No more holiday blues: Uplifting advice for recapturing the true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year's
Wayne W Dyer
Language: English
Pages: 106
ISBN: 006097351X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Shows readers how to recapture the true spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, and other holidays, offering specific ideas for overcoming self-defeating attitudes, rekindling childhood excitement, and making holidays experiences of joy. Reprint.
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some sugar before next weekend.” With this kind of a mindset, you are already doomed to maintaining, if not adding to, your twenty pounds of excess baggage. And when you think about it, your mind is being very effective. Why should you want to do difficult tasks when you are much better equipped to handle easy ones? As soon as you make the task difficult (such as a year-long goal) then you set yourself up to give up on the idea. What you can do is set up day-to-day goals for yourself, and then
after pleasure and avoid pain. This is not in any way an endorsement of grabbing your pleasure at the expense of others; I am not suggesting that people be crass or vicious in their pleasure-seeking. You must destroy the idea once and for all that you are being bad if you are seeking out pleasure. Your work ought to be fun. School work ought to be enjoyable for students, not some dreary exercise in plodding through painful learning experiences. Life does not have to be full of misfortune,
day at a time. Don’t remind your children that they are only little and young now and on their way to becoming big and old. Enjoy them for what they are today and don’t put that future orientation into either your life or theirs. Rid yourself of a lot of mundane chores that are not really that important. You don’t have to spend endless hours doing housework or yardwork, or slaving over financial records or meals. It is not necessary to have laundry as a regular part of your life, particularly
ones in which you share the real meaning of the holidays. Read aloud some of the passages from religious works or poetry and stories that are most meaningful to each person, by having individuals select what they would like to share with everyone else. Sing carols. Pray together and give thanks for having each other. Share with each person how you feel about him or her, have time for touching, holding hands, meditating, or just being together quietly. These are things that people always remember
ATTITUDES “I can’t wait to see all of the lights and decorations every place. Aren’t they pretty?” “They put those decorations up earlier every year. I can’t believe they are doing it already.” “It sure is fun to see the stores full of people and all of the special gifts displayed.” “Christmas is becoming more commercial every year. I hate the crowds and the pushing and shoving.” “I don’t think the big day will ever get here…. I just can’t wait.” “I don’t think this season will ever end. It