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Howdy Folks and Good Day!
The holidays are upon us and as a result we may find ourselves busier than
ever. That means it’s crucial to make
sure we give ourselves the rest needed to keep the body and mind healthy!
Often our sleep schedules are interrupted during the holidays. We cannot make up missed sleep, but we can take mini-breaks throughout the day to allow ourselves some rest.
Here are a few simple techniques anyone can use:
Deep Breathing: Breathe in slow and deep, pulling air out from your stomach into your lungs. Exhale slowly and deliberately. Breathe for at least two minutes.
Close Your Eyes: Rest your eyes shut for a few minutes. You can even visualize a favorite place of retreat or relaxation
Meditation: Close your eyes, breathe deeply. Clear your mind. Release all thoughts and just be still.
Listen to Music: Stop. Close your eyes and do nothing but listen to a favorite relaxing piece of music.
A Walk Outside: Get outside in nature for at least five to ten minutes a day.
Take a Nap: Set a timer and allow yourself a short nap, from five to twenty minutes.
Take a Quick
Good self care requires rest and relaxation. Even at our busiest, we can use the above techniques to give the body and mind much needed downtime to clear, reset, and refresh.
Take care of YOU so you can enjoy your holidays even more!
Peace, Love, Happiness, Health, Prosperity
Jeanette
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ENCHANTED BLESSINGS: PT 4 of 4
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“You get world peace through inner
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ValueSpeak
A Weekly Column
By
THE STILL, SMALL VOICE OF
CHRISTMAS
There are a
bunch of new stores in the new shopping development just a few blocks away from
our house, and my teenage daughter Beth and I have been anxious to check them
out.
I mean, if
you're going to go broke at Christmas, you might as well do it at a brand new,
state-of-the-art merchandising Mecca – am I right? The way I see it, most of my money is going
to end up here anyway. It might as well
get comfortable with the place.
So Beth and
I were cruising through the area, perusing the various stores, sampling some of
the fast food cuisine, trying on some “way cool” boots when all of a sudden she
stopped, her whole face alive with youthful exuberance and excitement.
“Do you hear
that?” she asked. “It sounds like
Christmas!”
I stopped to
listen. There was plenty to hear, all
right. Shoppers
shopping. Cash registers
registering. The department store Santa
ho-ho-ho-ing.
Little children crying at the department store Santa’s ho-ho-ho-ing. A mechanical moose singing “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” –
over and over and over again.
“I don't
hear Christmas,” I told Beth. “I just
hear a lot of noise and confusion.”
“I know!”
Beth replied, her smile even broader and more jubilant. “Noise! Confusion!
Christmas!”
I remember
that feeling. When I was little it was
as if Christmas turned me into one of those Fizzies
soft drink tablets, and I bubbled and effervesced all season long. I shouted my Christmas wish list to the
department store Santa – just in case he was hard of hearing. I sang Christmas carols at the top of my
voice. I ran screaming into the night at
the sight of the first Christmas fruitcake.
I bellowed my line – “Fear not!” – during the church
Christmas pageant so loud that the infant portraying the baby Jesus woke up and
started crying. I bounced off the walls
at home and at school from Thanksgiving to . . . you know . . . The Big Night. By the time Christmas Eve finally arrived I
was usually so worked up I couldn’t sleep.
And if I couldn’t sleep, nobody slept.
Sure, my
early Christmases were noisy and confusing.
But only because I was.
These days,
however, I prefer my Christmases calmer.
I still enjoy the sounds of the season, but mostly the quiet, gentle
sounds. Snow falling. Yule logs crackling in the fireplace. Nat King Cole singing “The
Christmas Song.” A child’s voice
reading the Bible Christmas story: “And it came to pass in those days, that
there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the
world should be taxed . . .”
This change
in aural preference is partly due to the fact that I am officially old and
simply can’t tolerate the noise and confusion any more. But it’s also due to the fact that I’ve
learned a few things through the years.
And one of the things I’ve learned is that the sound of Christmas isn’t
big or bold or brassy, no matter what you may hear at the department
store. The sound of Christmas, it turns
out, is still and small.
It’s the
sound of peace.
It’s the
sound of hope.
It’s the
sound of love.
Listen for
it tonight. After everyone else has gone
to bed, turn off all the lights in the house except the Christmas tree
lights. Turn off the TV. Turn off the stereo. Set aside the pressures and stresses of the
season. Just sit in the stillness and
listen.
There – do
you hear that?
It sounds
like Christmas!
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— © Joseph Walker
For more ValueSpeak, please visit http://www.sfpnn.com/joseph_walker1.htm
E-mail Joseph at: valuespeak@msn.com
Look for Joe's book, "How
Can You Mend a Broken Spleen? Home Remedies for an Ailing World." It is available on-line through www.Amazon.com.
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