rootedness for nostalgia. Yet secure roots do not bind us to the past. They anchor us so that we are not thrown about when the surface becomes chaotic. From depth comes resilience. From continuity comes the capacity to imagine what is not yet formed.

Radio Lear exists within this tension. It is not a retreat from the present, nor an escape into abstraction. It is an attempt to hold a listening position that is steady enough to remain open. To keep a cultural hearth lit, not by clinging to old forms, but by tending the conditions in which new forms can emerge with meaning.

As we enter the New Year, we welcome those listening across Leicester, Loughborough and Rugby, and those joining us online. You are part of this work of orientation. Each act of attention, each moment of listening, contributes to a shared sense of where we are standing together.

Rebirth is not a spectacle. It is a process of alignment. Of knowing what we are rooted in, so that we can look forward without fear, and remain undisturbed when the ground above us begins to shift.