The holiday season is filled with celebratory activities, gift-giving, and visiting with family and friends. While these festivities are a lot of fun, they can also become quite stressful and tiring! This year, protect your energy so that you can enjoy the season and be fully present with your loved ones. When you take care of your own needs, everyone around you benefits. Let us share a few ways we’ve learned to protect our energy during the holiday season.

Preserve Your Peace During the Holidays

Do the holidays delight or do they cause dread? For many people, the holidays are fraught with emotion and difficulty. Whether it’s enduring mealtime with a dysfunctional family or being faced with feelings of loss and loneliness, the holidays can be stressful, and disruptive to your body, your emotions, and your routines.

Try embracing these steps below, to bring some peace, joy, and cheer back to the holiday season! 

8 Tips to Help Protect Your Energy this Christmas

1. Practice Energy Healing

Emotional baggage of past holidays or unresolved issues between family and friends can cause stress around the holidays. Luckily there are simple and easy ways to clear these emotions through energy healing. Trapped emotions and other trapped energies can distort your energy field, making it easier to resonate with particular emotional frequencies such as anger and depression. Clearing trapped energy is easy with the Emotion Code® and the Body Code™! Schedule a session with a trained practitioner, and allow them to help free you from these imbalances this holiday season! If you’re a certified practitioner yourself, don’t forget to make time to practice on yourself as well. Letting go of emotional baggage will enable you to celebrate the season with greater joy.

2. Prioritize Your Mental and Physical Health

Take care of yourself so that you can fully show up for your family! You can’t pour from an empty cup, so make time to do the things that fill you up with happiness and calm. Perhaps set aside time each morning to meditate, to take a walk outside, or to write in a journal. Even ten minutes of prioritizing your own needs can shift how you approach your day and your interactions with others. Be sure to get enough sleep too! Take advantage of the longer nights by retiring early so you feel energized and ready to take on the next day.

3. Be Compassionate with Yourself

If you just aren’t feeling the holiday cheer, it can be easy to make yourself feel even worse by adding guilt to your list of emotions! It’s okay to not want to go to every celebration. It’s also okay to not want to be around people all the time, even when it’s the people you love the most. Give yourself grace and go easy on yourself. Prioritize the activities that are most important to you, and then give yourself permission to opt out of some get-togethers if you need to.

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4. Set Healthy Boundaries

Sometimes, especially with our families, we need to set boundaries. Saying no to certain things can help preserve your energy this holiday season. Asking that certain topics remain off-limits at celebratory gatherings can help lower stress levels, especially if you’re worried about a particular conversation sparking controversy, or upsetting you. Let your loved ones know when you need time to yourself, or when you need a little extra support. 

Don’t say ‘yes’ to more than you can handle. If cooking overwhelms you, don’t offer to prepare the whole holiday feast! Ask others to bring a potluck of dishes, or offer to contribute one dish. You don’t have to do everything, and when you’re only doing the things you truly want to do, everyone will feel that positive shift in your energy!

5. Don’t Abandon Your Healthy Habits

The holidays are full of treats, sweets, big family meals, and cozy days indoors. However, all that indulgence can disrupt your healthy habits, potentially making you feel unwell physically and mentally. Support your well-being by enjoying everything in moderation. Listen to your body’s messages, and tune in to what you really need. You might even use muscle testing techniques to identify what foods or drinks your body will react well to. 

6. Be Flexible With Your Expectations

Decide ahead of time to be flexible about what you expect from the season and from others. Everyone else has expectations and sometimes they won’t match with yours. Plan for spontaneity! If you allow the plans that others have to be a part of what brings you joy, you’ll have more fun as everyone shares ideas and activities. Attitude is so key to happiness!

7. Communicate With Love

Be kind to everyone, including yourself. Give hugs. Take a deep breath before reacting. You might even step outside for a few moments to get fresh air if you feel stressed or reactive. None of us communicate perfectly. Try to see what others really mean, not just what they say. Give them the benefit of the doubt because it’s likely no offense was meant. Ask for clarification and react appropriately, with kindness, love, and forgiveness. Some people really don’t have a handle on their behavior, but it doesn’t have to affect how you feel or be your problem.

8. Create New Memories

If holiday memories are painful, or family and friends aren’t present, try to embrace new traditions. You might join a Christmas carolers group, volunteer at a shelter, or take a long drive to see all the best holiday decor in your town. Look for local or virtual community events, such as church services, holiday concerts, and more. Perhaps host a potluck for others seeking companionship around the holidays, and focus on creating new relationships. Making new memories can be a wonderful way to rediscover the holiday spirit. Plan ahead so you have something to look forward to!

Need some support this holiday season? We’re here for you! Reach out to one of our certified practitioners, or staff practitioners and see how energy healing can help clear your emotional baggage, so you can connect more deeply with friends and family, and leave the winter blues behind!