Can you have less-stress at Christmas time?

Some tips for having less stress at Christmas time.

Every year it seems Christmas starts earlier and earlier. Stress starts to creep up
on you at this time of the year more than ever. There are ways around it to enjoy a
stress free Christmas by following some easy fast tips. Isn’t it time to have a
stress free Christmas for once?

As each year seams to go by faster and faster, it feels that Christmas comes quicker
and quicker. Plus Stores start trying to sell gifts earlier and earlier, or so it seams to
me. Here are some easy fast tips to have less stress this Christmas.

Christmas is really a time to spend time with family, relatives and close friends. So one way to help make this time of year less stressful is:

• write a Christmas card letter about your familie’s happenings of the years, that you can send to all the people on your list.

You can even write a little summary of the month at the end of each month and than you would not have to write very much in December. Then in the beginning of December you just print and place the letter in the cards you send.

• If you have put your address book in your computer, just make address stickers of all the people you are mailing to. That way you don’t even have to write the address on the envelope.
• Contact your relatives early if you want to invite them to your party or especially if you want them for dinner on Christmas Day. This way you can work out who will bring what for Christmas dinner or for any other project that you plan to do.
• If you have Skype or Voip, you can talk to them computer to computer, which will save money that you can use for something else.
• We have to make sure there is enough in the budget for cards, presents, and everything that is needed for Christmas dinner or other party stuff. Out of all the holidays more money is spent on Christmas than any other holiday during the year. Making sure a budget is adhered to, will keep you as stress free as possible around Christmas and even after the holiday season is past.
• Christmas shopping is supposed to be one of the fun times you have during the Christmas season. It can also be a stress breaker or a stress maker depending on many different factors. In the past few years Christmas shopping has really been stressful as companies seem to produce fewer products this time of year. This means the stress of trying to find the perfect present becomes even greater. The easiest way to stay stress free is to plan ahead.
• Get your shopping list made early and have other options in case the store or companies are out of something.
• Or as some of my friends do, shop all year round for the people you
  usually buy for. When you find something that you know your relative or loved one would like
  buy it a save it for Christmas. This will make a more stress free shopping experience.
• Christmas dinner could actually be the most stressful of all if you ask anyone who has
  to be in the kitchen working on Christmas dinner. Planning is the key here as without
  proper planning your stress level could go through the roof. Be sure you have a plan as to
  when the different food has to be on the stove, or in the oven. If you can get a family
  member to help, great, but many times that is not possible. If you don’t make a big dinner
  also on Christmas Eve (Which my family does), than cooking or peeling and chopping could be
  done on Christmas Eve. If you do that, then you will have much less to do on Christmas day.
• Learn that it is more important to enjoy Christmas, than to be stressed the whole time during
  the holiday season. But it does take planning.

These tips should let you enjoy Christmas more with less-stress.

What would make you happy?

Do you know that happiness is something you have to give to yourself.  Most people look
for happiness from other people or other things, always something that is outside themselves.
For many people this search continues their whole life, and they never “find” happiness.
Happiness does not lie in some outside circumstance, person, place or thing. Happiness is
found within you.

For many years I looked for happiness from the trips I took, or the clubs I went to or
even the I things the important men in life bought me.  They made me happy for a short time,
but it never lasted long.  I was always looking for someone or something to make me happy.
And when I wasn’t happy I would blame the other person for not making me happy.  Why couldn’t
he teate me better or buy me that thing, or be more romantic?   I never thought to look for
ways to make myself happy.

Until a few years ago I never know that I could choose happiness at any time. I never know
that I could choose how I was going to let the outside events and circumstances effect me.
That even in the very difficult or the very harsh circumstances I could choose peace, I
could choose forgiveness, that I could choose choose happiness. That it was up to me and will
always be up to me by how I choose to react to what is happening in my life.

In order for you to be able to use your power to choose happiness, you need to know what
happiness is. Happiness is different for everyone, as all people are  unique individuals, with
thier own likes and dislikes. I would highly encourage you to get quiet and do some deep
reflection on what happiness looks like for you.

What does happiness feel like for you? Think back to times when you felt incredible happiness.
Perhaps it has been a long time, maybe when you were a child. Close your eyes and allow your
mind to bring you an image of when you were the most happy in your life. What does that look like?
What does that feel like?
What can you do now in your life to feel that happiness?
A lot of people never attain true happiness because they are constantly making it a future occurrence.
People are constantly saying things like:

“I’ll be happy when I have a new job.”

“I’ll be happy when I meet my soul mate.”

“I’ll be happy when so and so doesn’t work with me anymore.”

“I’ll be happy when so and so apologizes to me.”

“I’ll be happy when I have a new home.”

“I’ll be happy when…”

These phrases constantly keep happiness at a future place. You see, the way the Universe works is when you
exude a vibration of happiness then you attract the things that will match that vibration. So as long as you
depend on an outside source in the future to bring you happiness, you will probably never attract what it is
that you want, that you think will bring you happiness.

How can you experience happiness now?

1. It will require you to re frame your ways of thinking.

2. It will require you to focus on the things that help you to feel happiness now.

3. Focus on those things with a powerful feeling of gratitude.

By becoming aware of what you are thinking about most of the time, you will be able to see how often you think about what you want to happen in your life.  Most of the time people think about the future or the past.  Start to think about what you are doing right now. And start to think about what you want to happen in your life.

Think about your children that you love, think about some of the funny things they do. Think about some of the things you love to do and do them more often. If you enjoy music, listen to music. Find ways to change your thought to positive thoughts. Think about what things make you happy.

Gratitude may be your greatest tool for creating happiness in your life now. When you begin to focus on what you are grateful for, you can’t help but feel happy.

I would highly encourage you to take time every morning or evening and sit and write what you are grateful. It doesn’t have to be a certain amount of things, just go with your own flow. Starting off you may only write one or two things. After a while, if you stay consistent with writing every day, you will notice more and more things to be grateful for. I would also encourage you to practice saying thank you and acknowledging what you are grateful for during the day. Just in your head say thank you or I am grateful for whatever it is that you notice you are grateful for. Maybe you are grateful for a smile that someone gave you, or the fact that you have a car to transport you, or you have food to eat and a place to live, or the fact that you are alive.

Happiness can be yours now. It is up to you to make the choice to claim your happiness. Remember, you are an amazing person and you deserve to be happy.

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How do you find true happiness?

This is a question that people have asked for centuries. Everyone is looking for it, but most people don’t even know what it is.

I had been asking this questions for a few years. I had left my country and all my friends to go live in another culture with a different language. It was exciting at first as I love to travel, but as the years rolled on; I found it difficult to make true friends like the one I had in the States, (some I had know for more than 35 years).

Many times I was sad and very unhappy as even my profession as an Alternative/Complimentary healer is not valued in this country that I live in.

So I read many books and bought tapes and CDs on self development and I learned that it is not what happens on the outside of you or around you that makes you happy, it is what you think about what is happening around you that makes or breaks happiness for you.

Now I find happiness in many areas of my life in this new country and I am mostly happy because I created a plan to happiness and I work it.

So do you know what true happiness is?

Here are 3 key ways on how to find happiness so you can attract a good life.

1. Know what happiness is for you.

You must start by knowing what happiness means to you. What would make you feel happy? Since you are looking for it, it would help to know what exactly it is that you are looking for.

Take some time to write down what happiness looks like, feels like, sounds like and tastes like to you. Once you know this you will be able to recognize happiness when it comes.

2. Create a map/plan to happiness.

If you where planning a trip by car, you would map out what routes, hyways and roads that you would take in order to get to your destination. Therefore you need to create a map or plan as to how you are going to reach your definition of happiness.

Remember only you can make yourself happy, no one can do that for you.

3. Work your plan

Happiness doesn’t always happen over night, but it will come if you work your plan. You have to be consistent in working your plan in order to reach your goals.

Be consistent and persistent looking for ways to make yourself happy. Because the moment you stop and allow some outside negative event to enter into your thoughts or beliefs, you stop your true happiness. There will be plenty of opportunities to quit looking for happiness, but you can’t give up.

It is all in the mind set.

In today’s world most people are stressed.  I will give you ideas on how to have a healthier, wealthier, and happier life with less stress. There have been many books written about having a better life, many in the last 150 years and some even going back more than 2000 years.  Now a days we have many people explaining how to build a great life. One that is balanced, so you don’t spend all your time working, leaving little time to spend with family and friends, or to relax.