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Author Christine Clarke-Swift MS

The American culture has ‘hypnotized’ and mesmerized the population into thinking your happiness is achieved during the holidays by the purchase of many gifts for others.   Have you ever felt stressed by the holiday season and wonder why when it is supposed to be a happy time? Holiday pressure is created by the commercial industry to purchase more, give more because the commercials suggest that you will feel good. During these difficult and challenging economic times it is imperative to challenge unconscious thinking. Conscious choices that provide giving and spending responsibly will make you feel good.  Being more conscious of choices and spending responsibly is a step on the right track.

Stepping onto the right track means being more aware of what you are thinking. What are you thinking during the holidays? Do you think you have to perform all the traditions to be happy for the holidays? Do you think that the more you have to spend during the holidays will make you and others happy?

Challenging these thought patterns that bring tension responses takes conscious practice in the beginning. It might even take awhile to catch the thought train as it starts. Whenever you find yourself in a negative response pattern, just stop and take a breath. Replay the whole scene in your mind and adjust your response to one that keeps you calm. You will find that when you stay calm, your situation and others around you will respond in kind. As you practice relaxing your body with breathing and calm thinking, you will find many of your health dis-eases ease away. Remember dis-ease is the mind/body not at ease. Here is an example of historical mesmerized thinking one might believe; ‘I have to make all the food for the holiday gathering.’ Change the thinking and stress level by engaging in thoughts like; ‘I enjoy my family gathering and all enjoy the food they bring.’

There are many ways to perceive any given situation in which you feel overwhelmed one solution is to ‘brainstorm’ with another family member to come up with another way of doing things while you enjoy the traditions of the holiday season.

Know that whatever brought on the tension reaction or stressed feeling whether it was a driver with a crazy maneuver, a co-worker, a child or spouse they did not cause your tension. You did with your thought.

Basically, it’s change your thought, change your reaction. Find a thought that doesn’t elicit negative notions and body tension. The ideal thought change is one that actually makes you laugh.

Maya Angelou writes “When you know better you do better”.   Holiday stress means when you know better what to do about the holiday stress you will feel better. When you feel better you create a new image and memory in your brain that allows a new cycle of events to form.

Then ‘TADA’ you now have created a less stressed holiday for yourself.

I challenge you to go beyond your fears of the holiday pressures now by jump-starting your success by emailing at Christine@ontrachypnosis.com or on the web at www.ontrachypnosis.com or call 603.702.0649.

Christine Clarke-Swift is a speaker, trainer, Life Strategist Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, NGH Board Certified Hypnotist and a NGH Certified Instructor. She achieved an MS in Community Psychology and BS in Human Services. Christine draws on her 20+ years experience in the field of Human Services as well as 20+ years of experience in the world of business to fortify her career as a Life Strategist Coach and business owner of OnTrac Coaching & Well Being Training.

Christine Clarke-Swift is a speaker, trainer, Life Strategist Coach, NLP Master Practitioner, NGH Board Certified Hypnotist and a NGH Certified Instructor. She achieved an MS in Community Psychology and BS in Human Services. Christine draws on her 20 years experience in the field of Human Services as well as 20 years of experience in the world of business to fortify her career as a Life Strategist Coach and business owner of OnTrac Coaching & Well Being Training.

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