We are all running around stressing about Christmas and Boxing Day, but I really hope all of us are going to get some rest at one stage during the festive season.  A lot of people use the holiday time to spend time with friends and family. Imagine all the celebrations and all the food; it is beautiful but it can also be tiring. Try to make sure everyone gets enough personal space to unwind and let the soul wander. Alone time makes us creative and helps us to recharge our batteries.  This way we can all enjoy the special holiday time together without major family dramas.

Here are 5 tips to unwind and relax alone or with family and friends:

Just grab a few of your golf clubs, you do not have to take the whole Wilson Golf Set, and go hit some balls. Your local driving range will be open or go to your golf club. Whether you play golf or not, golf courses are serene places. While your partner is hitting some balls, you could use the time to walk around the grounds and take your kids for a walk. Breath in the fresh cold air and enjoy.

After a day outside, walking through the forest or taking a stroll around your neighborhood, come back home and relax with some music. Did you know that how we hear music depends a great deal on the quality of our stereo player and speakers. The listening experience can be enhanced with good equipment. Did you ever sit together with your family and just listened to music or an audio book? Let me tell you, it is a wonderful experience.

After Boxing Day, you may decide to go on an adventure. Why spend all the time in the house. Quality time is also important, organise a long walk through the woods, with a winter picnic and a Thermos of hot chocolate. Make sure everyone is dressed in warm cotton jackets and winter boots, so that you can stay outside for an extended period of time without getting cold. When the sun is out you can probably take very nice winter color pictures.

Another activity for the evening time are boardgames. When did you last play a board game? Probably when you were a child yourself and you were sitting around a rectangular dining table with your family playing cards. Well you can gather around the low coffee table in the living room, light some candles  set up the game, for instance the Settlers of Catan, Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit and play. Your kids or friends will never forget this evening.

Who says we can’t read to each other anymore once we are adults? When someone reads to you a story book as an adult it is the same soothing experience. Choose a story you all want to listen to, find a corner in the living room and just read to each other, it is a very relaxing experience for old and young.

And in January, you feel refreshed and happy, you connected with yourself, friends and family and 2010 can begin.

Did you know…?

Christmas is second highest on the list of  events causing worry and stress in people, after the first reason which are financial problems. Let’s turn this list around and make of  little the most this year.

-maricki

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