Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!

So Finding some balance could be a challenge as we move into this holiday giving season.  So here I sit, viewing all the Black Friday deals and I come back to the concept of balance.  Reminding myself that giving thanks is not about great  deals. The one holiday that we have to stop and be grateful, has become over run with "holiday shopping deals". As the years have moved by we have gone out at 6am, then 5am, then 3am, and now midnight tonight.  I get it, I like a good deal as much as the next person, but at what price to our health and sanity?

So as we start this holiday season, remember, holidays are about being with people we love. It is about spending time and being present, letting go of greed and material things.  Enjoying time with your kids, parents, siblings and even if some of those relationships are strained now is the time to let go of resentments you may be harboring. Resentments bring us down, and are not productive.  They zap our physical and emotional energy, energy that can be used to heal, to give thanks and to focus on what we have, not what we don't have.


So on this Thanksgiving, I leave you with this challenge, stay away for the commercial, chaotic side of the holidays and instead take time to give thanks, to nurture your own needs, take a walk after dinner, do a short rejuvenating yoga sequence,  take a little while to sit and read a book, sit and chat with family or friends and try to stay in the moment. There is no place else you need to be!


Let go of the worries, strive for balance and you will make it through this day, thankful!


Nasmaste.