More Joy, Less Stress For The Holidays
The holidays are a lot of fun but they also bring a lot of
stress. Everything we have to do for the holidays is piled on top
of everything we normally have to do. Here are some suggestions for the
home to lift your spirits and things to do to reduce your stress level
during the most wonderful and stressful time of the year.
Tap
into your happy childhood. Go through your old photos when
you were a carefree kid excited about the holidays. Use a color
copier to enlarge them to 8x10, 11x14 or 16x20 mini posters for
decorations. You can put them in inexpensive plastic box frames
or clip frames. If you have old holiday pictures of friends and family
who will be coming to visit you, make some fun mini posters of them
too. Think of how good that will make them feel to see themselves
in your home.
Watch
the clutter. Obstacles in the home can create obstacles in
your life, so don’t create obstacles with your decorations. If
you have to step over it, duck under it, or squeeze by, its going to
add more stress to your holiday too. Too much clutter makes
the natural energy flow in your home slow down and get stuck, which
makes us feel stuck or depressed. A good cleaning and clutter
clearing before you add decorations is a good idea.
Chuck
the negative stuff. Everything inside your home has a
memory or meaning attached to it. When you look at an item it will
either give you a positive emotional response, a neutral response or
negative response. The more negatives you have around the home, the more
negative the energy in the home. Getting rid of
all the negatives and surrounding yourself with positives raises the
energy in the home and helps keep your energy positive and upbeat. Keep
that in mind while you are decorating and don’t put up any decorations
that make you have any negative feelings.
Angry? The
more stressed we are, the easier it is to become angry. However, it is
physiologically impossible to be angry when your muscles are
relaxed. Anger cannot exist without muscle tension. If the
holidays start getting to you, take an adult “time out” and go limp
like a rag doll. Relax your body without tensing one single
muscle. Not a clenched jaw, or
your baby toe.
Get a good night's
dark to keep your mood more
positive during the holidays. Melatonin
is the hormone that controls our mood and our sleep. It is
produced by the pineal gland at night in the dark. Light makes the body
think its daytime. To keep your body making the right amount of
melatonin to keep your mood more positive and help you get enough
sleep, make sure you are sleeping in the dark. Don’t sleep with
the light on, or TV or with a streetlight coming through your bedroom
window. Or your holiday light display.
Removing negatives
and adding positives around the home to lift your spirits will help
create more joy and less stress this holiday season. And you'll find more
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