Are you worried that thoughts and relationship challenges will fester and pester your Christmas?
No other time of the year has the potential to create a stronger collision between our expectations and reality than Christmas. This gap brings with it a race to breach the gap. We feel stress as we rush around and work hard not only to finish work for the year but also to have all the right presents and all the food prepared while navigating at times complicated family dynamics.
The Power of Resetting.
For the reset to be more than a one-off event, our brains need to change. Various factors can prompt such change, either in a healthy, positive way, or in a negative way.
Act Clearly Knowing.
Charlotte shares two points of reflection from the silent retreat, both on challenging autopilot through presence and curiosity.
Reducing our time of misery.
Regardless of how much your feel it is the behaviour of the other that has caused you to be triggered, the reaction is happening in your body and is therefore your responsibility.
Hygge.
When we do hygge we feel that all is well. We feel safe and calm. There is a sense of comfort, kindness, harmony and belonging. Hygge is about a quality of togetherness or a quality of time. It is life-quality. This means we are activating the ‘Connected/Contented’ network. It is part ‘reward’ for our work but it is also a reprieve from work and a way to switch off from being productive, from doing, from achieving. Hygge is a different way of being.
Memories of Hygge time
Hygge is warmth and togetherness – an everyday happiness that pairs very well with mindfulness.
Up-Spiralling
Would you like to access the experience of what is beyond your automated human day to day experience?
Humility.
How do we appreciate our uniqueness along with knowing that we are not more unique or more special than anyone else?