Holiday Spirit
The holiday season can either be exiting and joyous, or saddening and lonely. How you experience the holidays is completely up to you. Really! Whether you feel sad or happy, lonely or connected is completely up to you.
Your thoughts, your activities, and the kind of situations you put yourself into generate your feelings. In other words, you do not have to experience sad or unhappy holiday feelings unless you want to. If you want to change how you feel, simply change what you are doing, and this will change your feelings.
What makes you feel sadder during the holidays? What makes you feel more disconnected, out of touch with the spirit of the holidays?
Right now make a quick list of the activities, or lack thereof, that may make you sad or unhappy about the holidays. Do something different about two of these right now…
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