Season Everything With Love
‘Stress’ can be the #1 obstacle to enjoying a healthy holiday at home.
We can be like a business CEO, formulating plans with a list of priorities based on our values, a budget, time schedules, and a list of duties to delegate for a Team success.
5 Top CEO Steps to Ensure a Healthy Holiday at Home
- Be aware: of your own values, strengths, and capacity for pulling off a memorable holiday at home. Go with what is important to you, not what the advertisers and magazines dictate.
- Be in-sync: with these priorities, and acknowledge how your body, mind and spirit ‘feel’. Does the plan lift your spirit or leave you stressed out, resentful, and/or depressed? Be realistic – adjust the plan to keep you and your home, emotionally and physically healthy.
- Give natural sustainable gifts: plants, shells, driftwood, stone, etc. Studies show that nature reduces stress, so bring nature indoors for yourself, and for everyone that you care about. Handmade with Love is the mantra this year. Consider using the natural elements and create something unique! And/or, give a Gift Certificate for a Consultation with Nadine.
- Delegate: everyone has something special to contribute – sometimes they just need to be reminded about what it is. And, don’t underestimate the creativity of the young people. Regardless of what the adults think, the holiday will be engraved in the kid’s memories forever.
- Set the stage: with wonderful feng shui – a calm, cozy, inviting environment contributes to the holistic approach of healthy food, healthy relationships (be kind to others you may not like -you don’t know what their life situation may be like), and healthy environments for a happy, healthy holiday.
- Lower the lights (more Yin) to keep the feeling relaxed & mellow. Candles and a fire in the hearth, have always set the image of feeling ‘cozy’. Raise the lighting for more excitement(Yang)
- Soft music (more Yin) relaxes and maintains a calmer nervous system. Louder music will be more energetic – rowdy (Yang)
- Slow cooking foods prepared with spices and herbs earlier in the day will allow you time to relax, as well as allow those tantalizing aromas to waft throughout the space.
- Go natural with the decor. Healthy, seasonal plants will freshen the atmosphere. Brilliant reds, oranges, yellows, or whatever to reflect the season, can automatically change the mood of the home. Best of all, they will last throughout the year. Whereas, a Xmas tree has a short life-span and causes allergic reactions for so many.
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