Holiday Oxytocin Tips!

Tis the season! Lots of opportunity for oxytocin, parasympathetic nervous system rejuv during the holidays. We often miss this opportunity to really health up ourselves by generating oxytocin as we go about the creative tasks of the season. Instead being stuck in the mental to do list, we  activate the joy of these fun decorative, meal creating, present wrapping things. WE pressure ourselves to be so Martha Stewart about it! No one is making us so let's loosen up and gain health.  It is not like someone is hanging over your shoulder saying you missed the special bows this year! If they do ask, say, "this year we switched it up!" 

As I was taught of the yin pole, the nourishing pole of the two, health was a result of reveling in the nourishing activity. First realize  this artistic time of the year that we create is a great time to revel in the love hormone. We can really lighten up on ourselves and as we do our holiday tasks, know the creativity, the nourishing of it, the prep is our time to really enjoy creating this beautiful holiday. It juices us up. I was chatting with a friend and we were talking how the whole holiday fun creating our homes is so nourishing to us. We create it for ourselves and others love it. But truly, we create that holiday sacred environment because we like too. It fuels us. We run the yin pole naturally that naturally heals us. 

Here's my tips!

1. STOP the pressure you put on yourself. No one else is asking for that incredible extreme in any of it. It is your own desire to have this beauty. If it starts to stress you, you are not using this rightly. No one will know if you can't get to the window lights or whatever. You create the list and pressure. STOP! This kills the creative oxytocin buzz!

2. Do revel in doing it. If you are decorating the tree, baking pies, wrapping presents, you can have a parasympathetic moment of health. If you revel, enjoy, slow down and engage fully in the creative process, there is a powerful shift from adrenal stress to oxytocin release. IT is as simple as noticing. Use this for your advantage not demise. 

3. Cut back if you get stressed. If it is not fueling you, do you really need it to make the "perfect" holiday? Or is the perfect holiday one where you feel good, creative and nourishing? You run the energy of the home. Are you gonna fill the decor with stress or with loving nourishing vibes.? You are in charge. No one else. 

4. As you do your tasks, find the essence of giving and nourishing by really being present. As I decorate, my heart sings. I feel the goodness knowing more than anyone it is for me. I will notice the nuances of the holiday I put around me to nourish me. As I wrap, I feel good for the giving and the beauty the packages are to receive. As I cook, I put love and wonderment into the food to feed others and to make MY house smell good for me. The cozy is ours. We create it, it nourishes us most and we bring it out to cozy others. Align good emotions, thoughts and spirit of love into these things. 

5. Enjoy it! The creativitiy is here and we love it! You naturally do these things and it is part of our femininity. It heals and inspires us thus others. Know what you are adding into the world, your family, the guests. Let the sparkle of it be good and enjoyable to you. You choose this or not. This is the feminine time of year for love on all levels. We are the carriers of all of it. so really revel and get the health. 

6. Hug alot and really give an embrace! This is stellar health to all and needs no further commentary!

Oxytocin is created in relaxed creativity, connection, touch. We can use all this hoopla for health!! Not over exhaustion and adrenal whack out which has ofteb been our way. We are not using the power of ourselves or the season. We got it wrong. We put too much yang into of production and it just doesn't feel good. More like a competition or a rush and we miss all the health and actually create illness. 

Get your ideas right on nourishing you and others at the same time. I wish you all a oxytocin season. This is a powerful time for great health and support for ourselves!

Will you use it as such????

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