How Do You Want To Feel This Holiday?
‘Tis the Season alright! The holidays stir up a lot for many of us. There is a kind of longing in the air for something that we’ve had in the past and no longer have, or a longing for something that feels beyond our grasp.
It’s easy to be fooled by the idealized images of celebrations and holidays, easy to feel on the outside looking in, wondering why YOUR life doesn’t look as idyllic as what you imagine everybody else’s seem to be. It’s easy to be fooled into thinking that you are deprived of the perfect family, or the perfect body, or the perfect income that would allow you to provide the perfect holiday for yourself and loved ones!
Do yourself a favor- don’t go there. It leads to a pronounced sense of deprivation that some of us are vulnerable to at this time of year. Instead, make a stand for ways to make the season meaningful for you.
What are a few ways that you can focus on feeling the most pleasure and connection in ways that are right for you?
Try this:
Get out your trusty pad of paper and take a few moments to think about what’s essential for you over the holidays.
Is it about being with family? Is it about gathering your friends together and socializing? Do you enjoy making or sending holiday cards each year? Are there certain traditions that you look forward to that capture the essence of the holiday for you?
For a few moments put aside your sense of obligation to what others want and expect and connect with your own desires and wishes for a happy holiday. Get quiet and centered and ask yourself quietly what it is that you most want and need to feel connected to the spirit of the season. Listen very carefully, you may be surprised at what comes up, or maybe you won’t be.
Let yourself create a memorable and intuitively inspired holiday for yourself. If you create from this place, you and everyone that you come into connection with will feel something special and authentic. Take time to craft some memories for yourself and those you love. Pull away from the externally driven messages of the media and the commercial consumerism culture. Make something beautiful for yourself and see how good you feel.
A few ways I like to enjoy the season:
- I put some evergreen branches into a galvanized metal watering can on the front step
- Planning a small holiday dinner party for favorite friends that we haven’t seen enough of this year.
- Playing my strange mix of holiday CD’s on the stereo every day, all day
- Going to the orchard next door to select and cut our tree
- Cooking a real turkey almost every week because we all loved it so much on Thanksgiving!
- Getting a teensy mini tree for my office, just for me and my clients to enjoy.
- Going to my Mom’s to celebrate Hannukah with family
As always, my message to you is to follow your heart and your intuitive wisdom to make the most of each day, any time of year. Be true to yourself and what you love- it’s a beautiful gift you can always give to yourself, and others.
Next week I will write to you about the winter solstice and how you can use that time to move all sorts of energies in powerful ways!
Wishing you love and every blessing,
Lisa Claudia Briggs
Intuitive Body Muse
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