While the Christmas season is a beautiful time to spend with family and friends it can also be a stressful time for many, especially for sensitive people. This can be particularly challenging for empaths – people who tend to absorb stressful energy of others.
To navigate the strain of the holiday season successfully empaths should learn to de-stress. Here are a few simple but important tips to de-stress during this busy time.
1. Consider making your home a place of retreat, rather than just a stop off point to drop yourself after work. The way to start is to create a sacred space for yourself. For example, you can make a self-fashioned altar. It’s a specific place in your home, self-decorated where you can remove your shoes, breathe deeply, meditate, and connect to yourself and Spirit. Just knowing you have your own spot can be reassuring, offers a back-up when things are falling apart. You can have your own altar anywhere – in a separate bedroom, office, attic or the like. Wherever you choose, it’s ideal to be able to shut the door. Use your own taste and creativity to create one for yourself.
2. What can you do in your home altar?
You can meditate, chant, contemplate, listen to beautiful music, read poetry, just be silent and sense your subtle energy. You can also fill yourself up with positive energy that helps to de-stress from life’s challenges.
3. Family arrangements about your altar can be different depending on your living situation.
– If you live alone, then you just pick a free from work time, turn off the phones, connect to your body energy and create a beautiful sacred place for yourself.
– If you are with a mate who would like to join you in your sacred time than, you can plan together how you can have a deep and quiet intimacy. Together determine the length, preferred activities, and how you want to design it. Your retreat may be spent separately or with one another.
– If your mate doesn’t want to participate than, you should agree on parameters: How long is your retreat? Are you going to interact? Be silent? Would you prefer the TV off? The phone unplugged in specified rooms? No knocking on your door? Negotiate and observe these terms.
Some mates will understand your requests; with others, it’s a process of gentle education.
– If you have children, then for you to have peace, they must be out of the house, so you’ll need to arrange for child care. Otherwise you’ll always have an ear open for them.
To arrange a home retreat, you will need to do some planning and have good communication with your family. But the effort is well worth it. It will bring peace, emotional stability, clarity and serenity to your life and life of your family.
