| Five New Traditions to Reduce Holiday
Stress by Karmel Mangan 2003 is a great year to create the holiday season that you have always dreamed of! This time of year can be peaceful, loving, joyous, humble and richly abundant in all ways. It is simply time to understand that you are a powerful part of potential that is unused and that you have tremendous ability to tap into this reserve to have the most joyous Holiday season ever. Did you know that energy follows thought and your thoughts and choices create your reality? So dear friend, what would truly comprise the most beautiful, wonderful and magical Thanksgiving and Christmas Season that you can possibly imagine? Are your thoughts and feelings aligned with a bountiful harvest of rich and loving rewards, or do you simply see stress and limitations attached to the holidays? Miracles certainly can occur when we let go of troubling situations and get ourselves out of the way. You might enjoy taking a few minutes to ponder, truthfully, some of your past holiday traditions to see if these may be actually placing you in a form of limitation. For example: If you have always been the one that does most of the Christmas cooking for your family, how can you start a new tradition and delegate others to assist you in the process? Make it fun and enhance the season by transforming what is stressful, into blessings of love, fun and play! If you are ready to create some new traditions this holiday season, read on and see how these simple steps can bring forth what your heart deeply desires. In the past you may have danced with holiday blues, exhaustion, sadness, depression and stress, along with spending money beyond what your budget allowed. However, the real truth is that you can set into motion new ways of transforming any old mental programming or worry-filled emotions that continue to surface at this time of year. Five new traditions you may find beneficial: 1. Remind yourself to stay in the vibration of unconditional love. Understand that love comes in many facets and even the lessons of life contain the elements of love, as we are being taught wisdom and life experience. It is the nature of your soul to love and it is much easier to love than to hate, easier to forgive than to resent, easier to honor your heart than stifle its desires, and easier to express yourselves than to suppress. Love is your first key to changing the dynamics of old patterns and to see yourself as Creator sees you, as Divine LOVE. I believe that love is the strongest and most powerful force we have in the world. 2. Moving through unpleasant Holiday fears: The meaning of FEAR is False Evidence Appearing Real and it is simply an illusion. Identify the "fear feeling" that is arising and make peace with it. Allow it to be gently expressed through feeling the feelings! The steps to moving beyond fear are: Identify the feelings or thoughts; Allow them to bubble to the surface; Accept them as part of you and part of love; Thank them for serving you well; Ask that they be transmuted into love and let it all go. You can apply this simple process to any situation such as stress, financial issues, difficult family issues and more. Reclaim your full power and potential by using the forces of love. You will be amazed at the results! 3. Setting Your Holiday Intentions: We may all have worked with setting career goals at one time or another. Why not use the power of intention to accelerate you into a sacred place of more joy, peace and abundance this year. An example would be: I set the intent for benevolent magic to occur this holiday season and to resonate with love in every aspect off my being. This love will connect, express, and expand to myself and radiate out to others. I am blessed with ever-flowing prosperity, money and inner peace to fulfill all my holiday wishes. I am loved by the universe in magnificent proportions! And so it is. Repeat 3x daily 4. It is not the Money -- Honey! Frustration has set in, you are bone tired, the stores are too crowded and you are not even one-tenth the way through your Christmas shopping list. Is this triggering any memories of Christmas past? By just reading this you may already feel your physical body getting tense and see your checkbook amounts dwindling. How about putting a new tradition into action? Create another visual now and take a long, deep relaxing breath while aligning yourself with the vibration of abundance, peace, and the space of joy inside. Do not pray for your financial fears to be alleviated by usual methods, such as fear motivating you to take a temporary second job, but rather focus on the quality of the feelings that you wish to have. If you desire more money then visualize a specific amount, say $1,000 or more easily flowing into your life somehow. See the money, feel it, visualize it in your bank account, now mentally spend it. Make a movie of the outcome in your heart and mind. See yourself floating through the stores, getting great bargains, having lots of money to spare and leaving with all your gifts completely wrapped! In other words...focus on the outcome, not the money. And by all means, ask the universe for whatever you need, give energy to it (visuals and intentions) allow it, commit to receiving and surrender it over. I do not know how this will happen, but I am willing to allow it. I am at peace. Repeat 3x daily 5. Creating New Holiday Values: Sometimes conflict over traditions and family values will appear during this festive time of year. It is important that you take time out to re-evaluate your personal values and refocus on what is really important in your life. You might ask your partner and children to do the same thing. For example: Is it really necessary to go into debt while trying to please others or overspend to keep up appearances? What do you value about this? What are the old beliefs and concepts that may be repeating? What positive changes are you willing to make about the things that cause you continued stress? Remember, you are a powerful being and you can co-create heaven on earth...one step at a time. Always look for what you wish to create, what you wish to resurrect in your life, in your spirit and focus on that. Ask for blessings, not what you wish to get rid of or what is not working. Focus on the JOY of your dreams, your hopes and your aspirations and ask for this. Celebrate new traditions, allow yourself to dream passionately, and bring new LIFE to your LIFE! Blessings and happy holidays to you. Karmel Mangan of Spirit Whispers in Lawrence, Kan., is a Spiritual Energy practitioner, writer, speaker and EMF Balancing Technique teacher. Call (785) 840-9829 or e-mail karmel@spiritwhispersonline.com, or visit www.spiritwhispersonline.com Copyright © 2003 Karmel Mangan |
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