Christmas, the best time to share positive emotions

The Christmas It is a time that, traditionally and in almost all cultures, has allowed the best times of the year to gather families and friends. Ideal for sharing illusions and sending messages of congratulations and affection to the people we love but who are at a great distance, to think about reunions and gifts for both children and adults... It is a time when distances are perceived as something ideal to establish contacts, return home, share through family reunions, joy, meals and hopes for the next year, as well as personal memories of our loved ones who for one reason or another are no longer to be found among us...

Index

1. Christmas, a time of positive changes
2. What better time to start these changes than Christmas?
3. Christmas, an opportunity to grow emotionally
4. Christmas Menu

Christmas is a time full of emotions and feelings towards family, towards friends, towards our dearest ones... It is a time full of stories, traditions and legends that we transmit from generation to generation through parents, grandparents, relatives, friends and acquaintances... or not so well known.

There are many emotions that we can share and generate, so it is a good time to consider a change of pace and direction in our lives. It is the best time to try to do something different from what we have been doing. It is time to consider that our brain architecture can be modified by another that includes optimism, hope and illusion so that provide us with enough motivation to try to achieve healthy and beneficial goals for our physical and mental health. It is the ideal time to pay attention to everything that allows us to move towards more favorable goals. It is a perfect occasion to stop, discard or control all those emotions that manifest anger, hopelessness, boredom, anxiety, anger, resentment, resentment, sadness, anguish, frustrations... that only generate negative energy and a lot of physical discomfort and emotional.

It is the most appropriate time to dedicate all our time and all our energy to start the search for the positive in everything that surrounds us, in sparing no effort for the fight, a fight that will allow us to ourselves and those around us and, above all, try to achieve it through our own effort and perseverance.

It is never late, we can always try, but at this time we find moments in which the music, the lights, the streets, the advertising messages... and our environment offers an excellent breeding ground since it gives off joy, enthusiasm, happiness, smiles, Hugs…

Our emotions depend, to a great extent, on us and everything that depends on us can be controlled and changed. Emotions are generated by us, emanate from our thoughts and the interpretations we make of everything that surrounds us.

Thought plays a fundamental role in controlling emotions. Let us put our thoughts at our service and never against us. Let's not become our greatest enemy! Let's not declare war against ourselves! Let's not look for the worst of what surrounds us! Let's not close doors or windows to possible alternatives! We cultivate positive emotions and feelings through thought, let it be the thought that direct us towards the positive and away from the negative that only brings pain and much discomfort to all levels. Let us not allow sadness, nostalgia for past or future times, anger, hatred or resentment for events that have happened to embitter or direct our lives. Let's use Christmas to initiate the change and allow all these negative emotions to serve us to indicate everything that we must change, in case something is failing, may Christmas serve as a stimulus to seek balance through appropriate, constructive and decisive. In this way we will find our way and resolve situations, no matter how difficult they may seem at first.

Christmas can help us become aware of issues that we have unresolved and that they are worth solving. We understand what is happening and thus we can know if we do not need to change anything because everything is fine or if, on the contrary, it is time to act and initiate a change.

May Christmas not only represent eating, drinking, giving, asking for, or wishing for material gifts... That occupations, work, bad memories or worries... are not an obstacle to share the best of ourselves and prevent seeking happiness and personal satisfaction within ourselves or in those to whom we want. Let christmas be one opportunity to develop and grow emotionally among the people who meet us. Let's pause and share the messages that help us to become emotionally strong, both in the present and in the future. May Christmas help us to remember those who are no longer with us, so that no one forgets them while we are alive, recovering and transmitting the best of them so that they can serve as support, guide and help to those who are still by our side. Let's not allow the good to disappear into oblivion!

The best biological resource in our body is our own brain. It is our greatest treasure and, if we learn to handle it through thought, it will never fail us. We will have managed to use and put our capacities and potentials at our service. There is no better medicine than to put our brain to work optimistically. If we invest time in intelligently programming the greatest treasure that we have and that is, without a doubt, the strength of our brain!, we have no idea how much we can achieve. We must believe in ourselves, each movement we make on the steering wheel of a car changes the trajectory of the vehicle, the same happens with our brain. If through thought we mobilize and activate our brain in a positive way, we too can change the course of our lives and it will have been worth the effort.

Now I wonder why not take advantage of Christmas to use our positive thinking in looking for alternatives that help us solve our problems? Why not take advantage of Christmas to put positive emotions to work and put them at our service? Why not take advantage of Christmas to start the change? The trick is in change the negative focus to a positive focus. If we change negative thoughts for more positive and more decisive ones, we can change, without even realizing it, negative emotions for positive emotions. We do not need to change the past, the past is past, but the present is. If we change the present we will also change the future!

Let's take advantage of Christmas to introduce a menu that uses ingredients based on positive emotions. Let's enjoy the affection, the joy that children show, the satisfaction we find in the streets, the music, the lights of the cities... Everything is filled with Christmas motifs in which there is no place for sadness, hugs and kisses multiply, congratulations spread around us, self-esteem grows due to the positive footprint that is produced in these dates, the whole family strives to stay together, neither work nor rush prevents it, everything is amplified at this time... Let's keep the best of the best and enjoy it! Let's use the present to modify the future!

Controlling our thoughts can help us regulate our emotions and help us redirect our mood at all times, without falling into victimization or pessimism. That losses, separations, financial problems or any other negative reason do not prevent us from seeing the best of what surrounds us. Christmas is a time to share emotions and experience the best moments within a united family!

This can be a good Christmas menu, but we can think of many others, all will be valid as long as they include beneficial ingredients for physical and mental health.

• Assorted hors d'oeuvres decorated with deep breathing, a lot of relaxation, a lot of affection, a lot of affection, a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of tenderness.
• First courses mixed with ingredients that include positive emotions in which there is joy, a gratifying mood, satisfaction and pride in sharing them with the family, decorated all with laughter, lights, hugs and songs.
• Second courses and to make them a little stronger, load them with pleasant memories that belong both to those present and to those who no longer find among us, without forgetting to add enthusiasm, healthy hope and a multitude of thoughts positive.
• And finally, let's use ingredients that include commitments and a great motivation to fight with all our strength in such a way that allows us to achieve that our negative emotions can be changed by others, totally opposite and loaded with positivism, optimism and attitudes aimed at solving problems and not creating them, all of this decorated with a few smiles, great enthusiasm and many expectations of self-improvement to get the best of the best of ourselves and of the the rest.
• In coffee and after dinner, to warm the atmosphere, there is nothing better than the heat that comes from the hearts of our most loved ones and the hope of moving forward by distributing smiles, love, calm, tranquility, affection, kisses, hugs and lots of affection without asking for anything in return.
• As a decorative element, let's use the Christmas Tree loaded with messages that remind the whole family of the best of the best, never forgetting to enjoy second by second, moment by moment, day by day… everything we have around us.

Let's enjoy to the fullest what we have and that on many occasions we ignore, without realizing that it is there even though we are not able to see it! Let's not wait for great things to happen to be happy, let's enjoy the little details and share them with those we love the most! Let's not wait to lose it to yearn for it and wish we had what we have already lost! Let's enjoy the moment and keep the best!

If necessary, we can hang these small details on our Christmas Tree so that later next year, and once Christmas is over, we can place them in a visible place. where we can see them from time to time and they can serve as guidance and support at all times, without ever allowing ourselves to forget them or stop using everything that helps us to remember ourselves how important it is to live and enjoy, throughout the year as if it were Christmas, a time full of emotions and extremely gratifying feelings, both personally and on a personal level collective. Let us always keep Christmas with us so that values, traditions and wishes for self-improvement are never lost!

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