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1. Create realistic expectations -- don't try to make
this the perfect holiday.
For many people, creating realistic expectations is the most challenging, and the most
important principle to apply to the holiday season. It can be so easy to get caught up in
cozy, romantic images of a fantasy holiday where everyone is happy together, everything
runs smoothly, and the sounds of laughter echo to a backdrop of snowflakes and sleigh
bells. As an alternative, think through your plans realistically and set simple measures
of success, such as “May everyone feel some happiness.”
The following excerpt from Joel and Michelle Levey’s book Living
in Balance is a helpful reminder about how to find balance between
expectations and reality:
In search of balance, it is helpful to think
of everything – every quality, action, or object – as inseparable from its
opposite: male and female; night and day; inside and outside. No matter how much you might
like to have only the positives in life – freedom, peace, love – if you are
seeking that static state, you will always be disappointed. For every thing also
contains its opposite and both sides must be balanced: form and space, creativity
and receptivity, activity and rest, growth and decay, manifest creation and the unmanifest
source of all creation.
The good news is that, as your sense of
balance grows, you’ll find it easier to integrate the other side, "the
negatives," into your life; you’ll discover the clarity in the midst of
confusion, the stillness at the center of motion, and the love that waits behind fear and
anger. If you can learn to dance with the innumerable paradoxes of your life while staying
anchored in an extraordinary suppleness and flexibility, you will create the
stability necessary to actually find balance in your life.
"Joel and Michelle have constructed a text of
sheer brilliance. Every page offers new insights and truth. No reader
could be disappointed by this book!" -- Caroline Myss, author of Anatomy of the Spirit
