November News: Minimize holiday stress with these 5 tips

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Here’s How to De-Stress for the Holidays: November and December tend to be very busy months for us, no matter which holiday we celebrate.  So, before that busy-ness sets in, here are two things to think about, in order to minimize your stress levels this holiday season.

1. Minimize the Stimuli: Stress, fundamentally, is a result of our nervous system being overloaded with stimuli.  What is “stimuli,” exactly?  It’s everything in your life.  Everything that your physical and subtle senses encounter each day is stimuli: thoughts; emotions; sounds; sights; things you feel on your skin; everything you taste; all of the types of food that are put into the stomach; your text messages and emails; the energy fields (auras) of the people around you; music on the radio; television shows and movies that you watch–or that are playing near you; the errands you need to run; the WiFi and cell signals that pass through our bodies; everything.

Our regular lives are packed with stimuli.  At Christmas time, this just gets amplified.  Our overloaded systems get even more bombarded–and the result is more stress.  So how can you minimize stress?  The answer: Minimize the stimuli to which you expose yourself.

Take away some of the sounds, the sights, the TV and movies, the crowded parties, the dinners out, the packed stores with long line ups.  Not all of them.  But some of them.  And be in a stimuli-free space as much as possible.  Eat in silence.  Check your emails in silence.  Close your bedroom or office door to block sounds from entering.  Stand outside in the peace of a snowfall.  Minimize the stimuli.

What stimuli can you remove from your life quite easily, this holiday season?

2. Back to Basics: My second piece of advice is “get back to basics.”  Over the years, the holidays have gone from a friendly time to spend with loved ones and express our feelings by giving thoughtful gifts or helping out, to a full four weeks packed with layers of superficiality, and even with things we grumble about doing.  Do we really need all of the things that comprise a 21st-century Christmas?  All of the mass-produced, quickly forgotten, light-on-the-meaning items and activities that fill our homes and calendars, while taking our money and our time; and taking it away from the things that really matter–our loved ones?  Maybe…  But maybe not.

Maybe, somewhere in recent years, we have strayed from the point.  Humans are very good at adding layers of complexity to life.  But what we need to do is take away: We need to subtract those layers of complexity.  We need to feel into what we’re really celebrating and what we really want.  We may find that that answer will be different from the direction in which we had been headed.

So perhaps pause right now and decide what is really the purpose of the holiday season–for you.  Then make a plan to align your activities with that purpose.  Then stick to it.  Hopefully, you’ll have added depth, meaning, and feeling to your month; while taking layers of busy-ness off of your itinerary.

What is the essence of the holiday season, to you?

3. Bonus–Affordable Healing: Know that I’m here for you every Wednesday evening with a healing teleconference call, for only $15.  If ever you just need a safe place to go for an hour, to relax, de-stress, and receive energy healing as well as advice, then I invite you to join.

4. Bonus–Healing without an Appointment: If you could use a dedicated energy healing session, but don’t have time for an appointment, then know that this option was designed for you.  Just purchase it, tell me what you need, and I’ll do the work and then send you a report of what occurred.

5. Bonus–Planetary Support: Mercury Retrograde continues until the 20th, and this is all about course correcting our lives.  Now is therefore a great time to start healthier, simpler, meaningful habits for the holiday season.  The planets have your back.

New Blog Article: There’s a new article on my blog, and it’s about a large and upsetting issue: childhood trauma.  In “Childhood Trauma: The public health crisis is bigger than we think,” I explain how a recent study has found that childhood trauma seems to qualify as being a genuine “public health crisis.”  I add to the magnitude of the crisis by explaining how, in working with subtle energy and the soul’s memory, energy healers often find that even-more subtle traumas are registered in our energy fields; and so, the problem is bigger than we think.

Gift Certificates Make Great Gifts: As you think of gifts for loved ones this holiday season, keep in mind the gift of energy healing and coaching.  I offer gift certificates for 60-, 30-, and 15-minute appointments; order them here.

Crystals Make Great Gifts, Too: Shop now.

I wish you a beautiful month.  If I can assist you with healing, coaching, or guidance, then find me here.

~ Jen Wozny
   BA, MSc, Founder

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