(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hi everybody, welcome back to Rainbows are Circles. Happy holidays, I hope you're having a wonderful season so far. Today I wanted to share a few quick tips for helping you to maximize your enjoyment of the holiday season.
I know that for some people holidays are super fun and joyful, um some it's you know it's a difficult time sometimes it feels lonely or we can easily get triggered by situations or family members um and for most of us I would say it's probably a mix of the two. So just a heads up I am visiting my brother and I'm not in my typical space for when I'm recording.
I'm literally sitting on the bed with a blanket over my head just to help with the the sound acoustics because um this room is it doesn't have like curtains or carpet so there's a lot of echo so if it sounds like I have a blanket over my head it's because I do. All right so let's jump in. The first thing I wanted to share with how to maximize your enjoyment of this holiday season is to start each day with a pause and gratitude.
So before jumping out of bed you know take a moment to take a deep breath.
If you meditate take your time to meditate and just take a pause and recognize all that you have going on in your life even if your life isn't the most ideal or perfect um think of wow what is what am I just so grateful for what am I feeling so lucky to have right now and let yourself just focus on those things feel those things in your body and just start your day off on a positive note by focusing on what you're grateful for.
The more that we focus on what we have and what we enjoy and what we love the more we notice those things and the more we attract even more of those things and situations into our lives. What we think about we attract to us. If you're constantly thinking about what you hate what's annoying what's frustrating you find more things to be frustrated and annoyed with right so use the law of attraction to your advantage and start your day off focusing on what you appreciate and what you love.
Tip number two if you're spending a lot of time with family um this might be a time that you enjoy but it also might be a time where old patterns come up or you know dynamics that aren't necessarily the best or healthy and so if you're spending a lot of time with family this holiday the tip I have for you is to make sure that you're having some time to yourself and taking little pauses as needed.
So I love spending time with my family I do and usually when we get together for the holidays we'll go to one of our houses and we're there for like five to eight days. So it's a lot of quality family time and while I love and appreciate that all that time that we have it is also a lot of time to spend with people that you don't normally spend that much time with. So I make it a point to make sure I'm going on a walk at least once if not twice a day by myself.
I take my time in the morning to meditate and then I take time throughout the day to just take a pause you know go lay down for 10-15 minutes just have a little bit of time to myself and I find that even just small small things like that really help me to kind of come back feeling refreshed and feeling my best and you know if I'm had been feeling annoyed about something when I come back like those things don't really seem like that big of a deal anymore.
So make sure that you're taking time for yourself as needed throughout the holiday. And tip number three is if you are spending time or staying at somebody's house for the holidays make sure that you're being a good house guest by offering to help. Help with the dishes, help take out the trash, just offer help when somebody's cooking.
Right these are things that you know sometimes we feel like people should know to just offer help but oftentimes you know people just aren't really thinking about that. If you're on vacation and you're staying at somebody's house and you're not really you've kind of just relaxing you might forget to offer your help.
But for the host this is something that's probably really really appreciated especially if they're cooking for you and cleaning and all the things like just make sure that you're doing your part to show them that you appreciate them and offer your help. And a little bit goes a long way and even if they say no just by you asking it means a lot. And I'm sure if you're hosting this holiday season you probably really appreciate it when people help out as well.
And so if you're in that situation and people are not being helpful excuse me if not being helpful and you want them to help out more instead of just being passive aggressive about it and you know not saying anything you could just be like oh um would one of you guys mind helping me with the dishes after we eat you know or oh we're going to be eating in about 30 minutes could somebody help me set the table.
And you could say it like that and it that doesn't sound mean but also at the same time you are expressing what you need and you're taking care of yourself and you're helping to create a more harmonious situation for everybody because if you are angry that nobody's helping and you just hold that in and you don't say anything it's not like people will feel that you know whether they understand what's going on or not it will be felt on some level and that just
does not create the best environment right. So what can we do to ask for what we need and what can we do to help others as well. So those are just the three simple tips that I have for you. So number one is to start your day with gratitude right use the law of attraction in your favor by focusing on what you love and appreciate and that will affect the rest of your day and how you feel and what you attract.
Number two is make sure you're taking time for yourself and number three is offer to help and also practice asking for help when you need it in a loving way. So I hope that you enjoyed that. I wish you all a very wonderful and amazing holiday. I'll be back next week with one more episode for the year. It will be our end of the year reflection episode. So make sure you stay tuned for that and until then happy holidays and have a magical day. Thanks for tuning in everybody.
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