Overwhelmed with social engagements and feeling guilty?
Check out these mantras for holiday stress to help you better cope with the season.
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Are You Burnt Out or Depressed?
Cue the urge to turn your phone off and literally dive into your drawer of stress-relief essential oils.
Enter: the wave of guilt for justwanting to restinstead of adding another social engagement to your overbooked cal.
From onepeople-pleaserto another, I get it.
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We have limited time and energy.
It is up to us to create the conditions for calm in our own lives.
Something I could use whenever the I need to be at every holiday gathering guilt started to creep in.
This is where the regular use of mantra entered my holiday season.
This created the foundation for respected boundaries and dissolved guilt during this challenging time of year.
When it comes to choosing a mantra, its important we say something we genuinely believe.
To help with this, I like adding the word may at the beginning of the phrase.
Saying to yourself, I am deserving of boundaries is great.
But what if youre not in the place where you fully believe it yet?
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In order for the mantra to be effective, it has to be something you resonate with.
May I mantras are gentle.
They come across as invitations, rather than demands, which can help with meeting yourself where youre at.
May I honor my energy levels
Give yourself permission to do what you oughta do.
Take it one step further by committing to doing it gracefully.
You may have turned down the invite, but you did so with kindness because that is your nature.
You are deserving of this time
Reassurance goes a long way.
Speak to yourself in the second person, like you would talk to a close friend.
May my boundaries be protected
This is a declaration to yourself and the universe of your preference.
This is a beautiful chance to practice forgivenessboth towards yourself and energetically toward others.
My peace is entirely up to me
This mantra will help you take your power back.
Let this knowledge empower you.
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