The holidays are supposed to be a time of celebration when friends and families get together to share food, fun, gifts, and love. They are supposed to be a time of giving, caring and connection when we celebrate important and meaningful events.
Why, then, are they often so stressful and what can we do to make them more fun and peaceful?
Changing the holiday season from stressful to peaceful depends upon one thing: INTENT. Your intent is whatever is most important to you in any particular moment or situation.
At any given moment, we are always in one of two intents. Put in simple terms, it is either more important to you in any given moment to:
1) Be loving to yourself and others, or
2) Get love and approval
Your intent determines your behavior and your feelings. Lets take an example.
Peggy is married with two children. Peggy grew up in a family where she was trained to define her self- worth through others approval that is, Peggy believes that if others value what she does, she is okay, but if they dont, then she is unworthy and unlovable. Therefore, Peggys almost constant intent is to get love and approval. She does this by...