Last Christmas….
Christmas. It’s a loaded time. The end of the year, and everything that entails, is brought into sharp focus, with expenses, family dynamics, exhaustion, our own thoughts and feelings about what we may or may not have achieved this year. But Christmas is not the time to force ourselves to be happy, no matter the reality. It may be a time of reflection, a time to ponder what actually brings you peace and joy, those amazing states of being.
It’s important and necessary to understand your emotions, allow yourself to feel them, and do what you can to manage them and embrace a healthy lifestyle, including at this crazy time of year.
Christmas can be a time of pain, emotional hurts, sadness, nostalgia, and stress. The brain combines sources of stress into an “emotion” and if you’ve had more negative experiences of Christmas than positive ones, you are more likely to feel more bah humbug than cheer. Every waking moment, our brains are constructing our emotional realities. You do have the power to banish the bah humbug, with a phenomenon known as “prediction”. The brain runs an internal world all of its own, based on patterns of our previous experiences. So if your brain has more positive experiences of Christmas, it is easier for it to create a more positive, and cheerful model in the future.
So if you’re up for it and ready for perhaps a different Christmas, to what you may have experienced in the past, try tapping into the Christmas spirit this year. Do what ever works for you to create a joyous time of year, stress less, relate to the people you love and want to spend time with, and up the cheer factor for 2023.
Kinesiology is a wonderful tool that assists us in finding the root cause of our emotional hurts, which may be different to what you consciously think they are. If you are wary of the family dynamics at the Christmas table, or running around like the proverbial fly wondering why you’re doing all that, this could a wonderful chance to tap into your subconscious and release the associated stress, making way for a changing of dynamics and perhaps a better “prediction” of Christmas time.
Best,
Kim
Reference
https://exploringyourmind.com/emotions-at-christmastime/
https://theconversation.com/the-neuroscience-of-the-christmas-cheer-emotion-127141
