Uh Oh, emotional aromas are brewing in the hearts of our homes. The holiday season is guaranteed to stir the sometimes disturbing pot of past memories and burdens of expectations. Emails and calls are coming in from successful 'mind and body shape-over' clients who are headed for a train wreck. You can thwart the train from derailing, today.
To surmount and delight in the season, collect and fold in the following ingredients:
1. SPICE: Emotional accumulation from many years past
2. SIMMER: Size up the 'surface dwellers' and assess the present -day-reality of those feelings
3. STIR: Decide which 'old emotional patterns' you want to engage.
4. MORE STIRRING: Know you have the power to choose differently
5. EVEN MORE STIRRING: Sit with Your Inner Wisdom and ask for Guidance
6. BREW: Listen, Allow & F o r g I v e
7. SERVE: Love yourself and each other
8. DESSERT: Commitment to DIVINE LOVE
Excess weight can simply be a symptom of an unfelt and unexpressed feeling, or two. Sometimes the emotional 'academy award winning movie' only lasted 3 minutes yet replays for 30 or more years!
Feelings were true when they were silently felt at age 7, 9 or 12.
For me, one of my archive movies is called "Save the Best for Last." I was the very last human being (on the planet) to open the 'best' and 'biggest' Christmas present from my money-struggling, divorcee' Mom. My whole family was there - watching. Now looking back, they all stared at me with colossal anticipation as though they knew what was inside the box. They predicted an expression of 'something'. They may have featured a delighted 12-year-old little K-K seeing and experiencing the magnificence of 'the gift'.
Well, you know the punch line. The present did NOT meet my expectations. And my reaction most likely did not meet the expectations of my on-looking family or my evidently well-intended Mother (who is now gone and I can't make an apology to).
Moving ahead 35 years...
The extravagance of, and variety of, food I now prepare during the holidays may be to compensate for the feelings I stuffed and guilt I endured for not being appreciative for the 'fake' down jacket I received, instead of a 'real' goose down jacket. Isn't this funny what we do? Makes for a top-notch 'sensationalism' stew, huh?
I'm sure any therapist reading this is having a hay-day with this classic case of psycho-babble. Oh well, who cares? The key is....it's time to release the Velcro grip on old, outdated, non-logical, non-serving, good-for-nothing emotional 'replays' so that you can enjoy LIFE this Holiday season...and beyond. Ok, maybe I'm talking to myself.... But you're still reading. J
By the way, after a difficult, shame-full and tear-full conversation with my Mom, I did return the pale blue 'fake- down' jacket shortly after Christmas. I contributed funds and purchased the one I really wanted which was a North Face, green, puffy, and most lavish goose-feather down feather jacket. In the end, everyone was happy!
Affirmation: I am compassionately True to Who you a I am this Holiday season.