There are many joys of the season AND many extra things that we are adding to our plate. In fact, we may have many spinning plates on sticks as the countdown to the holiday approaches.
The holiday season can feel quite chaotic even though the holiday parties, holiday baking and other family traditions are important highlights for this time of year. How to keep the plates spinning and still feel the joy of the season without being consumed by overwhelm and stress may be just the little goodie we all need before we open our gifts.
This is the winter solstice. A time when days are short and our rhythm naturally desires more rest and down time yet we may be burning the candle at both ends to compensate for our to-do list. This is a perfect set up to spoil the holiday season with a winter bug. Keep your immune system strong and plug into moments of inner peace through the principle of “maximum efficiency with minimal effort” aka the Maxi/Min Law.
Here are some tips to tap into your inner peace so you can stay out of overwhelm.
- How you choreograph your priorities. What really needs to happen today and what can wait? There are some routines that can go on the back burner. Be discerning about the errands you run and the chores that you do. What is the best use of this next chunk of time in your day?
- Do make exercise and moving the body a priority. This will promote healthy energy and invite stress resilience through the release of endorphins and those feel-good hormones. Moving the body will release the tension from your body. Even a walk around the block to see your neighbor’s Christmas lights can be an energy reboot.
- Create the space around you to feel more inner peace.
- Turn on your Christmas lights and play some music you enjoy while you bake and wrap gifts.
- Keep the clutter of wrapping staged in one central place where you can make a big mess and surrender into the creative process of wrapping your gifts.
- Remember this rhyme “it’s never too late to delegate.” Ask for support and accept help when someone offers to give a hand. Sharing the effort can lighten your load.
- Remember to breathe into your one-point, that center place at your core located 2-3 fingers below your naval. Taking a few slow deep breaths is like putting the brakes on your revved up stress mode. Deep breathing will reboot your focus, calm your nervous system, and help you to tap into your inner peace in that moment.
- Pause-Notice-Choose: take a breath, name what you are feeling/experiencing internally and then choose what action will empower you, reboot your energy and support your inner peace.
- In those quiet moments of inner peace reflect on and celebrate your accomplishments and the highlights for this year that are coming to completion with this solstice season. Bring the beauty of this past year into your heart as an act of self-love.
We may not sustain a feeling of inner peace during the entire spectrum of the Holiday Season, and the key is how we tap into the moments of inner peace and capture the joys as they come. Practice really listening to your inner wisdom from that place below your naval, your center at your one-point as described above. This is the seat of your intuition that will provide guidance for your decisions, choices and priorities to fit in what really matters for your inner peace so you can stay out of the anxiety and overwhelm of stress.
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