Happier Holidays: Turning Stress Into Joy
Successful Strategies for Maintaining Calm and Enhancing Enjoyment During YOUR Holidays
- Mindfulness – being conscious of yourself (thoughts, feelings and triggers) is the key to a happier holiday.
- PAUSE and take time to clarify what the holidays mean to you.
- Let the past ‘be.’ It’s over. There is nothing we can do about last year’s holiday.
- What is most important to you this holiday?
- How can you make that happen?
- If you will be by yourself, try to remember that we, human beings, are all connected even if not together physically. What can you do for yourself that will be nurturing?
- Adjust your expectations to what is most likely to happen? Idealism vs. Reality
- Disappointment is often created when we hold on to an outcome.
- If you need to take space, tell someone where you are going and for how long.
- Be mindful about what you are feeling during your time with family or guests?
- Where are you noticing stress in your body?
- Take a moment to put your hand over heart and breathe.
- PAUSE to stay present in the moment and take in what is good.
- How other people act and what other people say is not about you.